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Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith

USA Guide 2023

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Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith

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+1 504 525 6802

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Provided by Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith
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Firm Overview:
In 1987, the original founding partners began a new law firm based on a core set of principles: precise, aggressive, and relentless representation of their clients to achieve a more effective and efficient resolution of cases. These principles have been the foundation for everything Galloway stands for today. The growth of Galloway over the last thirty-five years is a testament to the fact that the firm's clients’ interests are being aggressively represented and properly protected. They remain acutely focused on delivering value to the clients they represent through early case assessments, cost-containment strategies, risk transfer, and implementing the most efficient handling of any matter through early dismissal, targeted motion practice, timely dispute resolution, or trial. Galloway's success is evidenced by both the long-term relationships developed with clients over more than thirty-five years and the growth of our offices across the South based on the needs of our clients in jurisdictions from Texas to Florida, Georgia, and Missouri.

Practice Areas and Offices
From the first office in New Orleans, the firm has grown to include 12 offices and over 140 lawyers with locations across the Gulf South and Midwest. The firm's attorneys excel in multiple practice areas: insurance defense and coverage; bad faith; maritime and admiralty; energy; amusement, sports, and recreation; hospitality, entertainment, and leisure; construction; corporate transactions; employer’s liability; environmental and toxic torts; mass torts and class actions; products liability; professional liability; property insurance; public entity and civil rights; railroad litigation; real property and banking litigation; retail and restaurant litigation; subrogation; title litigation; and trucking and transportation.

Firm Details

Efficiency: We understand the importance of resolving claims as quickly and cost-efficiently as possible. It’s the way we have practiced for over 30 years in thousands of cases across multiple practice areas, industries, and geographies. It is also what our clients have come to expect from us. Through early case assessments, litigation plans, cost-containment strategies, and risk transfer, we provide solutions that meet our clients’ objectives.

Aggressiveness: Galloway’s core purpose is to ensure our clients’ business goals and best interests are being aggressively represented and protected. Our proactive strategies – from initial investigation through early resolution, dispositive motion, or trial – have proven successful for our clients time and time again. In fact, relentlessness, and the strong results it produces, have driven our growth from one office with five lawyers into a premier litigation firm with over 100 attorneys in offices across seven states.

Accessibility & Responsiveness: Galloway has built a stellar reputation by consistently exceeding client expectations. We partner with our clients to create relationships that are deliberately responsive and results-oriented. We endeavor to treat each client and matter as if they were our only one. Frequent and prompt client communication of good and bad news (and of thoughtful solutions) is a cornerstone of our approach, always with a sense of urgency.

Value: Value isn’t just about dollars and cents. For us, it’s our mindset and our time-honed processes, which together allow us to achieve great outcomes efficiently. Because we understand how important results and cost effectiveness are to our clients, we optimize our resources to develop tailored plans for each client to meet their business objectives. Key to our approach is our experienced team of attorneys and staff immersed in each client’s company, legal needs, risk preferences, and guidelines. Our deep industry knowledge, strategically focused practice areas, and strategic geographic footprint, with offices in seven states, including the entire Gulf South, Georgia and Missouri, position us to best serve our clients now and in the future.

Main Areas of Practice:

  • Amusements, Sports & Recreation
  • Appellate Litigation
  • Bankruptcy
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Construction
  • Corporate Transactions
  • Cyber Liability
  • E-Commerce
  • Employment Law
  • Environmental & Toxic Tort
  • Estate Planning
  • Family Law
  • Healthcare
  • Hospitality, Entertainment & Leisure
  • Immigration
  • Insurance Defense & Coverage
  • Litigation
  • Maritime & Admiralty
  • Mass Tort & Class Action
  • Oil & Gas
  • Premises Liability
  • Products Liability
  • Professional Liability
  • Railroad
  • Retail & Restaurant
  • Subrogation
  • Title Litigation
  • Trucking & Transportation
  • Workers' Compensation

Offices

ATLANTA, GEORGIA
990 Hammond Drive NE
Suite 210
Atlanta, Georgia 30328

Todd LaDouceur
[email protected]
Phone: 678-951-1500
Fax: 678-951-1510

DALLAS, TEXAS
14643 Dallas Parkway
Suite 635
Dallas, Texas 75254

Mark "Tiger" Pharr, III
[email protected]
Phone: 214-545-6389
Fax: 214-442-7973

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA
110 East Broward Boulevard
Suite 1890
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301

Phillip S. Howell
[email protected]
Phone: 954-951-2200
Fax: 954-951-4400

GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI
2510 14th Street
Suite 910
Gulfport, Mississippi 39501

Doris Bobadilla
[email protected]
Phone: 228-214-4250
Fax: 228-214-9650

HOUSTON, TEXAS
1301 McKinney Street
Suite 1400
Houston, Texas 77010

Les Pickett
[email protected]
Phone: 713-599-0700
Fax: 713-599-0777

MANDEVILLE, LOUISIANA
#3 Sanctuary Boulevard
Third Floor
Mandeville, Louisiana 70471

Timothy Hassinger
[email protected]
Phone: 985-674-6680
Fax: 985-674-6681

LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA
3861 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy
Suite 300
Lafayette, Louisiana 70503

Mark "Tiger" Pharr, III
[email protected]
Phone: 337-735-1760
Fax: 337-993-0933

MOBILE, ALABAMA
63 South Royal Street
Suite 302
Mobile, Alabama 36602

Nathan Burrow
[email protected]
Phone: 251-438-7850
Fax: 251-438-7875

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
Hancock Whitney Center
701 Poydras St., 40th Floor
New Orleans, Louisiana 70139

Jason Waguespack
[email protected]
Phone: 504-525-6802
Fax: 504-525-2456

TAMPA, FLORIDA
400 N. Ashley Drive
Suite 1000
Tampa, Florida 33602

Phillip Howell
[email protected]
Phone: 813-977-1200
Fax: 813-977-1288

PENSACOLA, FLORIDA
118 East Garden Street
Pensacola, Florida 32502

Todd LaDouceur
[email protected]
Phone: 850-436-7000
Fax: 850-436-7099

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI
222 S. Central Avenue
Suite 1110
St. Louis, Missouri 63105

Stephen Moore
[email protected]
Phone: 314-725-0525
Fax: 314-725-7150

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USA Guide 2023
Louisiana
Insurance
1 Department
Department
2
Insurance
2
Band 2