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Provided by Tad Bartlett
Fishman Haygood Partner Tad Bartlett heads up the firm's Appellate Group and practices more broadly in the firm’s Litigation Section, including in areas like environmental and class actions/mass actions/MDLs.
Tad developed his litigation and appellate practice at the law firms of Liskow & Lewis and Krebs, Farley & Pelleteri. In 2009, he joined the team of attorneys at Jones, Swanson, Huddell & Garrison, where he headed up that firm’s appellate practice across both its commercial and environmental litigation areas, working closely with Fishman Haygood’s litigation group on environmental and complex commercial matters where the two firms were co-counsel.
Tad was an integral part of a multi-firm team that developed the coastal litigation practice regarding land-loss on behalf of both landowners and governmental entities. In addition, Tad has been deeply involved in numerous complex commercial cases, from preferential rights disputes to bet-the-company litigation, as well as construction litigation.
Tad currently serves as an advisory board member of the Tulane Institute of Water Resources Law and Policy.
Tad regularly authors or serves as the source for articles in bar journals and the legal press, including the following selected publications:
- “A Year of Transition at the Agenda-Setting 5th Circuit,” Law360.com (Dec. 20, 2023)
- Cases & Materials, 30 No. 1 PIABA B. J. 105 (2023)
- “Professionalism Through Creativity: A Fully Integrated Look at What it Means to Be an Attorney,” Briefly Speaking, June 2019
- “Judge Clark Concludes Act 544 is Unconstitutional,” Louisiana Bar Journal, February/March 2015
- “Not Dead Yet: The Imposition of Arbitration Awards Against Non-Party Sureties,” Surety Claims Institute Newsletter, January 2007 (co-authored with David Krebs)
- “Recent Developments: Court to Decide Crucial Coastal Restoration Issues,” Louisiana Bar Journal, August 2004
- “Leaving Communities Behind: The Evolving World of Environmental Justice,” Louisiana Bar Journal, August 2003 (co-authored with Robert Holden)
- “Latest Chapter in Shintech Story: Addis Site Selection Survives IT Analysis,” 7.3 Louisiana Environmental Lawyer 15, 2002
- “The Small Business Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act: New Hope for New Orleans Brownfields?,” Briefly Speaking, 2002
- “Plan Ahead for Disaster Recovery,” Briefly Speaking, 2001
- “Determining Whether a Title VII Plaintiff Class’s ‘Aim is True’: The Legacy of Allison v. Citgo Petroleum Corp. for Employment Discrimination Class Certification Under FRCP 23(b)(2),” 74 Tulane Law Review 2163, 2000
- “Is NEPA Substantive Review Extinct, or Merely Hibernating? Resurrecting NEPA Section 102(1),” 13 Tulane Environmental Law Journal 411, 2000
- “‘The Swamp’s a Hell of a Place to Die, Ain’t It?’: How Objective Reasonableness Has Stagnated the Flow of Fourth Amendment Deadly Force Law at Its Juncture with the Qualified Immunity Defense,” 74 Tulane Law Review 301, 1999
In addition, Tad runs the Take the Fifth blog, which digests all opinions released by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, summarizes all opinions designated for publication, and tracks statistics on opinion releases from the Circuit.
He also writes short stories and essays. His work has been published in the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, Massachusetts Review, Carolina Quarterly, Stockholm Review of Literature, and many others. One piece was named a “notable” essay by Best American Essays 2017.
Tad first practiced under the Louisiana student practice rule in 1999 as a member of the Tulane University Law School's Environmental Law Clinic. While at Tulane, Tad served for a year as a research assistant to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (U.S. Supreme Court) and Judge James L. Dennis (U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit) for a class on comparative human rights law. After graduating, he went on to serve as a judicial clerk for Judge Dennis.
Since 2019, Tad has served on Tulane Law School’s faculty as an adjunct professor, teaching an advanced seminar on Coastal Law Litigation & Policy each spring.
Vintage Assets, Inc. v. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., L.L.C., 20-0065, 20-0066 (La. App. 4 Cir. 3/19/2020) (unpub.): On competing writ applications, successfully had trial court summary judgment affirmed in part that held that pipeline companies had a duty to maintain canal widths where servitude agreements required pipeline canals not exceed a certain width, and successfully had trial court summary judgment ruling reversed in part on holding that this duty to maintain canal widths also applied to servitude agreements that did not state a specific canal width.
Tad is an Appellate Practice Specialist, certified by the Louisiana Board of Specialization.
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Tad Bartlett is a recognized appellate specialist. His vast appellate experience includes expertly handling environmental and construction-related appeals.
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