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Provided by Wayne J Lee
Business Litigation
Class and Mass Action Litigation
Antitrust
Wayne Lee has spent the last 15 years focusing his practice on insurance and insurance class action lawsuits. He assists clients with legal matters such as coverage issues, bad faith claims, mold claims, regulatory issues and class action claims with a myriad of substantive issues. Throughout his career, he has successfully represented numerous insurance companies in class action lawsuits that alleged improper handling of claims.
Wayne has spent more than four decades at Stone Pigman and currently serves as chair of the firm’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group. He also hosts diversity receptions at Stone Pigman where first-year law students are invited to meet a community of diverse judges and attorneys.
Wayne was elected as the first African American President of the Louisiana State Bar Association and served on the House of Delegates and Board of Governors. He was the former Chair of the Practice Assistance and Improvement Committee, the Continuing Legal Education Program Committee, and the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Committee and the former Co-Chair of the Standing Committee on Diversity.
American Bar Association member and former member of House of Delegates, the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, and the Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary.
Board of Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund member 2004 – 2016 and Emeritus since 2016.
Louisiana Indigent Defense Assistance Board former member.
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group former Chair.
Lawyer Disciplinary Committee for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana former Co-Chair and Vice Chair.
Litigation Counsel of America Senior Fellow.
Louisiana Board of Regents for Higher Education former member.
Board of the Audubon Nature Institute Past Chairman.
Board of Directors for Attorneys' Liability Assurance Society, Ltd.
Tulane University Inn of Court member.
Advisory Board of Editors of the Tulane Law Review member.
Louis A. Martinet Society member.
American Bar Association member.
National Bar Association member.
Louisiana State Bar Association member.
New Orleans Bar Association member.
The Bar Association of The Fifth Federal Circuit member.
American College of Trial Lawyers Fellow.
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