COMMERCIAL LITIGATION

Our Commercial Litigation Group has extensive experience in all types of business and complex litigation.  We have represented clients in anti-trust litigation; securities law disputes; shareholder derivative lawsuits; construction cases; commercial contract litigation; bankruptcy; insurance coverage disputes; claims against officers and directors; accounting, legal and other professional malpractice claims; civil RICO claims; white collar criminal defense; tort claims involving business interruption and other commercial losses; and transportation contract litigation.

We have represented clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies down to mom-and-pop businesses in commercial litigation of all types and sizes.  We have successfully handled major complex litigation involving provable damages ranging in the hundreds of millions of dollars and, in one case, over one billion dollars.   Our experienced litigators regularly appear in state and federal courts throughout Louisiana, and in arbitration proceedings in Louisiana and elsewhere.   We are often called upon to represent clients in courts all over the country and internationally. 

• Represented bankruptcy trustee in $600 million lawsuit against a big four accounting firm.
• Represented major utility company in federal court in Nebraska in suit to cancel, for material breach, long term coal transportation contract with a national railroad company.
• Defended major utility company in fraud and breach of contract suit to rescind co-ownership agreement in connection with the design and construction of $4.2 billion nuclear power plant, in federal district court and bankruptcy court.
• Defended California winery in civil anti-trust action involving liquor industry.
• Prosecuted landowner’s multi-million dollar civil damage claim against national timber company for breach and termination of long term timber lease contract.
• Represented various businesses in federal criminal anti-trust investigations and prosecutions for alleged price fixing.
• Represented SEC-appointed equity receiver to prosecute civil securities law fraudulent conveyance and professional malpractice claims to recover money for victims of multi-million dollar nationwide Ponzi scheme.

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