“Over the Edge”
Attorney Devin Fadaol and staff member Bartt Bourgeois will be rappelling down Benson Tower on Friday, December 4, 2015 for Special Olympics Louisiana’s fund raiser, “Over the Edge”.
Other staff members have volunteered to work to support this fund raiser for Special Olympics Louisiana.
The Defense Wins!
(Articl
e published in DRI’s The Voice of the Defense Bar)
On Saturday, June 6, 2015, a jury in Clinton, Louisiana, returned a defense verdict for Ford Motor Company following a nearly 2-week long trial in an airbag non-deployment case involving fatal injuries. In reaching the verdict, the jury rejected plaintiff’s allegation that Ford defectively designed the supplemental restraint system in a 1995 Ford Mustang. Ford was represented at trial by Keith W. McDaniel and Quincy T. Crochet, of […]
FDCC Quarterly, Volume 64.4
Sidney Hardy published in FDCC Quarterly, Volume 64.4. Protecting Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets in the United States Read article
Removal to Federal District Court Despite the Presence of a Forum Defendant
The term “race to the courthouse” may invoke notions of an attorney rushing to meet some court-imposed deadline or record a lien before another creditor. Rarely do we think of removal to federal district court in this context, but there is another type of “race to the courthouse” that can take place when an out-of-state defendant is served before a local in-state defendant is served.
Under 28 USC 1441(b):
Any civil action of which the district courts have original jurisdiction […]
The Defense Wins!
(Article published in DRI’s The Voice of the Defense Bar)
On Friday, February 6, 2015, a jury in Lake Charles, Louisiana, returned a defense verdict for Ford Motor Company following a two-week trial in a post-collision fire case, rejecting plaintiffs’ allegation that the brake master cylinder and reservoir assembly in decedent William Morvant’s 2002 Ford F-150 was defectively designed. Ford was represented at trial by Perry Miles and Lauren Wood of McGuireWoods, LLP in Richmond, Virginia, and by […]
Data Breach Insurance
Twenty years ago, most companies maintained their files in rows and rows of filing cabinets. In order to access information from a file, it would be necessary for a person to go to the filing cabinet and actually retrieve the document which was being sought. If a third-party wanted to steal a company’s information, it would be necessary for that person to enter the company’s premises and either copy the documents on-site, or figure out a way get those documents out of your office.
In the last […]
The Defense Wins!
(Article published in DRI’s The Voice of the Defense Bar)
DRI member Keith W. McDaniel, a partner with McCranie, Sistrunk, Anzelmo, Hardy, McDaniel & Welch LLC in New Orleans, successfully teamed with a colleague to secure a verdict for the Union Parish School Board following a jury trial in Union Parish, Louisiana in March 2014. Read article
Benefits of Employment Practices Coverage
Over the past twenty years, one of the most rapidly growing areas of litigation in the United States has been in the employment area. Relatively recent changes in the law have created new causes of actions available for employees to sue their employers. Some of the most frequent suits are those based on race, sex or other discrimination, sexual harassment, violation of the family medical leave act, retaliation, and violation of laws against age discrimination.
Jury awards relating to employee lawsuits usually reach well into the six […]