Edgard Lawyers

A partner of Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, Patrick O'Keefe is engaged in general maritime trial and appellate practice involving personal injury and death with particular expertise in defense of claims arising under the Longshore Act, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the Defense Base Act and the Jones Act. A member of the American Bar Association, the Louisiana State Bar Association, the New Orleans Bar Association, the Maritime Law Association of the United States, the Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute (Chairman, 1989), the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association. Mr. O'Keefe is also a member of the Federal Bar...

Heather C. Ford is a traffic ticket attorney based in the New Orleans area. A Louisiana native, Heather obtained her undergraduate degree in chemistry at Dillard University. She received her JD from Loyola University where she served as the initial coordinator of the Hurricane Katrina legal advice clinic. Through her practice at the Law Office of Heather C. Ford, Heather has striven to help the New Orleans community with their traffic ticket related problems.

Parker Smith is the founder of CoreServe Legal, LLC, a Louisiana law firm based in New Orleans that's committed to providing client-centric legal services at upfront fixed-fee pricing. Parker focuses his practice on intellectual property and technology transactions, strategy, and policies. He's also the current Technology Law Committee Chair for the New Orleans Bar Association. Prior to founding CoreServe Legal, Parker was Legal Counsel to Ochsner Health, where he handled information technology transactions and projects with significant privacy and intellectual property considerations. Before that, he was an Associate Attorney at Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann in New Orleans.

I do not represent criminals. I represent citizens I have worked for the re-legalization of cannabis for 40 years. I helped to write the original California Prop 215 medical marijuana law and originated the legal concept of “ a doctor's recommendation." Our lives are ours to live and the government does not have the constitutional authority or moral position to tell us what we can or cannot do with our own bodies or consciousness! Drug Prohibition has been a tremendous success, when one realizes that its aim at its inception was to subjugate the freed slaves and to perpetuate the Jim Crow laws(under a...

Scott R. Simmons earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990 from Louisiana State University and his juris doctor in 1993 from Loyola University in New Orleans School of Law. Mr. Simmons was admitted to the Louisiana Bar in 1994 and subsequently to the bars of the United States District Court for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana. He has practiced in the areas of commercial litigation, residential and commercial real estate, title examination and title insurance, real estate development and financing, class actions, personal injury and consumer representation. Mr. Simmons is a Louisiana Notary...

We represent injured people in Louisiana. We practice personal injury law because we care about our clients’ health and future. We know there are few things that are worse than a severe injury. It can take over your life and affect everything you normally do. Fortunately, the law holds those responsible for wrongfully injuring others. You may have medical expenses, severe pain, or be unable to work. These are simply common types of losses that can result from a serious accident. We want to make sure that everything that was taken from you is returned. That is what fair compensation under...

Kirk Myers has been practicing in Louisiana, since 1990 and received a Masters in Law from Tulane University in 1991. Mr. Myers’ practice is limited exclusively to Bankruptcy and he has multiply offices. Over the last 30 years, he has filed over 5,000 cases He has taught multiply bankruptcy seminars to other attorneys over the years and has actively assisted the Bankruptcy Court in creating the forms and plans currently used today.

Experienced litigator in the fields of personal injury and property damage insurance claims. Also counsel and advising clients in business formation and incorporation, and other practice areas, particularly those involved in the hemp and cannabis industries. Over ten years experience appearing before Louisiana state courts and Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Call me today to discuss how I can help you!

Since 1991, clients have been hiring me to represent them in their Louisiana Traffic ticket cases. I help them avoid auto insurance premium increases, missed work, and travel expenses since they don't have to go to court themselves. I go to court for them and obtain lower fines, court costs, and contempt fees in regards to their Louisiana traffic ticket. My clients' Louisiana traffic tickets are either DISMISSED, or REDUCED to a NON MOVING VIOLATION which will not appear on the client's driver license record. The telephone and internet consultations are always FREE with no obligation. I will provide to you...

Since 2013, Cynthia has been in private practice after working as a federal and state public defender in the Greater New Orleans area as well as Miami, Florida. Cynthia has extensive white collar experience and has tried numerous cases at both the federal and state levels. As an advocate, she vigorously represents her clients to attain the best possible results.

Cynthia is a member of the Criminal Justice Act Panel in the Eastern District of Louisiana and serves on the board of the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. She has presented at CLEs regarding the...

Mr. Caplinger concentrates his practice on representation of debtors, creditors, and creditor committees in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization cases, creditors in Chapter 7, 11, and 13 cases, and creditor defendants in all aspects of prosecution and defense of claims and actions before bankruptcy courts and in related litigation before federal district courts. He also represents clients in other commercial litigation matters. Mr. Caplinger was admitted to practice before all State and Federal Courts in the State of Louisiana in 1998 and has been admitted pro hac vice and has appeared before the Northern District of Oklahoma, the Bankruptcy Courts...

Growing up in Massachusetts, Frankie watched his mother, a 25 year career public defender, prepare for trial at the dining room table. He knew by the age of 7 that he wanted to follow in her footsteps and become a lawyer. He graduated from the University of Maryland, where he was a College Park Scholar and president of the Tau Beta Chapter of Tau Epsilon Phi. He then earned his Juris Doctor from Tulane University School of Law where he fell in love with New Orleans. After law school, he returned to Massachusetts and worked as an assistant district attorney, handling...

My name is Josh Gertler and I am an associate with Gertler Accident & Injury Attorneys, a New Orleans personal injury law firm.

This firm focuses on the following injury and accident practice areas:

- Mesothelioma
- Wrongful Death Claims
- Automobile Accidents
- Injuries Suffered At Birth Including Cerebral Palsy
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Resulting From An Accident
- Product Liability
- Toxic Mold
- Semi-Truck Accidents
- Dangerous Property Conditions
- Train & Railroad Related Accidents
- Hospital & Physician Malpractice
- Nursing Home Abuse & Negligence
- Construction Site Accidents
- Burn Injuries
- Factory Accidents
- Injuries Suffered While On Oil Rigs

My particular focus is in the following injury areas.

Personal Injury
Mesothelioma -...

My name is Anton Martynenko, and I am a proud member of the Scott Vicknair team. My journey to becoming a lawyer started from humble beginnings in the former USSR during some of the most fascinating but challenging times. Today, I am oddly thankful for facing poverty and hardship from an early age because those struggles instilled in me a strong work ethic, a drive to succeed, and compassion for folks from all walks of life. At the age of 15, I had a rare opportunity to come to the United States as an exchange student. Three years later, I...

Frank E. Lamothe, III is a seasoned trial lawyer with years of experience handling personal injury and wrongful death cases. He has a stellar reputation as an extremely skilled trial attorney who conducts himself with integrity as well as an attorney who has always maintained the highest standards of professionalism. Frank Lamothe has tried and won numerous multi-million dollar cases during his career in federal and state courts throughout the country including Louisiana, Arizona, Florida, and Mississippi.

Micah Fincher helps businesses maximize the value of their intellectual property by counseling them in all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and unfair competition law. Micah not only aggressively seeks protections for clients' intellectual property, he also helps clients manage risks from competitors' rights.

Dan Lund practices in the area of construction litigation with a focus on construction and surety litigation and arbitration, business, insurance and products liability defense litigation, contract drafting and negotiations, telecommunications, as well as land use law in the areas of zoning and planning.

Dan principally represents general contractors, major subcontractors, sureties, public and private owners, and wireless telecommunications carriers and owners of telecommunications infrastructure. Additionally, Dan serves nationwide as a construction mediator, and as a construction arbitrator through the American Arbitration Association.

He also regularly lectures on construction law topics, including Louisiana lien law, zoning and land use planning, general...

My firm provides legal advice and assistance in the areas of real estate, construction law, successions, trusts/estate planning, tenant/landlord, foreclosure, worker's compensation, social security/disability, personal injury and collections. I am a solo practitioner delivering personal trustworthy service to individuals, their families and businesses throughout the community. As a former Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department of the State of Louisiana, my commitment is to continue to provide the same professional service and maintain an open door policy to all of my clients. I encourage all clients to keep abreast of the progress of their cases and...

Jody Anderman received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Louisiana State University in 1985 and his Juris Doctorate degree from the Louisiana State University Law Center in 1988. During law school, Jody was the recipient of American Jurisprudence Awards for earning the highest grades in Louisiana Civil Procedure II and in Louisiana Sales. Over the course of his career, Jody has had extensive experience in litigating personal injury cases of all kinds, including automobile and trucking accident cases, nursing home negligence cases and premise liability cases, but since 2002, he has primarily focused his practice on representing...

Born and raised in Baton Rouge, graduate of Broadmoor High. LSU law school graduate in 1989, Assistant District Attorney for 18 years handling death penalty to traffic tickets. Sixteen years of exclusively criminal defense handling cases involving murder, drugs, sex crimes, burglary, to DWI. I have handled State cases across all of Louisiana. Practice includes all Louisiana Federal courts on any allegation. Free consultation and case review. When you need a criminal law expert.

As the son of a personal injury lawyer, Alec grew up seeing firsthand the importance of helping people who have been injured. Seeing his dad’s clients come visit on holidays ignited the fire that drives Alec to pursue the best results for his clients today. Alec grew up in College Station before he attended Wofford College, where he played baseball all four years. Upon graduation, he then went on to Texas A&M University, where he earned a master’s degree while working with the 2017 Aggie baseball team that reached the College World Series. He then came to Houston, where he worked...

Justin A. Day was born and raised in Louisiana. He started his legal career in the same building he works in now, and he knows how to provide legal support with the kind of warmth and compassion that attorneys from out of town simply don’t understand. While Attorney Day is gentle with his clients and provides each and every one of them the personal attention they need and deserve, he is aggressive when it comes to his opponents. Justin A. Day will fight for you, and he won’t stop until you receive the best possible outcome in your case. For...

17 years experience. Former Orleans Parish prosecutor.

Jacob H. Thomas is originally from the Piney Hills of North Louisiana, known for producing great litigators such as Huey P. Long as well as several other notable statesmen on the both the federal and state levels. Jake is a graduate of Jonesboro-Hodge High School and Northwestern State University where he was a member of the Theta Mu chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, the NSU Presidential Leadership Program, and the InterFraternity Council serving as Vice President. He is a graduate of Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, LA. Jake was privileged to serve the Second...

Richard Sprinkle attended the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University, where he was a winner of the Robert L. Tullis Moot Court Competition, and served as the Vice President of Judicial Relations for the school’s moot court board. In addition to operating his law practice, Richard produces and co-hosts the podcast "Legally Unfiltered" with fellow attorney Franz N. Borghardt. You can find a link to the podcast on this page.
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While in law school, Richard served as a judicial extern with the Honorable Judge Marabella of the 19th Judicial District, clerked for the East...