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Practice Areas: Personal Injury; Products Liability Litigation; Admiralty; Banking Law; Real Estate Law; Succession Law; Municipal Law; Governmental Law; Corporate Law; Law Enforcement Defense; Insurance Defense Litigation

Additional Information: Fifth District (President, 1983—), Louisiana State (Member: House of Delegates, 1972, 1974, 1976, 2000; Standing Committee on Rules and Agenda, 1975-1977) and American (Member, Criminal Justice Section) Bar Associations; Louisiana City Attorney's Association (Secretary-Treasurer, 1974-1975; Vice President, 1975-1976; President, 1976-1977); Louisiana District Attorney's Association (Member, Board of Directors, 1986—, Vice President, 1991, President, 1992); Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1976-1979); Louisiana Bank Counsel Association.


Mu Sigma Rho; Phi Alpha Delta. Vice Chairman, Moot Court Board, 1970-1971. City Attorney, Rayville, Louisiana, 1973—. City Attorney, Delhi, Louisiana, 1974—. City Attorney: Epps, Louisiana, 1993—; Gilbert, Louisiana, 2003—. Assistant District Attorney, Fifth Judicial District, 1976-1984. Elected District Attorney: Franklin; Richland; West Carroll Parishes, 1984—. Special Assistant, Attorney General, 1992-1996.

Coleman v. Fisher, 677 So. 2d 678 (commercial law); Greer v. Coca Cola, 420 So. 2d. 540 (products liability); Town of Rayville v. Thomason, 404 So. 2d 1290 (expropriation); Plank v. Town of Rayville, 764 So. 2d 1194 (railroad liability); Livingston v. Dixon, 598 So. 2d 589 (boundary action); Roberts v. Benoit, 605 So. 2d 1032 (tort negligence); Cole v. Mott, 351 So. 2d 1326 (predial servitudes); Johnson v. East Carroll, 658 So. 2d. 724 (prisoner litigation); State v. Wiley, 513 So. 2d. 849 (criminal law); State v. Clark, 851 So.2d 1055 (criminal law) and numerous other criminal law cases.