Louisiana Life January-February 2016

Our Annual Statewide Carnival Calendar

january/february 2016 The Spirit of st. anne An eyecatching Mardi Gras tradition

Angola & the Opera: Dead Man Walking comes to New Orleans

Jon Batiste, bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Hats Off to

LOUISIANIANS of the Year

TV bandleader Jon Batiste Activists Steve & Michel Gleason Teacher of The Year Nicole Vasquez and more!

contents

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in every issue 6

From the Editor

Governors and Legends

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It’s carnival time!

Our annual list of parades around the state

12 Rural life

Harvey’s New Outfit

Sacrificing fashion for function on the farm

14 Reel News

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Soups for the Soul

5 convenient winter recipes

28 Home

Mayor’s Residence

In the small town of Mound, mayor Margaret and her husband Ed Yerger keep the past alive

32 art

Studio Inferno Hot glass and charred saints in St. Bernard Parish

Bounce Back Time for Hollywood South

Increased TV productions have diminished the lull

36 Traveler

16 Biz Bits

Armchair Guide to Louisiana’s Nature Conservancy Sites

What’s On Deck

C.C. Lockwood’s inspiring tribute

More industrial projects, plus web and video game development

100 Around Louisiana

Healthy Hearts

An expert in Thibodaux weighs in to help with disease prevention

Highlights and events

108 Lifetimes

Statewide calendar

20 Great louisiana chef

110 great louisiana quiz

Gubernatorial Inauguration Year Edition

Chris McKnight

The Fat Pelican in Monroe

History Lessons as we embrace 2016

112 A Louisiana Life

22 Roadside Dining

Wingate Jones

Old Favorites

A visit to two classic eateries on a road trip from Breaux Bridge to Shreveport

A New Orleans costume entrepreneur helps movie stars and Carnival royalty get suited up

features

special section

40 louisianians of the year

63 Superlawyers

50 rise and revel

St. Anne’s Parade

60 bringing dead man walking

to life

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18 Health

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24 Kitchen Gourmet

january/february 2016 Volume 36 Number 3 Editor Errol Laborde MANAGING EDITOR Sarah Ravits Art Director Sarah George Associate Editor Melanie Warner Spencer web editor Kelly Massicot Contributing Editor Paul F. Stahls Jr. Food Editor Stanley Dry Home Editor Bonnie Warren sales manager Kathryn Beck Sanderson kathryn@louisianalife.com

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traffic coordinator Jessica DeBold Production/Web Manager Staci McCarty Production designerS Monique DiPietro, Ali Sullivan Chief Executive Officer Todd Matherne President Alan Campell Executive Vice President/ Editor-in-chief Errol Laborde VIce President of sales Colleen Monaghan Director of marketing & Events Cheryl Lemoine event coordinator Margaret Strahan administrative assistant Denise Dean distribution manager John Holzer subscriptions/receptionist Sara Kelemencky Mallary Matherne (504) 828-1380

Gold Award Winner for Companion Website 2012 Tiffani Reding Amedeo, Silver Award Winner for Overall Art Direction 2011

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from the editor

Governors and Legends

By Errol Laborde Many states have folk characters in their legends. It might be a Paul Bunyan-sized lumberjack; a cowboy as wild as Pecos Bill or a Casey Jones recklessly at a train engine throttle.

In Louisiana the legends are sometimes about a rougarou: a swamp-based werewolf, but most often the legends are about politicians. “Senator, I need to know, are you with me or are you against me?” Gov. Earl Long once reportedly asked a lawmaker.

“Governor, when you’re right I am with you; when you’re wrong I am against you,” the Senator righteously replied.

“When I am right,” Long shot back, “I don’t need you.”

Brothers Huey and Early Long gave Louisiana politics much of its color and many of its problems, a legacy that would be embellished by the four terms served by Edwin Edwards and by the twice-elected country crooner Jimmie Davis.

Not all the governors have been colorful; some were conservative in style and methodical in management.

Indeed too much of one style of governor has tended to send voters gravitating to another style, as in from Edwin Edwards to Bobby Jindal. There is a political pendulum that makes voters want more or less.

Sometimes the pendulum stops in the middle. Louisiana begins the year with another change at the mansion. Governors today are less likely to be flamboyant showmen and more conditioned to the TV-oriented 15-second response. Louisiana has historically given its governors great powers so the potential for change, the legislature willing, is enormous.

We wish the new governor well. And may his trail be free of the rougarou. n

MAGAZINE WINS NATIONAL AWARDS Louisiana Life won five national awards including two golds at the annual meeting of IRMA, the International and Regional Magazine Association. IRMA is the only trade organization that focuses on state and regional magazines. The meeting was held this past October in San Diego, California.

Winners were: • GOLD: Art Direction of a Single Story, “Duty and the Beast” Tiffani Reding Amedeo, art director • GOLD: Photo Series, “Thunder in the Fields.” Ron Berard, photographer, • BRONZE: Companion Website, Kelly Massicot, web administrator • AWARD OF MERIT: Column, “The Rural Life,” Melissa Bienvenu, columnist • AWARD OF MERIT: Cover, March, 2014, “Springtime Recipes,” Tiffani Reding Amedeo, art director

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carnival calendar

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It’s Carnival Time!

Our annual list of parades around the state

GREATER NEW ORLEANS Wednesday, Jan. 6 Joan of Arc Parade, 6 p.m., New Orleans Phunny Phorty Phellows, 7 p.m., New Orleans

Krewe of Titans, 6:30 p.m., Slidell Sunday, Jan. 31, Krewe of Carrollton, Noon, New Orleans

Saturday, Jan. 23 Krewe du Vieux, 6:30 p.m., New Orleans

Krewe of King Arthur, 1 p.m., New Orleans

Sunday, Jan. 24 Little Rascals, Noon, New Orleans

Krewe of Femme Fatale, follows Alla

Krewe of Alla, 1 p.m., New Orleans

Perseus, 1 p.m., Slidell

Krewe of Tchefunte, 2 p.m., Madisonville

Friday, Jan. 29 Krewe of Cork, 3 p.m., New Orleans

Corps de Napoleon, 5:30 p.m., Metairie

Krewe of Oshun, 6 p.m., New Orleans

Wednesday, Feb. 3, Krewe of Druids, 6:30 p.m., New Orleans

Krewe of Cleopatra, 6:30 p.m., New Orleans Krewe of Eve, 7 p.m., Mandeville,

photo by ron berard

Krewe of Chewbacchus, 6 p.m., New Orleans

Krewe of Nyx, 7 p.m.

Krewe of Excalibur, 7 p.m., New Orleans

Thursday, Feb. 4 Knights of Babylon, 5:45 p.m., New Orleans

Krewe of Athena, 7:30 p.m, New Orleans

Knights of Chaos, 6:15 p.m., New Orleans

Saturday, Jan. 30 Krewe of Adonis, 11:45 a.m., Westbank

Krewe of Muses, 6:30 p.m., New Orleans

Knights of Nemesis, 1 p.m., St. Bernard

Friday, Feb. 5 Krewe of Bosom Buddies, 11:30 a.m., New Orleans

Krewe of Pontchartrain, 1 p.m., New Orleans

Krewe of Hermes, 6 p.m., New Orleans

Krewe of Choctaw, 2 p.m., New Orleans

Krewe d’Etat, 6:30 p.m., New Orleans

Krewe of Freret, 2:30 p.m., New Orleans

Krewe of Morpheus 7 p.m.

Knights of Sparta, 6 p.m., New Orleans

Krewe of Centurions, 7 p.m.

Metairie

Krewe of Pygmalion, 6:15 p.m., New Orleans Krewe of Caesar, 6 p.m., Metairie

Saturday, Feb. 6 Krewe of Isis, 6:30 p.m., New Orleans

Krewe of Olympia, 6 p.m., Covington

Krewe of NOMTOC, 10:45 a.m., Westbank

Krewe of Selene, 6:30 p.m., Slidell

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Krewe of Iris, 11 a.m., New Orleans Krewe of Tucks, Noon, New Orleans Krewe of Tchefuncte, 1 p.m.

Krewe of Endymion, 4:15 p.m., New Orleans Sunday, Feb. 7 Krewe of Okeanos, 11 a.m.

New Orleans Krewe of Mid-City, 11 a.m., New Orleans Krewe of Thoth, Noon, New Orleans Krewe of Bacchus, 5:15 p.m., New Orleans Monday, Feb. 8 Krewe of Proteus, 5:15 p.m., New Orleans Krewe of Orpheus, 6 p.m., New Orleans

SHREVEPORT/BOSSIER Saturday, Jan. 30 Krewe of Centaur, 4:30 p.m., Shreveport Sunday, Jan. 31 Krewe of Barkus and Meoux, Shreveport Saturday, Feb. 6 Krewe of Gemini, 4 p.m., Shreveport Sunday, Feb. 7 Krewe of Highland, 2 p.m., Shreveport

CAJUN COUNTRY Tuesday, Jan. 9, Grand Marais Mardi Gras Parade, 11 a.m., Jeanerette

Krewe of Pandora, 7 p.m., Metairie

Saturday, Jan. 23, Vinton Mardi Gras Celebration, Vinton

Tuesday, Feb. 9 Krewe of Argus, 10 a.m., Metairie

Friday, Jan. 29, Krewe of Hercules, 6 p.m., Houma

Krewe of Zulu, 8 a.m., New Orleans

Saturday, Jan. 30, City of Sulphur Parade, 2 p.m., Sulphur

Krewe of Elks Orleans, follows Zulu Krewe of Crescent City, follows Elks Krewe of Grela, 10 a.m., Westbank

Krewe of Tee Caillou in Chauvin, Noon, Houma

Societe de St. Anne, 8 a.m., New Orleans

Carencro Mardi Gras Parade, 11 a.m., Carencro

Krewe de Lune, Noon New Orleans

Krewe des Chiens, 2 p.m., Lafayette

Elks Trucks, Follows Argus, Metairie

Sunday, Jan. 31, Krewe of Versailles, Noon, Larose

Jefferson Trucks, Follows Elks, Metairie Sunday, March 13 St. Patrick’s, Noon, New Orleans Sunday, March 20 Irish-Italian, Noon, New Orleans

PLANTATION COUNTRY Friday, Jan. 29 Krewe of Artemis Parade, 7 p.m., Baton Rouge Saturday, Jan. 30 Krewe Mystique de la Capitale, 2 p.m., Baton Rouge Sunday, Jan. 31 Krewe of Mutts, 9 a.m., Baton Rouge Saturday, Feb. 6 Krewe of Spanish Town Parade, Noon, Downtown Baton Rouge

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Krewe of Carnivale en Rio, 6:30 p.m., Lafayette Krewe of Shaka, 12:30 p.m., Thibodaux Krewe of Ambrosia, 2 p.m., Thibodaux Krewe of Hyacinthians, Noon, Houma Krewe of Ezana, 1 p.m., Jeanerette Scott Mardi Gras Parade, City of Scott Krewe de St. Martin/Krewe de Chien, 2 p.m., Breaux Bridge Krewe of Titans, Following Hyacinthians, Houma Thursday, Feb. 4 Southwest District Livestock Show & Rodeo Parade, Lake Charles

Friday, Feb. 5 Krewe of Aphrodite, 6:30 p.m., Houma Merchants’ Parade, 7 p.m., Lake Charles Krewe of Adonis, 7 p m, Morgan City Kick Off Parade, 6 p.m., Lafayette Carlyss Mardi Gras Trail Ride, Sulphur Friday Night Parade, 6:30 p.m., Lafayette Saturday, Feb. 6 World Famous Cajun Extravaganza Gumbo Cook-off, 8 p.m.

Krewe of Omega Parade, 2 p.m., Lake Charles Mystical Krewe of Barkus Parade, Lake Charles Krewe of Cosmos Presentation, Sulphur Courir de Mardi Gras, Church Point Krewe of Bonaparte, 6:30 p.m., Lafayette Children’s Parade, 12:30 p.m., Lafayette Youngsville Mardi Gras Parade, 11 a.m., Youngsville Krewe of Mardi Gras, 6:30 p.m., Houma Krewe of Dionysus, 2 p.m., Morgan City Krewe of Dubon Temps, 6:30 p.m., Larose Sunday, Feb.7 Krewe of Galatea, 2 p.m., Morgan City Children’s Parade, 2 p.m., Lake Charles Lighted Boat Parade, Lake Charles

Queen Evangeline’s Parade, 6 p.m., Lafayette Royal Gala, 7 p.m., Lake Charles Tuesday, Feb. 9 Krewe of Ghana, 1 p.m., Thibodaux Iowa Chicken Run, 10 a.m., Iowa Motor Gras Parade, 11 a.m., Lake Charles Krewe of Krewes Parade, 5 p.m., Lake Charles Tee Mamou-Iota Mardi Gras Folklife Festival King Gabriel’s Parade, 10 a.m., Lafayette Krewe of Houmas, 11 a.m., Houma Krewe of Kajuns, Following Houmas, Houma Krewe of Bonne Terre, 4 p.m., Houma Lafayette Mardi Gras Festival Parade, 1 p.m., Lafayette KADN Fox 15 Independent Parade, 2:30 p.m., Lafayette

CENTRAL LOUISIANA Friday, Jan. 25 Light the Night Parade, TBD, Pineville Saturday, Jan. 30 Town of Woodworth Mardi Gras Parade, Woodworth Wednesday, Feb. 3 LSUA Mardi Gras Parade, Alexandria Friday, Feb. 5 Hixson Classic Cars & College Cheerleaders Parade, 4:30 p.m., Alexandria Saturday, Feb. 6 AMGA Annual Children’s Parade, 10 a.m., Alexandria

though - 9, Carnival D’Acadie, Crowley

Sunday, Feb. 7 AMGA 23rd Annual Krewes Parade, 2 p.m., Alexandria

Krewe of Cleophas, 12:30 p.m., Thibodaux

Krewe of Cronus, 2 p.m., Bunkie

Krewe of Terreanians, 12:30 p.m., Houma Krewe of Chronos, 1:30 p.m., Thibodaux Monday, Feb. 8 Krewe of Cleopatra, 6:30 p.m., Houma

edit note As of press time, not all Carnival organizations had announced dates and times of their various festivities. Dates and times of parades listed are subject to change.

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rural life

Harvey’s New Outfit Sacrificing fashion for function on the farm

By Melissa Bienvenu

Big news: my husband finally got a new pair of insulated coveralls – or “skins,” as he calls them.

Not to be confused with overalls – the things made out of denim with shoulder straps of “Hee-Haw” fame – coveralls are winter outerwear, more like an aviator jumpsuit.

(Just for the record, I knew few farmers who actually wear overalls. My husband doesn’t even own a pair.)

Instead, the more oftenpreferred coveralls, have long sleeves and a long zipper up

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the front and are worn over one’s street clothes. The legs usually have long zippers up the sides, so they can be slipped off and off without removing bulky work boots.

A layer of insulation between the outer fabric and the inner lining that keeps outdoor laborers warm in cold weather.

I may not have my facts exactly right, but I believe my husband has been wearing the same pair of coveralls since we got married – the year Bill Clinton was elected to his first term of office. Even then, his

coveralls had seen better days.

Trust me when I say that, 26 years later, our former president is holding up far better than Harvey’s beloved “skins.”

Not that they were ever terribly attractive to begin with, or that anyone around here remember can remember when they were new. Harvey’s skins are an heirloom of uncertain provenance that his farming family acquired somewhere along the way, most likely at some now-defunct feedand-seed or farmer’s co-op.

Let me paint you a picture of this glorious ensemble, beginning with the color. I might describe it as olive drab, but I like olives too much to insult them. But if they ever were olive drab – a color with little discernible appeal apart from camouflaging soldiers – they long ago faded to something not quite green and not quite gray. Now, they’re just drab.

Recently, while shopping online, I spotted a pair of coveralls the same color as Harvey’s. The color was listed as “loden.” The writer in me was a little embarrassed about having to look the word up until I noticed that not even spellchecker recognizes it.

Turns out loden is a both a type of waterproof fabric and a dark olive-green color. If you ask me, It’s more like a clever marketing term for “butt ugly.”

Then there is the threadbare – I mean, vintage – condition of Harvey’s favorite wintertime attire. The right shoulder seam is split open, revealing bright red lining and little kibbles of mustardy-brown foam rubber. There are similar gaping gashes in the lower left rear leg and upper right thigh, plus assorted minor rips and holes throughout. The hem of the right sleeve is completely frayed. The green paint is worn

clean off the metal snaps. The whole thing is dotted in tractor grease and John Deere-green paint splatters plus certain other mysterious stains that almost certainly hearken back to our dairy-farming past. I can’t figure out what is actually keeping him warm, because the original insulation has just about deteriorated to nothing.

Like most everything else on this old farm, we got our money’s worth (or somebody’s money’s worth) out of Harvey’s favorite coveralls. I wouldn’t doubt there are better-looking clothes in the “rag bag” of castoffs Harvey keeps at his shop for wiping down filthy tools and mopping up spills.

And yet, it was only with obvious misgivings that Harvey finally conceded it might be time to replace his cold weather uniform.

As previously noted in this space, my husband is truly a farmer at heart.

That is, he believes in fixing rather than replacing.

And he is gifted (or cursed) with the ability to do so.

As I tell him every time he does his magic, “My husband can fix anything.”

On one level, it’s a financial thing. Self-reliance and thrift was instilled in Harvey when he was growing up on his family farm. But in Harvey’s case, it’s also pride and stubbornness. His ego does not depend on having the biggest, fanciest (most overcompensating) pickup truck in town, and he scoffs at those that do.

He gets by just fine without buying a bunch of new stuff, thank you. Generally speaking, he is sincerely content with his old stuff. He’s a survivor and proud of it.

But not even Harvey could salvage his old coveralls.

One day I informed him I could not bear to spend

jane sanders illustration

another winter looking at this depressing get-up.

So, with some sadness, he reluctantly agreed to let me buy him a new pair.

This was a fairly tall order.

For one thing, Harvey hates shopping. His idea of shopping is to walk into a store, buy the item closest to the front door and leave as quickly as possible. Plus, he has short legs and a long body, so fitting him for a one-piece jumpsuit was bound to be all kinds of aggravation.

In addition, the new coveralls couldn’t be too stiff or bulky for him to work in. (In other words, it had to be just as comfortable as his 30-yearold worn-out skins.) And he didn’t want hunter’s camo, which ruled out at least half the coveralls on the market.

And above all – this was my decree – Harvey’s

new coveralls could not be stomach-bile green.

It took hours of online shopping and a few purchases and returns, but we finally landed the perfect pair. They fit just right. They were not too stiff or bulky. They even had something called “muscle back technology” to “increase your range of movement.”

Best of all, they were a nice, flattering shade of navy.

And Harvey was pleased, if only in a half-hearted “makethe-wife-happy” kinda way. He was definitely not as pleased as I was, of course, but it was clear we finally had a winner.

Harvey tried out his new skins one afternoon during one of the first really cold snaps when he and the boys went out to cut firewood.

They returned a couple of hours later, all

rosy-cheeked and exuberant from their chilly outing.

Almost immediately upon entering the house, Harvey walked over to stand by me.

“Boys,” he said, in the tone of voice that always means he is about to pass along an important life lesson to our sons, “I want you to see something.”

He pointed down at a four-inch rip in the thigh of his coveralls.

“This is what that chainsaw would have done to my skin if I had not been wearing this heavy-duty fabric to protect me. Always remember that when you are working with a chainsaw.”

There was something strangely exaggerated about the way he said it, and I slowly realized that the whole speech had been given for my benefit. That was Harvey’s

way of breaking the news that his purdy new outfit had already been defaced, but at the same time warding off any possible repercussions from me. After all, he pointed out, the damage was for a good cause. A rip in some cloth surely beat a trip to the emergency room, medical bills and months of rehabilitation.

Why, those coveralls practically took a bullet for him.

I also realized that he, himself, did not seem upset in the least about messing up a brand new pair of $90 coveralls that took me weeks to find. If anything, I could swear I detected a certain joy that was not there when he left the house.

What else could I do? I sighed and silently wished Harvey and his new skins a long and happy life together. n

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reel news Salem set in Shreveport

Bounce Back Time for Hollywood South Increased TV productions have diminished the lull

By Lisa LeBlanc-Berry

The award season is in full swing, from the Golden Globes Jan. 10 until the Feb. 28 Oscars, when crowd-magnet-comic Chris Rock returns after 11 years as host. Hollywood South may not be taking home all the awards this year.

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cap legislation that went into effect July 2015 are finally dying down among producers who are starting to bring back the projects.

In addition to an increased number of television series being produced locally, which is solidifying jobs and keeping most of the highly skilled native crews here instead of out-migrating to Atlanta, several feature

films with all-star casts are currently in production.

This includes the Paramount backed Jack Reacher: Never Go Back with Tom Cruise that wraps Jan. 29, and Kevin Spacey’s Billionaire Boy’s Club, being shot almost entirely in New Orleans.

Season 3 of WGN’s Salem (set among the witch trials of 17th-century Massachusetts, complete with elaborate sets that include an entire ancient-looking riverside village centered by a majestic little church and a hangman’s scaffold) is currently underway in Shreveport.

The CBS Season 2 of NCIS: New Orleans is in production through April, and the FOX horror anthology Scream Queens with Emma Roberts

and Jamie Lee Curtis is gathering steam. The new AMC martial arts series Into the Badlands – shot in LaPlace and at Evergreen Plantation – aired through December; it’s the first show AMC has ever ordered straight to series without seeing a pilot.

The remake of the historic slavery drama mini-series, Roots, to be simulcast on the History, A&E and Lifetime channels in 2016 with an all-star cast (in production at various Louisiana plantations until Feb. 1) adds to the number of TV productions that are keeping local crews busy. The industry currently supports 12,000 jobs in Louisiana, according to the most recent economic impact analysis

released by Louisiana Economic Development (LED) in 2015. Business sales from the industry topped $1 billion in 2014.

“Legislative action in 2015 did not limit the number of film and TV projects that have access to Louisiana tax credits under the program,” explains Christopher Stelly, Executive Director of Louisiana Entertainment “Let’s be clear on this point. There is no cap on the amount of film and TV production that can take place in Louisiana, and we continue to see activity throughout our state,” he says. “In some instances, investors wishing to claim the credits may wait a bit longer to do so, depending on the level of claims experienced by the Department

of Revenue. As of today, a little under $54 million has been claimed, with around $126 million in potentially eligible claims. We are actively engaged with film industry investors, producers and professionals to assure them that we continue to welcome them as enthusiastically as ever, and their interest in filming here has never waned.

“The base credit rate remains 30 percent and now, due to one of the key legislative changes, productions that hire Louisiana residents are eligible for a 10 percent credit on those wages, whereas it was only 5 percent previously,” Kelly says. “We do appreciate the reality that some projects may be taking a longer look at production decisions in the

state while they evaluate and review the recent changes, but we also recognize that Louisiana continues to enjoy a robust slate of high-profile film and TV projects.”

Despite these facts, the doubt continues due to lingering perceptions about the state’s instability. In Shreveport, when the Los Angeles-based owners of Millennium Studios suddenly announced it was closing in mid-November, people assumed it was because of the 2015 tax credit cap. But Arlena Acree, Director of Film, Media and Entertainment, Office of the Mayor, clarifies the misconception. “Millennium has stated that it has opted to not shoot any more films in the U.S.,” she explains.

“In fact, the building is still

open for third-party leasing as always. It’s just not run

by Millennium anymore. We are currently in talks with two new TV series wanting to do pilots in Shreveport.

And Salem, which is at Stageworks, needed more space so they have a twoyear lease in what was formerly Millenium’s mill shop section.” Stageworks is the region’s largest studio center with a 52,000 square-foot sound stage that concurrently hosts multiple TV and film projects.

“We understand there has been some confusion about the impact of these changes. However, I want to stress that Louisiana remains open for business,” Kelly concludes. n

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biz bits inXile Entertainment’s crowdfunded developement, The Bard’s Tale IV

to 10 types of crude oil simultaneously for Hazelwood’s customers when it begins operating in 2018.

What’s On Deck More industrial projects, plus web and video game developments are in our future.

By Kathy Finn

A chemical industry boom continues across south Louisiana. A Bangkok-based company recently announced a $175 million investment to restart a dormant ethane cracking plant near Lake Charles.

Indorama Ventures will take advantage of low-cost natural gas extracted from shale formations to boost its production of purified ethylene oxide and other products. Indorama will become the first Thai company to tap into the shale gas trend in the United States.

Here are some more highlights.

Industrial blender takes shape MOUNT AIRY A $600 million storage complex for liquid petroleum products is under development near the St. John and St. James parish line, courtesy of Pin Oak Terminals. The company, based in LaPlace, is building storage capacity for

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up to 10 million barrels of liquids, along with railroad loops that will help enable transportation of the products from the 430-acre site by rail, pipeline, barge or truck. The complex will receive, blend and store liquid products and create about 70 jobs in late 2016.

Salt domes prove their worth PORT BARRE Hazelwood Energy Hub will take advantage of underground salt domes in St. Landry Parish to build a $400 million storage and blending complex that will employ about 125 workers. Incorporating four underground caverns and adding above-ground tanks for up to 13 million barrels of storage, the site will have transportation access via a pipeline network and a barge loading facility that the company will operate at the Port of Krotz Springs on the Atchafalaya River. The Port Barre complex will have capacity to store and blend up

Drillers don’t give up CADDO PARISH Low oil prices aside, a petroleum sands formation in north Louisiana holds the promise of near-term opportunities, some industry sources say. The formation known as Cotton Valley, located within an oil field that has produced natural gas for decades, could become a lower-cost source of commodities thanks to simplified horizontal drilling and improved hydraulic fracturing, according to geologists familiar with the area. Cotton Valley is as much as 2,000 feet shallower than the well-known Haynesville Shale field, which has become largely inactive as oil and gas prices have remained depressed. The sands formation of Cotton Valley make it a more attractive play, even with commodity prices well below their historic highs, analysts say.

Research for a stronger coast BATON ROUGE Construction will begin on a three-story structure along the riverfront to house technical and public policy

research related to preservation of Louisiana’s coast. The $22 million Water Institute of the Gulf Research and Conference Center will host conferences focused on coastal issues. Now housed in a downtown building, the institute will move into the new structure when it is complete in 2017, joining two other projects under construction nearby – the state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority headquarters and the LSU Center for River Studies.

Together they will anchor a 35-acre water campus that also may contain commercial, office and residential space.

The new institute headquarters will extend outward over the Mississippi River, providing a public plaza for viewing.

Chemical making continues LAPLACE Two Japanese firms that acquired a Neoprene business from DuPont will establish a joint corporate headquarters in LaPlace. Denka Performance Elastomer, as the joint firm is known, will retain 235 jobs and create 16 new executive positions at the former DuPont site. Neoprene, invented by DuPont in 1931, is a synthetic rubber used for many chemical and weather-resistant products such as wetsuits and orthopedic braces, along with adhesives, electrical insulation and coatings. n

City is game for jobs NEW ORLEANS Website and video game development projects will bring more jobs to the Crescent City. California-based inXile Entertainment announced it will open a game development studio in New Orleans, marking the company’s first expansion outside of its headquarters in Newport Beach. Specializing in interactive entertainment software for such systems as PlayStation 4, the firm’s designers have launched a host of popular titles.

North Carolina-based website and app developer Smashing Boxes also announced it is expanding to New Orleans. Founder Nick Jordan hatched the expansion idea after visiting the city last spring during Entrepreneurship Week.

Together, the two companies are expected to bring about 140 jobs to New Orleans. photo courtesty inxile entertainment

health A Heart Attack

Healthy Hearts An expert in Thibodaux weighs in to help with disease prevention.

By Fritz Esker

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It can strike people of all ages and backgrounds. But what can you do to reduce the odds of falling victim to it? February is heart month, and there’s plenty of useful info out there that could potentially save your life.

Prevention

Prevention is paramount to fighting heart disease.

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there’s another step many Americans don’t think about: quitting smoking. Smoking not only causes lung cancer, it also increases blood pressure and the blood’s tendency to clot.

“Smoking is the single most preventable risk factor,” says Dr. Al Timothy, a cardiologist and interventional cardiologist at Thibodaux Regional Medical Center. “The benefits of quitting are very measurable at any age.”

Another way to prevent heart disease is by seeking a doctor’s assistance in treating underlying conditions that can contribute to a heart attack or stroke. These include diabetes, high blood pressure, and having high levels of LDL cholesterol.

“No one questions doing maintenance on their car, like changing the oil … But people might go years upon years and never see a doctor to do preventive maintenance on their bodies,” says Mark Arceneaux, director of the cardiac cath lab at Thibodaux Regional Medical Center.

It’s important to note that heart disease is not always accompanied by warning signs. Just because you feel fine doesn’t mean everything’s fine.

Dr. Timothy says that for many people, the first symptom of heart disease is a heart attack (and possibly death). n

How can you tell if you or a loved one are suffering from a heart attack? Each person is different and heart attacks can vary in their presentation. The most common symptom involves discomfort in the center of the chest that last more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back. It often feels like crushing pressure or fullness. But sometimes the sensation isn’t much different than indigestion.

Discomfort in other areas of the body is also a warning sign.

Shortness of breath, pain in one or both arms, the back, the neck, the jaw, or the stomach can indicate a heart attack.

Many people are unaware that heart disease is also the leading cause of death for women in the United States. Their risk factors and symptoms are similar to those for men, but the American Heart Association states that women are more likely than men to experience some of the symptoms other than chest pain.

If you suspect you or a loved one is suffering from a heart attack, seek medical attention immediately. While it’s true that some people go to the hospital and are told they’re only suffering from indigestion or a panic attack, the old cliché “better safe than sorry” applies here.

“The outcome is better the sooner we can open the artery,” Dr. Timothy says.

While waiting for medical attention, taking aspirin will help. Aspirin inhibits platelets, which triggers blood clotting. It’s important to chew a full-strength, uncoated aspirin (don’t swallow it) for the quickest results. This prevents the clots from growing.

For more information, visit the American Heart Association’s website at heart.org or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at cdc.gov/heartdisease.

great louisiana chef

Grilled Black Drum With Camellia Red Bean Caviar and Local Honey Dijon Vinaigrette

Chris McKnight The Fat Pelican in Monroe

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8-ounce Gulf black drum Salt and pepper to taste 3 ounces of Camellia red beans (blanched tender) 2 ounces trinity 1 tablespoon garlic 1 tablespoon shallots 2 ounces cider vinegar 2 ounces of local Swamp Fox Farms honey 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 1.5 ounces Andouille sausage 1 teaspoon chop parsley Salt and pepper to taste

A native of monroe, Chef Chris McKnight runs The Fat Pelican with his wife, Mandi, serving Southern French cuisine in an environment that he says is “comfortable, relaxing and inviting.” He learned cooking from his grandmother, and he also credits reknowned

Louisiana chef Cory Bahr for helping him develop expertise. The best part of his job he says, is that he learns something new every day and is presented with new challenges. He plans to open a second location early this year in Sterlington. n

Combine all ingredients for the caviar mixture on medium heat Heat Gulf black drum on hot grill for 8 minutes. Cover plate with the caviar and top with Gulf black drum. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve.

photo by steven myers

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roadside dining

Café Des Amis

Old Favorites A visit to two classic eateries on a road trip from Breaux Bridge to Shreveport

By Andrew Paul

Set deep in the heart of Cajun Country, Café Des Amis of Breaux Bridge has served its patrons some of the best modern-infused Cajun fare for over 25 years. Located only a few miles northeast of Lafayette, this local favorite has garnered praise from not only locals and tourists, but from renowned publications such as Smithsonian Magazine and The Independent.

While it might be a bit of a trek for some, the trip out to Breaux Bridge is well worth it for fans of both Cajun fare and fascinating history.

The untrained eye may not notice much different from any of the generic, faux “mom and pop” stores out there today, but a closer look will reveal the authenticity behind Café Des Amis is no cash-in. The restau-

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rant is housed in what once served as a general store for the surrounding community dating back to 1890. A fire four years later resulted in extensive repairs and the adding of a second story – space which soon housed and sold caskets.

Almost exactly a century later, the building found a slightly more cheerful use when former state representative Dickie Breaux opened up the restaurant to the public, serving primarily catfish dishes until their menu and customer base grew.

Nowadays, the cuisine offered by Breaux and company is as varied as it is tantalizing. Visitors can’t go wrong with their signature Crawfish Pie, a house-made etouffee encased in a delicious puff pastry dough. Café

Des Amis’ dinner menu is also renowned for its classic oven roasted duck served with a pepper jelly syrup glaze. For the early risers, the restaurant also features breakfast Tuesdays through Saturdays where customers can sample items such as the Couche Couche, a traditional Cajun cereal blend of cornmeal and milk topped with either syrup or sugar – seemingly simple, but delicious nonetheless.

Not-so-early-risers should stop in during Sunday brunch for their decadent Oreille de Cochon, comprised of beignets stuffed with boudin and topped with powdered sugar.

Saturdays are particularly special at Café Des Amis for their Zydeco Breakfast series – a regularly rotating collection of Cajun musicians showcasing the staple genre of the region. As the tempos increase, diners are encouraged to grab a partner and join in on the small dance floor in front of the stage. The shyer of us can stay at our seats while sipping on a house-made Bloody Mary.

Café Des Amis is one of those rare places that manages to successfully blend a region’s history with modernity, finding the perfect balance between appetizing meals made by professionals and a homegrown feel you simply can’t fake. It’s well worth the trip to Breaux Bridge to experience both amazing food and culture you can’t find anywhere else in the country.

140 East Bridge St., Breaux Bridge, (337) 332-5273. n

Herby-K’s Up north, in Shreveport, visitors can find a restaurant very similar in spirit to Breaux Bridge’s café. Since 1936, Herby-K’s has been a respected eatery within the community, serving up some serious Cajun plates for a wide range of customers, from the area’s railroad workers back in the day, to the casual foodies of the present. Herbert “Herby-K” Busi Jr. made the restaurant a regional household name way back in 1945 after introducing the Shrimp Buster to his menu. As the name would imply, this imposingly huge offering is essentially an open-faced butterflied shrimp poor boy, with the battered seafood served on toasted, buttery French bread along with a side of their legendary Shrimp Buster sauce. The trimmings are simple, some fries and coleslaw, but that’s really all you need for the apex of Louisiana eating.

Herby-K’s also features a range of other classic bar bayou offerings, including catfish, crab, and frog leg platters. If seafood isn’t your thing – we’ll try to not hold it against you – visitors can also get a massive cheeseburger that doesn’t play around. Stop in for some classic eats and history, and leave sated, smarter, and slightly larger. 1833 Pierre Ave., Shreveport, (318) 424-2724. photo by denny culbert

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kitchen gourmet

Soups for the Soul 5 convenient winter recipes

By Stanley Dry

I can’t think of much more I’d rather eat this time of year than a bowl of soup. Not an elegant, light consommé accompanied by a glass of sherry – that's the stuff of tuxedos and formal dinners. I want something I can enjoy at the kitchen table after working or playing outside. It should be a soup that is thick and hearty and full of winter vegetables – one that will take off the season’s damp chill. Country bread, sweet butter and a glass of a full-bodied red wine would complete the picture.

As a cook, there is not much that I find more satisfying than making a soup. Usually I cringe when I hear the word “synergy,” which has become a cliché favored by business executives to justify some acquisition or grand plan that often turns out to be a disaster. But for the humble cook, synergy is a legitimate term when applied to soup-making. Various ingredients, each of them with its own integrity and possibility, combine and produce a result that is far more delicious than the sum of each of them prepared on its own ever could be.

The kind of soups I am thinking about don't require precise measurements or strict adherence to a list of ingredients. They are free-form and adaptable, amenable to substitutions, tolerant of personal whims. For anyone who likes to experiment in the kitchen, soups are the perfect choice. It’s fair to say that I never make a soup exactly the same way each time I make it. I may be trying to improve the result, I may not have all the ingredients, something may be out of season, another ingredient may have caught my fancy, or I may just feel like doing something different.

Many soups are improved by the use of a stock, such as chicken, vegetable, beef or seafood, but very few people take the time to make one. As a substitute, cartons of chicken broth are a godsend. Packaged chicken broth can be used as is or its flavor can be enhanced by simmering it for 30 minutes with some dry white wine and seasonings such as bay leaves, thyme and parsley, as well as carrot, onion and celery. Once you’ve done that, you not only have a good base for a soup, you also have a very flavorful broth you can sip on its own.

The following recipes are for the kind of winter soups I love to eat. All of them are easy to make and none are very timconsuming. As an added bonus, they freeze well. I like to keep small containers of them in the freezer. They are a welcome treat when the weather is wet and cold and there’s no time to cook. n White bean, kale and butternut squash soup photo by eugenia uhl

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recipes White Bean, Kale And Butternut Squash Soup 1 pound Great Northern beans 10 cups water ¼ teaspoon baking soda 1 large onion, chopped 4 cups chopped kale, packed 2 cups cubed butternut squash Coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper Extra virgin olive oil Sort and rinse beans. Combine beans, water and baking soda in large pot, bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer until beans soften, about 60 minutes.

Meanwhile, strip kale from stems, wash and chop. Peel butternut squash and cut into small cubes. Add kale and squash to pot and cook, uncovered, until squash is softened, about 15-20 minutes.

If soup is too thick, add additional water. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve with extra virgin olive oil for each diner to add as desired.

Makes 6-8 servings.

Leek and Potato Soup 2

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leeks, white and light green parts only, chopped medium onion, chopped tablespoons butter cups chicken broth medium potatoes, peeled and sliced Coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg Croutons (optional)

In a heavy pot, simmer leeks and onion in butter, covered, until softened, but not browned. Add chicken broth and potatoes and simmer until potatoes are softened.

Season to taste with salt and black pepper and add nutmeg. Serve with optional croutons, if desired.

Makes 4 servings.

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Roasted Cauliflower Soup

Cabbage Soup

Lentil Soup

1 medium head cauliflower 2 tablespoons olive oil 10 cloves garlic 5 cups chicken broth Coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 teaspoon butter 4 teaspoons Panko bread crumbs 4 teaspoons freshly grated Parmesan 1½ teaspoons grated lemon zest 2 teaspoons snipped chives

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½ pound smoked sausage, sliced 1 large onion, chopped 4 cloves garlic, minced 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 pound lentils, picked over and washed 8 cups water 1 (5-ounce) package baby spinach coarse salt freshly ground black pepper Red wine vinegar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Separate cauliflower florets and cut large ones in half. Place in a baking dish and drizzle with olive oil. Toss to coat. Roast in preheated oven for 20 minutes, then turn florets and roast until lightly browned, about an additional 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, crush garlic cloves with the side of a large knife and slip them out of their skins.

Combine garlic and chicken broth in a large pot. Cover, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes.

Transfer cauliflower to pot with garlic and broth. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Puree contents of pot in blender, in batches, adding additional broth or water, if needed.

Transfer contents of blender to another pot. Season to taste with salt and pepper and heat.

Melt butter in a small skillet, add bread crumbs and toast, while stirring, until golden brown.

Transfer bread crumbs to a small bowl and cool. Stir in Parmesan, lemon zest and chives. Serve hot soup garnished with this mixture.

Makes 4 servings.

smoked ham hocks slices bacon, cut into bite-size pieces large onion, chopped carrots, peeled and sliced small head cabbage, quartered and sliced medium potatoes, halved and sliced Cajun/Creole seasoning

Cover smoked ham hocks and bacon with water and boil for 30 minutes. Add onion, carrots and cabbage. Add enough water to cover and bring to a boil. Add potatoes to pot, bring back to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until potatoes are tender.

Remove ham hocks, cut into small pieces and return to pot.

Season to taste with Cajun/Creole seasoning.

Makes 6-8 servings.

Combine smoked sausage, onion, garlic and olive oil in large pot and simmer until onions are softened, about 10 minutes. Add lentils and water, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until lentils are tender, about 25-30 minutes.

Stir in spinach and season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve with vinegar for each diner to add as desired.

Makes about 6 servings.

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home

Mayor's Residence In the small town of Mound, mayor Margaret and her husband Ed Yerger keep the past alive.

By Bonnie Warren / Photographed by Craig Macaluso

Margaret Yerger is the mayor of Mound, the smallest incorporated municipality in Louisiana with 18 residents. It is here in a picturesque historic home on six acres, she lives a serene life with her husband, Edward “Ed,” who spent his life before retirement 15 years ago farming the rich soil that is part in the Mississippi River flood plain across the River from Vicksburg, Mississippi.

It’s the land that has been farmed by two generations of the Yerger family before him. “This is a bit of God’s country,” Margaret says. An attractive, energetic woman who regularly rides her bicycle on the quiet country road in front of her home that leads to the banks of the Mississippi

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River just a little over a mile away. “The air is just a little bit sweeter here; we love living in the country.”

Built in 1916, the unpretentious cypress house dressed in green paint to blend seamlessly with its pastoral surroundings is located in the Northeast corner of Louisiana in Madison Parish. “I was born right here and I have never considered moving away,” Ed explains. “The Yerger family history in Louisiana goes back to the first Yergers coming here from Pennsylvania after the Civil War. “We have all been farmers and our land is still cultivated, although it is now leased.” At one time Ed’s family farmed 12,000 acres.

“The first crop farmed was

cotton, with soybeans and corn eventually taking over.”

You would expect Margaret to say good things about Mound, since she is the mayor of the town in that boasts three stop signs. “I didn’t have a problem with learning how to do a good job,” she says. “Hazel Yerger, my mother-in-law, was the mayor before me, and I just followed her good example.”

She explains that most of the antiques in her home came from Ed’s parents (Hazel and Edward) and his grandparents (Ednah and George Yerger).

Margaret and Ed started dating in Baton Rouge while students at LSU. A few years after Margaret received her degree in elementary education and Ed graduated

in agricultural economics, the couple married and moved to Mound. “We moved into our home in 1969,” Ed says. “We've made some minor changes to the house, yet it still has the simple, basic floor plan with a living room, dining room, breakfast room and kitchen on one side of the house and four bedrooms and two bathrooms separated from the other side by a long hallway.”

Margaret says that she loved raising their now-grown children in the home. Scott (an orthopedic surgeon in Lafayette), and David (a physical therapist in Baton Rouge), look forward to visiting their childhood home.

“They enjoy bringing their wives and our grandchildren

ABOVE: Built in 1916 on six acres, the Yergers' all-cypress house is located in Mound just over a mile from the Mississippi River in Madison Parish. FACING PAGE, TOP LEFT: The front porch is a favorite spot for Ruby, the Yerger’s Irish Setter, to relax with. Bob, their cat, sits behind the porch swing. TOP RIGHT: A side garden features a statue of a woman, sundial, and metal sculptures.

BOTTOM LEFT: Located between the dining room and kitchen, the cheerful breakfast room opens onto a small side porch. BOTTOM RIGHT: The antique grandfather clock has a Scottish timepiece.

TOP: The living room is furnished in fine antiques from Ed’s parents and grandparents. BOTTOM: Edward “Ed” and Margaret Yerger relax on the porch. FACING PAGE TOP: Furnished in fine antiques from Ed’s parents and grandparents, the dining room is illuminated by a large antique chandelier. BOTTOM: The quiet back bedroom on the corner of the house captures light from the large windows.

here for visits, and they are pleased that arrangements have already been made so that someday the land will belong to them,” says Margaret.

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one-fourth Choctaw. “Mike confirms it was a [Native American] mound in the area that gave the town its name,” Ed says.

Today the home is furnished with cherished antiques and heirlooms from his parents and grandparents. They have

also added special pieces such as the coffee table in the living room from Covingtonbased furniture-maker Greg Arceneaux. Family photographs line the hallway walls, along with a sentimental burlap sack stamped “Louisiana State Certified,

Yerger's Brand Soybeans by Yerger Bros., Mound, LA.” All four bedrooms feature antique poster beds.

A charming three-room guest house is located behind the main house, with old barns and a second residence on the property – all adding to the storybook setting. “Life is good in Mound,” Margaret says. Ed agrees: “It is easy to see why I never considered moving away from here.” n

art

Studio Inferno Hot glass and charred saints in St. Bernard Parish

By John R. Kemp

New Orleans artist Mitchell Gaudet had planned to study psychology in college.

But that was until he found his direction beyond the writings of Freud and Jung.

He discovered that molten glass and creating art led him through the spiritual world of his childhood.

Since the early 1990s, this internationally acclaimed glass artist has been on an existential journey. His cast hot glass assemblages often reflect disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the Deep Horizon BP oil spill. But more often, they explore his spiritual 32 | Louisiana Life January/February 2016

upbringing in a New Orleans Cajun and Italian family. Like any good art, his glass and found-object constructions demand a response from viewers who can’t help but internalize his work in the light of their own experiences.

These experiences fill Gaudet’s Studio Inferno gallery, located in an old movie theater on St. Claude Avenue just across the St. Bernard Parish line in Arabi. A visit to the studio is like moving backstage during a casting call for Dante’s epic poem “The Divine Comedy,” where charred saints and scorched angels

await transformation in the “Seven Terraces” of Purgatorio.

His studio is filled with thousands of found objects, cast glass figures, 19th-century portraits, distressed religious icons and assemblages that stand like ex voto prayers for long-forgotten divine favors.

They call to mind the artificial hands and leg braces that hang from the walls of the old St. Roch Cemetery chapel in New Orleans where the afflicted gave thanks for curing them of some dreaded disability.

Growing up Catholic in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward in the 1960s, Gaudet lived in a world of saintly icons and ancient religious mysteries. This incense-clouded spiritualism and pageantry of pre-Second Vatican Council Catholicism profoundly influenced his art.

“I am Catholic and I subscribe to most Catholic stuff,” he explains, “but I’m also inter-

ested in the Shintos in Japan, Buddhism, and the calligraphy in mosques. I can see how there’s good and bad in all. I was born, weaned and grew up in the Catholic Church, and I am all about the ritual of religion. When the Vatican took out the rituals, that was it for me. I need the rituals.”

Gaudet’s on-going series “The Seven Deadly Sins” of pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth is an example of how these impressions have driven his work.

Begun in the early 1990s, the project has evolved over the years. At first he developed his themes with cast glass symbols representing each sin. More recently, he has incorporated 19th-century portraits purchased at auctions and estate sales. He surrounds each portrait with glass castings depicting the sins. For a show in early 2016, he

will include statues of saints charred in fires or salvaged after Hurricane Katrina from flood-damaged churches.

Inspiration also comes in little objects that he collects. Reaching over to a shelf filled with small 19th-century glass bottles, patent medicine vials, broken clay pipes, and small porcelain objects, he picked up a small Victorian porcelain cup with the words “Present for Mary” inscribed across the surface. “I could do a whole show based on this cup,” he says. “These objects are my words – my vocabulary that I write stories with is glass. I use them over and over again. They are like a keyboard. I can press each object into sand or make a plaster cast that I push into the sand. My palette is imagery.”

That palette also includes architectural fragments from old New Orleans houses and buildings. “They give me the patina like New Orleans, like the old graveyards,” he explains. “They give me the nuances of the architecture and texture of the city.

I use to go to the graveyards with my Italian grandparents.

It was fun. My love of that and this method of working with glass went hand in hand. I love working with old found materials and abstracting my images.” New Orleans and its culture, he says, “have a place in everything I have made and will continue to make.”

Finding that expression came in a round about way.

After completing high school, Gaudet attended LSU where he majored in psychology. As a lark, he signed up for “fun” courses such as ballroom dancing and stained glass. He found that he liked working with glass so he took other courses in art and eventually ended up with a degree in fine art. He then went on to get a master’s degree at Tulane University.

In college, Gaudet particu-

larly enjoyed casting molten glass. “Glass intrigued me,” he says, describing his fascination with ladling lava-hot glass into sand molds. “It was different.

Glass has a mysterious quality.

It captures light and luster. I enjoy the seductive quality of glass. I found that I could select objects that I found and create collages by pressing the objects into the sand. That was it. In my love of older stuff, how could I compete with the stained glass windows of the old cathedrals, but sand casting was new.”

In late 1989 Gaudet and two friends founded the New Orleans School of Glassworks in an old building on Magazine Street.

By late 1990, Gaudet decided to move on. He purchased a 16,000-square-foot building at 3000 Royal St. in what was to become the city’s trendy Bywater neighborhood. Gaudet claims the funky old building that once housed a bottle plant and a uniform factory was the inspiration for Ignatius Reilly’s fictitious “Levy Pants, Inc.” in John Kennedy Toole’s novel, A Confederacy of Dunces.

“The place was filled with old sewing machine needles,” he says. On April Fool's Day 1991, Studio Inferno opened.

In naming the new studio, Gaudet and business partner Scott Benefield, a glass blower, borrowed the word “inferno” from the sign of a nearby boilermaker shop. Here the two could not only create their own artwork but also produce decorative glass objects for commercial markets across the country. They also subdivided the building into smaller studios to rent to other artists. By the late 1990s, the former psychology major, who by now had bought out Benefield, had become a successful artist, teacher, maintenance man, landlord, arts district pioneer, and a glass manufacLouisianaLife.com | 33

turer with 14 employees and 400 commercial clients.

Unfortunately, Bywater’s rising popularity in postKatrina New Orleans also meant skyrocketing property taxes and increased street crime. In 2011 Gaudet decided to move again. One afternoon while driving down St. Claude Avenue to his home on Bayou Sauvage in eastern New Orleans, he noticed a for sale sign on the vacant 1940s Arabi Theater. He bought the building, moved in two years later, set up his studio and gallery, cut back on his decorative glass production, reduced his staff to one and concentrated more on his fine art work and commissions. “I drove through old Arabi and it was the same as Bywater with great old houses and light industrial,” he says, looking out over the old railroad tracks running down St. Claude Avenue. “So I mortgaged my house, sold 3000 Royal St. and bought this building and 34 | Louisiana Life January/February 2016

an old sheet metal shop.”

The old movie house, with its spacious light-filled lobby and extensive interior, has been an ideal location for his gallery, studio and glass furnace.

Focusing on one task, however, is not in Gaudet’s entrepreneurial nature. In addition to giving tours of the studio and glass art workshops around the world, he and his artist wife Erica Larkin Gaudet are working with the Meraux Foundation of St. Bernard Parish to transform Arabi into a new arts district.

To attract artists, the foundation has put up $2.5 million to purchase and renovate four buildings adjacent to Studio Inferno. When completed this February, Gaudet says the structures will provide a black-box theater and up to 12 studio workspaces for artists.

Right now, he says, “I am living on luck.”

For more information, visit facebook.com/infernonola. n

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traveler

Armchair Guide to Louisiana's Nature Conservancy Sites C.C. Lockwood's inspiring tribute Paul F. Stahls Jr.

One of the greatest attributes of Louisiana’s outdoors is the 300,000 acres of natural habitat and indigenous wildlife owned and/or managed here by the Nature Conservancy.

Another is C.C. Lockwood’s documentation of our woods and waters in words and photographs, a task he chose as his lifework four decades ago. In recent months his skills and knowledge have

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been focused exclusively on the Conservancy properties, and the result is a new coffeetable treasure from LSU Press called Louisiana Wild, the Protected and Restored Lands of the Nature Conservancy.

For us “Travelers” it will be the inspiration for many adventures, and for all Louisianians it will serve as a definitive and lavishly illustrated atlas of our landscape in all its beauty and variety.

Lockwood is not without colleagues in his chosen vocation – Greg Guirard of the Atchafalaya, Jim Caldwell of Kisatchie Forest, Nancy Camel (The Nature of Things at Lake Martin), Bevil Knapp (America’s Wetland), Charlie Hohorst (Wings of Paradise) and Julia Sims (Manchac Swamp) come to mind – but after a 43-year career and nine books on the topic, it’s fair to call “Clyde” the dean of our outdoor writer/

photographers. He burst onto the scene in 1981 with his blockbuster Atchafalaya (a stroke of luck for newborn Louisiana Life whose early issues were graced with major Lockwood portfolio-features), followed by titles as broadscoped as his 1986 Discovering Louisiana and as focused as his 1995 Louisiana Nature Guide for youngsters (like me).

Today 21 properties here are owned by the Conservancy and 20 more are managed in cooperation with our National Wildlife Refuges and state Wildlife Management Areas.

Upwards of 20 preserves held by entities like U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the Corps of Engineers currently benefit from major Conservancy projects, and 15 “easements” are undergoing Conservancy

FACING PAGE: Bollinger Marsh, Grand Isle. TOP: Bayou Dorcheat, Webster Parish. BOTTOM: Bluebonnet Swamp, Baton Rouge.

protection and restoration by arrangement with private landowners. Some Conservancy sites are accessible on a regular basis, others by appointment, and many of the remaining sites can be viewed from roadsides, adjacent properties or canoe/kayak streams like Bayou Dorcheat (a National Scenic Stream, Webster

Parish) and the Bogue Chitto (St. Tammany).

After the foreword’s heartfelt introduction to the history and mission of the Conservancy by state director Keith Ouchley and an introduction that’s essentially Lockwood’s confession of love for the land and for wife Sue (who “walked most every step of the woods” with him),

the statewide tour begins in the incredible Copenhagen Hills of Caldwell Parish and ends 132 pages later in West Feliciana, in the shade of the world’s largest known bald cypress. Along with Lockwood’s vivid descriptions and personal feelings for the scenes captured by his camera, the preserves are further defined in terms of prevalent

plant and animal species, land type and “ecoregion.”

Louisiana is divided between two of North America’s major ecoregions, the broad floodplain called the Mississippi River Alluvial Valley, and the vast Gulf Coastal Plain whose Louisiana portion is quartered

by Lower and Upper designations (seaside and inland) and East and West designations divided by the river.

For purposes of a short preview and to illustrate the variety of land types that await you, consider the following preserves, beginning (as it deserves) with the Copenhagen Hills – the thousand most unique acres of the 23,000 owned outright in Louisiana by the Conservancy. Six miles southeast of Columbia and owned until recent years by the Gov. John McKeithen family, the “hills” are better described as prairie-topped ridges whose woody slopes plunge 200 feet to the Ouachita River, resulting in a compact collection of starkly differing landforms and more species of trees and shrubs per square mile than any other area in the state.

Here, where Lockwood captured his first images for Louisiana Wild, I had ventured 20 years earlier with geology professor Gary Stringer of UL-Monroe (director of the university’s incredible Museum of Natural Sciences), who presented our little

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TOP: C.C. Lockwood and granddaddy cypress BOTTOM: Louisiana Wild book cover

group with 36.5-millionyear-old coral fossils he had gathered thereabouts – souvenirs of the Upper Eocene epoch when Caldwell and neighboring parishes were oceanfront property.

Those marine fossils, he told us, along with the strata, the soils and the plants they sustain, make the place a virtual geologic journal of earliest Louisiana. Because of

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the importance and fragility of its formations and plantlife, Copenhagen Hills is one of several Conservancy properties that can withstand only limited foot traffic, but admission requests made to the Northeast Louisiana office in Winnsboro, (318) 412-0472, will be considered. Other regional offices are listed under “Contact Us” at nature.org/louisiana.

At the opposite extremity of the state, as opposite as any opposite can be, two Conservancy sites on Grand Isle offer another impressive mix of habitat, which Lockwood lists as “ponds, tidal mudflats, the live oak forest, the marsh, the back bay and nearby small islands.” The “back bay” refers to Bollinger Marsh and the subtle beauty of its waters and waving cordgrass, while the “live oak forest” refers to the Lafitte Woods where the scene historically most associated with this barrier island still exists: groves of live oaks bowing dramatically northward, bent permanently by the Gulf winds.

The two habitats are yearround havens for birds and wildlife, especially in spring when waves of butterflies and birds, exhausted from their trans-Gulf migration, literally cover the oaks and underbrush of the island – a phenomenon that has inspired a Grand Isle Migratory Bird Festival and attracts camera-clicking spectators from around the world.

Cypress Island Preserve, near St. Martinville at the westernmost reaches of the Mississippi Valley ecoregion, is open all year on weekends and Wednesdays-Sundays in spring. Its Visitor Center sits at the southern tip of Lake Martin, near an expansive rookery where countless egrets, spoonbills, herons and cormorants begin nesting in January, an attraction that Lockwood credits with doing “as much as the Atchafalaya

Basin and our subsiding coastal marsh to bring wildlife and the environment to the forefront of our minds.”

There’s good viewing from the lake’s west-side Levee Trail, and from Rookery Road and a boardwalk along the east bank.

Yet another form of Louisiana topography is represented by the Mary Ann Brown Preserve near St. Francisville, where two miles of pathways lead hikers along creeks and plunging ravines reminiscent of nearby Port Hudson battlefield. The Mary Ann Brown is a 110-acre parcel of the famed Tunica Hills, complete with pine/hardwood-forested slopes and ridgetops, just three miles from Audubon State Historic Site (with its own nature trails, where Audubon headquartered while roaming Thompson Creek and the Tunicas in search of his Birds of America).

Some chapters of Louisiana Wild pay tribute to special projects conducted cooperatively with other agencies and entities, a practice that has led to many of the greatest achievements of the Conservancy’s 60-year history in the U.S. Such projects in its 30-year presence in Louisiana include efforts to preserve the nation’s rarest snake (the Louisiana pine snake) in Bienville Parish and, in Kisatchie National Forest and elsewhere, use of controlled burning to improve historic stands of longleaf pine and undergrowth important to the wild turkey and other wildlife.

C.C. Lockwood’s great tribute to the Nature Conservancy will also stand as a timeless tribute to him

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Louisiani of the year

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E Every year we come up with a list of Louisianians of the Year, and every year it's difficult. There are so many worthy candidates.

Our state is full of people who serve the greater good whether it's through art, philanthrophy, education, business, activism, health care, humanitarian efforts and many other fields that can enrich the Louisiana experience. Here, we've narrowed it down to eight individuals who have impressed us over the past year and make us look forward to seeing what they'll accomplish next. These are the people, representing our state's diverse small towns and big cities, who make us exceptionally proud to call Louisiana home.

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Professor Peter Cooley Louisiana State Poet Laureate; Tulane University professor, New Orleans

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rofessor Peter Cooley’s accomplishments and accolades bespeak an immense career, one interested in the written word and its ability to capture intangible and observed truths.

With 10 books of poetry, three chapbooks, a former editorial role at North American Review and a current editorial role at Christianity and Literature, as well as the staggering 700 publications where his poetry has appeared, he’s made quite the name for himself in the poetry world.

In July, all of Cooley’s work added up to the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities appointing him Louisiana State Poet Laureate (2015-2017). But learn a little about the writer’s past, and one quickly discovers he’s not from Louisiana. “I’m sure in fact there are some people who feel I shouldn’t have gotten the poet laureate position because I’m not from here,” he admits.

Cooley was born, raised and educated in the Midwest, where he stayed to teach at the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay, before accepting a position at Tulane University. He now serves as Director of Creative Writing.

Being born in the South certainly makes one a Southern writer, but that doesn’t mean others can’t contribute their legacy to the state’s storied literary traditions. Cooley says, “The words have to come from within to express something one observes without.”

Still, that didn’t mean writing about Louisiana came so readily.

“When I came here the process was very gradual,” he explains. “I thought at first I would be able to write all these Southern poems, but it wasn’t as easy as that. I had to percolate. It took a while for me to figure how to do it intuitively.”

Like anyone with such a prolific repertoire, Cooley’s work spans all manner of topics, but he does come back – time and again – to a sense of faith, of wonder. “I think a lot of the wonder in Louisiana is the wonder of the natural world.”

He continues, “I think the light here is so beautiful and inspirational. It shines on things and it’s as if they have a light from within that corresponds with the light outside.” He picks up on that very theme in his poem “Café in Amsterdam,” which finds the poet wandering the streets, amazed at the way people shimmer as though they themselves were the historic paintings he’s just come from seeing.

Picking up on Louisianians’ inner light, Cooley adds, “The other thing would be the warmth and generosity of people themselves, and the way they relate to one another as individuals in a very personal manner. They will sit down and tell you a story about themselves. People here have that narrative sense.”

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Linda Lee Administrator at Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, Baton Rouge

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eering down through a pair of ruby-red reading glasses, Linda Lee’s voice halts before she finishes reading from the handwritten note sent to her by a woman who recently toured the Mary Bird Perkins – Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center, which recently completed a vast $23 million expansion and renovation aimed at treating patients better and serving them in new ways altogether. “‘My son would have been so comfortable here,’” Lee reads aloud. The letter’s author had lost her child to cancer. That loss is as deeply embedded in the ink of her pen as it is

in the tone of Lee’s voice. In 2007, Lee, then an administrator with a local pediatrics program, lost her mother Barbara to metastatic renal cancer.

“I think the same thing,” Lee says. “It’s natural to think, ‘Is my loved one in good hands? Are they good enough for my mom?’ She received treatment elsewhere, but my mother would have been better off at Mary Bird.”

It was her experience at her mother’s side that inspired the LSU alum and native of tiny Buckeye, Louisiana, near Pineville, to join Mary Bird as its administrator in 2011. A year later, plans for revolutionizing the patient experience and environment at the Baton Rouge facility were well underway. “No one should have suffering pain [today],” Lee says.

With ample parking spaces, a concierge-like greeting and assistance down a paved walk below hanging flora and modern lighting, each detail of the patients' experiences seem like they are designed as the antithesis of the traditionally sterile medical aesthetic.

The treatment center is newly filled with vivid artwork, delightful distractions made by a dozen Louisiana artists that complement the programs and offer patients comfort through hands-on creative expression. A soaring atrium welcomes visitors, dominated by a joyously grand stained-glass piece by Baton Rouge glassworker Stephen Wilson which conceals a rainbow-bathed meditation room.

“You see stone, you see water, you see light – natural light,” Lee says of the work done

by Chicago architecture firm VOA. “It’s filled with the theme of Mother Nature, which is something that everyone connects with.”

As administrator, Lee oversees the work of roughly 500 employees. But what's more important, she says, is her privilege of connecting with each person who walks through the door. Hers is the business of empathy, and at Mary Bird, business is good.

With a 14,000-square-foot, 56-bay infusion suite – the largest in the state – Mary Bird treats 500 patients each day, and 3,000 that are newly diagnosed each year.

But Lee doesn’t view them as patients. They are people who just happen to have cancer.

“We are not done with you when the cancer is gone – or your family,” Lee says.

“Our survivorship program remains there to help with re-entry into life without cancer.

We are interested in the whole person.”

Last year the 57-year-old stood atop Mount Marcy in the Adirondacks – a 20-hour trek, her first major achievement in her new hobby of mountain climbing. But her professional challenge has been even more rewarding: getting two longstanding legacy institutions to work best together. She is just the woman for the job.

“That blending of cultures and communication took time, but it proved easier than I expected once we put the patient in the center of the room,” Lee says. “Suddenly, that was all that mattered.”

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Steve & Michel Gleason Activists and Co-Founders of Team Gleason, New Orleans

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ince Sept. 25, 2006, former New Orleans Saints safety Steve Gleason has been hailed as a symbol of recovery and resilience, following his famous punt block during the team’s nationally anticipated return to the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina. He retired from professional football in 2008 and married his girlfriend Michel, whom he had met at Jazz Fest a few years prior.

But in 2011, at just 34, Steve received the grim diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease for which there is still no cure. Realizing that every moment matters, the Gleasons viewed the diagnosis as an opportunity to make a positive difference.

Later that year, Michel gave birth to their son, Rivers, and the couple, along with friends and family, launched The Gleason Initiative Foundation (better known as Team Gleason). The nonprofit organization aims to provide ALS patients with services and technology; create global awareness; and ultimately find a cure.

“I think staying productive and purposeful are avenues to overcome adversity,” says Steve, who uses a wheelchair and speaks through a sophisticated communication device controlled by eye movement.

Team Gleason also joined the research initiative Answer ALS, “the largest coordinated and comprehensive research effort ever proposed for ALS,” he says.

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Named as a 2014 Sports Illustrated “Inspiration Of The Year,” Steve also helped change the law. When Medicare initiated rule changes that negatively impacted those in need of a communication device, the nonprofit “worked closely with Louisiana and Washington legislators to author and pass the Steve Gleason Act,” he says. In July 2015, President Obama signed it into effect, assuring that patients with ALS are given life-sustaining speech-generating devices. A feature-length documentary directed by J. Clay Tweel, Gleason, was recently accepted into the prestigious Sundance Film Festival and will premiere in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 23. It features several video journals that the Gleasons recorded, starting when Rivers, now 4, was in utero.

“It’s not the life either of us envisioned for ourselves,” says Michel. “But it’s still a good life.

We’ve lost our privacy, but in return we’ve received a lot of love and support from people who really care about us.”

She’s also not surprised by what they have accomplished.

“He’s a force. I never doubted [the foundation's] success. Our family and friends who got on board early are still working as tirelessly as they did in the beginning … we’ve done a good job staying true to our original mission: to support new technology that improves the quality of life for people with ALS and to get that technology to people who need it most.”

Concludes Steve: “If a person is able to see meaning within their struggle, the frustration can be looked at as motivation and fuel, for a person’s purpose.”

by Sarah Ravits photograph by Michael C. Hebert

Matt Stuller founder and Chairman of Stuller, Inc.; Philanthropist, Lafayette

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am so blessed to live in America and to be able to do things you could have never imagined and to have the freedom to be able to do it,” says 64-year-old Matt Stuller, the founder and chairman of Stuller, Inc., the largest jewelry manufacturing and distribution facility in North America, headquartered in Lafayette.

Revered as an industry and philanthropic icon, Stuller credits his company’s 46 years of success to the quality and dynamics of his Acadiana employees. “They are loving, friendly, respect each other and work hard, yet love to have a good time. This is what really makes Stuller, Inc. stand out from the rest in the country.”

At Stuller’s core is his Christian faith and respect for people. “I’ve always worked so hard to be fair and kind, and to look at every individual as a miracle because they are special in God’s eyes.”

Those same characteristics run deep in The Stuller Family Foundation, which has granted Acadiana schools and nonprofit organizations tens of millions of dollars in an effort to, as Stuller says, pay it forward. “There is a never-ending need to help society be better, and that is why we love helping churches, schools and the pro-active side of our society.”

Although Stuller holds an endless list of prestigious appointments and titles on state, national and international levels, close to this Lafayette native’s heart is his involvement in One Acadiana, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and Project Front Yard, a Lafayette anti-litter campaign. “We live near the Gulf, the [Atchafalaya] Basin and the beautiful marshes. We have an incredible abundance of life created by God, yet we see no respect for where we live. We have a long way to go.”

And behind it all is the intangible and emotional business of precious metals and precious stones. “Jewelry is about touching the senses. I wouldn’t want to be in any other business, because it is always very positive and special. We’re taking the most beautiful things that God has ever created on this earth and celebrating life’s events with those things. It’s probably one of the greatest industries. I love the business.”

His is a story of humble beginnings. Stuller started by selling jewelry out of the trunk of his car throughout south Louisiana at the age of 18. Stuller was bitten hard by entrepeneurship bug even as he worked at a Lafayette jewelry store during high school.

The same perseverance and powerful passion overflows today at Stuller, Inc., which thrives on staying ahead of the curve in the rapidly changing industry which is in the midst of a new digital era.

An Eagle Scout, Stuller says his life mottos include “Don’t be blinded in the future by your successes in the past” and “Be prepared: No matter what happens in life, you always need to be prepared.”

As for the future, Stuller doesn’t plan on slowing down. “I hope that I have built a business that [offers] careers that will be everlasting for multi-generations and families,” he says.

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Bishop Fernand J. Cheri III, OMF auxiliary BISHOP, New Orleans

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y grace is enough for you, for in weakness power reaches perfection." The scripture is pulled from 2 Corinthians 12:9, and while few may recognize the scripture itself, many will recognize the man for whom it has been a beacon: Bishop Fernand J. Cheri III. Bishop Cheri, a Franciscan Friar of the Sacred Heart Province (St. Louis), has spent a lifetime in service as not only a priest, but also an educator and an archivist – a path that has taken him from one parish to another here in Louisiana, and beyond to his most recent appointment as campus minister at Quincy University in Quincy, Illinois. But that three-year stay has come to a close. Recently, his decades of work in service to others – some focusing on Black Catholic worship and liturgy and others in education – resulted in a papal call for him to return home.

In early 2015, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had chosen Cheri to serve in a greater capacity as the new auxiliary bishop of New Orleans, a milestone in a 36-year career that he began in 1979 as a parochial vicar at Our Lady of Lourdes. He continued his career at St. Francis de Sales in New Orleans, St. Joseph the Worker in Marrero and St. Vincent de Paul in Nashville.

Cheri, a graduate of St. Joseph Seminary College who holds a Master's of Divinity from Notre Dame Seminary and a Master's of Theology from Xavier University, has also left his mark in the world of education. He spent years teaching at St. Augustine High School in New Orleans, Hales Franciscan High School in Chicago and Althoff Catholic High School in Belleville, Illinois, and served as an assistant campus minister at Xavier University in New Orleans before becoming Director of Campus Ministry at the aforementioned Quincy University.

Cheri is also an audiophile in his own right. Nationally renowned as an archivist of Black Catholic religious music, he has built a collection of 4,000 recordings of gospel music – including vinyls and tapes – and files of gospel sheet music and books. In addition to his work as the editor and compiler of the seven-volume 1994 Gospel Music Discography and the 9-volume 1997 Gospel Music Discography, Cheri is the author of several articles and books about black Catholic liturgy and worship including “Mass of Thanksgiving” (1979) “Black Catholic Liturgy” in Tell It Like It Is (1982), and “Sweet, Sweet Spirit: Prayer Services from the Black Catholic Church” (2006). In addition to his archival work, Cheri is a convener and facilitator of “Go Down Moses” Retreats for African American Catholic Young Men and has worked with KUJENGA Youth Leadership Programs in Chicago and St. Louis/Belleville area.

In 1984, he began the Black Saints Celebration, an annual celebration highlighting the contributions of the Black Catholic community to the Catholic church and society as a whole, which he directed until 1991.

Now that Cheri has returned to New Orleans, though he is humbled by his new post, he is also excited about the possibilities and hopes to continue to make an impact on New Orleans’ Black Catholic community and the city as a whole using the Pope himself as an example: “He’s awakening some significant aspects that people need to address,” Cheri said. “He’s calling us to be more reflective of the Christ we worship.”

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John Bel Edwards Governor of Louisiana, amite

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tanding before the election night crowd in New Orleans’ Hotel Monteleone, Governor-elect John Bel Edward began his victory remarks by saying, “Is this a great state, or what?!” After acknowledging his hometown pastor who had just offered a prayer, Edwards continued, “We are supposed to glorify God in all that we do, so I will say it right now: To God be the glory.”

We’re not sure, but some sources say that God might have been on Edwards’ side all along, beginning way back when he had the inspiration to include his family name Bel in his official moniker which would have the advantage of separating him from another Louisiana politician named Edwards.

Divinity may have also helped the campaign, which was viewed from the beginning as a long shot, though circumstances would break right.

There was both tenderness and political messaging in Edwards’ next statement: “I want to thank my beautiful wife. Yes she is a public school teacher and she is the last person I talk to every night.

A native of Tangipahoa Parish whose most famous native prior to his election was Britney Spears, Edwards is from a political clan that traces back to a grandfather who was elected sheriff in 1927. The Governor-elect’s brother is the current sheriff. John Bel represented the town of Amite and surroundings in the state house of representatives.

His politics is a synthesis of the state’s political profile. He is a registered Democrat, which is what the state used to be, but a conservative at heart, which is what the state is. Shortly after his election he told a business group that he will govern “from the middle” which is where the economically and ethically cleavaged state needs him to be. He is a lone Democrat who will have to dance with Republicans. That might not always be pretty sight, but it might make politics a little less partisan.

On the night of his election JBE (as we will come to know him) included in his list of thanks his mom who he said had been a “Charity Hospital nurse who taught us all about compassion for our fellow human beings.”

That a son of a former Charity Hospital nurse is the state’s new governor touches the heart of classic Louisiana populism. With a state government in need of repair he should be not only the dispenser of compassion but a recipient as well.

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Jon Batiste bandleader, the late show with stephen colbert, New York City via kenner

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he Kenner native jazz musician, Jon Batiste, earned his chops thanks to a large musical family that served as inspiration for the HBO series Treme. He attended the prestigious New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and went onto Juilliard School in New York City, creating and honing his hybrid style of jazz that draws on his geographical exposure and flare for contemporary sounds.

Most well-known for playing the melodica – a mash-up between a harmonica and a keyboard – Batiste’s musical style encompasses kinetic performance, public space and bringing people together through song.

It was that kind of hodge-podge nature and the passion it naturally involves that attracted TV host Stephen Colbert’s attention. The newly appointed host of CBS’s The Late Show invited Batiste to be his bandleader. Speaking with Katie Couric, Batiste explained how the collaboration actually began when he and his band, Stay Human, appeared on Colbert’s former show The Colbert Report. “That was the first time we knew there was an energy," Batiste said about the spark between himself and the host. "I felt there was a very, very fun, kind of weird, but awkward-in-a-good way interview.”

In recent years, a shifting late-night TV landscape has removed the staid and, at times, stuffy house bands and replaced them with a modern sensibility. Between The Roots on The Tonight Show and comedy musician Reggie Watts on The Late Late Show, Batiste was yet another breath of fresh air intended to shake up what could be done with music in the late-night hour. Yet, it wasn’t entirely clear how jazz would fare.

But so far it's been well-received by the television host and his audience. Batiste’s energetic performances, which always feature him jumping up from the piano to grab his melodica and interact with the audience, bring a refreshing physicality to a job where most musicians stay in place. It certainly has Colbert dancing.

Batiste and Stay Human promote social music, drawing from traditional New Orleans street music. "The culture in Louisiana is a unique confluence of many different things that are inspiring to me," Batiste tells Louisiana Life. "When you hear me speak, the clothes that I wear, music that I play – [it's] all influenced by Louisiana – I don’t plan on changing anything about who I am in this new spotlight."

Nor has his ambition stopped. The newfound celebrity says, "The challenge is to maintain a sense of hunger and desire to get better. You can easily coast on this for the rest of your career, so you must maintain a sense of tenacity of the craft. The reward is a huge platform to develop music, reach mass audiences and still have other creative outlets outside of the show."

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Nicole Vasquez teacher of the year, Shreveport

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hirty-year-old Nicole Vasquez lights up and smiles broadly when she talks about her students.

And it’s not surprising: Vasquez is notorious for her smile at Captain Shreve High School, especially when she’s in the classroom.

The Bossier City resident was recently named Louisiana’s 2016 High School Teacher of the Year, through an awards program co-sponsored by the Louisiana Department of Education, Dream Teachers and the Louisiana Association of Principals. Vasquez, who teaches English, Liberal Arts, Philosophy and Multi-Cultural Perspective, was chosen from dozens of nominees.

The program honors exceptional teachers who guide and motivate their students to higher levels of academic achievement. While she’s humbled by her selection, Vasquez thinks her profession includes a number of people equally qualified. “There is nothing that makes me special or different from all the rest

of the teachers in public schools across the country because we are all working to the same end,” she says. “We are all trying to get the same results and get students prepared for life, but I might do it with a bigger smile on my face.”

As you talk to Vasquez, her deep love for teaching is instantly apparent. “I think I am very passionate about working with teenagers, and I adore my students.

I believe when I get excited teaching, it gets them excited too.

I love it!” Vasquez says her genuine smile also serves as a valuable teaching tool. “I smile the whole time, and they don’t realize the material is so hard, and at the end of the year they’re amazed at all they have learned.”

Vasquez puts herself in their shoes by remembering what it was like when she was in high school, and she values the rapport she has with her students. She says her students particularly love classroom discussions that sometimes get a bit intense. “I argue with them all the time and push them and try to get them to understand things in a new way. Not everything is right and wrong and black and white.”

She credits her parents for instilling in her the love of learning. “My parents emphasized education and made learning so much fun. I could ask them questions. My dad would bring home tons of books from the library, and I realized early on that I enjoyed the process of teaching people and sharing information.”

Now she hopes to pass on the same love for learning to her students.

Vasquez thinks the sky’s the limit for her students. “They’re the next big thing,” she says. “They are the ones that are going to be making policy decisions that will affect my income. They matter and will have to deal with the world at large.”

Nicole Vasquez has never considered any other career, and says she has no intentions of ever leaving the classroom. “Yes, there is stress being a teacher but the happy, positive moments outweigh the paperwork and the stress. And as long as that is happening, I am staying. I love what I do.”

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The marching group gains momentum along its route. No one is a spectator – everyone is a participant.

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No costume is too bizarre, too colorful or too outrageous for this celebration.

Each Mardi Gras morning, maskers – hundreds of them, perhaps a thousand – walk the streets of New Orleans’ Faubourg Marigny neighborhood downriver from the Vieux Carré. They are heading to a central gathering point where all of the individual cells of color will be united under a mass movement collectively known as the Society of St. Anne.

To the rhythm of brass bands, the group will saunter through the Marigny toward the French Quarter, channeling onto Royal Street before heading to Canal Street to witness the Rex parade. Like salmon making their upstream climb from the ocean to the mountains, some will make the total distance; some will drop off along the way. Those in their path will marvel at the splendor or perhaps join them.

St. Anne’s passing is a rolling wave of color and creativity. It is one of Carnival’s purest rituals, totally noncommercial; thoroughly high-quality; informal in its structure. The miracle of Saint Anne transforms ordinary, and not-so-ordinary, people into myriad images and shapes to worship at the altar of Mardi Gras. Blessed be Saint Anne, for it has created near perfection.

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While some of the New Orleans Carnival krewes maintain exclusive and expensive memberships, the Society of St. Anne's only real requirement is that one simply know about it – and of course, wear a costume. New Orleanians taking dressing up seriously: Months before Carnival season truly begins, would-be revelers begin handcrafting, sewing and designing their over-thetop outfits that will be proudly displayed on Fat Tuesday morning. The krewe was founded in 1969 by Henri Schindler, Paul Poche and Jon Newlin.

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Some St. Anne costumers spend countless hours crafting costumes, yielding stunning results.

Some people mask themselves beyond recognition; others are embellished versions of themselves.

The parade was founded to rebel against an ordinance that removed traditional old-line walking parades from the French Quarter.

To this day it maintains a sense of playful rebelliousness and satire.

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Normally quiet neighborhood bars become crowded hot spots to grab a drink or take a break.

With St. Anne's marching parade, one can experience overindulgence and the beauty of community. But there is also a sense of solemnity, though it may be brief. At the end of the route, after Rex has passed, revelers walk to the Mississippi River and dip streamers, usually hanging from large hoops (pictured above), into the water and sprinkle droplets over the crowd in a baptism-esque ritual. Others may use this as a time to set the ashes of deceased loved ones into the river.

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Bringing Dead Man Walking To Life A story of redemption, told through opera, comes to New Orleans.

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ead Man Walking” is an opera of many firsts. The 2000 adaption of the Sister Helen Prejean book, later adapted into an Academy Awardwinning movie, was the first opera penned by Jake Heggie – who later would go on to win acclaim for such works as The End of the Affair and Moby Dick. It was also the first libretto penned by the famed American playwright Terrence McNally, known for such stage classics as Love! Valour! Compassion! and the musicals Ragtime, Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Full Monty.

And so, 15 years later, comes the most curious first of all: its staging by the New Orleans Opera Association, which provides the Louisiana premiere March 4 and 6 at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts. The opera has been hailed by many critics as one of the best of the 21st century, and New Orleans Opera Association executive and artistic director, Robert Lyall, has been wanting to stage it since its premiere at the San Francisco Opera in 2000.

What took so long?

“I met Sister Helen the year after it premiered in San Francisco, and it had created a sensation,” Lyall says. “[But] there was a lot of confusion about the piece, and it was really involved with [whether the production is] proselytizing for or against the death penalty. In spite of the repeated comments and the composer and libretto, it’s not. It’s a frame, but it is not the gist of the story ... When I first proposed, it was just flatly refused by the board of directors because I think too many people thought I’m interested in a work about the death penalty.”

But Lyall persisted, and more board members – some of whom had seen it as an opera – became familiar with it.

Lyall ultimately won them over. (Still, it’s a longer delay than the six years it took to bring A Streetcar Named Desire to New Orleans.)

There’s no question the death penalty is at the center of Prejean’s work, and many opponents of capital punishment have used her work and the movie adaptation as an emotional vehicle against the death penalty. But as Lyall points out, Dead Man Walking works as a story of redemp-

tion. Just as much as it is about a Catholic nun’s bravery in ministering to a condemned man while also listening to the families of the victims, it’s about a convicted man’s bravery in owning and repenting his sin.

Lyall saw a production about eight years ago, which further cemented his resolve. If for no other reason, he says, “A significant opera company must participate in the art of its own time.”

Prejean has said that the idea of an opera version of the story “was terrifying at every level” but has embraced this production as if it’s her own, later saying, “Opera is just a spiritual invitation to go deeper.”

“She didn’t know much about opera until her story was turned into one,” Heggie said in a recent interview with Los Angeles Magazine. “She has an enormous appreciation for it now. I hope that opera is an invitation to a deeper reflection on something, to reflect on things you hadn’t taken the time to do before. The death penalty is sort of the abstract.

When you sit and really reflect on it and see a human drama unfold in front of you, that’s a very different experience.”

It’s certainly become a different experience for the performers, which in this production includes Michael Mayes as the killer Joseph De Rocher and Jennifer Rivera as Sister Helen Prejean. Rivera was praised for her performance in the role with Central City Opera (in Colorado) in 2014.

“That urgent tone drives the entire show and you hear it in the hurried songs of mezzo soprano Jennifer Rivera, relentlessly driven in the complex role of Sister Helen,” writes Denver Post critic Ray Mark Rinaldo. “She is called upon to be pious and comic at the same time and figures out a way to convey the mix vocally, hitting delicate high notes and broad, lyric expressions.”

So even with just Sister Helen, there’s lots of complexity to mine.

“The challenge of playing Sister Helen is that she is so dynamic, ebullient and humorous, and the opera is very serious, showing the incredible and difficult side of what she does,” Rivera says. “It’s important for the audience to know that she is so full of life, and I attempt to show that part of her when possible.”

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NELSON & HAMMONS, APLC LOUISIANA MEDICAL MALPRACTICE A sick or injured person relies upon doctors and nurses to provide appropriate care. Sadly, not all medical treatment achieves the intended result; sometimes the bad outcome is caused by medical malpractice. The disappointed patient or surviving family members want to find answers to explain what happened. In Louisiana, the healthcare industry is heavily protected, making it critically important for sick or injured patients to obtain legal advice from attorneys who are capable of handling this complicated and sensitive area of Louisiana law. For 35 years, John Hammons has successfully handled cases of medical negligence litigation for patients and families throughout Louisiana.

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EXPERIENCED AND KNOWLEDGEABLE Medical malpractice litigation requires a unique devotion to detail and an appreciation for the nuances of the law, along with a keen understanding of applicable medical standards. By concentrating on medical malpractice, Hammons has developed the knowledge of law and medicine and the experience to provide superior representation in medical malpractice, physician negligence and nursing home negligence cases. In the past 10 years, he has obtained recoveries for meritorious claims totaling more than $80 million. In recognition of his experience and skill, Hammons is selected to Super Lawyers for the 10th year in a row.

COMPASSIONATE AND PRACTICAL Practicing this type of law is challenging and rewarding for Hammons. Every potential client who seeks help from Hammons has suffered a disappointment and quite often a tragic, permanent loss. When making a decision to investigate and pursue a medical malpractice claim, Hammons is highly selective because the overall process is time-consuming, expensive and emotionally difficult for clients and counsel. Hammons’ commitment to a professional and thorough approach has resulted in his successful representation of hundreds of medical malpractice clients.

SUCCESSFUL PRACTICE Hammons serves clients in his offices in Shreveport and Lafayette. He and his associates—Cornell R. Flournoy and William W. Murray Jr.—have devoted resources and expertise to investigation and prosecution of medical malpractice cases. Hammons has been at the forefront of the development of Louisiana’s medical malpractice law and precedentsetting cases. He and firm members remain committed to fighting for quality medical care for clients and their families, as well as seeking to obtain just compensation for those who have been seriously injured by the negligence of the medical community.

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LUNDY, LUNDY, SOILEAU & SOUTH, LLP PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST Lundy, Lundy, Soileau & South, LLP accepts the challenges others refuse. Regarded as one of the premier firms handling catastrophic and serious personal injury cases, Lundy, Lundy, Soileau & South fights for the rights of those who have been harmed by the negligence or wrongdoing of others—and has prevailed against some of the largest and most powerful corporations in the world.

Often achieving million-dollar-plus settlements and verdicts for its clients, Lundy, Lundy, Soileau & South has been trial counsel in some of the largest verdicts and settlements to date. The firm has amassed extraordinary experience and success in many areas, including cases and trials involving wrongful death, dangerous drugs, pipeline explosions, products liability, dangerous highways, and automobile and trucking accidents.

The needs of injured victims can be overwhelming, and the lawyers at Lundy, Lundy, Soileau & South are united in putting people first. Serving individuals and families across the United States, they stand with their clients from beginning to end, helping victims of personal injury through difficult times and striving for the justice their clients deserve.

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What is the deadline for filing a medical malpractice claim in Louisiana?

In general, Louisiana law provides that a claim seeking compensation for damages arising out of the negligence of a doctor, hospital or other healthcare provider must be filed within one year of the date of the alleged malpractice or within one year of the claimant’s date of discovery, but in any event within three years of the date of the malpractice, without regard to the date of discovery. The oneyear/three-year rule applies to all potential claimants, including minors and interdicts.

The patient’s date of discovery is the earliest date on which he had or should have had knowledge of the possible malpractice, harm, and the connection between the two; the

one-year deadline is calculated from that date of discovery. Even if his claim seeking compensation for damages caused by medical malpractice is filed within one year of his date of discovery, if that claim is not also filed within three years of the date of the alleged malpractice, it will be dismissed because it was not timely filed.

If it is not clear from the facts set forth in the initial claim that the claim has been timely filed, a defendant may assert an exception of prescription at any point during the proceedings. After an evidentiary hearing, if the court decides the claim was not filed within the deadline, the case will be

dismissed. Although the statute setting forth the exception, LSA-R.S. 9:5628, is clearly written, the reported cases to which lawyers and judges look for guidance in applying the statutory language to a specific set of circumstances demonstrate that the issues may quickly become complex.

The one-year/three-year rule applies to the timeliness of the filing of the initial medical malpractice claim. The Louisiana Medical Malpractice Act also includes many deadlines that are equally significant regarding the pursuit of a malpractice claim, such as paying the filing fee, extending the medical review panel, and filing the post-panel petition in district court.

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LARRY CURTIS “MY MISSION IS SIMPLE: TO OBTAIN AN OUTSTANDING RESULT—WITHOUT EXCEPTION—FOR EVERY CLIENT” Larry Curtis is recognized as one of Louisiana’s preeminent personal injury lawyers. For more than 35 years, Curtis has successfully represented maritime workers of all types— drill rig and platform workers, service hands, and offshore construction workers, as well as commercial divers, dredge crew and fishermen—in cases involving serious injury or death. “My mission is simple: to obtain an outstanding result—without exception—for every client.”

EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE Curtis is a seasoned trial lawyer, with a national reputation in maritime personal injury cases.

Over and over, Curtis has won multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements for his clients. “I am always motivated to provide the best possible representation to my clients, because I know that they are counting on me to help them through a very difficult time in their life.” He believes that his three decades of trial experience give his clients a decided advantage in the courtroom.

“In complex, high-stakes cases, there is no substitute for experience—none,” Curtis says. “And experience teaches that, among other things, careful preparation wins cases.”

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“I read an interview of one of the country’s top trial lawyers,” Curtis says. “In speaking about trial preparation, he remarked that if you ever see a lawyer pull a rabbit out of a hat, the lawyer probably had 10 rabbits and 10 hats. I believed that statement to be true when I first read it and my own courtroom experience has confirmed its validity.”

RECOGNIZED AND HONORED In 2014, Curtis was named “Lawyer of the Year” by the Woodward/White publication known simply as Best Lawyers in the practice area of Personal Injury Litigation–Plaintiffs for the metropolitan area of Baton Rouge, which includes the City of Lafayette. He has also been listed to Super Lawyers since its inaugural issue in 2007 and the Top 50 Attorneys in Louisiana from 2012-2014. Curtis also holds the highest rating, AV Preeminent, given by the Martindale-Hubbell® Law Directory. More than a decade ago, St. John’s University honored Curtis with its Alumni Outstanding Achievement Medal.

In the summer of 2005, Curtis was invited to join the Academy of Trial Advocacy, an exclusive group of some of the country’s most experienced and accomplished trial lawyers. He is also a founding member of the Aletheia Institute, a national invitationonly organization of lawyers committed to promoting truth in advocacy, full disclosure in discovery and a fair measure of justice to all litigants.

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION AND COMMUNITY Curtis is a member of the American, Federal, Louisiana, and Lafayette Bar Associations, The Maritime Law Association of the United States, as well as the American and Louisiana Associations for Justice. He has served as a member of the Louisiana Association for Justice’s President’s Advisory Council, the Board of Governors, and the Council of Directors. Curtis is an Emeritus Member of The American Inn of Court of Acadiana. Curtis served on the Board of the Lafayette Parish Bar Association and as its President in 2011-2012. He has been asked to speak at local, state and national professional meetings about federal trial practice and maritime law. Community involvement is important to him as well: for five years, he served as the host of a monthly TV program about Catholic social teaching.

He is a member of, and serves as an officer of, the Knights of Columbus, Council 7275.

300 Rue Beauregard, Bldg. “C” Post Office Box 80247, Lafayette, LA 70508 PH: (337) 235-1825 • (800) 528-1825 • FX: (337) 237-0241

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LOUISIANA THE TOP 50 An alphabetical listing of the lawyers who ranked top of the list in the 2016 Louisiana Super Lawyers nomination, research and blue ribbon review process

Adams, Marguerite L., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans Ashe, Barry W., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans Barrasso, Judy Y., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans Boren, James E., The Law Offices of James E. Boren, Baton Rouge Boyle, Kim M., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans Cahill, Jr., Elwood F., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans Centola, Larry J., Martzell Bickford & Centola, New Orleans Cheatwood, Roy C., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans Colvin, R. Keith, Jones Walker, New Orleans David, Robert J., Gainsburgh Benjamin David Meunier & Warshauer, New Orleans Eagan, Jr., Ewell (Tim) E., Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans Fendler, S. Gene, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans Flanagan, Thomas M., Flanagan Partners, New Orleans Garner, James M., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans Gay, Jr., Charles F., Adams and Reese, New Orleans Goodier, Glenn G., Jones Walker, New Orleans Griffith, Jr., Steven F., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans Hardin, Pauline F., Jones Walker, New Orleans Hayden, Jan M., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans Herman, Russ M., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans Herman, Stephen J., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans Holthaus, C. Frank, deGravelles Palmintier Holthaus & Frugé, Baton Rouge Irwin, James B., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans Katz, Brian D., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans Krebs, Patricia A., King Krebs & Jurgens, New Orleans

LOUISIANA THE TOP 25 WOMEN An alphabetical listing of the women lawyers who ranked top of the list in the 2016 Louisiana Super Lawyers nomination, research and blue ribbon review process

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Kupperman, Stephen H., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans Lane, Steven J., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans Lee, Wayne J., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans Luker, Lynn, Stanley Reuter Ross Thornton & Alford, New Orleans Mason, W. Brett, Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, Baton Rouge Morris, Edith H., Morris Lee & Bayle, New Orleans Neff, Carole Cukell, Sessions Fishman Nathan & Israel, New Orleans Pipes, III, H. Minor, Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans Plunkett, Laura Walker, Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans Ralston, Christopher K., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans Roy, James P., Domengeaux Wright Roy Edwards & Colomb, Lafayette Shapiro, Howard, Proskauer Rose, New Orleans Shaw, Danny G., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Mandeville

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BARRASSO, JUDY Y. Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans HAYDEN, JAN M. • Ranked Number Three • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans

Sher, Leopold Z., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans Shreves, H. Bruce, Simon Peragine Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans Shuler, III, G. Phillip, Chaffe McCall, New Orleans Sperling, Peter E., Frilot, New Orleans Stanley, Richard C., Stanley Reuter Ross Thornton & Alford, New Orleans Talley, Susan G., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans Tranchina, Jr., Frank P., Tranchina & Mansfield, Covington Urquhart, Jr., Quentin F., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans Vance, R. Patrick, Jones Walker, New Orleans Walters, Jr., Edward J., Walters Papillion Thomas Cullens, Baton Rouge Warshauer, Irving J., Gainsburgh Benjamin David Meunier & Warshauer, New Orleans Wittmann, Phillip A., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans

LEE, WAYNE J. Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans SHAPIRO, HOWARD Proskauer Rose, New Orleans SHER, LEOPOLD Z. Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans

HERMAN, RUSS M. • Ranked Number Two • Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans

SHREVES, H. BRUCE Simon Peragine Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans

IRWIN, JAMES B. Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans

WITTMANN, PHILLIP A. • Ranked Number One • Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans

KUPPERMAN, STEPHEN H. Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans

Adams, Marguerite L., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans Barrasso, Judy Y., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans Baumgartner, Adrianne L., Porteous Hainkel & Johnson, Covington Bayle, Suzanne Ecuyer, Morris Lee & Bayle, New Orleans Bertaut, Carmelite M., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans Boyle, Kim M., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans Currault, Donna Phillips, Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans Degan, Nancy Scott, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans Fischer, Madeleine, Jones Walker, New Orleans Futrell, Elizabeth (Lisa) J., Jones Walker, New Orleans Hardin, Pauline F., Jones Walker, New Orleans Hayden, Jan M., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans Johnson, Mary S., Johnson Gray McNamara, Mandeville

Krebs, Patricia A., King Krebs & Jurgens, New Orleans Livaudais, Julie D., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans Luker, Lynn, Stanley Reuter Ross Thornton & Alford, New Orleans Morris, Edith H., Morris Lee & Bayle, New Orleans Neff, Carole Cukell, Sessions Fishman Nathan & Israel, New Orleans Plunkett, Laura Walker, Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans Puente, Denise C., Simon Peragine Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans Roussel, Elizabeth A., Adams and Reese, New Orleans Schnabel, Marta-Ann, O’Bryon & Schnabel, New Orleans Simmons, Gracella, Keogh Cox, Baton Rouge Talley, Susan G., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans Thorne, René E., Jackson Lewis, New Orleans

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Ask What should I do if I have an accident working offshore?

To protect your legal rights, it is vital that you: • Report the accident/injury as soon as possible after it happens—do not allow anyone to tell you what to write or to leave out facts you think are important—report everything you know about the accident/injury • DO NOT allow anyone to stop you from reporting an accident/injury • DO NOT let anyone tell you that you are required to see the company doctor before you see your own doctor. This is simply not true, your regular family doctor is as good a choice as any. Tell your doctor about every part of your body that was hurt in the accident—even if you think it is only a minor injury • Tell your doctor about any similar injuries you may have suffered in the past • DO NOT talk yourself out of a visit to the hospital or the doctor, because you believe the pain from your injury will go away with time—it may just as likely get worse • DO NOT hide the fact that you were hurt at work from your doctor, because you don’t want a lost-time accident at work or the crew you work with will lose their safety award • DO NOT speak with a claims adjuster before you seek legal advice about your rights from a lawyer with years of experience in the type of case you have

Larry Curtis, APLC

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• DO NOT speak with an investigator who represents the other side • DO NOT file for unemployment if you are unable to work at regular duty • Take photos of the accident scene or any tool or object involved in the accident, if you can, or ask someone else to do it • Make a diagram of the accident scene as soon after the accident as you are able

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NEW ORLEANS THE TOP 50 An alphabetical listing of the New Orleans lawyers who ranked top of the list in the 2016 Louisiana Super Lawyers nomination, research and blue ribbon review process

Adams, Marguerite L., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans Ashe, Barry W., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans Barrasso, Judy Y., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans Boyle, Kim M., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans Cahill, Jr., Elwood F., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans Centola, Larry J., Martzell Bickford & Centola, New Orleans Cheatwood, Roy C., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans Colvin, R. Keith, Jones Walker, New Orleans Cunningham, Mark A., Jones Walker, New Orleans David, Robert J., Gainsburgh Benjamin David Meunier & Warshauer, New Orleans Dittman, Stevan C., Gainsburgh Benjamin David Meunier & Warshauer, New Orleans Eagan, Jr., Ewell (Tim) E., Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans Fendler, S. Gene, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans Flanagan, Thomas M., Flanagan Partners, New Orleans

Garner, James M., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans Gay, Jr., Charles F., Adams and Reese, New Orleans Goodier, Glenn G., Jones Walker, New Orleans Griffith, Jr., Steven F., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans Hardin, Pauline F., Jones Walker, New Orleans Hayden, Jan M., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans Herman, Russ M., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans Herman, Stephen J., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans Irwin, James B., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans Katz, Brian D., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans Krebs, Patricia A., King Krebs & Jurgens, New Orleans Kupperman, Stephen H., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans Lane, Steven J., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans Lee, Wayne J., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans Meunier, Gerald E., Gainsburgh Benjamin David Meunier & Warshauer, New Orleans Morris, Edith H., Morris Lee & Bayle, New Orleans Mouledoux, Andre J., Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, New Orleans Nathan, Jr., Max, Sessions Fishman Nathan & Israel, New Orleans Neff, Carole Cukell, Sessions Fishman Nathan & Israel, New Orleans

Pipes, III, H. Minor, Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans Plunkett, Laura Walker, Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans Ralston, Christopher K., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans Rodriguez, Antonio J., Fowler Rodriguez, New Orleans Shapiro, Howard, Proskauer Rose, New Orleans Shaw, Danny G., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Mandeville Sher, Leopold Z., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans Shreves, H. Bruce, Simon Peragine Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans Shuler, III, G. Phillip, Chaffe McCall, New Orleans Sperling, Peter E., Frilot, New Orleans Stanley, Richard C., Stanley Reuter Ross Thornton & Alford, New Orleans Talley, Susan G., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans Tranchina, Jr., Frank P., Tranchina & Mansfield, Covington Urquhart, Jr., Quentin F., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans Vance, R. Patrick, Jones Walker, New Orleans Warshauer, Irving J., Gainsburgh Benjamin David Meunier & Warshauer, New Orleans Wittmann, Phillip A., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans

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Georges M. Legrand*, André J. Mouledoux* Top 50 New Orleans, Alan G. Brackett*, Simone H. Yoder**, C. Michael Parks*, C. William Emory*, Daniel J. Hoerner*, Patrick J. Babin**, Gerard J. Dragna*, Beth S. Bernstein**, Trevor M. Cutaiar**, Robert N. Popich**, Caitlin R. Byars**, Adam P. Sanderson** *CHOSEN TO 2016 SUPER LAWYERS

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MOULEDOUX, BLAND, LEGRAND & BRACKETT OUR SUCCESS IS MEASURED BY THE SUCCESS OF OUR CLIENTS Building on three decades of practicing law together, the founders of Mouledoux, Bland, Legrand & Brackett started their firm to provide custom litigation services to their maritime clients. As word got around about the firm’s excellence and success, its leaders pivoted to become a fullservice commercial law and litigation firm.

Its attorneys are regarded highly by their peers, with 14 of the firm’s lawyers named to Super Lawyers or Rising Stars.

The firm also is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest honor, and is listed in Best’s Directory of Recommended Insurance Attorneys.

Mouledoux, Bland, Legrand & Brackett lawyers tailor their service to meet clients’ specific needs, delivering the desired results efficiently and effectively. Clients have learned to turn to the firm for much of their legal needs, including insurance defense, workers’ compensation, environmental and toxic tort litigation, corporate litigation, employment law, transportation defense and municipal liability.

The firm puts every effort into winning cases big and small, and they have attracted clients from all over the country. Small businesses to Fortune 25 corporations rely on Mouledoux, Bland, Legrand & Brackett lawyers for their prowess at litigation, their attentiveness and their sharp yet ethical legal strategies.

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PRACTICE AREA INDEX Administrative Law ...................................S-10 Alternative Dispute Resolution ................S-10 Antitrust Litigation ....................................S-10 Appellate ...................................................S-10 Banking......................................................S-10 Bankruptcy: Business ................................S-10 Bankruptcy: Consumer..............................S-10 Business Litigation ....................................S-10 Business/Corporate .................................. S-13 Civil Litigation: Defense ............................ S-13 Class Action/Mass Torts ........................... S-13 Construction Litigation ............................. S-14 Consumer Law........................................... S-14 Creditor Debtor Rights .............................. S-14 Criminal Defense ....................................... S-14 Criminal Defense: DUI/DWI...................... S-14 Criminal Defense: White Collar ................ S-14 Elder Law ................................................... S-14 Employee Benefits..................................... S-14 Employment & Labor ................................ S-15 Employment Litigation: Defense .............. S-15 Energy & Natural Resources ..................... S-15 Environmental ........................................... S-16 Environmental Litigation .......................... S-16 Estate Planning & Probate ....................... S-16 Family Law................................................. S-16 Gaming .......................................................S-17 General Litigation.......................................S-17 Government Finance ..................................S-17 Health Care.................................................S-17 Insurance Coverage....................................S-17 International .............................................. S-18 Media & Advertising .................................. S-18 Mergers & Acquisitions ............................. S-18 Personal Injury General: Defense ............. S-18 Personal Injury General: Plaintiff.............. S-18 Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Defense ................................................... S-19 Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff.................................................... S-19 Personal Injury Products: Defense .......... S-20 Personal Injury Products: Plaintiff ........... S-20 Professional Liability: Defense ................ S-20 Professional Liability: Plaintiff ................. S-20 Real Estate ............................................... S-20 Securities & Corporate Finance ............... S-20 Securities Litigation................................... S-21 Surety ......................................................... S-21 Tax.............................................................. S-21 Transportation/Maritime .......................... S-21 Utilities ...................................................... S-22 Workers’ Compensation........................... S-22

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Dicharry, Christopher J., Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-387-0999 Easterling, Richard B., Taylor Porter Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, 225-381-0278

Aguillard, H. Kent, Attorney at Law, Eunice, 337-457-9331 Cerone, Rudy J., McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, 504-596-2786 Cheatham, Robin B., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0411 Chiccarelli, Stephen F., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Baton Rouge, 225-381-7044 Draper, Douglas S., Heller Draper Patrick Horn & Dabney, New Orleans, 504-299-3333 Drell, Bradley L., Gold Weems Bruser Sues & Rundell, Alexandria, 318-445-6471 Duck, John M., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0226 Forsyth, J. David, Sessions Fishman Nathan & Israel, New Orleans, 504-582-1500 Futrell, Elizabeth (Lisa) J., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8260 Pg. S-6 Johnson, Jr., Patrick, Beirne Maynard & Parsons, New Orleans, 504-584-9417 Kuebel, III, Omer F. “Rick”, Locke Lord, New Orleans, 504-558-5155 Manthey, Tristan Edwards, Heller Draper Patrick Horn & Dabney, New Orleans, 504-299-3300 McKenzie, Gary K., Steffes Vingiello & McKenzie, Baton Rouge, 225-751-1751 Messina, David J., Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-582-1119 Patrick, III, William H., Heller Draper Patrick Horn & Dabney, New Orleans, 504-299-3345 Peck, Stewart F., Lugenbuhl Wheaton Peck Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, 504-568-1990 Phillips, Louis M., Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, Baton Rouge, 225-381-9643 Steffes, William E., Steffes Vingiello & McKenzie, Baton Rouge, 225-751-1751 Stewart, Jr., Paul Douglas, Stewart Robbins & Brown, Baton Rouge, 225-231-9998 Strohschein, Stephen P., McGlinchey Stafford, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3634 Waguespack, David F., Carver Darden Koretzky Tessier Finn Blossman & Areaux, New Orleans, 504-585-3814 Williamson, Stephen L., Montgomery Barnett, New Orleans, 504-585-7698

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION Broussard, Terrel J., Broussard Dispute Solutions, New Orleans, 504-522-3333 Dampf, Robert S., Stockwell Sievert Viccellio Clements & Shaddock, Lake Charles, 337-493-7241 Juneau, Patrick A., Juneau David, Lafayette, 337-269-0052 McKay, Michael W., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, Baton Rouge, 225-490-5811 Perry, Jr., John W., Perry Atkinson Balhoff Mengis,Burns & Ellis, Baton Rouge, 225-767-9425 Shreves, H. Bruce, Simon Peragine Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans, 504-569-2908 Pg. S-6, S-8

ANTITRUST LITIGATION Cunningham, Mark A., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8000 Pg. S-8 McIntyre, Jr., Alexander M., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5215 Radlauer, David G., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8210 Wallace, K. Todd, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979

APPELLATE Dean, Bruce C., Bruce C. Dean, Metairie, 504-722-7319 Grundmeyer, Douglas L., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7028 Johnson, III, H. Alston, Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, 225-346-0285 LaCour, Jr., Louis C., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0328 McReynolds, Joseph L., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0606 Norman, Joe B., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 Rubin, Michael H., McGlinchey Stafford, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3617 Stern, Martin A., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0289 Ward, Raymond P., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-581-3234

BANKING Adler, Lee R., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9351 Campisi, Lauren E., McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, 504-586-1200 Claverie, Sr., Philip deV., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9223 Cornelius, O. Ray, Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0258

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BANKRUPTCY: CONSUMER Raley, Robert W., Attorney at Law, Bossier City, 318-747-2230 Willson, Thomas R., The Law Firm of Rocky Willson, Alexandria, 318-442-8658

BUSINESS LITIGATION Aaron, Jr., William D., Aaron & Gianna, New Orleans, 504-569-1807 Adams, W. Michael, Blanchard Walker O’Quin & Roberts, Shreveport, 318-221-6858 CONTINUED ON PAGE S-12

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For more than 10 years, Mr. deGravelles has been successfully and exclusively representing injured individuals and their families in maritime, products liability, auto-accidents, complex litigation, business litigation, toxic torts, medical malpractice and general tort litigation.

Mr. deGravelles’s success has been built not only on the satisfaction of clients, but also on the respect of his colleagues, his opponents and the judges before whom he has practiced. This respect is reflected in the long-lasting and mutually beneficial relationships he has built with referring attorneys who have routinely trusted in him to move and fund their more complex, high-profile cases toward a prompt, successful conclusion for them and their clients.

Along with his successful law practice, Mr. deGravelles has written, spoken, and published extensively in academic and professional venues.

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Adkins, Paul M., Blanchard Walker O’Quin & Roberts, Shreveport, 318-221-6858 Aguilar, Ricardo A. “Richard”, McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, 504-596-2884 Alltmont, Jack M., Sessions Fishman Nathan & Israel, New Orleans, 504-582-1507 Allweiss, Michael R., Lowe Stein Hoffman Allweiss & Hauver, New Orleans, 504-581-2450 Anjier, John C., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 Arceneaux, M. Thomas, Blanchard Walker O’Quin & Roberts, Shreveport, 318-221-6858 Ashe, Barry W., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0843 Pg. S-6, S-8 Barkley, Jr., Robert E., Barkley & Thompson, New Orleans, 504-595-3361 Barrasso, Judy Y., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, 504-589-9720 Pg. S-6, S-8 Barriere, Brent B., Fishman Haygood, New Orleans, 504-556-5525 Bartlett, III, Tad, Jones Swanson Huddell & Garrison, New Orleans, 504-523-2500 Beebe, Mark R., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0436 Beh, Thomas M., Elkins, New Orleans, 504-529-3600 Belleau, Ashley L., Montgomery Barnett, New Orleans, 504-585-7932 Benjamin, Thomas M., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, New Orleans, 504-584-5464 Benson, J. Todd, Ayres Shelton Williams Benson & Paine, Shreveport, 318-227-3320 Blunt, Shelton Dennis, Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, 225-376-0231 Bodin, Gregory E., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Baton Rouge, 225-381-7030 Brown, Galen S., Sullivan Stolier & Knight, New Orleans, 504-561-1044 Brown, James A., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-556-4116 Browne, David L., BrowneLaw, New Orleans, 504-648-0171 Bruser, III, Henry B. (Hank), Gold Weems Bruser Sues & Rundell, Alexandria, 318-445-6471 Bullock, Stephen G., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0822 Cheatwood, Roy C., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5266 Pg. S-6, S-8 Copley, Steven W., Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-569-1648 Cullens, Jr., J.E., Walters Papillion Thomas Cullens, Baton Rouge, 225-236-3636 Degan, Nancy Scott, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5249 Pg. S-6 Denegre, Jr., George, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 Douglas, Dana M., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 Durio, Steven G. “Buzz”, Durio McGoffin Stagg & Ackermann, Lafayette, 337-233-0300 Pg. S-22

STEVEN G. “BUZZ” DURIO

DURIO, MCGOFFIN, STAGG & ACKERMANN Lafayette • 337-233-0300

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Evans, Joelle Flannigan, Schonekas Evans McGoey & McEachin, New Orleans, 504-680-6050 Faircloth, Jr., Jimmy R., Faircloth Melton & Keiser, Alexandria, 318-619-7755 Farley, Matt J., Krebs Farley, New Orleans, 504-299-3570 Feldman, Jr., Larry, McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, 504-596-2887

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Fendler, S. Gene, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-556-4122 Pg. S-6, S-8 Ferachi, Michael D., McGlinchey Stafford, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3667 Flanagan, Thomas M., Flanagan Partners, New Orleans, 504-569-0235 Pg. S-6, S-8 Forrester, Jr., William R., Beirne Maynard & Parsons, New Orleans, 504-584-9420 Frazier, John M., Wiener Weiss & Madison, Shreveport, 318-213-9258 Garner, James M., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2102 Pg. S-1, S-6, S-8 Geary, Covert J., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8276 Goodman, Alan H., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, New Orleans, 504-584-5465 Guerry, David L., Long Law Firm, Baton Rouge, 225-922-5110 Gulotta, Jr., James C., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0817 Hardin, III, Harry S., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8170 Hensgens, Scott N., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-387-4000 Herman, Fred, Fred Herman Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-581-7068 Holtzman, Shannon S., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 Hootsell III, S. Ault, Butler Snow, New Orleans, 504-299-7752 Horton, Leland G., Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea, Shreveport, 318-934-4016 Johnson, Bernard S., Cook Yancey King & Galloway, Shreveport, 318-227-7731 Joyce, John W., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, 504-589-9700 Kanner, Allan, Kanner & Whiteley, New Orleans, 504-524-5777 King, Henry A., King Krebs & Jurgens, New Orleans, 504-582-3800 Krebs, Patricia A., King Krebs & Jurgens, New Orleans, 504-582-3808 Pg. S-6, S-8 Kupperman, Stephen H., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, 504-589-9728 Pg. S-6, S-8 Kutcher, Robert A., Chopin Wagar Richard & Kutcher, Metairie, 504-830-3820 Lambert, Kent A., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5252 Landis, John M., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0819 Landrieu, Martin E., Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-569-1832 Lasky, Catherine E., Jones Swanson Huddell & Garrison, New Orleans, 504-523-2500 Lee, Andrew R., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8000 Lee, Wayne J., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0814 Pg. S-6, S-8 Lipsey, Christine, McGlinchey Stafford, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3683 Luker, Lynn, Stanley Reuter Ross Thornton & Alford, New Orleans, 504-262-2063 Pg. S-6

LYNN LUKER

STANLEY, REUTER, ROSS, THORNTON & ALFORD, LLC New Orleans • 504-262-2063

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Lutkewitte, Thomas J., Favret Demarest Russo & Lutkewitte, New Orleans, 504-561-1006 Masinter, Paul J., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0882 Mason, Omar K., Aaron & Gianna, New Orleans, 504-569-8318

McMichael, Jr., James C., McMichael Medlin D’Anna Wedgeworth & Lafargue, Shreveport, 318-221-1004 Miller, Sr., Allen C., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9221 Mole, Joseph N., Frilot, New Orleans, 504-599-8006 Morrison, Corinne A., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7228 Orlansky, C. Lawrence, Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0842 Owen, Jr., Thomas P., Stanley Reuter Ross Thornton & Alford, New Orleans, 504-523-1580

THOMAS P. OWEN, JR.

STANLEY, REUTER, ROSS, THORNTON & ALFORD, LLC New Orleans • 504-523-1580

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Patron, David L., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9295 Patterson, Michael A., Long Law Firm, Baton Rouge, 225-922-5110 Percy, James C., Jones Walker, Baton Rouge, 225-248-2130 Person, John C., Sessions Fishman Nathan & Israel, Metairie, 504-828-3700 Pugh, Jr., Robert G., Pugh Pugh & Pugh, Shreveport, 318-227-2270 Ralston, Christopher K., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9358 Pg. S-6, S-8 Reasonover, Kirk, Reasonover & Associates, New Orleans, 504-526-2921 Redfearn, Robert L., Simon Peragine Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans, 504-569-2904 Richard, Jr., Herschel E., Cook Yancey King & Galloway, Shreveport, 3318-27-7738 Riviere, Christopher H., Christopher H. Riviere, Thibodaux, 985-447-7440 Rosenberg, Harry, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-566-1311 Scandurro, Timothy D., Scandurro & Layrisson, New Orleans, 504-522-7100 Schewe, Bruce V., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9267 Schnabel, Marta-Ann, O’Bryon & Schnabel, New Orleans, 504-799-4200 Pg. S-6 Schonekas, Kyle, Schonekas Evans McGoey & McEachin, New Orleans, 504-680-6052 Seale, III, T. Jay, Seale & Ross, Hammond, 985-542-8500 Simon, Jr., Lawrence P., Liskow & Lewis, Lafayette, 337-232-7424 Sinor, Jr., Howard E., Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-582-1117 Smith, Randall A., Smith & Fawer, New Orleans, 504-525-2200 Spansel, Mark J., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0215 Stakelum III, P.J., Chehardy Sherman Williams Murray Recile Stakelum & Hayes, Metairie, 504-830-4155 Stanley, Richard C., Stanley Reuter Ross Thornton & Alford, New Orleans, 504-523-1580 Pg. S-6, S-8

RICHARD C. STANLEY

STANLEY, REUTER, ROSS, THORNTON & ALFORD, LLC New Orleans • 504-523-1580

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Stern, Jr., Charles L., Steeg Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-582-1199 Swanson, James R., Fishman Haygood, New Orleans, 504-586-5267 Swanson, Lynn E., Jones Swanson Huddell & Garrison, New Orleans, 504-523-2500 Taggart, David R., Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea, Shreveport, 318-934-4014

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BUSINESS/CORPORATE Aguilar, Jr., Rodolfo J., McGlinchey Stafford, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3625 Bennett, Wm. Blake, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-556-4113 Davidson, III, James J., Davidson Meaux Sonnier McElligott Fontenot Gideon & Edwards, Lafayette, 337-237-1660 Eckstein, Michael L., Eckstein Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-527-0701 George, III, Edward N., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7253 Grodner, R. Marshall, McGlinchey Stafford, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3651 Hines, William H., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8272 Kling, Neal J., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2112 Pg. S-1 Leefe, Richard K., Leefe Gibbs Sullivan & Dupre, Metairie, 504-830-3990 Mayhall, Jr., Van R., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-381-8009 Reso, Jr., Jerome J., Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, 504-569-2900 Sherman, David R., Chehardy Sherman Williams Murray Recile Stakelum & Hayes, Metairie, 504-833-5600 Stein, Mark S., Lowe Stein Hoffman Allweiss & Hauver, New Orleans, 504-581-2450 Welborn Weinstock, Marion, Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-569-1833

Glas, John Jerry, Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-581-5141 Griffith, Jr., Steven F., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5225 Pg. S-6, S-8 Grimsal, A. Gregory, Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-569-1834 Hardy, Sidney J., McCranie Sistrunk Anzelmo Hardy McDaniel & Welch, New Orleans, 504-831-0946 Hayes, III, Thomas M., Hayes Harkey Smith & Cascio, Monroe, 318-387-2422 Horn, Warren, Heller Draper Patrick Horn & Dabney, New Orleans, 504-299-3300 Hoychick, Jr., John, Cotton Bolton Hoychick & Doughty, Rayville, 318-728-2051 Ieyoub, Christopher P., Plauché Smith & Nieset, Lake Charles, 337-436-0522 Jenkins, Chauntis T., Porteous Hainkel & Johnson, New Orleans, 504-412-6266 Kuchler, Deborah D., Kuchler Polk Schell Weiner & Richeson, New Orleans, 504-592-0691 Leche, Charles E., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0790 Marionneaux, F. Barry, F. Barry Marionneaux, Plaquemine, 225-687-6884 Perles, Richard M., Lee Futrell & Perles, New Orleans, 504-569-1725 Temple, Jr., Thomas R., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-381-8024 Walker, Jr., Frank M., Plauché Smith & Nieset, Lake Charles, 337-436-0522 Weiner, Monique M., Kuchler Polk Schell Weiner & Richeson, New Orleans, 504-592-0691

Arsenault, Richard J., Neblett Beard & Arsenault, Alexandria, 318-487-9874 Barrios, Dawn M., Barrios Kingsdorf & Casteix, New Orleans, 504-524-3300 Bencomo, Raul R., Bencomo & Associates, New Orleans, 504-529-2929 Bickford, Scott R., Martzell Bickford & Centola, New Orleans, 504-581-9065 Bienvenu, Jr., David M., Bienvenu Bonnecaze Foco Viator & Holinga, Baton Rouge, 225-388-5600 Bohrer, Philip, Bohrer Brady, Baton Rouge, 225-925-5297 Carter, Kenneth M., Attorney at Law, New Orleans, 504-585-1530 Casey, Jr., Thomas A., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8294 Centola, Larry J., Martzell Bickford & Centola, New Orleans, 504-581-9065 Pg. S-6, S-8 Davis, Leonard A., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans, 504-581-4892 Dodart, Mark C., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9307 Eagan, Jr., Ewell (Tim) E., Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-582-1115 Pg. S-6, S-8 Gaudet, William B., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0263 Glago, Mark P., Glago Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-599-8666 Herman, Russ M., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans, 504-581-4892 Pg. S-6, S-8 CONTINUED ON PAGE S-14

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CIVIL LITIGATION: DEFENSE Abbott, Charles H., Cotten Schmidt & Abbott, New Orleans, 504-568-9393 Atkinson, Jr., Daniel R., Perry Atkinson Balhoff Mengis,Burns & Ellis, Baton Rouge, 225-767-8864 Bienvenu, David F., Simon Peragine Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans, 504-569-2030 Braun, Andrew A., Gieger Laborde & Laperouse, New Orleans, 504-654-1354 Brenner, Daniel G., Bolen Parker & Brenner, Alexandria, 318-445-8236 Caverlee, Samuel W., Cook Yancey King & Galloway, Shreveport, 318-227-7810 Curry, Richard A., McGlinchey Stafford, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3618 Degan, III, Sidney W., Degan Blanchard & Nash, New Orleans, 504-529-3333 Dille, Robert E., Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-387-0999 Gianna, Dominic J., Aaron & Gianna, New Orleans, 504-569-1800

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Herman, Stephen J., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans, 504-581-4892 Pg. S-6, S-8 Irpino, Anthony, Irpino Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-525-1500 Krouse, A.J., Frilot, New Orleans, 504-599-8016 Lambert, Hugh P., The Lambert Firm, New Orleans, 504-581-1750 Leger, Jr., Walter J., Leger & Shaw, New Orleans, 504-588-9043 Manard, Jr., John P., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9253 McCowan, Jr., Charles S., Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3404 Meunier, Gerald E., Gainsburgh Benjamin David Meunier & Warshauer, New Orleans, 504-522-2304 Pg. S-8 Murray, Jr., Stephen B., Murray Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-525-8100 Murray, Stephen B., Murray Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-525-8100 Paulsen, III, Dwight C., Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea, New Orleans, 504-596-6300 Pendley, Patrick W., Pendley Baudin & Coffin, Plaquemine, 225-687-6396 Richardson, Jeffrey E., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0403 Rollo, Jr., Anthony J., McGlinchey Stafford, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3685 Roy, James P., Domengeaux Wright Roy Edwards & Colomb, Lafayette, 337-233-3033 Pg. S-6

JAMES P. ROY

DOMENGEAUX WRIGHT ROY EDWARDS & COLOMB, LLC Lafayette • 337-233-3033

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Ryan, Elizabeth Haecker, Coats Rose, New Orleans, 504-299-3085 Sensenbrenner, E. Paige, Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-581-3234 Sholes, Ronald J., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0479 Sulzer, Richard P., Sulzer & Williams, Covington, 985-898-0608 Whaley, John Randall, Whaley Law Firm, Baton Rouge, 225-302-8810

CONSTRUCTION LITIGATION Bergeron, Keith J., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0789 Bland, David S., Bland & Partners, New Orleans, 504-799-0153 Botnick, Michael E., Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-679-9814 Castex, Jr., Jimmy A., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-581-5141 D’Arcy, Adrian A., Shields Mott, New Orleans, 504-581-4445 Franco, Philip A., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0291 Frilot, Mark W., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Mandeville, 985-819-8417 Gardner, Thomas F., Gardner & Kewley, Metairie, 504-832-7222 Hunt, Michael D., Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, 225-346-0285 King, Richard E., Melchiode Marks King, New Orleans, 504-336-2880 Kingsmill, Marguerite K., Kingsmill Riess, New Orleans, 504-581-3300

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CONSUMER LAW Sterbcow, Marx D., Sterbcow Law Group, New Orleans, 504-523-4930

MARX D. STERBCOW

STERBCOW LAW GROUP, LLC New Orleans • 504-523-4930

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CREDITOR DEBTOR RIGHTS Finn, William T., Carver Darden Koretzky Tessier Finn Blossman & Areaux, New Orleans, 504-585-3808 Grodsky, Barry H., Taggart Morton, New Orleans, 504-599-8535 Hayden, Jan M., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-8645 Pg. S-6, S-8 Jones, Jr., Philip K., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-556-4132 Rubin, David S., Kantrow Spaht Weaver & Blitzer, Baton Rouge, 225-383-4703 Wheelis, Stephen D., Wheelis & Rozanski, Alexandria, 318-445-5600

CRIMINAL DEFENSE Bélanger, André Robert, Manasseh Gill Knipe & Bélanger, Baton Rouge, 225-383-9703 Boren, James E., The Law Offices of James E. Boren, Baton Rouge, 225-387-5786 Pg. S-6 Bourland, J. David, Attorney at Law, Baton Rouge, 225-767-0312 Boustany, II, Alfred F., Boustany Law Firm, Lafayette, 337-261-0225 Cazayoux, Jr., Donald J., Cazayoux Ewing, Baton Rouge, 225-650-7400 Damico, Thomas C., Damico & Stockstill, Baton Rouge, 225-250-1812 Fournet, M. Michelle, Attorney at Law, Baton Rouge, 225-383-1531 Gibbens, Billy, Schonekas Evans McGoey & McEachin, New Orleans, 504-680-6065 Gill, William Robert, Manasseh Gill Knipe & Bélanger, Baton Rouge, 225-383-9703 Hébert, Stephen, Stephen D. Hébert, New Orleans, 504-528-9500

Lorenzi, Thomas L., Lorenzi & Barnatt, Lake Charles, 337-436-8401 McLindon, John S., Walters Papillion Thomas Cullens, Baton Rouge, 225-603-6493 Reed, John Wilson, Glass & Reed, New Orleans, 504-581-9083 Sanchez, Walter Marshall, The Sanchez Law Firm, Lake Charles, 337-433-4405 Stroud, III, A.M. (Marty), Barham Warner Stroud, Shreveport, 318-865-0081 Toale, Robert S., The Law Office of Robert S. Toale, Gretna, 504-368-8440 Walsh, Michael S., Taylor Porter Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, 225-381-0247

CRIMINAL DEFENSE: DUI/DWI Calmes, Jr., John P., Attorney at Law, Baton Rouge, 225-383-2284

CRIMINAL DEFENSE: WHITE COLLAR Becker, Jr., Walter F., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7046 Capitelli, Brian J., Capitelli & Wicker, New Orleans, 504-582-2425 Capitelli, Ralph, Capitelli & Wicker, New Orleans, 504-582-2425 Castaing, Jr., Edward J., Crull Castaing & Lilly, New Orleans, 504-581-7700 Habans, Jr., Robert N., Habans & Carriere, Baton Rouge, 225-757-0225 Hardin, Pauline F., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8110 Pg. S-6, S-8 Holthaus, C. Frank, deGravelles Palmintier Holthaus & Frugé, Baton Rouge, 225-344-3735 Pg. S-6, S-11 Larson, Jr., Herbert V., The Law Offices of Herbert V. Larson Jr., New Orleans, 504-528-9500 Magner, Michael W., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8316 Meche, Timothy A., Attorney at Law, New Orleans, 504-528-9500 Murray, Jr., Julian R., Chehardy Sherman Williams Murray Recile Stakelum & Hayes, Metairie, 504-833-5600 Simmons, Jr., Richard (Rick) T., Hailey McNamara Hall Larmann & Papale, Metairie, 504-836-6500 Skinner, Michael D., Skinner Law Firm, Lafayette, 337-354-3030 Pg. S-22 Small, J. Michael, Law Offices of J. Michael Small, Alexandria, 318-487-8963 Stockstill, J. Kevin, J. Kevin Stockstill, Lafayette, 337-262-0203 Stroud, M. Allyn, Wiener Weiss & Madison, Shreveport, 318-226-9100 Thomson, Peter M., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0811 Whalen, Jr., Ralph S., Attorney at Law, New Orleans, 504-525-1600

ELDER LAW Losavio, Jr., Peter J., Losavio and DeJean, Baton Rouge, 225-769-4200 Prokop, Jr., Joseph A., Joseph A. Prokop Jr., Baton Rouge, 225-387-2277

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS Armstrong, Jane E., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9244 Brechtel, Timothy P., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8236 Chambers, Susan K., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8000 Conklin, Katherine, McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, 504-586-1200 Morris, Christopher G., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Baton Rouge, 225-381-7000

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BY PRACTICE AREA Rachal, Robert W., Proskauer Rose, New Orleans, 504-310-4081 Seemann III, Charles F., Jackson Lewis, New Orleans, 504-208-1755 Shapiro, Howard, Proskauer Rose, New Orleans, 504-310-4085 Pg. S-6, S-8 Thorne, René E., Jackson Lewis, New Orleans, 504-208-1755 Pg. S-6

EMPLOYMENT & LABOR Adams, H. Mark, Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8258 Alessandra, M. Nan, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9297 Anderson, Jennifer L., Jones Walker, Baton Rouge, 225-248-2040 Babineaux, Joel P., Babineaux Poché Anthony & Slavich, Lafayette, 337-984-2505 Beiser, Stephen P., McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, 504-586-1200 Boyle, Kim M., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-679-5790 Pg. S-6, S-8 Burnside, Andrew P., Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, New Orleans, 504-648-2609 Bush, H. Michael, Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7271 Cancienne, Phyllis G., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Baton Rouge, 225-381-7008 Crochet, Vicki M., Taylor Porter Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, 225-381-0242 Currault, Donna Phillips, Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-569-1862 Pg. S-6 David, Jr., Robert J., Juneau David, Lafayette, 337-269-0052 Desmond, Susan Fahey, Jackson Lewis, New Orleans, 504-208-1755 Duncan, III, Brooke, Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0220 Englander, Jennifer L., Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, New Orleans, 504-648-3846 Foster, III, Murphy J., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-381-8015 Guidry, Gregory, Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, Lafayette, 337-769-6583 Hymowitz, Steve, Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, New Orleans, 504-648-2600 Jacob, III, Clyde H., Coats Rose, New Orleans, 504-299-3072 Kiggans, Thomas H., Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, 225-376-0247 Koch, Amelia Williams, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5222 Koretzky, I. Harold, Carver Darden Koretzky Tessier Finn Blossman & Areaux, New Orleans, 504-585-3802 Lanusse, Leslie A., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0298 Lewis, V, Sidney F., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8352 Lowe, Michael D., Kean Miller, Shreveport, 318-562-2653 Mallery, Mark N., Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, New Orleans, 504-648-3848 Malone, Jr., Ernest R., The Kullman Firm, New Orleans, 504-596-4105 Masinter, Eve B., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, New Orleans, 504-584-5468 McCalla, Robert K., Fisher & Phillips, New Orleans, 504-522-3303 McGoey, II, Thomas J., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 McNamara, Jennifer, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5240 Mitchell, Michael S., Fisher & Phillips, New Orleans, 504-529-3830

Moore, Christopher E., Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, New Orleans, 504-648-2604 Murov, Ellis B., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0655 Myers, Sarah Voorhies, Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7009 Pyburn, Jr., Keith M., Fisher & Phillips, New Orleans, 504-522-3303 Robein, Louis L., Robein Urann Spencer Picard & Cangemi, Metairie, 504-885-9994 Schwartz, Jeffrey A., Jackson Lewis, New Orleans, 504-208-1755 Scott, Timothy H., Fisher & Phillips, New Orleans, 504-529-3834 Shuler, III, G. Phillip, Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7011 Pg. S-6, S-8 Tusa, Jr., Michael T., Sutton Alker & Rather, Mandeville, 985-727-7501

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: DEFENSE Christy, Walter W., Coats Rose, New Orleans, 504-299-3073 Harold, Edward F., Fisher & Phillips, New Orleans, 504-592-3801 Le Clercq, Frederic Theodore “Ted”, Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0647 Livaudais, Julie D., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7007 Pg. S-6 Roussel, Elizabeth A., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-581-3234 Pg. S-6 Van Meerveld, Janis, Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0459 White, Christine M., Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, New Orleans, 504-648-2605

Wisdom, Rachel Wendt, Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0911 Zurik, III, Samuel, The Kullman Firm, New Orleans, 504-524-4162

ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES Carver, M. Hampton, Carver Darden Koretzky Tessier Finn Blossman & Areaux, New Orleans, 504-585-3805 Clements, Miles P., Frilot, New Orleans, 504-599-8004 Darden, M. Taylor, Carver Darden Koretzky Tessier Finn Blossman & Areaux, New Orleans, 504-585-3804 Davidson, Randall S., Davidson Jones & Summers, Shreveport, 318-424-4342 Hayne, Jr., C. Peck, Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-569-1858 Hebert, Aimee W., Kelly Hart & Pitre, New Orleans, 504-522-1812 Hunter, Jonathan A., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-556-4131 Jarrott, Colleen Carr, Slattery Marino & Roberts, New Orleans, 504-585-7800 Jurgens, III, George B., King Krebs & Jurgens, New Orleans, 504-582-3800 Kalmbach, John T., Cook Yancey King & Galloway, Shreveport, 318-227-7708 Klemm, Kenneth M., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5258 Kornick, Cheryl Mollere, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 Marshall, Jr., Charles D., Milling Benson Woodward, New Orleans, 504-569-7000 CONTINUED ON PAGE S-16

JOSEPH A. GREGORIO

JOSEPH A. GREGORIO, A PROFESSIONAL LAW FIRM 1100 Benton Road Bossier City, LA 71111 PH: (318) 747-0384 FX: (318) 746-5222 Bossiercitylawyer.com

PERSONAL INJURY - PLAINTIFF WRONGFUL DEATH - PLAINTIFF CIVIL LITIGATION Joseph A. Gregorio, A Professional Law Firm in Bossier City, Louisiana, was established to help victims of serious and catastrophic personal injury accidents. A graduate of Tulane University Law School with more than 23 years of experience, he began his legal career as a law clerk for the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeal for the State of Louisiana. He is a former prosecutor for the Bossier-Webster District Attorney’s office. Gregorio is licensed to practice in all Louisiana courts, the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. He is an active member of both the American and Louisiana Associations for Justice. He is a certified public accountant and is a member of the Society of Louisiana CPAs and the American Institute of CPAs. He has been recognized by Martindale-Hubbell as an AV-rated attorney, The National Trial Lawyers’ Top 100 and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

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Mascari, Pamela Roman, Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3466 Masur, Samuel E., Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, Lafayette, 337-237-0132 McGlone, Michael A., Kean Miller, New Orleans, 504-585-3059 McKeithen, Marjorie A., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8420 McNamara, Mark L., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 McNeal, Robert B., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-556-4052 Murchison, Malcolm S., Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea, Shreveport, 318-934-4004 Nicholson, Cynthia A., Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-569-1658 O’Connor, Scott A., Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-569-1860 Pearce, John Y., Montgomery Barnett, New Orleans, 504-585-3200 Randazzo, III, Matthew (Matt) J., Randazzo Giglio & Bailey, Lafayette, 337-291-4900 Robinson, Jr., George H., Liskow & Lewis, Lafayette, 337-232-7424 Rosenblum, Carl D., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8296 Shea, Jr., Joseph L., Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea, Shreveport, 318-934-4017 Slattery, Jr., Gerald F., Slattery Marino & Roberts, New Orleans, 504-585-7800 Smelley, David L., Hargrove Smelley Strickland & Langley, Shreveport, 318-429-7200 Zuckerman, Adam, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5200

ENVIRONMENTAL Baxter, Kay B., Cosmich Simmons & Brown, New Orleans, 504-262-0040 Courington, Kaye N., Courington Kiefer & Sommers, New Orleans, 504-524-5510 Harbourt, Maureen N., Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-387-0999 Harrison, Jr., Andrew J., Harrison Law, Baton Rouge, 225-388-0065 Holden, Robert E., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-556-4130 Johnson, Greg L., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-556-4115 Kilgore, III, Leonard L., Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3406 Levine, Steven J., Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, 225-376-0220 Nazareth, Neil F., Martzell Bickford & Centola, New Orleans, 504-581-9065

ENVIRONMENTAL LITIGATION Boudreaux, Jr., Bernard E., Jones Swanson Huddell & Garrison, Baton Rouge, 228-810-3165 Drew, Kathleen F., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0412 Gray, Patrick W., Johnson Gray McNamara, Lafayette, 337-412-6003 Hand, Jr., Albert M., Cook Yancey King & Galloway, Shreveport, 318-227-7727 Isenberg, Craig R., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, 504-589-9753 Johnson, Mary S., Johnson Gray McNamara, Mandeville, 985-246-6544 Pg. S-6 Jones, III, Gladstone N., Jones Swanson Huddell & Garrison, New Orleans, 504-523-2500 Knister, Terrence K., Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-582-1111 LeBlanc, IV, J. Burton, Baron & Budd, Baton Rouge, 225-927-5441 Losch, Jill T., Johnson Gray McNamara, Mandeville, 985-246-6544

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Massey, Donald C., Couhig Partners, New Orleans, 504-588-1288 McCowan, III, Charles S. (Trey), Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3433 McNamara, Thomas M., Johnson Gray McNamara, Lafayette, 337-412-6003 Neuner, Jr., Francis X., NeunerPate, Lafayette, 337-237-7000 Nieset, James R., Plauché Smith & Nieset, Lake Charles, 337-436-0522 Palermo, III, J. Rock, Veron Bice Palermo & Wilson, Lake Charles, 337-310-1600 Pilie, Glen M., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0260 Pitre, Jr., Loulan J., Kelly Hart & Pitre, New Orleans, 504-522-1812 Sommers, Jr., William J., Courington Kiefer & Sommers, New Orleans, 504-524-5510 Swetman, Max, Manion Gaynor & Manning, New Orleans, 504-799-0502 Zwain, Gary M., Duplass Zwain Bourgeois Pfister & Weinstock, Metairie, 504-832-3700

ESTATE PLANNING & PROBATE Abbott, Jr., Hirschel T., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0809 Bayard, III, Alton E., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Baton Rouge, 225-381-7019 Blitzer, Jr., Sidney M., Kantrow Spaht Weaver & Blitzer, Baton Rouge, 225-383-4703 Capretz, Donald A., Donald A. Capretz, Lafayette, 337-237-9999

DONALD A. CAPRETZ

DONALD A. CAPRETZ, APLC Lafayette • 337-237-9999

Coleman, J. Grant, King Krebs & Jurgens, New Orleans, 504-569-1637 Curry, Kevin C., Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3484 Dalferes, James G., Lukinovich, Metairie, 504-818-0401 Edwards, David F., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8184 Hayes, Steven E., Chehardy Sherman Williams Murray Recile Stakelum & Hayes, Metairie, 504-833-5600 Henry, Miriam W., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8436 Hester, Mary C., Taylor Porter Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, 225-381-0268 Jones, Allen P., Wiener Weiss & Madison, Shreveport, 318-213-9264 Kalmbach, William C., Cook Yancey King & Galloway, Shreveport, 318-227-7765 Ladouceur, Raymond P., Ladouceur & Ladouceur, Abita Springs, 985-898-2131 Lehmann, Lawrence M., Lehmann Norman & Marcus, New Orleans, 504-525-0815 Lukinovich, David J., Lukinovich, Metairie, 504-818-0401 McDaniel, Donald H., Perez McDaniel & Faust, Metairie, 504-309-3848 Medlin, W. Deryl, McMichael Medlin D’Anna Wedgeworth & Lafargue, Shreveport, 318-221-1004 Mendler, Joel A., Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, 504-569-2900 Mengis, Joseph W., Perry Atkinson Balhoff Mengis,Burns & Ellis, Baton Rouge, 225-767-8456 Messina, Carey J., Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3408 Meyer, IV, Conrad, Chehardy Sherman Williams Murray Recile Stakelum & Hayes, Metairie, 504-833-5600 Nathan, Jr., Max, Sessions Fishman Nathan & Israel, New Orleans, 504-582-1502 Pg. S-8

Neff, Carole Cukell, Sessions Fishman Nathan & Israel, New Orleans, 504-582-1500 Pg. S-6, S-8 Perez, Robert L., Attorney at Law, River Ridge, 504-717-4638 Peterson, Susan M., Weiler & Rees, New Orleans, 504-524-2944 Plunkett, Laura Walker, Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0838 Pg. S-6, S-8 Reso, Patrick K., Seale & Ross, Hammond, 985-542-8500 Riess, F. Kelleher, Hickey & Riess, New Orleans, 504-525-1120 Rittenberg, Jr., Leon H., Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, 504-585-7855 Roos, Armand L., Wiener Weiss & Madison, Shreveport, 318-213-9256 Rouchell, John A., Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, 504-569-2900 Sagona, Beau P., The Derbes Law Firm, Metairie, 504-837-1230 Sherry, Jr., Mettery I., Sherry & Denton, Metairie, 504-889-0775 Shreves, John F., Simon Peragine Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans, 504-569-2030 Sigler, David L., Sigler & Raglin, Lake Charles, 337-439-2033 Spizer, David “Bruce”, Bruce Spizer, New Orleans, 504-524-2880 Villarrubia, M. Janice, Law Office of M. Janice Villarrubia, Baton Rouge, 225-381-7800 Pg. S-22

M. JANICE VILLARRUBIA

LAW OFFICE OF M. JANICE VILLARRUBIA, LLC Baton Rouge • 225-381-7800

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Villarrubia, Todd M., Wealth Planning Law Group, New Orleans, 504-212-3440 Watson, James A., Roddy Watson & Everett, Lake Charles, 337-474-4886 Weems, III, Charles S., Gold Weems Bruser Sues & Rundell, Alexandria, 318-445-6471 Weiss, Kenneth A., McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, 504-596-2751

FAMILY LAW Anderson, Ernest S., Anderson & Anderson, Slidell, 985-643-6443 Bayle, Suzanne Ecuyer, Morris Lee & Bayle, New Orleans, 504-524-3781 Pg. S-6 Bice, Jamie B., Veron Bice Palermo & Wilson, Lake Charles, 337-310-1600 Buhrer, R. Scott, Buhrer Law Firm, Metairie, 504-541-6997 Cabral, H. Craig, Attorney at Law, Metairie, 504-831-5319 Pg. S-23 Cheek, Sondra A., Attorney at Law, Bogalusa, 985-241-4310 de Blanc, Jennifer Carter, O’Brien and de Blanc, Marrero, 504-328-8800 Dveirin, Jack L., Attorney at Law, New Orleans, 504-861-8672 Faustermann, Jr., William J., Faustermann Law Firm, Slidell, 985-718-5316 Felder, Bradford H., Huval Veazey Felder & Renegar, Lafayette, 337-234-5350

BRADFORD H. FELDER

HUVAL VEAZEY FELDER & RENEGAR LLC Lafayette • 337-234-5350

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Franz, Patricia M., Pat M. Franz & Associates, Metairie, 504-455-1986 Haines, Kenneth P., Weems Schimpf Gilsoul Haines Landry & Shemwell, Shreveport, 318-222-2100 Hale, Steven W., Hale Law Firm, Lake Charles, 337-426-1071

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BY PRACTICE AREA Hebert, Jr., Paul M., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-381-8008 Hoffman, Mitchell J., Lowe Stein Hoffman Allweiss & Hauver, New Orleans, 504-581-2450 Hogan, Lila Tritico, Hogan & Hogan, Hammond, 985-542-7730 Ladouceur, Lindsey M., Ladouceur & Ladouceur, Abita Springs, 985-898-2131 Lane, Steven J., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans, 504-581-4892 Pg. S-6, S-8 Lee, Bernadette R., Morris Lee & Bayle, New Orleans, 504-524-3781 Lowe, Robert C., Lowe Stein Hoffman Allweiss & Hauver, New Orleans, 504-581-2450 Lozes, Christine O’Brien, Attorney at Law, Covington, 985-892-6348 Madere, Barbara Volk, Barbara Volk Madere, Gretna, 504-434-5506 Mansfield, Mark J., Tranchina & Mansfield, Covington, 985-892-1313 Miles, Terri M., Terri M. Miles, Gretna, 504-362-7740 Morris, Edith H., Morris Lee & Bayle, New Orleans, 504-524-3781 Pg. S-6, S-8 Paddison, David R., Attorney at Law, Covington, 985-893-2280 Prados, David M., Lowe Stein Hoffman Allweiss & Hauver, New Orleans, 504-581-2450 Riegel, Jr., Philip, Attorney at Law, Metairie, 504-834-5345 Salley, Laurel A., Salley & Salley, Metairie, 504-837-5499 Smith, Suzette Marie, Lowe Stein Hoffman Allweiss & Hauver, New Orleans, 504-581-2450 Sockrider, Jr., H.F., Sockrider Bolin Anglin Batte & Hathaway, Shreveport, 318-221-5503 Tranchina, Jr., Frank P., Tranchina & Mansfield, Covington, 985-892-1313 Pg. S-6, S-8 Wasserman, Lynne W., Lynne W. Wasserman, Metairie, 504-836-2333 Winsberg, Marc D., Winsberg & Arnold, New Orleans, 504-274-0228 Wolff, Bennett, Wolff & Wolff, Metairie, 504-831-1001 Ziv, Barbara J., Barbara J. Ziv, New Orleans, 504-525-4361

Patrick, Patrick H., Patrick Miller, New Orleans, 504-527-5400 Perrier, Guy D., Perrier & Lacoste, New Orleans, 504-212-8822 Philips, Jr., Harry J., Taylor Porter Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, 225-381-0276 Spaht, Paul H., Kantrow Spaht Weaver & Blitzer, Baton Rouge, 225-383-4703 Williams, James M., Chehardy Sherman Williams Murray Recile Stakelum & Hayes, Metairie, 504-833-5600

Staub, Jr., Perry R., Taggart Morton, New Orleans, 504-599-8513 Trostorff, Danielle, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5224

INSURANCE COVERAGE Baumgartner, Adrianne L., Porteous Hainkel & Johnson, Covington, 985-246-7430 Pg. S-6 Bridger, R. Jeffrey, Burleson, New Orleans, 504-526-4350 Corkern, Jr., Ronald E., Corkern Crews & Guillet, Natchitoches, 318-352-2302 Curtis, Martha Y., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2111 Pg. S-1 de Klerk, Andrew S., Frilot, New Orleans, 504-599-8010 Dicharry, Richard N., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9232 Elliott, Celeste D., Lugenbuhl Wheaton Peck Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, 504-568-1990 Fischer, Madeleine, Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8208 Pg. S-6 Flanagan, Harold J., Flanagan Partners, New Orleans, 504-569-0235 Gonzalez, Pablo, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9353 Guichet, Joseph P., Lugenbuhl Wheaton Peck Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, 504-568-1990 Hall, Jr., George B., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9234 Homza, Brian A., Cook Yancey King & Galloway, Shreveport, 318-227-7729 Hubbard III, Ralph S., Lugenbuhl Wheaton Peck Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, 504-568-1990

GOVERNMENT FINANCE Weeks, Susan, Foley & Judell, New Orleans, 504-568-1249

HEALTH CARE Atkinson, Robert L., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-381-8030 Caesar, Craig L., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-8616 Caraway, Katy, Caraway LeBlanc, New Orleans, 504-566-1912 de la Houssaye, Nadia, Jones Walker, Lafayette, 337-593-7600 Fraiche, Donna D., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5201 Frois, Monica A., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-8615 King, Jr., Errol J., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Baton Rouge, 225-381-7041 McKinney, Don S., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0134 Pizzo, Stephen M., Blue Williams, Metairie, 504-830-4925

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CAMERON R. WADDELL WADDELL ANDERMAN L.L.C.

GAMING Duncan, J. Kelly, Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8218 West, Paul S., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Baton Rouge, 225-381-7018

2222 Eastgate Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70816 PH: (225) 636-5639 • FX: (225) 636-5209 cwaddell@waddellanderman.com waddellanderman.com

GENERAL LITIGATION Abaunza, Donald R., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-556-4110 Ayres, Leland H., Ayres Shelton Williams Benson & Paine, Shreveport, 318-227-3304 Benjamin, Jr., Jack C., Perrier & Lacoste, New Orleans, 504-212-8820 Bergin, Edward H., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8222 Couhig, Jr., Robert E., Couhig Partners, New Orleans, 504-588-1288 Hebert, Paul J., Ottinger Hebert, Lafayette, 337-232-2606 Howard, III, William H., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5275 Hubert, Thomas P., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8384 Kerrigan, Jr., Robert E., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0619 MacDonald, Ian A., Jones Walker, Lafayette, 337-593-7617 Musser, IV, John H., Toledano & Herrin, Covington, 985-893-9962 Nolan, Robert B., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0214

MESOTHELIOMA AND ASBESTOS Cameron Waddell has successfully fought and won cases against some of the world’s largest corporations. For more than twenty years Mr. Waddell has successfully tried cases involving all asbestos-related disease including mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis, non-malignant pleural disease and other cancers such as colon and laryngeal. Mr. Waddell has won more verdicts in Louisiana asbestos cases than any other lawyer. His verdicts have resulted in many of the landmark decisions involving Louisiana’s workplaces. Mr. Waddell knows that justice does not happen by accident but comes through diligently preparing each case for trial.

In addition to asbestos cases, Mr. Waddell has handled other occupational disease and injury cases including hearing loss, benzene and coal tar pitch exposure cases.

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McKenzie, W. Shelby, Taylor Porter Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, 225-381-0243 O’Bannon, Ernest L., Bienvenu Foster Ryan & O’Bannon, New Orleans, 504-322-1375 Pelleteri, Maura Z., Pugh Accardo Haas Radecker & Carey, New Orleans, 504-799-4500 Pipes, III, H. Minor, Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, 504-589-9726 Pg. S-6, S-8 Plauché, Jr., Andrew L., Plauché Maselli Parkerson, New Orleans, 504-582-1142 Redmon, Marshall M., Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, 225-376-0257 Salley, David P., Salley Hite Mercer & Resor, New Orleans, 504-566-8800 Schmeeckle, Seth A., Lugenbuhl Wheaton Peck Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, 504-568-1990 Sever, Jay Russell, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9271 Siegel, Robert I., Gieger Laborde & Laperouse, New Orleans, 504-654-1307 Strauss, David A., King Krebs & Jurgens, New Orleans, 504-582-3800

INTERNATIONAL Fowler, III, George J., Fowler Rodriguez, New Orleans, 504-523-2600

MEDIA & ADVERTISING Roy, Mary Ellen, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9254

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Bowsher, Robert T., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-381-8028 Caverly, Joseph L., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0845 Fullmer, Mark A., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9324 Hearn, Curtis R., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8308 Kantrow, Lee C., Kantrow Spaht Weaver & Blitzer, Baton Rouge, 225-383-4703 Norton, William N., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5297 Page, III, J. Marshall, Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8248 Stubbs, Jr., William P., Stubbs Law Firm, Lafayette, 337-233-9755 Whittaker, Scott T., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0836

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: DEFENSE Acomb, Ryan, Porteous Hainkel & Johnson, New Orleans, 504-581-3838 Africk, Lisa M., Burleson, New Orleans, 504-526-4320 Andersson, W. Paul, Leake & Andersson, New Orleans, 504-585-7500 Bailey, Matthew W., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, Baton Rouge, 225-615-7395 Bezet, Gary A., Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3407 Carey, Christopher E., Pugh Accardo Haas Radecker & Carey, New Orleans, 504-799-4548 Cass, Jr., Bertrand M., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0643 Chopin, Richard A., Chopin Wagar Richard & Kutcher, Metairie, 504-830-3838 deLaup, Mickey S., Mickey S. deLaup, Metairie, 504-828-2277 DeRouen, Patrick D., DeRouen Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-274-3660

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Edwards, Dow Michael, Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2205 Fischman, Debra J., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2109 Pg. S-1 Foret, Charles J., Briney Foret Corry, Lafayette, 337-237-4070 Forrester, David C., Forrester & Clark, Baton Rouge, 225-448-5325 Fraser, David A., Fraser Wheeler & Bergstedt, Lake Charles, 337-478-8595 Galloway, John E., Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith, New Orleans, 504-525-6802 Gerard, Jr., Richard E., Scofield Gerard Singletary & Pohorelsky, Lake Charles, 337-433-9436 Gideon, Kyle L., Davidson Meaux Sonnier McElligott Fontenot Gideon & Edwards, Lafayette, 337-237-1660 Grace, III, Christopher T., Blue Williams, Metairie, 504-831-4091 Harris, III, Rufus C., Harris & Rufty, New Orleans, 504-525-7500 Hightower, Jr., Thomas R., Thomas R. Hightower Jr., Lafayette, 337-233-0555 Juneau, Sr., Thomas R., Juneau David, Lafayette, 337-269-0052 Kay, III, Ped C., Broussard & Kay, Broussard, 337-232-1666 Kennedy, Jr., Robert, Cook Yancey King & Galloway, Shreveport, 318-221-6277 Latham, Mark D., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 Mascagni, Kenneth, Cook Yancey King & Galloway, Shreveport, 318-227-7735 Maselli, Jr., Joseph, Plauché Maselli Parkerson, New Orleans, 504-586-5228 Murphy, Howard L., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0639 Nieset, Jr., James R., Porteous Hainkel & Johnson, New Orleans, 504-412-6253 O’Bryon, Kevin C., O’Bryon & Schnabel, New Orleans, 504-799-4200 Remondet, Jr., Michael J., Jeansonne & Remondet, Lafayette, 337-237-4370 Richard, Thomas M., Chopin Wagar Richard & Kutcher, Metairie, 504-830-3838 Roy, L. Lane, Brown Sims, Lafayette, 337-484-1240 Schafer, Timothy G., Schafer & Schafer, New Orleans, 504-522-0011 Spears, Kenneth R., Spears & Gary, Lake Charles, 337-513-4333 Pg. S-23 Thibodeaux, Terry, The Thibodeaux Law Firm, Lake Charles, 337-433-5523 Wallace, Campbell E., Frilot, New Orleans, 504-599-8054 Wolf, Scott R., Blanchard Walker O’Quin & Roberts, Shreveport, 318-221-6858

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF Abramson, David Alan, Lewis Kullman Sterbcow & Abramson, New Orleans, 504-588-1500 Alexander, Glenn W., Glenn W. Alexander, Lake Charles, 337-494-4398 Anderson, Jr., Bennett Boyd, Anderson Dozier Blanda & Saltzman, Lafayette, 337-233-3366 Andrews, B. Scott, Dué Price Guidry Piedrahita & Andrews, Baton Rouge, 225-929-7481 Armentor, Glenn J., Glenn Armentor Law, Lafayette, 337-233-1471 Babcock, Stephen, Babcock Partners, Baton Rouge, 225-344-0911 Bassett, Jeffrey M., Morrow Morrow Ryan & Bassett, Opelousas, 337-948-4483 Berger, Allan, Allan Berger & Associates, New Orleans, 504-486-9481 Best, Larry, Laurence E. Best, New Orleans, 504-523-BEST

Brandner, Jr., Michael S., Brandner Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-552-5000 Pg. S-23 Bravo, David D., Bravo Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-934-1500 Broussard, Richard C., Broussard & David, Lafayette, 337-233-2323 Broussard, Steven, Broussard & Hart, Lake Charles, 337-439-2450 Bush, D. Wayne, SmithBush, Leesville, 337-239-2244 Cain, Joseph E. “Jed”, Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans, 504-581-4892 Cossich, Jr., Philip F., Cossich Sumich Parsiola & Taylor, Belle Chasse, 504-394-9000 David, Blake R., Broussard & David, Lafayette, 337-233-2323 deGravelles, J. Neale, deGravelles Palmintier Holthaus & Frugé, Baton Rouge, 225-344-3735 Pg. S-11 Delise, Bobby J., Delise & Hall, New Orleans, 504-836-8000 DiLeo, Gregory P., Attorney at Law, New Orleans, 504-522-3456 Domengeaux, James H., Domengeaux Wright Roy Edwards & Colomb, Lafayette, 337-233-3033

JAMES H. DOMENGEAUX

DOMENGEAUX WRIGHT ROY EDWARDS & COLOMB, LLC Lafayette • 337-233-3033

www.wrightroy.com

Dué, Paul H., Dué Price Guidry Piedrahita & Andrews, Baton Rouge, 225-929-7481 Dunahoe, Jr., Edwin, Dunahoe Law Firm, Natchitoches, 318-352-1999 Falcon, Timothy J., Falcon Law Firm, Marrero, 504-341-1234 Filo, Thomas A., Cox Cox Filo Camel & Wilson, Lake Charles, 337-436-6611 Friedman, Jonathan P., Silbert Garon Pitre & Friedman, New Orleans, 504-581-6200 Frischhertz, Jr., Lloyd N., Frischhertz Poulliard Frischhertz & Impastato, New Orleans, 504-523-1500 Gaar, Jr., Joseph F., The Gaar Law Firm, Lafayette, 337-366-0982 Y 3WM4A9V Gertler, Louis L., Gertler Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-581-6411

LOUIS L. GERTLER

GERTLER LAW FIRM New Orleans • 504-581-6411

www.neworleanspersonalinjury.com Gertler, Meyer H. “Mike”, Gertler Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-581-6411

MEYER H. “MIKE” GERTLER GERTLER LAW FIRM New Orleans • 504-581-6411

www.neworleanspersonalinjury.com Goforth, William H., Goforth & Lilley, Lafayette, 337-237-5777 Pg. S-23 Gregorio, Joseph A., Joseph A. Gregorio, Bossier City, 318-747-0384 Pg. S-15 Gregorio, Sam N., Gregorio Chafin & Johnson, Shreveport, 318-865-8680 Guidry, Kirk A., Dué Price Guidry Piedrahita & Andrews, Baton Rouge, 225-929-7481 Herman, Maury A., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans, 504-581-4892 Hooks, III, Kenneth H., Dodson & Hooks, Baton Rouge, 225-756-0222

KENNETH H. HOOKS, III DODSON & HOOKS, APLC Baton Rouge • 225-756-0222

www.dodsonhooks.com

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DOMINICK F. IMPASTATO, III

FRISCHHERTZ, POULLIARD, FRISCHHERTZ, & IMPASTATO, LLC New Orleans • 504-264-9915

www.frischhertzlaw.com

Smith, IV, S. Christie, SmithBush, Leesville, 337-239-2244 Tomeny, III, Frank, Tomeny Law Firm, Baton Rouge, 225-767-8333 Unglesby, Lewis, Unglesby Law Firm, Baton Rouge, 225-387-0120 Voorhies, III, Richard P., The Voorhies Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-875-2223

Jacobs, Darleen M., Jacobs Sarrat Lovelace & Harris, New Orleans, 504-522-0155 Pg. S-23

RICHARD P. VOORHIES, III

DARLEEN M. JACOBS

www.voorhieslaw.com

JACOBS, SARRAT, LOVELACE & HARRIS New Orleans • 504-522-0155

Jacobson, Tamara Kluger, Attorney at Law, New Orleans, 504-822-2136 Jones, Jennifer Ann, Jones Law Firm, Cameron, 337-775-5714 Kennedy, Richard R., Attorney at Law, Lafayette, 337-232-1934 Klick, James C., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans, 504-581-4892 Lagarde, Ross F., Jones Lagarde, Slidell, 985-643-2413 Lambert, James P., Jim Lambert Law Firm, Lafayette, 337-446-2766 Lamothe, III, Frank E., Lamothe Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-704-1414 Lieberman, Glenn A., Morris Bart, New Orleans, 504-525-8000 Loup, Terry B., Morris Bart, New Orleans, 504-525-8000 McCall, Robert C., Baggett McCall Burgess Watson & Gaughan, Lake Charles, 337-478-8888 McGovern, Glenn C., Attorney at Law, Metairie, 504-456-3610 McKernan, Gordon J., Gordon McKernan Injury Attorneys, Baton Rouge, 225-888-8888 Morrow, Patrick C., Morrow Morrow Ryan & Bassett, Opelousas, 337-948-4483 Palmintier, Michael C., deGravelles Palmintier Holthaus & Frugé, Baton Rouge, 225-344-3735 Pg. S-11 Papillion, Darrel J., Walters Papillion Thomas Cullens, Baton Rouge, 225-236-3636 Penton, Ronnie G., Law Offices of Ronnie G. Penton, Bogalusa, 985-732-5651 Perry, John B., Attorney at Law, Slidell, 985-639-0207 Piedrahita, Randolph A., Dué Price Guidry Piedrahita & Andrews, Baton Rouge, 225-929-7481 Price, Donald W., Dué Price Guidry Piedrahita & Andrews, Baton Rouge, 225-929-7481 Redmann, John W., Law Office of John W. Redmann, Gretna, 504-433-5550 Reed, Shawn C., Howard & Reed, Covington, 985-893-3607

SHAWN C. REED

HOWARD & REED Covington • 985-893-3607

www.howardandreed.com Ryan, James P., Morrow Morrow Ryan & Bassett, Opelousas, 337-948-4483 Salim, Robert L., Salim-Beasley, Natchitoches, 318-352-5999 Saunders, Benjamin B., Davis Saunders Miller & Oden, Mandeville, 985-612-3070 Silbert, Scott E., Silbert Garon Pitre & Friedman, New Orleans, 504-581-6200 Singleton, Willie James, Singleton Law Firm, Shreveport, 318-631-5200 Slack, Todd R., Huber Slack Thomas & Marcelle, New Orleans, 504-274-2500 Slone, Randolph C., Law Offices of Randolph C. Slone, Slidell, 985-643-0314

THE VOORHIES LAW FIRM New Orleans • 504-875-2223

Waddell, Cameron R., Waddell Anderman, Baton Rouge, 225-636-5639 Pg. S-17 Walker, David O., Neblett Beard & Arsenault, Alexandria, 888-561-2526 Walters, Jr., Edward J., Walters Papillion Thomas Cullens, Baton Rouge, 225-236-3636 Pg. S-6 Ward, Aub A., Naquin & Ward, Baton Rouge, 225-927-1907 Woods, Justin I., The Woods Law Group, New Orleans, 504-309-4177 Wright, Bob F., Domengeaux Wright Roy Edwards & Colomb, Lafayette, 337-233-3033

PERSONAL INJURY MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: DEFENSE Blankenship, Kurt S., Blue Williams, Metairie, 504-830-4936 Bradford, John S., Stockwell Sievert Viccellio Clements & Shaddock, Lake Charles, 337-493-7224 Bradley Jr., C.Wm., Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea, New Orleans, 504-596-6302

Breaud, Alan K., Breaud & Meyers, Lafayette, 337-266-2200 Crisler, Richard S., Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea, Shreveport, 318-227-1131 Curry, Guy C., Curry & Friend, New Orleans, 504-524-8556 Fontana, Karen M., Kean Miller, New Orleans, 504-620-3191 Gibbs, Vance A., Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 255-382-3410 Henning, Susan E., Curry & Friend, New Orleans, 504-524-8556 Judice, Marc W., Judice & Adley, Lafayette, 337-235-2405 Niles, Jr., Stewart E., Niles Bourque & Knight, New Orleans, 504-310-8550 Pettiette, Jr., Lawrence W., Pettiette Armand Dunkelman Woodley Byrd & Cromwell, Shreveport, 318-221-1800 Sobel, David R., Provosty Sadler deLaunay Fiorenza & Sobel, Alexandria, 318-445-3631 Sperling, Peter E., Frilot, New Orleans, 504-599-8015 Pg. S-6, S-8 Sues, Eugene J., Gold Weems Bruser Sues & Rundell, Alexandria, 318-445-6471 Williams, Douglas K., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-381-8032

PERSONAL INJURY MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: PLAINTIFF Bialous, Todd J., Bialous Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-799-2228 Bowling, David A., The Bowling Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-586-5200 CONTINUED ON PAGE S-20

10 YEARS

SELECTED TO Super Lawyers Wheelis & Rozanski, a professional law corporation, provides corporate clients and individuals with quality legal representation and counsel in business and personal matters.

With more than five decades of combined legal expertise, the members of the firm have the legal knowledge and practical business experience necessary to resolve conflicts and meet the needs of its clients, protecting their interests.

The firm is dedicated to providing personal attention and consistent service often lacking at larger law firms.

In addition to active involvement in community service and professional organizations, the firm’s attorneys consistently participate in continuing education programs both as attendees and presenters.

The firm is pleased to announce Stephen Wheelis has been named to Super Lawyers for the 10th consecutive year.

Stephen D. Wheelis

Richard A. Rozanski

Stephen D. Wheelis*

Shawn M. Bordelon

The firm’s areas of practice include: • • • • • • • •

Bankruptcy/Creditor Rights Business and Commercial Law Real Estate Foreclosure/Loss Mitigation/Real Estate Owned Personal Injury Banking Municipal Litigation and Defense Public Authorities

*SELECTED TO 2007-2016 SUPER LAWYERS; BOARD CERTIFIED IN BUSINESS BANKRUPTCY BY THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT SINCE 1997; BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF CERTIFICATION SINCE 2011 AND STANDARDS COMMITTEE SINCE 2012

2312 S. MacArthur Drive, Alexandria, LA 71301 | PH: (318) 445-5600 | FX: (318) 445-5710 wheelis-rozanski.com

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David, Robert J., Gainsburgh Benjamin David Meunier & Warshauer, New Orleans, 504-522-2304 Pg. S-6, S-8 Ecuyer, Michael J., Gainsburgh Benjamin David Meunier & Warshauer, New Orleans, 504-522-2304 Gennusa, II, Thomas A., Gennusa Piacun & Ruli, Metairie, 504-455-0442 Glorioso, Maria B., The Glorioso Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-569-9999 Hammons, John L., Nelson & Hammons, Shreveport, 318-227-2401 Pg. S-2 Kullman, Lawrence S., Lewis Kullman Sterbcow & Abramson, New Orleans, 504-588-1500 Mitchell, Jeffrey A., The Cochran Firm Metairie, Metairie, 504-309-5000 Moore, Charles R., Moore Thompson & Lee, Baton Rouge, 225-766-1100 Orrill, Jr., R. Ray, Orrill & Beary, New Orleans, 504-299-8724 Russell, III, Sera H., The Law Offices of Sera H. Russell III, Lafayette, 337-237-7171

SERA H. RUSSELL, III

THE LAW OFFICES OF SERA H. RUSSELL, III Lafayette • 337-237-7171

www.serarussell.com

Samuels, Kara Hadican, Kara Hadican Samuels & Associates, New Orleans, 504-558-9478 Schrumpf, Oliver J., Schrumpf & Schrumpf, Sulphur, 337-625-9077 Townsley, Todd A., The Townsley Law Firm, Lake Charles, 337-377-0584 Wagar, III, Nelson W. “Chip”, Chopin Wagar Richard & Kutcher, Metairie, 504-830-3838

PERSONAL INJURY PRODUCTS: DEFENSE Accardo, Francis P., Pugh Accardo Haas Radecker & Carey, New Orleans, 504-799-4531 Arras, Barbara L., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9246 Bertaut, Carmelite M., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0898 Pg. S-6 Capodice, Camala E., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2196 Cook, Jr., Sidney E., Cook Yancey King & Galloway, Shreveport, 318-227-7721 Frohn, David R., Manion Gaynor & Manning, Lake Charles, 337-419-1929 Gay, Jr., Charles F., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0295 Pg. S-6, S-8 Gay, Terry Christovich, Christovich & Kearney, New Orleans, 504-593-4214 Gieger, Jr., Ernest P., Gieger Laborde & Laperouse, New Orleans, 504-561-0400 Glass, Joseph G., Duplass Zwain Bourgeois Pfister & Weinstock, Metairie, 504-832-3700 Irwin, James B., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2105 Pg. S-6, S-8 Kohnke, IV, Edward F., Preis, New Orleans, 504-581-6062 Laborde, Kenneth H., Gieger Laborde & Laperouse, New Orleans, 504-654-1301 Lavelle, Paul M., Cotten Schmidt & Abbott, New Orleans, 504-568-9393 MacDonell, Janet L., Attorney at Law, Covington, 985-867-9971 Manning, Kathleen A., McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, 504-596-2737 Massenburg, Christopher O., Manion Gaynor & Manning, New Orleans, 504-799-0504 Melancon, David M., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2117 Moore, Douglas J., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2163

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Moore, Kim E., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 540-310-2108 Myers, Stephen G.A., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2114 Norwood, Jr., Colvin G., McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, 504-596-2707 Olinde, John F., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7241 O’Quinn, David W., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 540-310-2111 Pugh, III, Lawrence G., Pugh Accardo Haas Radecker & Carey, New Orleans, 504-799-4500 Sarver, Richard E., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, 504-589-9733 Stout, III, A. Wendel, Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0632 Surprenant, Mark C., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0213 Talbot, Brent A., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7059 Urquhart, Jr., Quentin F., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2107 Pg. S-6, S-8 West, Dan E., McGlinchey Stafford, Baton Rouge, 225-383-9000

PERSONAL INJURY PRODUCTS: PLAINTIFF Exnicios, Val P., Liska Exnicios & Nungesser, New Orleans, 504-410-9611 Kleinpeter, Robert E., Kleinpeter & Schwartzberg, Baton Rouge, 225-926-4130 Lundy, Hunter W., Lundy Lundy Soileau & South, Lake Charles, 337-439-0707 Pg. S-3 Lundy, Matthew E., Lundy Lundy Soileau & South, Lake Charles, 337-439-0707 Pg. S-3 Swarr, Frank J., Landry & Swarr, New Orleans, 504-299-1214

PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY: DEFENSE Brennan, Terrence L., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0605 Canada, Larry G., Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith, New Orleans, 504-525-6802 Fritchie, III, Gus A., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2106 Gasperecz, A. Kirk, Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0408 Gay, E. Phelps, Christovich & Kearney, New Orleans, 504-593-4201 Gibson, James H., Allen & Gooch, Lafayette, 337-291-1000 Lund, Daniel, Montgomery Barnett, New Orleans, 504-585-3200 Marshall, Nancy J., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0602 Ross, William M., Stanley Reuter Ross Thornton & Alford, New Orleans, 504-523-1580

WILLIAM M. ROSS

STANLEY, REUTER, ROSS, THORNTON & ALFORD, LLC New Orleans • 504-523-1580

www.stanleyreuter.com

Schiff, Leslie J., Schiff Scheckman & White, Opelousas, 337-942-9771 Simmons, Gracella, Keogh Cox, Baton Rouge, 225-383-3796 Pg. S-6 Theard, Kelly E., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0667 Trapolin, Edward W., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2100 Wright, Jr., William E., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0623

PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY: PLAINTIFF Kott, Joseph A., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans, 504-581-4892

REAL ESTATE Adams, Marguerite L., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 Pg. S-6, S-8 Boudreaux, Philip H., Andrus Boudreaux Landry & Coussan, Lafayette, 337-984-9488 Cahill, Jr., Elwood F., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2103 Pg. S-1, S-6, S-8 Carleton, Michael D., Woodley Williams Law Firm, Lake Charles, 337-433-6328 Colvin, R. Keith, Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8524 Pg. S-6, S-8 Crosby, E. Howell, Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7212 de Lisle, Victoria M., Locke Lord, New Orleans, 504-558-5146 Dwyer, Stephen I., Dwyer Cambre & Suffern, Metairie, 504-838-9090 Elkins, Gary J., Elkins, New Orleans, 504-529-3600 Gregorie, Jr., Isaac M. “Mack”, Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3411 Hood, Ralph E., Kizer Hood & Morgan, Baton Rouge, 225-761-0001 Landry, Charles A., Fishman Haygood, Baton Rouge, 225-706-4040 LeBreton, Rose McCabe, Lugenbuhl Wheaton Peck Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, 504-568-1990 Leyens, Jr., Jon F., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-8628 McHenry, R. Lewis, Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8300 McMurray, Patricia B., Adams and Reese, Baton Rouge, 225-378-3223 Moench, Deborah Jean, Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2117 Pg. S-1 Montgomery, III, Richard B., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0663 Moore, Marie A., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2108 Pg. S-1 Morton, James R., Taggart Morton, New Orleans, 504-599-8507 Mouton, Robert W., Locke Lord, New Orleans, 504-558-5113 Reymond, Jr., Leon J., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-556-4150 Richter, Richard P., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2104 Pg. S-1 Roussel, Randy P., Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, 225-376-0234 Schneider, Michael R., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0835 Schott, Stephen P., Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, 504-569-2900 Sher, Leopold Z., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2101 Pg. S-1, S-6, S-8 Steeg, Robert M., Steeg Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-582-1199 Talley, Susan G., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0828 Pg. S-6, S-8 Tessier, Frank A., Carver Darden Koretzky Tessier Finn Blossman & Areaux, New Orleans, 504-585-3809 Title, Peter S., Sessions Fishman Nathan & Israel, New Orleans, 504-582-1542 Tyler, Susan M., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8298 Willis, Sterling Scott, Fishman Haygood, New Orleans, 504-586-5264

SECURITIES & CORPORATE FINANCE Chenevert, Scott D., Fishman Haygood, Baton Rouge, 225-706-4040 Najder, Kenneth J., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8386 Rieveschl, David, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-8660

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BY PRACTICE AREA Rooth, Robert S., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7226 Rousseau, Dionne M., Jones Walker, Baton Rouge, 225-248-2026 Walmsley, Jr., Robert M., Fishman Haygood, New Orleans, 504-586-5261

SECURITIES LITIGATION Bieck, Jr., Robert B., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8202 Freeman, III, George C., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, 504-589-9700 Peiffer, Joseph C., Peiffer Rosca Wolf Abdullah Carr & Kane, New Orleans, 504-586-5259 Roberts, Thomas A., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, 504-589-9731

SURETY Kern, Jay H., Simon Peragine Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans, 504-569-2923 Preaus, Eugene R., Fowler Rodriguez, New Orleans, 504-595-5178 Sole, Emmett C., Stockwell Sievert Viccellio Clements & Shaddock, Lake Charles, 337-493-7222

TAX Ajubita, A. Albert, Ajubita Leftwich & Salzer, New Orleans, 504-582-2300 Angelico, Robert S., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-556-4112 Backstrom, Jr., William M., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8228 Baringer, Dale R., The Baringer Law Firm, Baton Rouge, 225-383-9953 Bell, Hilton S., Milling Benson Woodward, New Orleans, 504-569-7000 Blackman, IV, John C., Jones Walker, Baton Rouge, 225-248-2070 Calhoun, Jaye A., McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, 504-596-2785 Casey, Robert R., Jones Walker, Baton Rouge, 225-248-2090 Cassidy, David R., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-381-8018 Colbert, John W., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0832 Grace, Jr., William F., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7224 Hunter, Edwin K., Hunter Hunter & Sonnier, Lake Charles, 337-436-1600 Kelly, David R., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-381-8023 Klein, Steven I., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2100 Pg. S-1 Koch, David G., Koch Law Firm, Baton Rouge, 225-408-1008 Leftwich, Brian T., Ajubita Leftwich & Salzer, New Orleans, 504-582-2300 Mauldin, B. Michael, Jones Walker, Baton Rouge, 225-248-2034 Mayhall, Michael A., The Mayhall Law Firm, Covington, 985-246-1700 McInnis, Kyle C., Kean Miller, Shreveport, 318-562-2654 Meltzer, Donald M., Attorney at Law, Baton Rouge, 225-216-0015 Nunes, III, Louis S., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8354 Ramelli, Rudolph R., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8206 Rittenberg III, Leon H., Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, 504-585-7845 Robinson, Kimberly Lewis, Jones Walker, Baton Rouge, 225-248-2000 Rossi, Todd A., Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3434

Salzer, Douglas L., Ajubita Leftwich & Salzer, New Orleans, 504-582-2300 Stutes, Jr., Russell J., Stutes & Lavergne, Lake Charles, 337-433-0022 Pg. S-23 Tarcza, Robert E., Tarcza & Associates, New Orleans, 504-525-6696 Warren, Jr., J. Benjamin, Warren & Baker, Shreveport, 318-588-8000 Weiler, John J., Weiler & Rees, New Orleans, 504-524-2944 Williams, John R., Ayres Shelton Williams Benson & Paine, Shreveport, 318-227-3311

TRANSPORTATION/MARITIME Acomb, Jr., Robert B., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8112 Adley, Michael W., Judice & Adley, Lafayette, 337-235-2405 Anseman, III, Norman E., Jones Walker, Lafayette, 337-593-7661 Arnold, III, Edward H. “Hank”, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-556-5204 Balart, L. Etienne, Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8000 Barbier, Robert J., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-566-1311 Barry, Jr., Francis J., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0642 Bertram, Richard D., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8000 Bolles, John A., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9260 Bourque, Jr., Charles C., St. Martin & Bourque, Houma, 985-876-3891 Broders, John J., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8172 Brooks, Jr., Philip S., Montgomery Barnett, New Orleans, 504-585-3200 Butterworth, Michael M., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9391 Carrigee, David L., Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, 504-569-2900 Charvet, Kathleen K., Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, New Orleans, 504-322-4100 Chenault, IV, Alanson T., Fowler Rodriguez, New Orleans, 504-523-2600 Clotworthy, Robert C., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-8676 Colletta, Jr., Thomas Louis, Degan Blanchard & Nash, New Orleans, 504-529-3333 Cozad, Richard A., McAlpine & Cozad, New Orleans, 504-561-0323 Crawford, Todd G., Fowler Rodriguez, New Orleans, 504-523-2600 Curtis, Larry, Larry Curtis, Lafayette, 337-235-1825 Pg. S-5 Y FFPUYGG

LARRY CURTIS LARRY CURTIS, APLC Lafayette • 337-235-1825

www.larrycurtis.com Daniels, Timothy F., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2203 Davis, Christopher O., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5251 Diaz, Thomas P., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 Dill, James M., The Dill Firm, Lafayette, 337-261-1408 Dittman, Stevan C., Gainsburgh Benjamin David Meunier & Warshauer, New Orleans, 504-522-2304 Pg. S-8

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Dodson, Richard J., Dodson & Hooks, Baton Rouge, 225-756-0222

RICHARD J. DODSON

DODSON & HOOKS, APLC Baton Rouge • 225-756-0222

www.dodsonhooks.com

Dragna, Gerard J., Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, New Orleans, 504-595-3000 Pg. S-9 Emory, C. William, Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, New Orleans, 504-595-3000 Pg. S-9 Fisher, Robert B., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7049 Flint, Jr., Delos E., Fowler Rodriguez, New Orleans, 504-523-2600 Forbes, Thomas D., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7041 Force, Joshua S., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2130 Pg. S-1 Gaudet, W. Gerald, Voorhies & Labbé, Lafayette, 337-232-9700 George, James, George & George, Baton Rouge, 225-769-3064 Goodier, Glenn G., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8174 Pg. S-6, S-8 Grant, Jr., A. Gordon, Montgomery Barnett, New Orleans, 504-585-7681 Gray, III, Mat M., Fowler Rodriguez, New Orleans, 504-595-5106 Guy, Matthew C., Bland & Partners, New Orleans, 504-528-3088 Haas, III, Frederick T., Pugh Accardo Haas Radecker & Carey, New Orleans, 504-799-4522 Hassinger, Timothy W., Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith, Mandeville, 985-674-6680 Haycraft, Don K., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-556-4128 Hemphill, Gary A., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9222 Hilbert, Jr., Peter L., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2107 Pg. S-1 Hoefer, Jr., Bruce R., Adams Hoefer Holwadel & Eldridge, New Orleans, 504-581-2606 Hoerner, Daniel J., Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, New Orleans, 504-595-3000 Pg. S-9 Hurley, Grady S., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8224 Hymel, Richard J., Mahtook & LaFleur, Lafayette, 337-266-2189 Jarrett, R. Keith, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-556-4133 Kallam, Robert M., Preis, Lafayette, 337-237-6062 Katz, Brian D., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans, 504-581-4892 Pg. S-6, S-8 Kelly, David S., Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea, New Orleans, 504-596-6303 Kiefer, Scott B., Courington Kiefer & Sommers, New Orleans, 504-524-5510 Koch, Jr., R. Joshua, Koch & Schmidt, New Orleans, 504-208-9040 Koehl, Jr., Edward J., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8176 Laizer, Edwin C., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0207 LaVie, Kevin J., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9211 Lawton, David B., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9258 LeBlanc, III, J. Dwight, Frilot, New Orleans, 504-599-8000 LeBlanc, Jr., J. Dwight, Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7013 CONTINUED ON PAGE S-22

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LeBreton, III, Edward F., Fowler Rodriguez, New Orleans, 504-595-5142 Lee III, Joseph E., Frilot, New Orleans, 504-599-8042 Leefe, David W., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-556-4137 Legrand, Georges M., Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, New Orleans, 504-595-3000 Pg. S-9 Lemoine, Michael G., Jones Walker, Lafayette, 337-593-7624 Lemon, II, Robert T., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8246 Mason, W. Brett, Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, Baton Rouge, 225-490-5812 Pg. S-6 Matthews, Douglas P., King Krebs & Jurgens, New Orleans, 504-569-1640 McAloon, III, Leo R., Gieger Laborde & Laperouse, New Orleans, 504-654-1313 McCleskey, Jr., Robert P., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9280 McElligott, Jr., John E., Davidson Meaux Sonnier McElligott Fontenot Gideon & Edwards, Lafayette, 337-237-1660 McLeod, Evans Martin, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9212 McShane, Patrick J., Frilot, New Orleans, 504-599-8020 Merchant, Kevin P., NeunerPate, Lafayette, 337-237-7000 Mestayer, Michael J., Michael J. Mestayer, New Orleans, 504-522-7360 Moroux, Marc D., Juneau David, Lafayette, 337-269-0052 Morrow, Jr., P. Craig, Morrow Morrow Ryan & Bassett, Opelousas, 337-948-4483 Mouledoux, Andre J., Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, New Orleans, 504-595-3000 Pg. S-8, S-9 O’Keefe, Patrick E., Montgomery Barnett, New Orleans, 504-585-3200 Parks, C. Michael, Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, New Orleans, 504-595-3000 Pg. S-9 Plunkett, Jr., Lawrence R., Reich Album & Plunkett, Metairie, 504-830-3999

Popp, Matthew F., Waits Emmett Popp & Teich, New Orleans, 504-581-1301 Preis, Jr., Edwin G., Preis, Lafayette, 337-237-6062 Rivera, James T., Scofield & Rivera, Lafayette, 337-235-5353 Riviere, William J., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9343 Rodriguez, Antonio J., Fowler Rodriguez, New Orleans, 504-595-5170 Pg. S-8 Rome, III, C. Perrin, Rome Arata Baxley & Stelly, New Orleans, 504-522-9980 Roussel, James H., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5278 Ryan, Kent B., The Miller Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-684-5044 Schlotterer, Bradley J., Kean Miller, New Orleans, 504-585-3045 Schwartz, William B., Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, 504-569-2900 Scofield, Bryan D., Scofield & Rivera, Lafayette, 337-235-5353 Sharpe, David B., Lugenbuhl Wheaton Peck Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, 504-568-1990 Silverstein, James R., Kean Miller, New Orleans, 504-585-3050 Slater, III, Benjamin R., Beirne Maynard & Parsons, New Orleans, 504-584-9141 Soule, Scott A., Blue Williams, Mandeville, 985-626-0058 Sterbcow, Paul M., Lewis Kullman Sterbcow & Abramson, New Orleans, 504-588-1500 Stevens, Jr., Elwood C., Domengeaux Wright Roy Edwards & Colomb, Lafayette, 337-233-3033 Straub, Hugh R., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-566-1311 Sullivan, Jr., Norman C., Fowler Rodriguez, New Orleans, 504-595-5110 Tadros, Daniel A., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7000 Talley, Charles R., Kean Miller, New Orleans, 504-585-3050 Talley, Jr., Patrick A., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-594-9220 Theunissen, Randall K., Allen & Gooch, Lafayette, 337-291-1000

Tillery, Jefferson R., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8616 Truxillo, Douglas W., Onebane Law Firm, Lafayette, 337-237-2660 Tynan, Joseph P., Montgomery Barnett, New Orleans, 504-585-3200 Vance, Paul N., Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, 504-569-2900 Waguespack, Jason P., Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith, New Orleans, 504-525-6802 Pg. S-23 Walker, Derek A., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7044 Wallace, Brian D., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9204 Warshauer, Irving J., Gainsburgh Benjamin David Meunier & Warshauer, New Orleans, 504-522-2304 Pg. S-6, S-8 Welch, Hal C., Beirne Maynard & Parsons, New Orleans, 504-584-9113 Wheaton, Jr., Scott R., Lugenbuhl Wheaton Peck Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, 504-568-1990 Williams, III, Conrad S.P. (Duke), Williams Law Group, Houma, 985-876-7595 Wright, III, James E., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8234 Young, Timothy J., The Young Firm, New Orleans, 504-680-4100

TIMOTHY J. YOUNG

THE YOUNG FIRM New Orleans • 504-680-4100

www.theyoungfirm.com

UTILITIES Fontham, Michael R., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0810 Gilliam, Bobby S., Wilkinson Carmody & Gilliam, Shreveport, 318-221-4196 Parkerson, G. Bruce, Plauché Maselli Parkerson, New Orleans, 504-586-5227

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION Brackett, Alan G., Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, New Orleans, 504-595-3000 Pg. S-9

BUSINESS LITIGATION THROUGH ESTATE PLANNING & PROBATE STEVEN G. “BUZZ” DURIO

MICHAEL D. SKINNER

M. JANICE VILLARRUBIA

220 Heymann Boulevard Lafayette, LA 70503 Tel: 337-233-0300 Fax: 337-233-0694 durio@dmsfirm.com www.dmsfirm.com

Chase Tower 600 Jefferson Street Suite 810 Lafayette, LA 70501 Tel: 337-354-3030 Fax: 337-354-3032 mike@law.glacoxmail.com www.skinnerlawfirmllc.com

356 St. Charles Street Baton Rouge, LA 70802 Tel: 225-381-7800 Fax: 225-383-3733 janice@villarrubia-law.com www.villarrubia-law.com

BUSINESS LITIGATION BANKING BUSINESS/CORPORATE

CRIMINAL DEFENSE: WHITE COLLAR BUSINESS/CORPORATE HEALTH CARE

ESTATE PLANNING & PROBATE ESTATE & TRUST LITIGATION ELDER LAW

Founding partner of Durio, McGoffin, Stagg & Ackermann, Steven G. “Buzz” Durio specializes in selected commercial business cases. With 37 years of legal proceedings in areas including business and commercial litigations, banking and financial institutions, business transactions, corporate business organization and counseling, corporate dissolution, mergers and acquisitions, and shareholder rights, he has conducted trials, appeals, arbitrations, mediations, review panels, and administrative hearings in city, parish, state, and federal trial and appellate courts. Evidenced by his extensive resume of legal experience, professional distinction, and community service, he has earned the respect of his peers, the state bar, and the community.

For over 30 years, Mike Skinner has helped businesses, institutions, professionals, and others throughout Louisiana and beyond with effective legal representation. As a former United States Attorney and state prosecutor, and with an extensive business practice, he has the background to handle a wide range of legal matters. Mike has deep and broad experience in complex litigation, white collar criminal defense (including public corruption, mail and wire fraud, and environmental crimes), health care (including whistleblower litigation), substantial business transactions (including mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiation and drafting, and formation and governance of entities), and governmental relations (including legislative and local lobbying).

My interest in estate law and ultimately my law practice all began as a result of a difficult but successful litigation over my mother’s estate. I have a passion for the protection of heirs’ rights and “forced heirs” in particular. I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in international affairs from Florida State University and my Juris Doctor from Southern University Law Center. I am the past president of the Estate and Business Planners of Baton Rouge and have been an instructor for continuing legal education for the National Business Institute and Southern Law Center.

Originally from Florida, I have lived in Louisiana for over 30 years and consider it home. I have one child, Evan, who lives in Dali, Yunnan, China with his wife, Yanzi. My interests outside of work are tennis, swimming, travel, and my British Lab Trudy.

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FAMILY LAW THROUGH TRANSPORTATION/MARITIME H. CRAIG CABRAL

KENNETH R. SPEARS

3939 North Causeway Boulevard Suite 100 Metairie, LA 70002 Tel: 504-831-5319 Fax: 504-831-5321 ccabral431@aol.com

1 Lakeshore Drive Suite 900 Lake Charles, LA 70629 Tel: 337-513-4333 Fax: 337-494-5584 kspears@law-sg.com www.spearsgary.com

BRANDNER LAW FIRM, L.L.C.

FAMILY LAW

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: DEFENSE CIVIL LITIGATION: DEFENSE EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: DEFENSE

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF CLASS ACTION/MASS TORTS TRANSPORTATION/MARITIME

H. Craig Cabral is certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization as a family law specialist. He is a graduate of Tulane Law School and Loyola University. As a third-generation family law practitioner, Mr. Cabral handles complex domestic litigation cases dealing with issues involving community property partitions, child and spousal support, divorce, civil domestic violence, custody litigation, paternity, and many other family-related matters. His practice is limited solely to domestic relations, with extensive trial experience over his 34-year career.

Recognized by Louisiana Super Lawyers.

Kenneth R. Spears, Louisiana State University (J.D., 1972), concentrates his practice on civil litigation, eminent domain, and toxic tort litigation. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; U.S. District Court, Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of Louisiana; and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas and by the Louisiana State Bar Association and State Bar of Texas. He is a member of the National Board of Trial Advocacy and Litigation Counsel of America.

Attorney Michael S. Brandner represents people who suffer major injuries as a result of another person’s negligence and wrongdoing. Michael represents policyholders involved in a variety of insurance disputes such as homeowner’s, flood, commercial, liability, and all-risk insurance claims. He protects the rights of injured individuals in maritime personal injury, automobile accidents, and trucking law and handles a variety of complex litigation, including commercial litigation, and other general civil trial matters. Prior to opening his own practice, Michael represented large insurance companies and small businesses involved in legal disputes. Today, he draws on those experiences to help his clients protect their rights and obtain the maximum compensation to which they may be entitled.

WILLIAM H. GOFORTH

DOMINICK F. IMPASTATO, III

DARLEEN M. JACOBS

ATTORNEY AT LAW

GOFORTH & LILLEY, APLC

SPEARS & GARY, L.L.C.

MICHAEL S. BRANDNER, JR.

1100 Poydras Street Suite 1502 New Orleans, LA 70163 Tel: 504-552-5000 Fax: 504-521-7550 michael@brandnerlawfirm.com www.brandnerlawfirm.com

JACOBS, SARRAT, LOVELACE & HARRIS

109 Stewart Street Lafayette, LA 70501 Tel: 337-237-5777 Fax: 337-232-0786 wgoforth@bellsouth.net www.goforthlilley.com

FRISCHHERTZ, POULLIARD, FRISCHHERTZ, & IMPASTATO, LLC

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF TRANSPORTATION/MARITIME CLASS ACTION/MASS TORTS

William H. Goforth is a managing partner in the firm of Goforth & Lilley, APLC and concentrates on personal injury, products liability, and litigation including car and commercial truck wrecks.

He is a Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and is Board Certified in Civil Pretrial Practice Advocacy by the National Board of Civil Pretrial Practice Advocacy. He is a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Bill is a Diplomat by the National College of Advocacy.

He is a frequent speaker on trial tactics. Bill was selected as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Louisiana by the National Trial Lawyers Association. He is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and selected to the Louisiana Super Lawyers list.

Dominick F. Impastato, III has been the lead trial attorney in products liability, toxic tort, industrial equipment, commercial construction, insurance bad faith, and motor vehicle casualty trials since he was admitted to the bar in 2004. He has also served as liaison counsel in mass tort litigation in certain mass tort cases. Dominick takes particular pride in representing the proverbial little guy against parties of far greater resources and capabilities and achieving success for his clients, even when the odds may appear against them. Dominick graduated second in his class from Loyola Law School in 2004, served on the Loyola Law Review, and was named Best Oral Advocate in the seven-state region for the National Moot Court Competition.

Darleen M. Jacobs is the managing partner of her firm. Her offices are located in New Orleans and Violet. Her firm specializes in personal injury, general negligence, medical malpractice, maritime, Jones Act, and class action law. She received her B.A. degree from LSUNO, her J.D. degree from Loyola School of Law, and her Master’s in Admiralty Law from Tulane Law School. She is a member of the LTLA, NYSTLA, NBOTA, New Orleans Bar Association, St. Bernard Bar Association, DCBAR, and NYSBA. Darleen is AV-rated and was recognized as a preeminent lawyer

by Martindale-Hubbell. In 2014 she was selected for the cover of Louisiana Super Lawyers magazine. She is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. She received over 68 judgments for $1 million or more and one judgment in excess of $3 billion.

RUSSELL J. STUTES, JR.

JASON P. WAGUESPACK

STUTES & LAVERGNE 600 Broad Street Lake Charles, LA 70601 Tel: 337-433-0022 Fax: 337-433-0601 rusty@stuteslaw.com www.stuteslaw.com

1130 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA 70130 Tel: 504-264-9915 Fax: 504-581-1670 dominick@fpfi-law.com www.frischhertzlaw.com

GALLOWAY, JOHNSON, TOMPKINS, BURR & SMITH, APLC

One Shell Square, 40th Floor 701 Poydras Street New Orleans, LA 70139 Tel: 504-525-6802 Fax: 504-525-2456 jwaguespack@gallowayjohnson.com www.gjtbs.com

TAX BUSINESS LITIGATION ESTATE PLANNING & PROBATE

TRANSPORTATION/MARITIME INTERNATIONAL GENERAL LITIGATION

Russell J. Stutes, Jr. (“Rusty”) is the managing partner of Stutes & Lavergne. Rusty is Board Certified in Tax Law and Estate Planning and Administration and was recently selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America in the field of taxation.

He provides tax and estate planning services for a number of businesses, business owners, and professionals. Rusty has an extensive practice before the IRS and the Louisiana Department of Revenue and Taxation. He also has significant experience in the area of state and local tax litigation, representing numerous taxing authorities and small and large businesses. His record for success in state and local tax litigation is unmatched in the State of Louisiana.

Jason P. Waguespack is a recognized leader in the maritime and international legal fields. He currently serves as the Managing Director of Galloway Johnson, a Gulf South law firm with its headquarters in New Orleans. He maintains a regional practice based in New Orleans and Houston and specializes in the representation of maritime owners, charterers, operators, and insurers in all types of marine casualty losses. He serves as national counsel to several clients with ongoing international interests. He is also an Associate Professor of Law at Tulane University School of Law and Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business. He is active in the civic life of his community and serves on the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Bar Association.

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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW Loney, Rhea P., Magee Zeringue & Richardson, Covington, 985-893-7550

APPELLATE Dupre, Andy, Flanagan Partners, New Orleans, 504-569-0066 Nickelson, John C., Nickelson Law, Shreveport, 318-200-0673

BANKING Dysart, Katie L., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-8611 Landry, Eric B., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-381-8041 Ricci, Michael S., Ricci Partners, New Orleans, 504-304-7115 Savoie, Robert, McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, 504-586-1200

BANKRUPTCY: BUSINESS Ashley, Laura F., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8000 Kadden, Benjamin W., Lugenbuhl Wheaton Peck Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, 504-568-1990 Mintz, Mark A., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8000 Shelby, Rick M., Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-679-9804

BANKRUPTCY: CONSUMER Sandler, Sharry I., The Law Office of Sharry I. Sandler, New Orleans, 504-528-9500

BUSINESS LITIGATION Almon, Matthew S., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0976 Anada, Tarak, Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8000 Berger, Jamie L., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, 504-589-9784 Boudreaux, Kelly Kromer, Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, 225-376-0224 Bowdler, Bryan Edward, The Kullman Firm, New Orleans, 504-524-4162 Brady, Sean P., Flanagan Partners, New Orleans, 504-569-0235 Briggett, Joe, Lugenbuhl Wheaton Peck Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, 504-568-1990 Broussard, Maggie A., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-581-3200 Broussard, Travis J., Durio McGoffin Stagg & Ackermann, Lafayette, 337-233-0300 Burge, Jason W., Fishman Haygood, New Orleans, 504-586-5241 Capell, Brian W., Liskow & Lewis, Lafayette, 337-232-7424 Castoriano, Benjamin M., Frilot, New Orleans, 504-599-8225 Cheatham, Scott Robert, Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0195 Clayton, Joshua P., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2100 Pg. S-1 Coons, David C., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-581-3234 Cotter, Patrick ‘Con’, Young Cotter & Meade, Lafayette, 337-261-8800 Cundiff, Nancy A., Cotten Schmidt & Abbott, New Orleans, 504-568-9393 Deethardt, Mark R., McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, 504-586-1200 Devillier, Jr., Carroll, Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-381-8013 Ducros, Alex L.M., Orrill & Beary, New Orleans, 504-299-8724

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Easterly, Tom S., Taylor Porter Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, 225-381-0244 Farris, Abigayle C., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0948 French, Ryan, Taylor Porter Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, 225-381-0262 Grabill, Jeremy T., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9396 Hemken, David J., Cook Yancey King & Galloway, Shreveport, 318-221-6277 Janke, Benjamin West, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-8607 Kane, Christopher J., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-585-0155 LaCour, Cliff, NeunerPate, Lafayette, 337-237-7000 Latuso, Erin Wedge, Cotten Schmidt & Abbott, New Orleans, 504-568-9393 Lemaire, Justin P., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0942 Luder, David N., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, 504-589-9798 Magee, Todd, Christopher H. Riviere, Thibodaux, 985-447-7440 Martin, Christopher D., Jones Walker, Baton Rouge, 225-248-2000 McCrory, David K., Ottinger Hebert, Lafayette, 337-232-2606 Mills, Alysson L., Fishman Haygood, New Orleans, 504-586-5253 Murphy, Kerry A., Jones Swanson Huddell & Garrison, New Orleans, 504-523-2500 Pardee, Avery B., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8358 Pelleteri, Erin E., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5287 Plaisance, Wesley M., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, New Orleans, 504-584-5471 Rosenbloom, D. Skylar, Fishman Haygood, New Orleans, 504-556-5507 Schilling, Ellie T., Schonekas Evans McGoey & McEachin, New Orleans, 504-680-6058 Stafford, Jamaal, Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, 504-589-9764 Tabor, Charles E., Wiener Weiss & Madison, Shreveport, 318-226-9100 Taylor (Dekaris), Natalie J., Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea, New Orleans, 504-596-6300 Tigchelaar, Brooke C., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0862 Venn, Brett S., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8000 Vigen, Erik S., The Broyles Group, Shreveport, 318-227-3083 Wehlen, Nicholas J., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0827 York, Bryant S., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0803 Zerner, Charles-Theodore, Flanagan Partners, New Orleans, 504-569-0235

BUSINESS/CORPORATE Bishop, William R., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0962 Breland, Quin, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-8627 Douthitt, Katherine Guidry, Blanchard Walker O’Quin & Roberts, Shreveport, 318-221-6858 Friend, Asher J., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8362 Kline, W. Bradley, Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, 225-376-0294 Legrand, Andrew, Spera Law Group, New Orleans, 504-300-9938 Paine, Stephen J., Ayres Shelton Williams Benson & Paine, Shreveport, 318-227-3959 Ramos, Steven T., Andrus Boudreaux Landry & Coussan, Lafayette, 337-984-9480 Scafidel, Amy G., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8462 Schroeder, Logan, Cook Yancey King & Galloway, Shreveport, 318-221-6277 Sides, Brett M., Alexander Sides Brinson Spaht, Baton Rouge, 225-238-1802 Spaht, W. Carlos, Alexander Sides Brinson Spaht, Baton Rouge, 225-238-1800 Wood, Christie C., Faircloth Melton & Keiser, Alexandria, 318-619-7755 Woodruff, Benjamin P., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8444

CIVIL LITIGATION: DEFENSE Aiyegbusi, Denia S., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-581-5141 Albertine, III., James G., Salley Hite Mercer & Resor, New Orleans, 504-566-8800 Bowling, Tori S., Keogh Cox, Baton Rouge, 225-383-3796 Brian, Kelly M., Blue Williams, Mandeville, 985-626-0058 Camelford, Jason A., Coats Rose, New Orleans, 504-299-3070 Catalanotto, Rachael P., Talley Anthony Hughes & Knight, Mandeville, 985-624-5010

RACHAEL P. CATALANOTTO

TALLEY, ANTHONY, HUGHES & KNIGHT, LLC Mandeville • 985-624-5010

www.talleyanthony.com

Collura, Amanda, Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-387-0999 Courtenay, James E., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-581-5141 Cutaiar, Trevor, Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, New Orleans, 504-595-3000 Pg. S-9 Dietzen, Lauren B., Plauché Maselli Parkerson, New Orleans, 504-582-1142 Drennan, George C., Plauché Maselli Parkerson, New Orleans, 504-582-1142 Edwards, Jerry, Blanchard Walker O’Quin & Roberts, Shreveport, 318-221-6858 Felder, Robert D., Davidson Meaux Sonnier McElligott Fontenot Gideon & Edwards, Lafayette, 337-237-1660 Getty, John C., Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith, Mandeville, 985-674-6702 Giangrosso, Lena D., Provosty & Gankendorff, New Orleans, 504-410-2795 Gristina, Nicholas C., Porteous Hainkel & Johnson, New Orleans, 504-412-6246 Hebert, Carmen Tircuit, Carleton Loraso & Hebert, Baton Rouge, 225-282-0602 Kennedy, Katy B., Daigle Fisse & Kessenich, Covington, 985-871-0800 Laurendine, Ingrid Kemp, Johnson Gray McNamara, Mandeville, 985-246-6544 Linn, Jenna, Bankston & Associates, Baton Rouge, 225-766-3800 Loraso, III, Victor R., Carleton Loraso & Hebert, Baton Rouge, 225-282-0606 Luminais, Jr., Bradley J., Chopin Wagar Richard & Kutcher, Metairie, 504-830-3838 Mason, Christopher A., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-381-8039 Mathews, Kellen J., Adams and Reese, Baton Rouge, 225-336-5200 Mijalis, Alexander J., Lunn Irion Salley Carlisle & Gardner, Shreveport, 318-222-0665 Ordeneaux, James K., Plauché Maselli Parkerson, New Orleans, 504-586-5272 Perkins, Alejandro R., Hammonds & Sills, Baton Rouge, 225-923-3462 Peterson, Megan S., Simon Peragine Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans, 540-569-2030 Preston, Cassie E., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0654 Rome, Curt Lucien, Perrier & Lacoste, New Orleans, 504-212-7293 Savant, R. Heath, Plauche Maselli Parkerson, Baton Rouge, 225-240-7688 Shumaker, Meghan, McCranie Sistrunk Anzelmo Hardy McDaniel & Welch, Covington, 504-831-0946 Stein, David M., Adams and Reese, New Orleans, 504-581-3234 Sternberg, Scott L., Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, 504-569-2900 Verlander, Hanna M., Brown Sims, New Orleans, 504-638-8472 Williamson, Michael J., Plauché Smith & Nieset, Lake Charles, 337-436-0522

CIVIL LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF Hair, Galen M., Varadi Hair & Checki, New Orleans, 504-684-5200 Jeffcott, Emily C., The Lambert Firm, New Orleans, 504-581-1750 Morgain, Richard M., Lestelle & Lestelle, Metairie, 504-828-1224

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EMINENT DOMAIN

CIVIL RIGHTS

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

Cumming, Elizabeth C., Law Offices of Elizabeth Cumming, New Orleans, 504-256-6290

George, Tabatha L., Fisher & Phillips, New Orleans, 504-529-3845 Glaser, Alex H., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9292

CLASS ACTION/MASS TORTS Barr, Wesley G., The Olinde Firm, New Orleans, 504-587-1440 Berniard, Jeffrey P., Berniard Law, New Orleans, 504-527-6225 Crowson, Gabriel A., McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, 504-596-2839 Fineran, Everett R., Frilot, New Orleans, 504-599-8000 Hoekstra, Jennifer M., Neblett Beard & Arsenault, Alexandria, 318-487-9874 Holinga, Lexi T., Bienvenu Bonnecaze Foco Viator & Holinga, Baton Rouge, 225-388-5600 Robertson, Pearl, Irpino Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-525-1500 Spaulding, Kyle A., Degan Blanchard & Nash, New Orleans, 504-529-3333 Thibodeaux, Paul C., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5200 Wool, Zachary L., Barrios Kingsdorf & Casteix, New Orleans, 504-524-3300

Coker, Ashley Gremillion, Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2100 Pg. S-1

EMPLOYMENT & LABOR Bell, Paul F., Bell Law Firm, Baton Rouge, 225-284-3235 Credeur, Jacob C., Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, New Orleans, 504-648-3840 Davis, Brandon E., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9312

Frazier, Meg, Wiener Weiss & Madison, Shreveport, 318-226-9100 Huffstetler, Scott, Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-387-0999 Hugg, Joseph R., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, New Orleans, 504-584-5466 Leatherman, M. Levy, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Baton Rouge, 225-381-7046 London, Wm. Brian, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 McArthur, Heather A., Frilot, New Orleans, 504-599-8299 Molina, Ross M., Leake & Andersson, New Orleans, 504-585-7500 Murray, Bryce G., Big Easy Law Group, Metairie, 504-383-3246 CONTINUED ON PAGE S-26

CONSTRUCTION LITIGATION Aldrich, Bradley, Wolfe Law Group, New Orleans, 504-894-9653 Blackwell, Michael S., Shields Mott, New Orleans, 504-581-4445 Casteix, Ryan, Leake & Andersson, New Orleans, 504-585-7500 Derenbecker, Jessica R., Shields Mott, New Orleans, 504-581-4445 Emmons, Matthew R., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Mandeville, 985-819-8424 Funderburk, John C., Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-382-4698 Grubb, Brian D., Coats Rose, New Orleans, 504-299-3074 Hedlund, Scott J., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0610 Lindsay, Tamara, Coats Rose, New Orleans, 504-299-3070 Prattini, Jeffrey K., Shields Mott, New Orleans, 504-581-4445 Prescott, III, James D., Bland & Partners, New Orleans, 504-528-3088 Robinson, Ashley B., Shields Mott, New Orleans, 504-581-4445 Sims, Jennifer D., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-381-8048 Smiley, Seth J., Wolfe Law Group, New Orleans, 504-894-9653 Wynne, Jr., Douglass F., Simon Peragine Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans, 504-569-2030

CREDITOR DEBTOR RIGHTS Alexis, Heather LaSalle, McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, 504-586-1200

CRIMINAL DEFENSE Alexander, Stephen M., Alexander Law Group, Baton Rouge, 225-922-4488 Pg. S-27 Borghardt, Franz N., Law Office of Steven J. Moore, Baton Rouge, 225-767-7778 Clayton, Sarah A., Phillips Law, New Orleans, 504-434-7000 Cooper, Carolyn, King & Cooper Law, New Orleans, 504-581-9322 Daniels, III, Harry L., Daniels & Washington, Baton Rouge, 225-383-3800 Hatch, Christopher D., The Hatch Law Firm, Shreveport, 318-425-3965 Hinch, Shane K., Attorney at Law, Lake Charles, 337-240-9760 Johnson, Sara A., Attorney at Law, New Orleans, 504-528-9500 Ward, Jr., Samuel C. “Chuck”, Samuel C. Ward Jr. & Associates, Baton Rouge, 225-330-6677

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Roberts, MaryJo L., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9262 Theard, David K., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8402

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: DEFENSE Anderson, Michelle, Fisher & Phillips, New Orleans, 504-529-3839 Barro, Sarah Murphy, The Monson Law Firm, Mandeville, 985-778-0678 Huffman, Jessica Coco, Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, 225-376-0202 Lungstrum, Alison, Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, New Orleans, 504-648-3840 McCluer, Matthew, Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, New Orleans, 504-648-3840 Perez, Kathlyn, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-8672 Stiegler, Charles J., Proskauer Rose, New Orleans, 504-310-2025

CHARLES J. STIEGLER

PROSKAUER ROSE LLP New Orleans • 504-310-2025

www.proskauer.com

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF Williams, Christopher L., Williams Litigation, New Orleans, 504-308-1438

ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES Arvidson, Addie Danos, Looper Goodwine, New Orleans, 504-503-1500 Baker, Katherine Smith, Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea, Shreveport, 318-934-4006 Dicharry, Sarah Y., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 Halverson, Andrew J., Milling Benson Woodward, Lafayette, 337-232-3929 Huguet, William Reed, Kean Miller, Shreveport, 318-562-2661 Jardell, Julie Deshotels, Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, Lafayette, 337-521-8805 Johnson, Lindsey M., Looper Goodwine, New Orleans, 504-503-1500 Mouledoux, Taylor P., Looper Goodwine, New Orleans, 504-503-1500 Occhipinti Thompson, Holly, Looper Goodwine, New Orleans, 504-503-1500 Perrier, Kelly D., Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-679-9839 Rolen-Ogden, April L., Liskow & Lewis, Lafayette, 337-232-7424 Rothenberg, Alex, Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, 504-582-1111 Shealy, Jeremy B., Onebane Law Firm, Lafayette, 337-237-2660 Simone, Matthew, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 Weidlich, Tyler L., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-5291

ENVIRONMENTAL Roché, Elizabeth A., Burns Charest, New Orleans, 504-799-2845 Wiegand, Stephen W., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979

ENVIRONMENTAL LITIGATION Brumby, Turner, Veron Bice Palermo & Wilson, Lake Charles, 337-310-1600 Godshall, Lauren, Curry & Friend, New Orleans, 504-524-8556 Hale DeShazo, Michele, Kuchler Polk Schell Weiner & Richeson, New Orleans, 504-592-0691 Lewis, Sara M., Wall Bullington & Cook, New Orleans, 504-736-0347 Malbrew, Penny Leonard, Liskow & Lewis, Lafayette, 337-267-2364 Salup, Brittany Buckley, Kean Miller, New Orleans, 504-620-3355

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Suane, Jr., Victor J., Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-387-0999 Valentine, Sara C., Kuchler Polk Schell Weiner & Richeson, New Orleans, 504-592-0691

ESTATE PLANNING & PROBATE Fine, Laura E., Lehmann Norman & Marcus, New Orleans, 504-525-0815

FAMILY LAW Arnold, Robin Penzato, Winsberg & Arnold, New Orleans, 504-648-2711 Aymond, Andrea D., Attorney at Law, Marksville, 318-240-7232 Bayard, James D., Onebane Law Firm, Lafayette, 337-237-2660 Checki, Lauren E., Varadi Hair & Checki, New Orleans, 504-684-5200 Coleman, George Read, Law Office of Lila Molaison Samuel, Gretna, 504-367-7250 Daniels, Morgan S., Attorney at Law, New Orleans, 504-302-8507 Dillon, Nicole Roberts, Seale & Ross, Hammond, 985-542-8500 Hoffman, Jeffrey M., Lowe Stein Hoffman Allweiss & Hauver, New Orleans, 504-581-2450 Nguyen, Kim Ngan, Lowe Stein Hoffman Allweiss & Hauver, New Orleans, 504-581-2450 Perque, Richard G., Law Offices of Richard G. Perque, New Orleans, 504-681-2003 Pfeiffer, Sarah, Law Office of Sarah Pfeiffer, Gretna, 504-366-4025 Treadaway, Kristyl Revelle, Salley & Salley, Metairie, 504-416-2058

FRANCHISE/DEALERSHIP Sentell, III, William W., Pugh Accardo Haas Radecker & Carey, New Orleans, 504-799-4524

GENERAL LITIGATION Baer, Jason M., Pandit Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-313-3800 Bone, Jason D., Taylor Wellons Politz & Duhe, New Orleans, 504-525-9888 Caruso, Melissa B., Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-387-0999 Cheralla, Stephanie L., Degan Blanchard & Nash, New Orleans, 504-529-3333 Clayman, Jeffrey A., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-566-1311 Coreil, Jeffrey K., NeunerPate, Lafayette, 337-237-7000 Giarrusso, III, Joseph I., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 Glenn, Brodie, Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, 504-569-2900 Loria, David N., Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith, New Orleans, 504-525-6802 Ludeau, Christopher, Ludeau Law Firm, Ville Platte, 337-363-2388 Luminais, Ryan O., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2106 Pg. S-1 Meador, Lindsay, Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith, Lafayette, 337-735-1760 Poe, Jason W., Jason W. Poe, Bossier City, 318-746-4000 Pontier, Claire Easterling, Couhig Partners, New Orleans, 504-588-1288 Ready, Edward A., The Civil Law Center, New Orleans, 504-342-4221 Thomas, Charles Marshall, Huber Slack Thomas & Marcelle, New Orleans, 504-274-2500

GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS Eccles, Susan N., Dunlap Fiore, Baton Rouge, 225-282-0658

HEALTH CARE Amedee, Cindy M., Taylor Porter Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, 225-381-0279 Finkle, Ezra L., Curry & Friend, New Orleans, 504-524-8556 Thompson, Traci S., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-381-3170

Kimbrell, Elaine, Ware | Immigration, Metairie, 504-830-5900 Scott, Paul “Woody”, Scott Law Firm, Baton Rouge, 225-224-0510

INSURANCE COVERAGE Balascio, Michael A., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, 504-589-9700 Bargas, Valerie Briggs, Kinchen Walker Bienvenu Bargas & Reed, Baton Rouge, 225-292-6704 Baudouin, Richard E., Krebs Farley, New Orleans, 504-299-3570 Borne, Elizabeth (Lisa), Tabary & Borne, Chalmette, 504-271-8011

ELIZABETH (LISA) BORNE TABARY & BORNE, LLC Chalmette • 504-271-8011

www.dst-law.com

Gautreaux, Micah A., Degan Blanchard & Nash, Baton Rouge, 225-610-1110 Harris Abel, Laura, The Monson Law Firm, Mandeville, 985-778-0678 Irwin, Christopher H., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2100 Kleeman, Douglas M., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9342 Latuso, Jr., Donald J., The Monson Law Firm, Mandeville, 985-778-0678 Miles, Stephen L., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, 504-589-9787 Mouledoux, Marcelle P., Salley Hite Mercer & Resor, New Orleans, 504-566-8833 Sanchez, Jairo F., Gaudry Ranson Higgins & Gremillion, Gretna, 504-362-2466 Schudmak, Shaundra M., Lugenbuhl Wheaton Peck Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, 504-568-1990 Showalter, Elizabeth R., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2100 Soso, Jeremy Z., The Lambert Firm, New Orleans, 504-581-1750 Stogner, Sarah, Carver Darden Koretzky Tessier Finn Blossman & Areaux, New Orleans, 504-585-3845 Therio, Erica A., Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, 504-589-9700 Tschirn, Robert W., Jeansonne & Tschirn, New Orleans, 732-482-1404 Vorhaben, Tessa P., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9240 Womack, Jonathan B., Taylor Wellons Politz & Duhe, New Orleans, 504-525-9888

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Baxter, Pamela A., Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-387-0999 D’Souza, Vanessa M., Garvey Smith Nehrbass & North, Metairie, 504-835-2000 Goudelocke, Ryan M., Durio McGoffin Stagg & Ackermann, Lafayette, 337-233-0300 Melasky, Mark, Garvey Smith Nehrbass & North, Metairie, 504-835-2000 Miller, III, J. Matthew, Carver Darden Koretzky Tessier Finn Blossman & Areaux, New Orleans, 504-585-3844 Ricci, R. Devin, Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-387-0999 Vickers, Adam V., Vickers Law, New Orleans, 504-948-6965

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION Madison, Tara Montgomery, Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-387-0999

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Silberstein, Daniella Genet, Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8465

IMMIGRATION

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: DEFENSE

Gahagan, Michael W., The Immigration Law Firm of New Orleans, Metairie, 504-345-1216

Christie, Joshua, Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2100

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BY PRACTICE AREA Davis, Ryan G., Talley Anthony Hughes & Knight, Mandeville, 985-624-5010

RYAN G. DAVIS

TALLEY, ANTHONY, HUGHES & KNIGHT, LLC Mandeville • 985-624-5010

www.talleyanthony.com

Hightower, III, Thomas R., Thomas R. Hightower Jr., Lafayette, 337-233-0555 Johnson, Jr., B. Slattery, Blanchard Walker O’Quin & Roberts, Shreveport, 318-221-6858 Juneau Rookard, Kelly G., Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2214 Lonegrass, Michael D., Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith, New Orleans, 504-648-6385 Newsom, Amy E., Newsom Law Firm, Baton Rouge, 225-761-8000 Popich, Robert N., Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, New Orleans, 504-595-3000 Pg. S-9 Rainwater, Scott, Taylor Wellons Politz & Duhe, Baton Rouge, 225-387-9888 Rodrigue, Sara B., NeunerPate, Lafayette, 337-237-7000 Stedman, Matthew L., Brown Sims, New Orleans, 504-262-2931

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF Anderson, Leola M., Gertler Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-581-6411

LEOLA M. ANDERSON

GERTLER LAW FIRM New Orleans • 504-581-6411

www.neworleanspersonalinjury.com Bassett, Taylor J., Morrow Morrow Ryan & Bassett, Opelousas, 337-948-4483 Blanda, Nicholas A., Anderson Dozier Blanda & Saltzman, Lafayette, 337-233-3366 Pg. S-28 Boudreaux, Chet G., Gordon McKernan Injury Attorneys, Baton Rouge, 225-888-8888 Broussard, Aaron, Broussard & Hart, Lake Charles, 337-439-2450 Brown, Somer G., Cox Cox Filo Camel & Wilson, Lake Charles, 337-436-6611 Bryant, Marcus A., Law Office of Marcus A. Bryant, Lafayette, 337-504-4106 Campbell, Robert L., Williamson Fontenot & Campbell, Baton Rouge, 225-383-4010 Chabert, Jr., Scotty E., Saunders & Chabert, Baton Rouge, 225-771-8100 Pg. S-28

Flinn, James, The Voorhies Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-875-2223

JAMES FLINN

THE VOORHIES LAW FIRM New Orleans • 504-875-2223

www.jamesflinnlaw.com Green, Jeffrey P., Ron Austin & Associates, Harvey, 504-227-8100 Haik, Jr., Richard T., Morrow Morrow Ryan & Bassett, Opelousas, 337-948-4483 Hale, Taylor, Hale Law Firm, Lake Charles, 337-433-0612 Hawkins, Bobby G., Irpino Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-525-1500 Hemmer, Matthew, Morris Bart, New Orleans, 504-525-8000 Hoffoss, Jr., John Lee, Hoffoss Devall, Lake Charles, 337-900-0000 Johnson, Julie Payne, Gregorio Chafin & Johnson, Shreveport, 318-865-8680 Lambert, M. Palmer, Gainsburgh Benjamin David Meunier & Warshauer, New Orleans, 504-522-2304 Layrisson, J. Parker, Parker Layrisson Law Firm, Ponchatoula, 985-467-9525 Mahone, Jr., Michael A., The Mahone Firm, New Orleans, 504-564-7342 Mcgregor, George, Burgos & Associates, New Orleans, 504-488-3722 Miller, Joseph M., Davis Saunders Miller & Oden, Mandeville, 985-612-3070 Moreno, Edward L., Law Office of John W. Redmann, Gretna, 504-433-5550 Moroux, Jerome H., Broussard & David, Lafayette, 337-233-2323 Peterson, Cayce C., The Lambert Firm, New Orleans, 504-581-1750 Robinson, Kyle M., Robinson & Williams, Bossier City, 318-747-0060

Saltzman, Keith P., Anderson Dozier Blanda & Saltzman, Lafayette, 337-233-3366 Sanders, Patrick B., Law Office of John W. Redmann, Gretna, 504-535-7736 Scallan, Vincent P., Vincent P. Scallan Law, New Orleans, 504-272-0444 Sherman, Kea, Sherman Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-896-7304 Stephens, Barrett, Lewis & Caplan, New Orleans, 504-486-7766 Tauzier, Mark G., Yeager LaNasa Tauzier, Hammond, 504-708-2600 Terrell, Matt N., Dudley DeBosier, Baton Rouge, 225-379-3333 Udell, Nora, Kara Hadican Samuels & Associates, New Orleans, 504-558-9478 Washington, Christopher J., Daniels & Washington, Baton Rouge, 225-383-3800 Zainey, Jr., Jay Christopher, Huber Slack Thomas & Marcelle, New Orleans, 504-274-2500 Zimmerman, III, Richard F., Gordon McKernan Injury Attorneys, Baton Rouge, 225-888-8888

PERSONAL INJURY MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: DEFENSE Domreis, Crystal E., Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea, New Orleans, 504-596-6300 Knight, Bryan J., Niles Bourque & Knight, New Orleans, 504-310-8558 Rito, Kat, Curry & Friend, New Orleans, 504-524-8556 Sconzert, Elizabeth S., Blue Williams, Mandeville, 504-846-9720

PERSONAL INJURY PRODUCTS: DEFENSE Brilleaux, Kelly, Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2100 CONTINUED ON PAGE S-28

STEPHEN M.

SCOTTY E. CHABERT, JR.

ALEXANDER

www.saunderschabert.com

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SAUNDERS & CHABERT Baton Rouge • 225-771-8100

Chafin, Jr., Scott J., Gregorio Chafin & Johnson, Shreveport, 318-865-8680 Childers, Jacqueline, Morris Bart, New Orleans, 504-525-8000 Chopin, Justin McCarthy, The Chopin Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-432-5517 Corzo, Christopher J., Gordon McKernan Injury Attorneys, Baton Rouge, 225-888-8888 Creevy, John S., Herman Herman & Katz, New Orleans, 504-581-4892 Dewett, Justin, Simmons Morris & Carroll, Shreveport, 318-221-1507 Donahue, Roshawn Husband, Martzell Bickford & Centola, New Orleans, 504-581-9065 Duhe’-Keating, Julie-Ann A., The Keating Law Firm, Metairie, 504-832-2232 Dunahoe, Jared, Dunahoe Law Firm, Natchitoches, 318-352-1999 Epstein, Jeremy, Epstein Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-309-6600

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Lewis, Raymond C., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0697 Malone, Ryan M., Duplass Zwain Bourgeois Pfister & Weinstock, Metairie, 504-832-3700 Polk, Janika D., Kuchler Polk Schell Weiner & Richeson, New Orleans, 504-592-0691 Sossamon, Meera, Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, 504-310-2100 Ziffer, Lee B., Kuchler Polk Schell Weiner & Richeson, New Orleans, 504-592-0691

PERSONAL INJURY PRODUCTS: PLAINTIFF Carr, Daniel J., Peiffer Rosca Wolf Abdullah Carr & Kane, New Orleans, 504-586-5270 Hoffman, Philip C., Landry & Swarr, New Orleans, 504-299-1214 Pourciau, Damon R., Pourciau Law Firm, Kenner, 504-305-2375

PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY: DEFENSE Barnett-Bernal, Brooke, Long Law Firm, Baton Rouge, 225-922-5110 Biller, Benjamin J., Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea, New Orleans, 504-596-6300

REAL ESTATE Bernard, G. Wogan, Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7289 Bloxom, Casey M., Blanchard Walker O’Quin & Roberts, Bossier City, 318-742-9255 Cerise, Jonathan B., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2131 Pg. S-1 Coussan, Jean-Paul P., Andrus Boudreaux Landry & Coussan, Lafayette, 337-984-9480 Dean, Benjamin B., Heck Law Firm, Monroe, 318-322-0744 Dunne, Jr., James T., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-581-3200 Howenstine, Laurie W., Elkins, New Orleans, 504-529-3600 Iverstine, Wade R., Kean Miller, Baton Rouge, 225-382-3448 LeSaicherre, Jeff A., The LeSaicherre Law Firm, Hammond, 985-277-5550 Levine, Seth A., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8268 McCabe, Ryan M., Steeg Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-582-1215 McGowan, Heather Begneaud, Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0946 Piazza, Erik C., Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, 225-376-0291 Riess, Megan C., Fishman Haygood, New Orleans, 504-586-5258

Scullin, Stephen P., Carver Darden Koretzky Tessier Finn Blossman & Areaux, New Orleans, 504-585-3800 Serio, Steven C., Fishman Haygood, New Orleans, 504-586-5240 Sherman, Philip B., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7579 Tintenfass, Jennifer, Steeg Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-582-1199 Vasquez, Raedtha A., Jones Walker, Baton Rouge, 225-248-2000 Watson, Jared L., Robichaux Mize Wadsack & Richardson, Lake Charles, 337-433-0234 Woodruff, Jessica Kesler, Woodruff Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-491-2008

SECURITIES & CORPORATE FINANCE Layfield, Alexandra Clark, Jones Walker, Baton Rouge, 225-248-2030

SECURITIES LITIGATION Berg, Nicholas, Reasonover & Associates, New Orleans, 504-526-2921 Palestina, Michael J., Kahn Swick & Foti, Madisonville, 504-455-1400 Reichard, Benjamin D., Fishman Haygood, New Orleans, 504-586-5274

TAX Miller, Matthew P., Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, 504-585-7867 Roth, III, Richard J., Roth Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-525-7792 Simpson, Carli Beckett, Roth Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-525-7792 Sullivan, Andrew, Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, 504-585-7734 Treuting, Matthew A., Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, 504-569-2900 Walter, Daniel J., Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, New Orleans, 504-593-0826 Wilson, Blayne Trevor, Jones Walker, Baton Rouge, 225-248-2122

TRANSPORTATION/MARITIME Alexander, M. Benjamin, Preis, Lafayette, 337-237-6062 Baldwin, William C., Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8000 Belsome, Bradley R., Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea, New Orleans, 504-596-6300 Blanque, Meredith W., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-584-9207 Byars, Caitlin, Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, New Orleans, 504-595-3000 Pg. S-9

Cambre, Colin B., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, 504-679-5747 Colligan, Lucas S., The Gaar Law Firm, Lafayette, 337-233-3185 Davis, Alan R., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7088 Denny, Robert K., Hurley & Cot, New Orleans, 504-524-5353 Everage, Tod J., Kean Miller, New Orleans, 504-585-3050 Ferchmin, Adelaida J., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7000 Fricker, Rowen A., Pusateri Barrios Guillot & Greenbaum, New Orleans, 504-620-2500 Gardner, Jr., W. Jacob, Fowler Rodriguez, New Orleans, 504-523-2600 Greenbaum, Aaron B., Pusateri Barrios Guillot & Greenbaum, New Orleans, 504-620-2500 Guillot, Gavin H., Pusateri Barrios Guillot & Greenbaum, New Orleans, 504-620-2500 Hale, Paul D., Deutsch Kerrigan, New Orleans, 504-593-0715 Hannan, Christopher M., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, 504-566-8612 Harowski, Michael, Fowler Rodriguez, New Orleans, 504-523-2600 Johnson, Christy L., Brown Sims, New Orleans, 504-569-1007 Marino, III, Joseph B., Chaffe McCall, New Orleans, 504-585-7052 McGlone, Kevin M., Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, New Orleans, 504-299-2133 Pg. S-1 McLaughlin, Sean T., Kean Miller, New Orleans, 504-585-3050 Mestayer, Jed M., NeunerPate, Lafayette, 337-237-7000 Morse, Harry E., Duncan & Sevin, New Orleans, 504-524-5566 Pastorek, Jeffrey, Couhig Partners, New Orleans, 504-588-1288 Reid, Devin C., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 Sanderson, Adam P., Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, New Orleans, 504-595-3000 Pg. S-9 Schepens, Patrick J., Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith, Mandeville, 985-674-6716 Teich, Jordan, Waits Emmett Popp & Teich, New Orleans, 504-581-1301 Thomas, Miles C., Lugenbuhl Wheaton Peck Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, 504-568-1990 Thompson, Brendhan H., Bland & Partners, New Orleans, 504-528-1841 Tweedy, Jonathan A., Brown Sims, New Orleans, 504-569-1007 Waid, Raymond T., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, 504-581-7979 Wynne, William Pitard, Jones Walker, New Orleans, 504-582-8000

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Mr. Blanda is a partner at Anderson, Dozier, Blanda & Saltzman and represents clients throughout the Gulf Coast, specializing in serious personal injury and wrongful death cases arising from trucking accidents, maritime accidents, automobile accidents, industrial accidents, product liability and premises defect. He obtained his undergraduate degree from LSU in 2000 and his J.D. from Loyola Law School in 2004. After completing a federal clerkship, he began private practice in 2005. Mr. Blanda is admitted to practice in Louisiana; the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; the U.S. District Court, Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of Louisiana; and the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas.

For the last ten years, I have proudly represented good people in Louisiana and Mississippi in serious injury and wrongful death matters. If you have a case, you should keep in mind the insurance company is not your friend. Before you pursue any action, let us help you with our resources and knowledge to understand your legal options and obtain the best results possible. Our firm handles cases in admiralty, maritime, Jones Act, offshore injuries, wrongful death, car and 18-wheeler accidents, premises liability, and serious spinal and brain injury cases. Contact us for a free consultation to explore your options.

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Babin, Patrick J., Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, New Orleans, 504-595-3000 Pg. S-9 Bass, Michael D., Guglielmo Lopez Tuttle Hunter & Jarrell, Opelousas, 337-948-8201 Bernstein, Beth S., Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, New Orleans, 504-595-3000 Pg. S-9 Cefalu, III., Joseph J., Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, 225-387-4000 Decker, Darcy E., The Javier Law Firm, New Orleans, 504-599-8570 Flint, Dustin G., Williamson Fontenot & Campbell, Baton Rouge, 225-383-4010 Hess, Joshua O., Christovich & Kearney, New Orleans, 504-593-4274 Hotard, Amy Dunn, Salley Hite Mercer & Resor, New Orleans, 504-566-8800 Louapre, Lindsay F., Brown Sims, New Orleans, 504-262-2941 McLin, Virginia J., Keogh Cox, Baton Rouge, 225-383-3796 O’Pry, II, Donovan J., O’Pry Law Firm, Lafayette, 337-236-6779 Reardon, Eve S., The Keating Law Firm, Metairie, 504-832-2232 Robinson, Jon B., Strongpoint Law Firm, Mandeville, 985-246-3194 Walsh, Kelly F., Brown Sims, New Orleans, 504-262-2964 Yoder, Simone H., Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, New Orleans, 504-595-3000 Pg. S-9

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For more information about visiting the home of Tabasco Sauce on Avery Island, please visit Tabasco.com.

Corner to Corner Fun: Traveling Louisiana How do you celebrate Louisiana culture? From barbecuing along Mardi Gras parade routes, cooking up an old family gumbo recipe, and egg knocking on Easter, to taking a stroll down world-famous Bourbon street or going to your favorite Louisiana college and university sporting events, the way you celebrate Louisiana may depend on what corner of the state you’re in. Travel Louisiana in the New Year and explore the cultural landmarks, institutions, events, parishes, and cities that make the state as unique a place as any. Whether you’re dancing to Cajun Zydeco in Vermilion Parish or to the avant-garde soundscapes in Shreveport, opportunities abound to experience the arts in January. Mardi Gras is around the corner, and parades will roll all across the state. Winter in Louisiana is great for outdoors adventures as well, and the state’s diverse trails, golf courses, and campgrounds await. Find your next adventure today.

Cultural Landmarks, Institutions, & Events In celebration of nearly 150 years on Avery Island, McIlhenny Company, the maker of Tabasco® brand Pepper Sauce, is expanding its current visitors center. When the newly renovated center opens January 2, 2016, visitors to Avery Island will experience a behind-the-scenes look into how McIlhenny Company produces the world famous Pepper Sauce.

The centerpiece of the new addition will feature rare family artifacts and video installations illustrating the origins and generations of the McIlhenny family and the brand’s heritage, dating back to the 1800s. For the first time, visitors

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will experience firsthand the company’s production process from seed to sauce. The newly expanded tours will include the greenhouse, mash warehouse, and blending, guiding visitors from planting tabasco peppers to aging pepper mash in oak barrels for up to three years and finally blending and bottling Tabasco Sauce. Visitors will also be able to enjoy authentic Cajun cuisine in the new cafeteria-style restaurant—open now—with favorites including

Louisiana Fish Fry Products of Baton Rouge, LA, the manufacturer of the #1 selling fish fry in the country, was founded more than 30 years ago as an offshoot of the retail seafood operation, Tony’s Seafood. Today, it is one of the fastestgrowing family-owned food manufacturing businesses in Louisiana. Owned by the Pizzolato family, the company produces over 100 products, all formulated to make Cajun cuisine easy to prepare at home.

This year, the company is proud to introduce their “Cravin’ Cajun” Rice Mix Collection, which includes such Louisiana favorites as Jambalaya, Red Beans & Rice, Gumbo with Rice, and Dirty Rice.

Look for these boxed rice mix dinners at your local grocery store or you can order them, along with many more favorites, at LousianaFishFry.com.

The good times are rolling at Louisiana’s “Best Bet,” and Louisiana’s largest casino resort is getting even more exciting!

Coushatta Casino Resort offers you the beautifully renovated, adult-exclusive Grand Hotel, plus over 2,800 slots, more than 70 table games including live poker, as well as bingo and off-track betting, free live entertainment every weekend, over 900 luxurious rooms, supervised childcare, an RV resort, and ten dining options to satisfy any palate.

For more grownup fun, visit the immense 100,000squarefoot gaming f loor with 12,000 square feet of smoke-free slots! Play your favorite games to rack up points and comps in one of the most popular players clubs in the region.

Koasati Pines championship golf course is rated 4-1/2 stars by Golf Digest’s readers—it’s 7,617 yards and draws raves for its fast, immaculate greens.

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Come see for yourself why Coushatta is “Louisiana’s Best Bet!” Visit CoushattaCasinoResort.com or call 1-800-584-7263.

The Port of South Louisiana, which stretches 54 miles along the Mississippi River, is the largest tonnage port district in the western hemisphere, having handled over 291 million short tons of cargo in 2014 via vessels and barges at its facilities within St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, and St. James parishes. The Port of South Louisiana has recently assisted the state and its economic partners by helping locate over $22 billion in new investment to its district.

Over 4,000 oceangoing vessels and 55,000 barges call at the Port of South Louisiana each year, making it the top ranked in the country for export tonnage and total tonnage. Port of South Louisiana cargo throughput accounts for 15% and 57% of total U.S. and Louisiana exports, respectively.

The Port’s goals are to serve the maritime transportation needs of its resident industry and assist in the development of facilities, to encourage foreign and domestic investment within the River Parishes and Louisiana, and to attract foreign and domestic cargo to the Globalplex Intermodal Terminal.

For more information on how the Port of South Louisiana helps the region, visit PortSL.com.

From Mardi Gras parades to the New Orleans Saints and crawfish boils to homemade hot sauce, the Louisiana Lottery Corporation infuses the spirit of Louisiana into its games, ref lecting the state’s rich cultural heritage and love for passing a good time. What’s more, 35 percent of every dollar spent playing these games helps fund K-12 public education, amounting to more than $3 billion since 1991.

The Lottery is also a proud supporter of community fairs, festivals, and charity events, as well as the 3,000 local businesses who sell tickets, earning them more than $470 million in retailer compensation since the Lottery’s inception. From every corner of Louisiana, the Lottery brings a reason to smile!

For more information and where to play, visit louisianalottery.com.

Four Points by Sheraton French Quarter

is in the heart of the French Quarter, right on Bourbon Street. Set on the site of the legendary French Opera House, this hotel puts you steps from world-class jazz, cuisine, and lively happenings. It offers 186 comfortable

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guest rooms, a beautiful courtyard and pool, 24-hour fitness, and 4,500 square feet of flexible meeting space for everything from corporate meetings to weddings.

Dine at Café Opéra, Four Points’ fullservice restaurant, featuring a classic New Orleans menu of Creole and continental cuisine, and enjoy a drink at the intimate Puccini Bar. Visit this winter and start your morning with a full American breakfast with f lavorfilled coffee for only $1. For reservations and more information, call 504-524-7611 or visit FourPointsFrenchQuarter.com.

Louisiana is no stranger to the colorful and the outrageous whether it’s in the way we celebrate Mardi Gras, the way we blast out our jazz or the way we spice up our food. It’s no wonder world renowned soundsuit artist Nick Cave thinks the northwest corner of this f lamboyant state is the perfect place to stage the world premier of his Nick Cave “AS IS” Performance on March 20, 2016, at 2:30pm at the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium.

Cave’s work in Shreveport is the result of an eight-month artist-in-residency with The Shreveport Regional Arts Council. His art is exhibited at the Smithsonian, Museum of Modern Art, Crystal Bridges Museum, Trapholt Museum in Denmark, and in London, Paris, China, Jerusalem and soon Australia.

To purchase tickets for the Nick Cave world premier of “AS IS” on March 20, 2016, or to learn more about the work Cave is doing in Shreveport, visit NickCaveAsIs.com (#NickCaveAsIS).

New Orleans Spring Fiesta Association

celebrates the cultural heritage and architecture of the city with its 80th Spring Fiesta during the first two weekends of March, beginning March 5th and ending March 13th. The Fiesta offers two wonderful tour experiences to visitors, a Promenade, a parade, and lunch at New Orleans favorite, Antoine’s Restaurant. Guests have the opportunity to learn about the history, elegance, and mystery of the French Quarter, the Vieux Carré, through guided tours and to view “What is Behind those Mysterious Shutters?” by taking self-guided tours of private homes not ordinarily open to the public. Rooms in the homes are available for viewing as well as the beautiful spring f lowers in the courtyards.

French Quarter guided history tours are offered all four days of the fiesta, and different homes will be opened in the French Quarter March 6th and 13th. Don’t miss brunch at Antoine’s on March 6th or the promenade and parade on March 12th.

Visit SpringFiestaNola.com for information and reservations. Advance tickets may be purchased online or at the Spring Fiesta House, 826 St. Ann St. the day of the event.

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for kids, and the Royal Gala presentation of all Royal Courts in Southwest Louisiana complete with glittering regalia.

During Mardi Gras weekend, be sure to taste crawfish, steamed to perfection, local favorite Cajun dishes like crawfish pistolettes, and it’s always a good time for boudin. You can take a taste from stops along the area’s Southwest Louisiana Boudin Trail.

For a taste of “Louisiana’s Outback,” step into nature’s beauty with a visit to the new Creole Nature Trail Adventure Point that immerses you in Louisiana’s unique landscape and culture. For more information on the area of Mardi Gras magic, check out visitlakecharles.org/magic or call 800-456-7952.

Pelican Publishing Company, based in Gretna, Louisiana, enjoys national recognition as a medium-sized company with a backlist of over 2,500 titles and fifty to sixty new titles produced yearly. As a general trade publisher, Pelican is presently the largest independent trade book publisher in the South.

Established in 1926, Pelican Publishing Company’s history is tied to such names as William Faulkner, whose first trade publication was published by Pelican, and Stuart O. Landry, whose vision kept the company alive from 1926 to 1966. Dr. and Mrs. Milburn Calhoun, owners of Bayou Books, decided to purchase Pelican Publishing Company in 1970. Their daughter, Kathleen Calhoun Nettleton, now serves as president and publisher.

Today, Pelican’s titles run the gamut, from top sellers like Zig Ziglar’s motiva-

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tional See You at the Top to award winning children’s books like the Cajun Night Before Christmas™, military history, cookbooks, including the #1 Puerto Rican and Polish cookbooks, architectural studies including the Landmark titles, regional titles from across the country, and, of course, numerous celebrations of Louisiana culture.

For more information, and to view and shop titles, visit PelicanPub.com.

Proudly distinguished as “The Most Cajun Place on Earth,” Vermilion Parish in South Louisiana is alive with the food, music, language, and scenery that define the Cajun cultural heritage. Located minutes south of Lafayette and just west of New Iberia, the towns of Delcambre, Erath, Abbeville, Kaplan, Gueydan and others all bring a little lagniappe to the enchanting region.

Music lovers are invited to jam this January with jam sessions alternating every Saturday between Maurice and Erath.

Beginning January 2, Touchet’s Bar hosts in Maurice from 2pm ‘til, and beginning January 9, Museum Café in Erath will host from 2pm-6pm. All are invited to enjoy the music and dancing!

Mardi Gras kicks into high gear this February across Vermilion Parish. Don’t miss the Krewe Chic-a-la-Pie Mardi Gras Parade, which occurs on Fat Tuesday, February 9, in downtown Kaplan at 2pm.

For other destinations, events and travel ideas, including the Swamp Spirits 2016 art exhibition at Gueydan Museum, Dutch Oven Cooking on the Campground at Palmetto State Park, and the MLK Jr. Parade & Festival, visit Vermilion Parish online at MostCajun.com.

Louisiana Cities & Parishes With the start of the New Year, Live music, festivals, casino entertainment, luxurious surroundings, and outdoor fun along the Creole Nature Trail—a variety of experiences are awaiting in Lake Charles/ Southwest Louisiana.

Mardi Gras will be in full swing Mardi Gras weekend, Friday-Tuesday, February 5-9, with parades, gumbo, cultural activities

Natchitoches wraps up its 89th Annual

Christmas Festival, which turns off its lights at the start of Epiphany on January 6.

The festival season draws around 500,000 people every year from across Louisiana and the region for its variety of celebrations, entertainment, tours, food, music, and shopping. With concerts, fireworks, and—of

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course—visits from Santa, the charming holiday festival amidst the beatific backdrop of historic Natchitoches offers visitors the opportunity to delight in the Christmas spirit and the warmth of family.

With the start of Epiphany comes the revelry of Mardi Gras, and Natchitoches is host to three Mardi Gras balls and one celebratory parade. The Krewe of Dionysos rolls on the evening of Saturday, February 6 and brings family-friendly fun to Natchitoches’ joyous streets throughout the day and night.

For more travel ideas and Natchitoches attractions, including historic homes and the famous Natchitoches Meat Pie, visit Natchitoches.com.

Gumbo is what your momma made, a definition that assures that there are as many different types of gumbos as there are mothers who make them. Sometimes it’s caramel colored roux, okra, tomatoes, shrimp and crab seasoned delicately and thickened slightly to the viscosity of a soup.

Sometimes it’s a chocolate brown roux, thick as a stew and brimming with lumps of chicken and sausage. Still others have no roux at all and are served entirely with greens and legumes. Gumbos are typically served over steamed white rice, but some tables prefer sweet potatoes or potato salad.

The variation can be maddening when trying to sort out what makes gumbo, gumbo. Discover the history and secrets behind one of Lafayette’s staple dishes at LafayetteTravel.com/Gumbo.

For a serene escape into a place of beauty, visit Iberville Parish, an historical Louisiana gem tucked between the quiet swamps of the Atchafalaya Basin and the bustling capital of Baton Rouge. Step through time and elegance at one of the many magnificent antebellum homes like Nottoway Plantation, the South’s largest remaining antebellum mansion located in White Castle.

Other historical attractions include The Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site, The Hansen’s Disease Museum in Carville, The Iberville Museum, and the majestic St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, the purest example of Italian Romanesque architecture in the South.

With so many beautiful diverse waterways, fishing and bird watching opportunities are endless, making it a

premier outdoor getaway in the heart of the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area. Enjoy a relaxing golf outing at one of Louisiana’s most popular courses, The Island, located in Plaquemine. End your day by dining along the mighty Mississippi and enjoying fresh seafood with a Louisiana sunset at Roberto’s River Road Restaurant located in Sunshine.

For more destinations and events, go to VisitIberville.com.

Surrounded by the waters of Bayou Teche, Atchafalaya River, and the Atchafalaya Swamp Basin, the Cajun Coast , in St. Mary Parish, is known for its natural splendor and “road less traveled” atmosphere. There’s no better way to spend a mild winter day than exploring the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area or winding along the Bayou Teche Scenic Byway. Cajun Jack’s Swamp Tours takes visitors through the Atchafalaya Basin, the largest overf low swamp in the U.S., or you can experience the wilderness by paddling through the Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuge. Golfers won’t want to miss a chance to hit the Atchafalaya at Idlewild, named to Golf Digest’s Top 10 Best Louisiana Courses 2013 and Golfweek’s Best Courses

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This winter and spring, St Mary Parish is alive with festivals and events including Mardi Gras, the Eagle Expo (Feb. 25-27), the Cypress Sawmill Festival (April 1-3), the Bayou Teche Black Bear Festival (April 15-16), and the Bayou Teche Wooden Boat Show (April 15-16). For more information, visit cajuncoast.com.

Shreveport-Bossier throws the best family-friendly Mardi Gras! The carnival celebration came to northwest Louisiana in 1989 when the Krewe of Gemini was founded. The Krewe of Centaur soon followed in 1991. Today, Shreveport-Bossier is home to 15 krewes, each with its own personality. Mardi Gras f loat-riders toss more than eight million beads each year to seas of people waving their arms and shouting, “Throw me something, Mister!”

The parades attract as many as 400,000 visitors a year.

Portions of the parade route on Clyde Fant Parkway are “no alcohol zones,” which allow people of all ages a safe, fun time.

The major parade weekends, January 30 and February 6, begin in downtown Shreveport at 4:00pm. From grand balls to authentic Cajun food and dazzling parades, there’s a way for everyone to celebrate Mardi Gras in Shreveport-Bossier.

For more information about Mardi Gras, visit Shreveport-Bossier.org/Mardi-Gras.

Experience for yourself why USA Today named Ruston & Lincoln Parish one of the most charming small towns in the South.

Home to the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs and Grambling State University Tigers, basketball season has arrived! Join fans come from all across Louisiana to watch the two universities dominate in the court.

Must-see attractions include the Ruston’s newly renovated downtown district offering shopping, restaurants, art galleries, and unique architecture. History lovers must visit Louisiana Military Museum to view their extensive collection of uniforms, weapons, and gear from wars throughout American history. And the Eddie G. Robinson Museum walks you through the live of Coach Robinson and his contributions to the nation and the game of football.

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Those looking for outdoor adventures can mountain bike at Lincoln Parish Park, which is also a great location for hiking, fishing, and camping. For more information and upcoming events in Ruston & Lincoln Parish, visit experienceruston.com.

Allons aux Avoyelles, a French Creole Parish, to experience the Northup Trail, the latest edition in the Louisiana Trails & Byways collection.

The Northup Trail follows Solomon Northup’s path from his arrival in Alexandria in 1841 to Ludger Barbin Landing in Marksville, where he left in 1853 after regaining his freedom at the Avoyelles Parish Courthouse. The route retraces Northup’s footsteps as portrayed in the award-winning motion picture 12 Years a Slave. The marked trail information is available in both Rapides and Avoyelles Parishes.

Avoyelles, the “Easter Egg Knocking Capitol of Louisiana” is the place to “pacque” on Easter Weekend. Cottonport and Effie (Ben Routh Recreational Park) hold their family friendly events on Easter Saturday. The Avoyelles Parish Courthouse in downtown Marksville is the backdrop for

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egg knocking competitions on Easter Sunday morning at 9:00am, celebrating the longtime tradition.

Come for the “joie de vivre”, “ici on est fier de parler Francaise.”

Mardi Gras in the Alexandria/Pineville area means parades, food, and family fun! The festivities kick off Friday, January 29 with the Light the Night Parade in Pineville and cross the downtown bridge into Alexandria.

The celebration continues on Friday, February 5, with the Hixson Classic Cars & College Cheerleaders Parade featuring more than 80 cars, several college cheer squads, high school marching bands, and a salute to the U.S. military. Following the HCCCC Parade, the Taste of Mardi Gras is an annual event hosted by the Central Chapter of the Louisiana Restaurant Association featuring local restaurants offering food and beverage to the sounds of live music.

Saturday, February 6 will bring the annual Children’s Parade to downtown Alexandria and the Mardi Gras Party at the Alexandria Zoo. The 23rd Annual Krewes Parade will roll on Sunday, February 7 to round out the weekend. For a complete list of events, visit alexandriapinevillela.com/mardigras.

Just off I-10 and west of Lafayette lies the “Cajun Prairie,” Acadia Parish, an area known for its unique attractions, numerous year-round festivals and rich history and folklore. In Crowley, home of the International Rice Festival, tour the Rice Interpretive Center, the Historic Crowley Ford Motor Company, built in 1920, as well as the J.D. Miller Recording Studio. Travel the Zydeco Cajun Prairie Byway and visit Kelly’s Landing Agricultural Museum to take an informative walk through the past while viewing the farming equipment of yesteryear and learning the importance of crawfish and rice to the region.

See why Rayne, LA, home of the annual Frog Festival, is both “The Frog Capital of the World” and the “Louisiana City of Murals.” Similarly, check out the Buggy Festival at “The Buggy Capital of the World,” also known as Church Point, LA, and visit the Le Vieux Presbytere Museum with bousillage, mud walls. Roberts Cove, LA, is home to the German Heritage Museum and the popular Germanfest. For more information, events, destinations and festival dates check out AcadiaTourism.org or call 877-783-2109. •

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Louisiana is surrounded by numerous historical meccas—from civil war battlegrounds to the roots of blues in the Mississippi Delta. Art also flourishes nearby. From powerhouse art museums in big cities like Dallas to powerhouse theatre performances in Jackson, regional attractions offer Louisiana residents a chance to get out and explore new experiences in arts and entertainment. If it’s the outdoors you crave, Arkansas’s Ozark Mountains and hot springs are a prescription for relaxation and beauty. With a new airline offering easy regional travel and a university press that brings the world to you, taking an adventure that allows you to explore your interests is easier than ever. The following offerings from Louisiana’s neighbors may just provide the perfect winter escape.

Regional Destinations The Dallas Museum of Art is the exclusive American venue for a once in a lifetime exhibition of works by Jackson Pollock, the first in over three decades to survey a phase of his work known as the black paintings. Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots is only the third major U.S. museum exhibition to focus solely on the artist hailed as “the greatest painter this country has ever produced.”

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Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots is currently on view through March 20, 2016. For more information and tickets, visit DMA.org.

Immerse yourself in American history, Mississippi music, and Southern charm. During the Civil War, Vicksburg’s strategic position on the bluffs high above a massive bend in the Mississippi River made it virtually impenetrable. Visit the site of the defining battle of America’s defining war at the Vicksburg National Military Park.

Learn about Vicksburg’s history in its unique collection of museums and historic tour homes. If you are in search of the elusive sound of the Mississippi Delta Blues, you will find it here. Live music can be enjoyed at venues throughout the city.

Stroll the brick-paved streets of historic downtown and visit boutiques and art galleries.

You’ll find a host of Southern specialties at Vicksburg’s eateries. Enjoy sweeping views

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of the mighty Mississippi River and the most beautiful sunsets imaginable. Relax—it all runs on river time! Go to VisitVicksburg.com Jackson, Mississippi, is a culturally rich city with a distinct thread in the fabric of music and the arts. Thalia Mara Hall is named after a phenomenal ballet educator and author who founded the USA IBC in Jackson, Mississippi, one of the world’s top ballet competitions. So, why not have Broadway in Jackson? It’s the perfect backdrop for theatrical, musical and performance arts events!

Whether you decide to catch the Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys in January, the delightful theatrical experience of Annie or Melissa Etheridge in February, the high-octane Blue Man Group in March, the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra’s Raise the Roof Bravo Series or Georges Bizet’s Carmen in April, there is something special waiting on you!

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RE/MAX of Hot Springs Village offers a large selection of real estate spread across 26,000+ acres of natural beauty in the Ouachita Mountains. Breathtaking vistas, blossoming forest, and gleaming lakes, combined with mild climate, reasonable property taxes, and low cost of living makes it the perfect place to call home. Available real estate spans from very affordable to affluent, with homes priced from $100,000 to over $1 million. The variety of homes ranges from golf-front to lakefront, mountain-view or wooded. RE/MAX offers an assortment of quality property lots for sale and long-term rental properties too.

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Book Your Travel Travelers in the Gulf and Mid-South region know too well the over-reliance on long road travel and lengthy, expensive layovers when traveling between the region’s cities. After years in the making, business and leisure travelers, including Mardi Gras revelers, now have a quality and economical alternative to reach New Orleans from Shreveport, Louisiana, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Memphis, Tennessee.

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Cultural Resources The University Press of Mississippi (UPM) was founded in 1970 and is supported by Mississippi’s eight state universities. The press publishes scholarly books of the highest distinction and books that interpret the south and its culture to the nation and the world.

From its offices in Jackson, the University Press of Mississippi acquires, edits, distributes, and promotes more than eighty new books every year, which are reviewed in journals, newspapers, magazines, and online outlets across the globe.

In 2015, the Press celebrated its 45th year of presenting superior scholarship and the state’s resources to the world. Over the years, the Press has published more than 1,000 titles and distributed more than 2,600,000 copies worldwide, each with the Mississippi imprint.

The University Press is the only not-for-profit book publisher in the state.

Some of its key publishing areas are African Americana Studies, Folklore, Comics and Popular Culture Studies, Caribbean Studies, and History. Find titles and learn more at UPress.state.ms.us. •

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AN AGRARIAN STATE Spending summers and holidays on the farm in Central Louisiana where my mother was born, I remember the good clean scent of the raw earth, the musky smell of livestock and the sweet scent of hay in the barn. Everywhere around me there was life in one form or another: a mulberry tree where chickens roosted at night; a pecan tree upon which a wisteria vine wrapped itself; a pumpkin patch. I didn’t know I was in the midst of a state that was almost purely agrarian; I just know all of it was an experience that was both enchanting and grounding at the same time.

Jan. 15-16, in Monroe, the AG Expo 2016 will hold its annual meeting: a gathering of agrarian minds and practitioners who, having taken stock of new finds and developments

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in the previous year, are ready to share their discoveries. It’s all designed to enhance crop and livestock production in the ArkLaTex region that likewise keeps stomachs in America from growling with hunger.

The AG Expo, since the 1980s, has been a popular event that educates people, farmer or non-farmer, of all ages.

This family-oriented event explains the food chain and how deeply agriculture touches all of our lives in countless ways on a daily basis. After all, where would any of us be without the all important work that farmers and ranchers do to contribute? Our lives are dependent on this. Farmers and ranchers likewise receive assistance by being informed about the latest scientific and technological advances in agriculture, complete

with a huge emphasis on how to effectively market commodities while showcasing products and services.

Young people are likewise encouraged to participate in the annual livestock show.

Separate categories include weights and showmanship in market swine, steers, lambs and goats.

MONROE MARDI GRAS Although North Louisiana, with its roots in Protestantism, was somewhat of a latecomer with regard to celebrating Mardi Gras, the Fat Tuesday celebration eventually reached the upper tier of Louisiana to much delight.

On the last Saturday of January, Monroe kicks off the Carnival season with a sizzling Twin City Mardi Gras Cook-Off held at the University of Louisiana at

Monroe. That same morning, Pecanland Mall’s Center Court hosts the Krewe of Janus Children’s Mardi Gras Parade, with adorable, costumed children parading in floats and tossing beads to crowds. As a child who once rode, dressed as a clown, in a float atop a Radio Flyer wagon labeled, “My Funny Valentine,” in the Incarnate Word School Mardi Gras Parade in New Orleans, I can state that every child should experience this at least once.

Later that evening, the adult members of the Krewe of Janus will don their finery, climb into brilliantly lit floats and roll through the streets of Monroe in a parade with the theme, Lafitte’s Treasures.

Baubles, beads and doubloons will be tossed with happy abandon. Marching bands with thundering drumbeats will keep the Mardi Gras momentum flowing. The parade has become wildly popular throughout the years, with recognition and kudos throughout the South. For the past several years, it has been deemed one of the Top 20 tourism celebrations south of the Mason-Dixon Line. n Information, AG Expo 2016, Ike Hamilton Expo Center, 502 Main Street, West Monroe, Jan. 15-16, 2016; Monroe Mardi Gras, Celebrations begin Jan. 30, 2016.

(318) 323-0230

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Mardi Show at Clark Field welcomes local and national musicians while some of the most extravagantly costumed revelers participate in a contest to see who’s best dressed, open to everyone.

Somewhere amid all of this, neighboring towns such as Eunice and St. Martinville hold Mardi Gras boucheries, while masked riders on horseback pursue old chickens through rural fields for the gumbo pot.

cajun country celebrations While it seems that the heart of Carnival beats the strongest in New Orleans, this heart has arteries that extend throughout Acadiana and pulse with joyous life.

From Morgan City to Lake Charles the “living it up before giving it up” pre-Lent mantra resounds with much merriment two weeks before Fat Tuesday actually dawns.

In Lafayette Parish, Carencro celebrates with a parade at the end of January, while the city of Lafayette kicks off the season with a fundraising parade of four-legged costumed members of the Krewe des Chiens Parade for Dogs. Similar in vivid color (spilling over with electric blues, hot lava reds, margarita greens and sun-god golds)

to the celebration down in Rio de Janiero (sans the skin exposure), the Krewe of Carnivale en Rio fills downtown Lafayette with Latin color and exuberance as it travels along a route that ends at Cajun Field.

Le Festival de Mardi Gras a Lafayette offers an almostweeklong celebration of the season with carnival rides, live music, vendors providing delicious Cajun food and the spectacle of parades riding through the festival grounds like colorful gypsy wagons.

Over in the northern section of this most hospitable city, Clark Field holds a historical event honoring African American heritage that includes a costume contest, food and dancing to live music. The

A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR IN OPELOUSAS It’s an odd bit of history in a state that embraces its oddities and quirkiness with pride. Early in the 19th century, a different breed of racing competitor came to the Bayou State to participate in the Sport of Kings so prevalent here. Ridden by a jockey the same as its equine competitors, this new participant was not as fast but always seems to win by a head. Spotted of hide, long-legged and tall, he was a sight to behold on the racetrack. Like a poker player who leaves a game too quickly after too many wins, he didn’t stay long in Louisiana. You see, giraffes need to wander.

Housed at Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, The Spotted Horse Tavern and Dining Parlor, named in honor of that giraffe who wandered into Louisiana horseracing

legends, offers a dining menu that is versatile and satisfying.

Start your meal with some of the small plates like the wonderful Citrus Pork Belly and Prawns, braised in a citrus glaze and served with Gulf prawns that have been sautéed in citrus rind and coconut sugar. Sweet Vidalia onions that have been succulently simmered in a beef broth are featured in the classic French Onion Soup, perfect for a winter’s day topped with croutons and sealed with melted Gruyere cheese.

For an entrée, broiled Atlantic salmon is the center of the Flamed-Licked Salmon, served in perfect beurre blanc sauce with seasonal vegetables. An unusual but delightful menu choice is the Beer Can Chicken for Two. Accompanied by Yukon Gold mashed potatoes and natural jus, a well-seasoned whole chicken that’s been baked with an infusion of beer is another perfect cold-weather choice for a hearty meal. n

Information, Lafayette Mardi lafayettetravel.com/Mardi-Gras; The Spotted Horse Tavern and Dining Parlor, Evangeline Downs Racetrack, 2235 Cresswell Lane Extension, Opelousas (866) 472-2466.

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MYSTIC KREWE OF ST. DENIS In retrospect, it’s always seemed like a prophetic sign of Divine Providence that French explorer Pierre le Moyne, Sieur D’Iberville, finally discovered the long elusive mouth of the Mississippi River on Mardi Gras Day (March 3, 1699) and established a camp on her banks. This camp was some 60 miles downriver from the site that would become New Orleans. It was Iberville’s first expedition into Louisiana for France, but later that same year would come another Frenchman, joining LeMoyne on his second expedition to Louisiana. This is someone who would play a vital role in its history.

Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, related to Iberville by marriage, commanded a fort on the Mississippi River and Biloxi Bay and later led expeditions westward from o the bay. Native of Canada, his explorations in the Louisiana territory took him to lower

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Red River land where he eventually reached the villages of the Natchitoches Native Americans. During the winter months that spanned 1713-1714, he established Natchitoches, a trading post that was as far west as the French had gotten thus far. Natchitoches, elder sibling to New Orleans by over four years there on the Cane River, is the oldest settlement in Louisiana. St. Denis’ settlement was an open door to Texas for explorers and settlers until Texas was admitted to the Union.

St. Denis’ legacy is remembered each year during Carnival. The Mystic Krewe of St. Denis goes full-throttle with Mardi Gras celebrations.

Founded in 1977 by five members, the popularity of the krewe expanded rapidly.

Presenting breathtaking tableaux and balls, the revelry commences with their 12th Night Party early in January, followed by the Belle of the Ball

Party; Queen’s Tea (gentlemen verboten); the Queen, King and Captains Party, and finally, the exquisite Ball and Tableau almost equal to the pageantry of 18th-century Versailles.

LUNCH BREAK IN ALEXANDRIA If you blink you might miss it, and that would be a shame.

This intimate, cozy restaurant in a tiny Alexandria strip mall has been serving delicious breakfast and lunches for years with a clientele that keeps coming back for more.

Run by some of the most hospitable owners to be found, just consider the décor-menus fastened to tables and vases filled with wax flowers retro kitsch and dig in for some wonderful food.

Start your meal with at least a demitasse cup (or preferably, a larger bowl) of their specialty, the silky Cream of Shrimp Soup, perfectly accompanied by a slab of delicious cornbread. Visually beautiful and equally tasty,

the Shrimp and Avocado Salad consists of an alligator pear stuffed with fresh shrimp on a bed of sweet onions, tomatoes and salad. This dish is a full-sized entree. A flaky pastry shell filled with fresh tomatoes and basil, that’s crowned by melted cheese comprises the hearty, yet refreshing Tomato and Basil Pie, accompanied by a spinach salad. Also try some of the best red beans and rice and smoked sausage to be found: creamy, spicy and filling. This order also comes with cornbread and salad.

For another great side dish, try the roasted potatoes in crab boil oil to go along with the incomparable stuffed hamburger bursting with crispy bacon and melted cheese; or the stuffed cheeseburger, a repeat of the former with extra cheese.

It’s a bit difficult to make a dessert choice: You’ll have to decide between the strawberry crepe or the peanut butter pie. Suggestion: Order one of each and share. n

Information, Mystic Krewe of St. Denis, mystic-krew-de-saintdenis.com/events; The Cottage Restaurant, 1465 Dorchester, Suite A, Alexandria, (318) 448-4220.

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HAIL, KING CAKE! For most people, the postChristmas season that begins after Twelfth Night is a time to atone for all that holiday feasting and imbibing that causes the dreaded state of increased bodily tonnage.

Not so in New Orleans: At the dawn of Epiphany morning each year, bakers produce irresistible bounties of circular, cinnamon-swirled, creamcheese or marzipan-filled king cakes. (Let us not forget to mention the coating of icing atop the tender pastry, adorned by the sugary crust colored purple, green and gold, all so delicious with a cup of coffee.)

New Orleanians indulge upon king cakes until the solemnity of Lent commences on Ash Wednesday, perpetuated by the custom that anyone who gets the (plastic) baby in their piece of cake is obligated to buy the next one, and, as New Orleanians are people of honor, post-Christmas diets usually don’t begin until Lent.

Hoping to help citizens

tread the fine line between indulgence and fitness, Ochsner Health System sponsors an annual King Cake Festival. The celebration also benefits babies and tykes at Ochsner Hospital for Children. King cakes from local favorites like Haydel’s, Randazzo’s, Mr. Ronnie’s Famous Hot Donuts, Maurice’s French Pastries and Caluda’s are there for the taking.

But before these delicacies can be enjoyed, there’s the pre-Fest Gladiator Games that includes a fitness challenge, newly sponsored by Smoothie King, and one-mile fun run.

Designed to offset king cake calories, the Gladiator Games include a half-mile stroller run and a fitness challenge that features several stations around the deck of the Superdome.

Registered winners are duly awarded, and then the festival itself opens at 11 a.m.

This year the festival will feature novel items like Smoothie King’s king cake smoothie, and the king cake

burger. Food trucks from local bakeries and eateries will be present in the area around Champions Square as live music fills the air.

ABITA SPRINGS CAFÉ It’s often been advised that we should eat like a king at breakfast, a prince at lunch and a pauper at dinner. If you are of that mindset, breakfast at Abita Springs Café might be your personal coronation.

Breakfast platters go beyond simple eggs and protein.

The New Abita Star Platter is a grilled sugar-cured ham steak with eggs, in addition to hash brown potatoes, melted cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese topped with sautéed peppers, onions and mushrooms. Boneless chicken that’s been hand-battered then fried to its signature golden brown hue lies atop light, homemade waffles. The dish is completed by a mini snowfall of powdered sugar, enriched by mouth-watering maple syrup infused with butter.

Then, there are the Benedicts. Served with hash browns or grits, the Crab Cake Benedict is a buttermilk biscuit that’s been grilled holding a layer each of handmade crab cake and poached eggs over which Hollandaise sauce has been ladled. Eggs Acadiana could almost be accused of being an early morning poor boy sandwich: toasted French bread from New Orleans is the foundation for fried catfish, fresh Gulf shrimp that’s also fried accompanied by the signature poached eggs and Hollandaise sauce.

Omelets are also innovative; the Blue Crab Omelet is a creation of sautéed mushrooms and onions stuffed with blue crab and topped with Hollandaise.

There’s also delightful gourmet coffee options, including cappuccinos; espresso; French press and café au lait. And, the eatery now offers some of the lightest, most delicious buttermilk beignets to be found north of New Orleans. Breakfast is served until 2 p.m. n Information, King Cake Festival, Jan. 31, Champions Square, New Orleans, kingcakefestival.org; Abita Springs Cafe, 22132 Level St., Abita Springs, (985) 400-5025, abitaspringscafe.com.

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Baton Rouge the Machal, Jewish and non-Jewish volunteers, who, in 1948, answered a clandestine plea for help in the Arab-Israeli War. Smuggling planes out of America, they trained in what was then Czechoslovakia behind the Iron Curtain and flew for Israel in the successful 1948 War for Independence. Credited with not only turning the war in favor of the Israelis, this band of soldiers rediscovered their religious and cultural pride.

THE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL IN BATON ROUGE For 10 years, the Baton Rouge Film Festival has featured innovative, heartfelt and enlightening films of high quality that depict Jewish life in various forms and genres.

With the desire to bridge cultural gaps caused by misunderstanding, the quality of the films and stories only serve to lessen our perceived differences and garner empathy and understanding.

And there is a bonus: Because of the popularity of the festival, attended by all ethnicities and religions, economic development has risen as the cosmopolitan, multiculturalism of the region is made apparent.

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This year’s lineup includes Deli Man, an in-depth chronicle of the American institution that is the Jewish delicatessen. A mélange of interviews with deli owners around the country, it also features interviews with celebrity customers like Larry King and Jerry Stiller.

Mr. Kaplan tells a story that is deep and meaningful. An aging Jew combines forces with a world-weary ex-cop plotting to kidnap an escaped ex-Nazi and put him on trial for the suffering he inflicted during WWII. Told with deadpan humor, it explores how demons from the past can haunt us yet ultimately lead to redemption.

Above and Beyond is an engrossing true story of

PARRAIN’S IN BATON ROUGE Parrain is a French word that means “godfather” and was the title that I addressed my own godfather with. He was a kind, wonderful man who had been my father’s partner when they were both homicide detectives with the NOPD, back in the day.

Parrain’s Restaurant in Baton Rouge, warm and gracious, is well-named, set in a cypress country-like sprawling cabin with an Esso sign on the front porch and cozy interior that invites relaxation. It serves some of the finest food to be found in the Baton Rouge area.

The Blackened Shrimp Remoulade Salad is a treat that combines the sweetness of fresh Gulf shrimp with the tang of a blackened exterior sealing the tender flavor within, topped with the silky, spicy bite of a remoulade sauce. Crispy coleslaw intermingled with

crunchy peanuts is another scrumptious salad choice.

An imaginative and delicious dish, the Andouille Encrusted Fresh Fish is a combination of panéed fresh fish in andouille bread crumbs that rest upon sautéed mushrooms, crawfish, Andouille cream with a side of garlic mashed potatoes added for good measure. Panéed fresh fish in a pecan meuniere sauce comprises the Maurepas.

Tabasco pepper jelly tops the succulent grilled duck breast, perfectly accompanied by savory dirty rice and green beans. Blue cheese lovers can indulge in the Black and Bleu Tuna, another dish filled with complementary layers of flavor: blackened tuna over linguine in a creamy blue cheese sauce.

If you’d like to enjoy having a mini fried turkey for dinner, or something similar, the delectable whole fried Cornish hen, with the aforementioned dirty rice comes pretty close to recalling fond Thanksgiving memories. n

Information, Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival, Manship Theatre at The Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St., Baton Rouge, brjff. com, Jan. 13-17, 2016; Parrain’s Restaurant, 3225 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, (225) 381-9922.

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lifetimes General Andrew Jackson stands on the parapet of his makeshift defenses as his troops repulse attacking Highlanders, as imagined by painter Edward Percy Moran in 1910. On January 8, participates in the Commemoration of the Battle of New Orleans re-enact scenes from this historic battle.

There will also be period craft demonstrations, music, speakers, and hands-on activities.

Jan. 18. Krewe of Harambee Mardi Gras/Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade. Downtown Shreveport.

(318) 222-2221.

Feb. 18-21. Diary of Anne Frank.

Ruston Community Theater, Ruston.

(318) 255-1450.

Feb. 18. Annie. Strand Theatre, Shreveport.

Feb. 25-28. Hot ’n’ Cole.

Shreveport Little Theatre. (318) 424-4434.

CENTRAL

Statewide Calendar January and February events, festivals and more.

Compiled by Judi Russel

CAJUN COUNTRY Jan. 7-9. Annual Louisiana Fur & Wildlife Festival. Downtown Cameron. (337) 250-6322.

Jan. 9. Mardi Gras Queen’s Pageant. Lake Charles Civic Center. (337) 660-1968.

Jan. 16. 7th Annual Rock the Runway Fashion & Talent Show for the Lydia Cancer Association.

Recreation Center, Franklin. (337) 578-1618 Jan. 18. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration. West End Park, New Iberia. (337) 365-6773.

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Jan. 23. Vinton Mardi Gras Celebration & Gumbo Cook-Off. Downtown Vinton. (337) 589-7453.

Jan. 23. Courthouse Chili Cook-Off. Courthouse Square, Houma. (985) 873-6408.

Feb. 2. Cajun Ground Hog Day. Bouligny Plaza, New Iberia. (337) 365-6773.

Feb. 25. St. Mary Community Concert Association. Schreier Theater, Municipal Auditorium, Morgan City. (985)385-2307.

Feb. 25-27. 11th Annual Eagle Expo. Morgan City and Stephensville (985) 380-8224.

NEW ORLEANS REGION Jan. 1. Sugar Bowl. MercedesBenz Superdome, New Orleans.

Jan. 8-10. Wizard World ComicCon. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. www. izardworld.com Jan. 8. Commemoration of the Battle of New Orleans. Chalmette Battlefield, Chalmette. (504) 589-4428 Jan. 22-25. New Orleans Gift & Jewelry Show. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans Feb. 26-27. New Orleans Health & Fitness Expo. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans. (504)

NORTH Jan. 1. Freedom Trees. Chennault Aviation & Military Museum, Monroe. (318) 362-5540.

Jan. 15-17. Bossier City Antique Show. Bossier City Civic Center.

(918) 619-2875.

Feb. 5. Hixon Classic Cars & College Cheerleaders Parade.

Downtown Alexandria. (318) 442-9546.

BATON ROUGE Jan. 17. Louisiana Marathon.

Baton Rouge (888) 786-2001.

Feb.5. Baton Rouge Arts Market.

Downtown Baton Rouge. (225) 344-8558.

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3. The state legislature has rarely been a direct stepping stone to the governor’s office. In modern times only two people were members of the legislature at the time they were elected governor. One was a state senator the other a state representative. Who were they?

7. Who was the only governor whose grandfather was also governor?

A. Mike Foster and John Bel Edwards.

B. Dave Treen and Buddy Roemer.

C. Buddy Roemer and Bobby Jindal.

D. Edwin Edwards and Robert Kennon.

8. No candidate in modern times has been elected Governor while holding the office that Kathleen Blanco occupied when she was elected. What is that office?

4. Your friend decides that he wants to run for governor in four years. His campaign manager, a former cell mate, tells him that he should move to the town that gave birth to three former governors; Huey Long, Earl Long and O.K. Allen. Only he can’t remember the name of the town. Which is it?

A. Winnsboro B. Tallulah C. Winnfield D. Bordelonville

Gubernatorial Inauguration Year Edition History lessons as we embrace 2016

By Errol Laborde

1. Pictured here is the Louisiana state capitol. A past governor once rode his horse up the capitol steps.

Who was the governor? And what was the name of the horse?

A. Huey Long; Kingfish.

B. Mike Foster; Harley.

C. Earl Long; Big Charity D. Jimmie Davis; Sunshine

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5. Your friend’s advisor tell him that he should also start visiting daily newspapers to get their support. He gives your friend a schedule that includes the Town Talk, Advertiser and American Press; only he neglects to put the cities they are located in. Which are they?

A. Monroe, Ruston, Opelousas B. Shreveport, Lafayette, New Orleans C. Alexandria, Lafayette, Lake Charles D. Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles

2. These two governors were both preceded in office by Edwin Edwards and succeeded by him.

Who are they?

6. The songs “You Are My Sunshine” and “Everyman A King” are each associated with former governors. Who are they?

A. John McKeithen and Dave Treen.

B. Dave Treen and Buddy Roemer.

C. Buddy Roemer and Mike Foster.

D. Mike Foster and Dave Treen.

A. Ruffin Pleasant and Robert Kennon B. Sam Jones and Earl Long C. Jimmie Davis and Huey Long D. Jimmie Davis and Earl Long

A. Mike Foster B. Kathleen Blanco C. Buddy Roemer D, Edwin Edwards

A. Attorney General B. U.S. Senator C. Lt. Governor D. Public Service Commissioner 9. Which one of the following served less that one full term as governor?

A. Huey Long B. Earl Long C. John McKeithen D. Edwin Edwards 10. Your friend is distressed to learn that he is not eligible to run for governor because he is a felon.

He decides to go to Baton Rouge to appeal that law before the state supreme court. Only, when gets he there he learns that the court is not located in the capital city. Where is it located?

A. Donaldsonville B. Alexandria C. New Orleans D. Shreveport

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From our September/October issue the question was: At the time he was elected governor John McKeithen held this public office. What other governors held a similar position at the time they were elected?

The answer: Public Service Commissioner Huey Long, Jimmie Davis Note: Kathleen Blanco was also a public service commissioner but not at the time she was elected governor. She was Lt. Governor at that time.

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Wingate Jones A New Orleans costume entrepreneur helps movie stars and Carnival royalty get suited up.

By Megan Hill

Wingate Jones just so happened to land in the perfect city to open a costume shop. His 9,000-squarefoot Southern Costume Company in downtown New Orleans helps outfit Mardi Gras royalty and actors on Hollywood movie sets, but Jones moved to Louisiana from Los Angeles for love.

The costumes came later.

Jones’ father was president of top Hollywood costumer Western Costume Company for 40 years: “I grew up in Hollywood and in the business and started

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running around the halls of Western Costume at a very young age,” he says.

Jones says his father helped him land his first Hollywood job, working as a motion picture and television costumer at Universal Studios in 1980. During that tenure, Jones created costumes for shows like Magnum, P.I.; BJ & The Bear; Simon & Simon; and movies like Top Gun and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. He retired from that business in 1999 when he moved to New Orleans to marry his wife and start a family.

Jones landed work in the IT department at Entergy Corp., saying he was burned out on costumes and wanted more regular, 9-to-5 work that would allow him to be “on time to pick up the kids before Social Services did” while his wife worked a busy schedule as a Hollywood hair stylist.

But the costume business called him back. “After doing IT for awhile, I got a little tired of that,” Jones says. “There were a lot of people coming into town as a direct result of the film tax credit that was passed in 2002 that were old friends and compadres from the business. They were all coming in from L.A.” Jones saw an opportunity and jumped on it, opening Southern Costume Company

in early 2011. “We’re a smaller version of what can be found out in L.A.,” he says.

Five years later, Southern Costume Company divides its business in equal parts among costumes for motion pictures and television, providing costume rentals to the public, and filling custom orders for everything from Mardi Gras courts and crews to Halloween costumes and mascots.

Though he’s hired a talented team of designers and seamstresses, Jones still does some designing himself.

“The occasion arises all the time where we’re actually sitting down with somebody and designing a concept,” he says. “Other clients come in and they know exactly what they want.” Recent projects include locally filmed movies like 21 Jump Street and Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Jones says his company works with high-quality materials that “hearken back to some of the old-school stuff that was done at the turn of the century when costume design was probably a little bit more important than it is now. For people that come in and want a costume and don’t care what it is, they’re in the wrong place. If it’s in a bag and it’s 50 dollars, and it’s made in Malaysia, it’s great for one night, but you won’t find that here.

We like doing things that are kind of challenging and kind of give us a chance to sink our teeth into.” n

photo by romero & romero photography