(Main Office)

Statement of Practice

Corporate Law and Litigation, Securities Law and Litigation, Banking Law and Litigation, Commercial Law, Real Estate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Media Law and Litigation, Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law, Insurance Law and Litigation, General Business Law and Transactional Practice, Products Liability, General Civil Practice.

Representative Clients:

Amedisys, Inc.
AmSouth Bank
ASCo Group plc
Bristow Group Inc.
Canal Barge Co.
Capital 1 Southcoast, Inc.
Chaffe and Associates
Enterprise Products Operating, L.P.
Entergy Corporation
First Bank and Trust
First Guaranty Bank of Hammond
Gulf Coast Bank
Haddington Ventures, L.L.C.
Hirsch Investment Management, L.L.C.
IBM Corp.
Innovus, Inc.
Jefferson Capital Management, LLC
The Laitram Corp.
Liberty Bank
Louisiana Department of Revenue
Louisiana Production Capital, L.L.C.
Mac-Re, L.L.C.
Manpower, Inc.
Marshall Bros Lincoln Mercury, Inc.
MidSouth Bancorp Inc.
N.O. Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau
Omni Bank
Petroleum Communications, Inc.
Robinson Lumber Co., Inc.
Sanderson Farms, Inc.
SMG (Louisiana Superdome)
Sprint Nextel Corporation, Stirling Properties, Inc.
T.L. James & Co., Inc.
The Times-Picayune, L.L.C.
Wallace C. Drennan, Inc.
Waters Parkerson & Company, Inc.
Whitney National Bank.

Address

Place St. Charles, Suite 4600
201 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70170-4600, (Orleans Parish)

Phone

Phone: 504-586-5252
Fax: 504-586-5250

Website

http://www.fishmanhaygood.com

SPECIAL COUNSEL

William D. French (Special Counsel) born New Orleans, Louisiana, November 5, 1971; admitted to bar, 1998, Louisiana. Education: Purdue University (B.A., 1995); Tulane University of Louisiana (J.D., cum laude, 1998). Moot Court Board, 1997-1998. Order of Barristers. Co-Author, "Article 9 Remedies," Louisiana State Annotated Code of Civil Procedure. Member: Louisiana State (Member, Young Lawyers Section Council) and American Bar Associations. Languages: French. Practice Areas: Commercial Transactions; Business Law; Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Entertainment Law; Tax Credits; Economic Development; Tax Incentives.

OF COUNSEL

Esmond Phelps II (Of Counsel) born New Orleans, Louisiana, September 16, 1945; admitted to bar, 1970, Louisiana. Education: Davidson College (B.A., 1967); Tulane University (J.D., 1970). Phi Delta Phi. Member, Tulane Moot Court Board. Member: New Orleans, Louisiana State and American Bar Associations; Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel; National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Insurance Law; Products Liability; General Civil Trial Practice.

Henry O'Connor, Jr. (Of Counsel) born New Orleans, Louisiana, June 16, 1943; admitted to bar, 1967, Louisiana. Education: Tulane University of Louisiana (B.B.A., 1965; LL.B., 1967; J.D., 1969). Member: New Orleans, Louisiana State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate.

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Erica L. Brown (Associate) born Hammond, Louisiana, July 23, 1980; admitted to bar, 2005, Louisiana. Education: Louisiana State University (B.A., 2002; J.D., 2005; B.C.L.). Order of the Coif. Formerly with Lemle & Kelleher, L.L.P. Member: Louisiana State (Member, Corporate and Business Law Section) and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Banking Law; Contracts.

Jason W. Burge (Associate) born Kalamazoo, Michigan, September 25, 1979; admitted to bar, 2006, Louisiana. Education: Ohio State University (B.A., Political Science, magna cum laude, 2000); Loyola University (B.M., Music Composition, summa cum laude, 2003); New York University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2006). Order of the Coif. Florence Allen Scholar. Member, 2004-2006, and Note Editor, 2005-2006, N.Y.U. Annual Survey of American Law. Author: "Rethinking Fees and Taxes In Light of the New York City Health Care Security Act," N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. Law., Vol. 61:4. Practice Areas: Litigation; Commercial Litigation.

Daniel J. Carr (Associate) born New Orleans, Louisiana; admitted to bar, 2007, Louisiana. Education: University of New Orleans (B.A., English, 1993); Tulane University Law School (J.D., summa cum laude, 2006). Order of the Coif. Senior Articles Editor, Tulane Law Review, 2005-2006. Law Clerk, Hon. Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2006-2007. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation.

Joshua Decuir (Associate) born 1980; admitted to bar, 2008, Louisiana. Education: Loyola University (B.A., 2002); Yale University (M.A.R., 2005); Louisiana State University (J.D., summa cum laude, 2008; B.C.L., summa cum laude, 2008). Order of the Coif. Editor-in-Chief, 2007-08 and Associate, 2006-07, Louisiana State University. Author: "A Federal Tete-a-Tete? The Multipary, Multiforum Trial Jurisdiction Act & Hurricane Katrina: Past, Present, and Future Considerations". Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities; Mergers and Acquisitions.

Maureen Brennan Gershanik (Associate) born New Orleans, Louisiana, August 1, 1970; admitted to bar, 2000, Louisiana. Education: Georgetown University (B.S.F.S., cum laude, 1992); Louisiana State University (J.D., 2000). Order of the Coif. Editor in Chief, 1999-2000 and Associate, 1998-1999, Louisiana Law Review. Law Clerk to the Honorable John M. Duhé, Jr., United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 2000-2001. Author: "Avoiding Anarchy: Bin Laden Terrorism, the U.S. Response and the Role of Customary International Law," 59 Louisiana Law Review 1195 (1999). Member: Louisiana State and American Bar Associations. Languages: French. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities; Mergers and Acquisitions.

Lance C. McCardle (Associate) born New Orleans, Louisiana, April 29, 1977; admitted to bar, 2005, Louisiana. Education: Louisiana State University (B.S., cum laude, 1999); Loyola University, College of Business Administration (M.B.A., 2005); Loyola University, School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2005). Member, 2003-2005 and Member, Editorial Board, 2004-2005, Loyola Law Review. Member, Loyola Moot Court (2003-2005). William L. Crowe, Sr. Scholar. Oralist and Brief Writer, First Amendment Competition Team. Author: "Despite Congress's Good Intentions, The DMCA Produces a BAD Result: A Means to Create Monopolies," 50 Loyola Law Review 997 (2004). Certified Internal Auditor, U.S.A., 2000 (inactive). Member: Louisiana State, Federal and American Bar Associations; St. Thomas More Inn of Court. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Litigation.

Alysson L. Mills (Associate) admitted to bar, 2008, Mississippi; 2009, Tennessee. Education: University of Mississippi (B.A., 2002; J.D., 2008). Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation.

Matthew R. Payne (Associate) born Evanston, Illinois; admitted to bar, 2006, New York. (Not admitted in Louisiana). Education: Georgetown University (B.A., 2001); Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., cum laude, 2005). Winner, Greenhalgh Mock Trial Competition, Georgetown Law Center, 2003. Managing Editor, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. Member: American Bar Association (Member, White Collar Crime Committee, Criminal Justice Section, 2006—). Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation.

Benjamin D. Reichard (Associate) born New Orleans, Louisiana; admitted to bar, 2008, Louisiana. Education: Amherst College (B.A., magna cum laude, 2001); Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D., with high honor, 2008). Member, Moot Court Honor Society, 2006-2008. Member: American Bar Association.

Megan Riess (Associate) born Wilmington, Delaware, July 3, 1981; admitted to bar, 2007, Delaware and Pennsylvania; 2009, Louisiana. Education: University of Delaware (B.S., 2003); Tulane University Law School (J.D., 2006). Member: Member: Delaware State, Pennsylvania, Louisiana State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Commercial Finance; Real Estate.

Edward P. Scharfenberg (Associate) born New Orleans, Louisiana, March 6, 1967; admitted to bar, 1999, New York; 2008, Louisiana. Education: Princeton University (A.B., 1989); University of Oxford (M.Phil., 1994); University of Virginia (J.D., 1998). Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New York; Louisiana State and American Bar Associations. Languages: German. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Securities.

Steven C. Serio (Associate) born Metairie, Louisiana, February 11, 1978; admitted to bar, 2005, Louisiana. Education: University of Notre Dame (B.B.A., cum laude, 2000); American University (J.D., cum laude, 2005). Member, 2003-2004 and Editor-in-Chief 2004-2005, American University Law Review. Certified Public Accountant (inactive). Author: "A Process Right Due? Examining Whether a Capital Defendant Has a Due Process Right to a Jury Selection Expert," American University Law Review Volume 53 Issue 5, 2004. Member: Louisiana State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Transactions; Real Estate; Mergers and Acquisitions.