(Main Office)

Statement of Practice

General Civil and Trial Practice. General Commercial Litigation, Products Liability, Insurance Coverage, Admiralty, Aviation, Medical Malpractice, Non-Union Labor, Workers Compensation, Corporate, Commercial, Trademark, Oil and Gas, Successions, Probate, Estates, Wills and Trusts, Real Estate, Zoning and Permits, Community Property, Police Organizations, Personal Injury.

Representative Clients:

Advantage Rent-A-Car
Aetna Life & Casualty Insurance, Co.
American Lung Association
Antoine's Restaurant
Boston Matthews Machinery, Ltd, U.K.
Dean Blanchard Seafood, Inc.
Delta-Com Services, Inc.
Downtown Development District, City of New Orleans
First NBC Bank
Fraternal Order of Police
Johnson Controls, Inc.
Lexington Insurance Company
Louisiana Shrimp Association
Philip Werlein, Ltd.
Rite Aid Corp.
Safeway Steel Products
Union Services and Maintenance Co., Inc.
United States Trading and Marketing, Inc.
United Machinery Corp.
USA Telecom, Inc.
VME Americans, Inc.
Property Management Group.

Rate Information

Fixed Hourly Rates

Address

Entergy Corporation Building
639 Loyola Ave., Suite 2500
New Orleans, LA 70113, (Orleans Parish)

Phone

Phone: (504) 529-4141
Fax: (504) 561-0326

Website

http://www.gbsnola.com

MEMBERS OF FIRM

William J. Guste, III (Member) born New Orleans, Louisiana, March 28, 1948; admitted to bar, 1973, Louisiana; 1975, U.S. District Court, Eastern and Middle Districts of Louisiana and District of Columbia; 1976, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1978, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Loyola University (B.A., 1970; J.D., 1973). Former Judge Ad Hoc, Traffic Court, New Orleans. Board of Trustees, Loyola University, 2000-2006, and Chairman, Legal Affairs Committee, 2005-2006. Governing Board, Unity of Greater New Orleans, 2004—, and Chair, Development Committee, 2006—. Board Chairman, Antoine's Restaurant, LLC, 2005-2007. Member: Jefferson, New Orleans and Louisiana State Bar Associations; Louisiana Association for Justice; St. Thomas More Catholic Lawyers Association; Louisiana Lawyers for Life. Fellow: Louisiana Bar Foundation. [Capt., USAR, hon. disch. 1978]. Practice Areas: Civil Trial.Email: William J. Guste, III

J. Harrison Henderson, III (Member) born Alexandria, Louisiana, August 13, 1946; admitted to bar, 1971, Louisiana. Education: The Citadel (B.S., 1968); Tulane University of Louisiana (J.D., 1971). Phi Delta Phi. Member: New Orleans, Louisiana State and American Bar Associations; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. [1st Lt., USAR, 1968-1971].Email: J. Harrison Henderson, III

Robert A. Barnett, (L.L.C.) (Member) born New Orleans, Louisiana; admitted to bar, 1980, Louisiana; U.S. District Court, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Education: Phillips Exeter Academy; Hobart College (B.A., 1977); Loyola University (J.D., 1980). Executive Counsel, Office of Parish President, St. Tammany Parish, 1999-2007. Executive Director, New Orleans-Baton Rouge Steamship Pilots Commission, 2001-2004. Executive Counsel, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, 1994-1996. Special Assistant Attorney General, 1996-2000. Assistant Attorney General, Louisiana Department of Justice, 1981-1994. President, Boys & Girls Clubs of Covington, 1998-2006. Board Member, Louisiana Civil Service League, 2003-2007; Member, Consumer Fraud Task Force, 2005-2007, Better Business Bureau of Greater New Orleans. Board Member, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater New Orleans, 1980-2007. President, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater New Orleans, 1985-1988. Former Member, Louisiana State Tourism Development Commission. Past Director, United Cerebral Palsy of Louisiana. Past President, Palmer Park Neighborhood Association. Former Vice-President, United Cerebral Palsy of Greater New Orleans. Former Vice-President, International Toastmasters #1998. Former-Member, Speaker's Committee and Agency Relations Panel for the United Way of Greater New Orleans. Former Member, Louisiana Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. Lecturer/ Visiting Professor, Southern University School of Law. Lecturer, American Quarter Horse Association. Lecturer, Tulane Continuing Legal Education Program, Louisiana State Bar Association. Member: Louisiana State Bar Association (Member, Committee on Professionalism and Quality of Life, 2005—.) Parish Attorney Association of Louisiana (President, 2005-2007); Louisiana Real Estate Commission (Chairman, 1985-1983, Timeshare Committee); New Orleans Bar Association; Covington (St. Tammany) Bar Association; National Association of Telecommunications Officers & Advisors (NATOA, 2004-2007).Email: Robert A. Barnett, (L.L.C.)

Claude A. Schlesinger (Member) born New Orleans, Louisiana, May 17, 1943; admitted to bar, 1985, Louisiana and U.S. District Court, Eastern and Middle Districts of Louisiana; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Education: Tulane University (B.S., 1965; M.B.A., 1967); Institute of Politics, Loyola University (1977); FBI National Academy (1979); Loyola University (M.C.J., 1983; J.D., 1984). Lieutenant, New Orleans Police Department, 1967-1986. Member, Fraternal Order of Police. President, Alliance Francaise New Orleans. Member: New Orleans and Louisiana State Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Commercial Law; Real Estate; Successions; Probate; Trusts and Estates; Wills; Community Property Law; Zoning Law; Criminal Law; Police Law.Email: Claude A. Schlesinger

C. Theodore Alpaugh, III, (P.L.C.) (Member) born Jefferson, Louisiana, January 17, 1956; admitted to bar, 1979, Louisiana and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana; 1980, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits; 1982, U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana; 1984, U.S. Supreme Court; 1992, Texas. Education: Tulane University (B.A., cum laude, 1977; J.D., 1979). Phi Alpha Delta. Member: New Orleans, Louisiana State, Federal, American and Fifth Federal Circuit Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute; Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel; Maritime Law Association of the United States. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Insurance; Corporate Law; Admiralty and Maritime Law; Banks and Banking; Insurance Coverage; Aviation Law; Longshore and Harborworkers Compensation Act; Products Liability; Workers Compensation.Email: C. Theodore Alpaugh, III, (P.L.C.)

OF COUNSEL

William M. Barnett (Of Counsel) born New Orleans, Louisiana, June 15, 1925; admitted to bar, 1953, Louisiana. Education: Phillips Exeter Academy (1943); Yale University (A.B., 1950); Tulane University of Louisiana (LL.B., 1953). Phi Delta Phi; Order of the Coif; Omicron Delta Kappa. Assistant Editor, Tulane Law Review, 1952-1953. Commissioner, 1963-1966 and Chairman, 1967-1977, New Orleans Civil Service Commission. Member: New Orleans and Louisiana State Bar Association. [Sergeant, Combat Infantry, 1943-1946]. Practice Areas: Real Estate; Wills; Probate; Commercial Law.