MEMBERS OF FIRM
Walter J. Leger, Jr., (P.C.) (Managing Partner) born New Orleans, Louisiana, November 11, 1951; admitted to bar, 1976, Louisiana, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana; 1977, U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana; 1978, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana; 1980, U.S. Supreme Court; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits. Education: Louisiana State University (B.A., 1973); Tulane University of Louisiana (J.D., 1976). Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Alpha Delta; Gamma Beta Sigma. Managing Editor, The Tulane Maritime Law Journal, 1975-1976. Outstanding Orator, Tulane Freshman Moot Court Competition, 1974. Recipient, Tulane Law School Admiralty Law Institute Award, 1974. Delegate, Louisiana Priorities for the Future Commission, Task Force on Government and Local Affairs, 1978. Board, Louisiana Recovery Authority, 2005, Vice-Chairman, 2007. Board Vice-Chairman, Louisiana Land Trust, 2007, Chairman, 2009. Member: New Orleans, Louisiana State (Member, Sections on: Insurance, Negligence, Compensation and Admiralty Law; Civil Law; Corporation and Business Law), Federal and American (Member, Sections on: Litigation; Tort and Insurance Practice) Bar Associations; Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit; Louisiana Association of Justice (Member: President's Advisory Council, 1983-1988; Board of Governors, 1988); Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association; The American Association of Justice; Maritime Law Association of the United States, "Proctor" 1980; Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute. Fellow: Louisiana Bar Foundation. Practice Areas: Admiralty and Maritime Law(40%); Complex and Multi-District Litigation(20%); Class Actions(15%); Trial Practice(25%); Civil Litigation.Email: Walter J. Leger, Jr., (P.C.)
Franklin G. Shaw, (P.C.) (Member) born New Orleans, Louisiana, March 9, 1957; admitted to bar, 1982, Louisiana, U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Louisiana; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1988, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Louisiana State University and A. and M. College (B.S., 1979; J.D., 1982). Member: New Orleans, Louisiana State (Member, Section on Insurance, Negligence Compensation and Admiralty Law) and American (Member, Section on Torts and Insurance Practice) Bar Associations; Maritime Law Association of the United States; Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Personal Injury Law; Admiralty Law; Products Liability Law; Medical Malpractice Law.Email: Franklin G. Shaw, (P.C.)
ASSOCIATE
Walter J. Leger III (Associate) born Metairie, Louisiana, July 22, 1978; admitted to bar, 2003, Louisiana. Education: Louisiana State University (B.A., 2000); Tulane Law School (J.D., 2003). Phi Gamma Delta, Omicron Delta Kappa, Kappa Delta Phi, Phi Alpha Delta, Pi Sigma Alpha (President, 2000). Order of Omega, Greek Who's Who, 1999-2000. Business Editor, Tulane Maritime Law Journal, 2002-2003. Editor-in-Chief, Tulane Environmental Law Newsletter, 2001-2002. Board of Directors: St. Bernard Parish Chapter of American Red Cross, 2004; Desire NOLA, not for profit, 2005. Young Leadership Council, 2004; Louisiana House of Representatives, District 91, 2008. Member: New Orleans (Board of Directors, Young Lawyers Section, 2003), Louisiana State and American Bar Associations; Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association; Tulane Law School Inn of Court. Fellow: Louisiana Bar Foundation. Practice Areas: Admiralty and Maritime Law; Personal Injury; Commercial Litigation; Complex Litigation; Civil Litigation; Insurance; Criminal Law.Email: Walter J. Leger III
OF COUNSEL
William S. Poole, Jr. (Of Counsel) born Forrest City, Arkansas, November 26, 1947; admitted to bar, 1973, Alabama; 1974, Louisiana; 1975, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana; 1980, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama; 1983, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama; 1985, U.S., District Court, Northern District of Alabama. Education: University of Alabama (B.S., 1971; J.D., 1973; LL.M., Taxation, 1981). Co-Author: "Antitrust: Fifth Circuit Symposium," Loyola Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 3, Summer, 1978; "How to Administer Estates in Alabama," Alabama Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1984. Law Clerk to Judge Jack M. Gordan, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, 1973-1975. Member: Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Louisiana State and American Bar Associations; Alabama State Bar. (Also Practicing Individually, Demopolis, Alabama).
Craig Henry Stewart (Of Counsel) born Houma, Louisiana, October 31, 1965; admitted to bar, 1996, Louisiana. Education: Grambling State University (A.S., 1985; B.A., 1986); Southern University Law Center (J.D., 1995). Member: Louisiana State Bar Association. (Also Member, Stewart Law Firm, Houma). Practice Areas: Admiralty Law; Maritime Law; Personal Injury.
Kelli M. Leger (Of Counsel) born Abington Twp., Pennsylvania, August 21, 1978; admitted to bar, 2003, Louisiana; 2004, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana; 2005, U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan. Education: University of Notre Dame (B.S., Science-Business, 2000); Tulane University School of Law (J.D., Environmental Law, 2003). Member: New Orleans, Louisiana State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Health Care; Commercial Litigation; Complex Litigation; Class Action Litigation; Environmental Law; Toxic Torts; Business Torts.