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| | Address | | 650 Poydras, Suite 2105 | | New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 | | (Orleans Parish) | | | |
| | Contact Information | | Phone: 504-680-6050 | Fax: 504-680-6051
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| Schonekas, Winsberg, Evans & McGoey, L.L.C. practices in the following areas of law:
General Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation, Healthcare Litigation, Securities Litigation, Employment Litigation, Banking Litigation, Professional Malpractice, Media and Entertainment Law, Oil and Gas Law, Construction Litigation, Maritime Litigation, Domestic Relations, Family Law, Divorce, Child Custody, Child Support, Bankruptcy, Personal Injury, White Collar Criminal Defense and Product Liability Litigation. | | Year Established: 1999 | Firm Profile:
Schonekas, Winsberg, Evans & McGoey, L.L.C. is a full-service litigation law firm. Kyle Schonekas, Marc D. Winsberg, Joelle Flannigan Evans and Patrick S. McGoey all formerly of Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, L.L.P., formed the firm in 1999 to provide high quality legal services at reasonable rates. The firm has wide experience in handling general commercial, intellectual property, securities, employment, banking, media and entertainment, oil and gas, healthcare, construction and personal injury and product liability litigation. | | Firm Size: 12 | Languages:
Languages: English and Spanish. | Representative Clients:
Hornbeck Offshore Services; Barriere Construction Company; Gibbs Construction, L.L.C.; Taylor Energy, L.L.C.; George Rodrigue; James Michalopoulos; Entergy. | | Kyle Schonekas (Member) born New Orleans, Louisiana, February 22, 1954; admitted to bar, 1978, Louisiana. Education: University of New Orleans; Louisiana State University (J.D., 1978). Member, National Moot Court Team. Law Clerk to the Hon. Frederick J.R. Heebe, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, 1978-1979. Member: New Orleans, Louisiana State, Federal and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Corporate Law; Securities; Health Care Litigation; Professional Malpractice; Banking; Media Law; Criminal Law; Intellectual Property; Construction Litigation. Email: Kyle Schonekas | | Marc D. Winsberg (Member) born New Orleans, Louisiana, June 28, 1962; admitted to bar, 1987, Louisiana, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit and U.S. District Court, Middle, Eastern and Western Districts of Louisiana; 1989, California and U.S. District Court, Central District of California. Education: Louisiana State University (B.A., cum laude, 1983); Tulane University of Louisiana (J.D., cum laude, 1987). Order of the Coif. Member, 1985-1986, and Notes and Comments Editor, 1986-1987, Tulane Law Review. Member: Louisiana State and American Bar Associations; State Bar of California. Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. (Board Certified Family Law Specialist, Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization). Practice Areas: Domestic Relations; Commercial Litigation; Personal Injury. Email: Marc D. Winsberg | | Joelle Flannigan Evans (Member) born New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1, 1969; admitted to bar, 1995, Louisiana. Education: Louisiana State University (B.G.S., 1991); Loyola University, Louisiana (J.D., summa cum laude, 1995). Editor-in-Chief, Loyola Law Review. Law Clerk to Chief Justice Pascal Calogero, Jr., Louisiana Supreme Court, 1995-1996. Member: Louisiana State, Federal and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Employment Law; Securities; Banking; Oil and Gas Law. Email: Joelle Flannigan Evans | | Patrick S. McGoey (Member) born New Orleans, Louisiana, July 21, 1971; admitted to bar, 1996, Louisiana. Education: University of Virginia (B.A., 1993); Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University (J.D., 1996). Order of the Coif. Member, Louisiana Law Review, 1994-1996. Member: Louisiana State, Federal and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Intellectual Property; Health Care Litigation; Construction Law; Securities; Professional Malpractice. Email: Patrick S. McGoey | | Thomas M. McEachin (Member) born New Orleans, Louisiana, March 26, 1973; admitted to bar, 1999, Louisiana. Education: University of Georgia (B.A., 1996); Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University (J.D., 1999). Order of the Coif. Member, Louisiana Law Review. Author: "Theriot v. Bourg: The Demise of the Business Judgement Rule in Louisiana?" 59 Louisiana Law Review 375 (1998). Member: Louisiana State, Federal and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Construction Law; Intellectual Property Litigation; Employment Litigation; Media Law; Entertainment Law; Zoning, Planning and Land Use; Libel, Slander and Defamation. Email: Thomas M. McEachin | | ASSOCIATES | | Sara A. Johnson (Associate) born Dansville, New York, November 13, 1981; admitted to bar, 2007, Louisiana. Education: Illinois Wesleyan University (B.A., cum laude, 2004); Tulane University (J.D., 2007). Senior Managing Editor, Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property. Tulane Criminal Litigation Clinic. Author: "Century 21 Real Estate Corp. v. Lending Tree, Inc.: Making a Big Deal Out of Nominative Use," 8 Tulane Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property 207, 2008. Member: Louisiana State, Federal and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Intellectual Property; Criminal Defense. Email: Sara A. Johnson | | William P. Gibbens (Associate) born New Orleans, Louisiana, December 23, 1974; admitted to bar, 2001, Louisiana. Education: University of Virginia (B.A., 1996); University of Virginia School of Law (J.D., 2000). Law Clerk to the Honorable Edith Brown Clement, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2000-2002. Member: New Orleans, Louisiana State and Federal Bar Associations, Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Health Care Litigation; Criminal Law. Email: William P. Gibbens | | Maria G. Marks (Associate) born Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 16, 1969; admitted to bar, 1994, Louisiana; 1995, U.S. District Court, Eastern District. Education: Rhodes College (B.A., 1991); University of Cincinnati (J.D., 1994). Former Member, Mayor's Advisory Committee on Hispanic and Latin American Affairs. Member: Louisiana State and American Bar Associations. Languages: Spanish. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Insurance Defense; Professional Malpractice; Products Liability. Email: Maria G. Marks | | Andrea V. Timpa (Associate) born Marrero, Louisiana, August 20, 1969; admitted to bar, 2004, Louisiana. Education: Louisiana State University (B.I.D.,1992); Loyola University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2004). Crowe Scholar. Comment Editor, Loyola Law Review. Author: "In re Orso: There is No Need to Erie-Guess When the Law is Clear and Unambiguous," 48 Loy. L. Rev. 587 (Fall 2002). Member: Louisiana State, Federal and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Bankruptcy; Employment Law; Collection Law and Creditor's Rights. Email: Andrea V. Timpa | | OF COUNSEL | | Herbert V. Larson, Jr. (Of Counsel) born Murfreesboro, Tennessee, May 14, 1952; admitted to bar, 1980, Louisiana; 1981, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit and U.S. Tax Court; 1987, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Tulane University of Louisiana (B.A., cum laude, 1974); Loyola University (J.D., 1980); University of Cambridge, England (M.Phil., Criminology, 1989). Tulane University Scholar. Author, "Criminal Law and Procedure," Fifth Circuit Symposium, 31 Loy.L.Rev. 691, 1985. Assistant Federal Public Defender, Eastern District of Louisiana, 1982-1985. Professor of the Practice, Tulane Law School, 2007. Member, Adjunct Faculty, Tulane Law School, 1992-2006: Federal Criminal Law, 1992—; International Criminal Law, 1999—. Member, Adjunct Faculty, Loyola Law School: Lecturer in Federal Criminal Law, 1989-1993. Faculty Member, National Institute for Trial Advocacy. Member, Board of Directors, The Capital Appeals Project, a Louisiana non-profit law office affiliated with the Louisiana Appellate Project, 2001-2005. Member: Louisiana State Bar Association; Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Bar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Reported Cases: Tyler v. Cain, 533 U.S.656, 121 S.Ct. 2478 (2001)(argued); Braswell v. United States, 487 U.S.99, 108 S.Ct. 2284 (1988); United States v. Loe, 248 F.3d 449 (5th Cir. 2001); United States v. Causey, 185 F.3d 407 (5th Cir. 1999); United States v. John Campbell, 64 F.3d 967 (5th Cir. 1995); United States v. Floyd, 992 F.2d 498 (5th Cir. 1993); United States v. Hays, 872 F.2d 582 (5th Cir. 1989); Lindsey v. King, 769 F.2d 1034 (5th Cir. 1985); State v. Bay, 529 So.2d 845 (La.1988); State v. Currie, 812 So.2d 128 (La.App 4 Cir., 2002); State v. Moses, 655 So.2d 779 (La.App 4 Cir.,1995); State v. Bosworth, 593 So.2d 1356 (La.App 4 Cir.,1992). Languages: French. Practice Areas: Federal Criminal Defense; Federal Criminal Appeals; International Criminal Law; White Collar Crime; Felonies; Drug Crimes. Email: Herbert V. Larson, Jr. |
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