Memberships
Memberships
•American Bar Association (Vice-Chair, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, Admiralty and Maritime Law Committee, 2012, 2014, 2015
House Delegate, 2004-2006
Former Chairman, Subcommittee on Wrongful Death and Workman's Compensation, 1990-1992
Member, TIPS, Maritime Law Committee, Subcommittee on Collision Law
2006 Mid-Year Planning Committee)
•American Heart Association, Heart Walk Executive Leadership Team 2016
•Associated Catholic Charities
•Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit (Member, Delegate to Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference, 2002 and 2005)
•Camp Challenge/Volunteer
•East Jefferson General Hospital Board of Directors (Treasurer, 2012-2013
Member, 2011 to 2013)
•East Jefferson General Hospital Foundation (Executive Committee, Chair Elect
Board of Directors, 2007 to 2015
Executive & Finance Committee, 2009 to 2015)
•Energy Bar Association
•Federal Bar Association
•Institute for Energy Law (Advisory Council)
•Judge John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court Competition (Brief Judge, 2014 and 2015)
•Louisiana Bar Foundation (fellow, 2001 to present
Member Gala Committee 2008
YLS Representative to the Board
Member, Judicial Liaison Committee, 2005-2006
Fellows Gala Committee, 2008)
•Louisiana State Bar Association (First Board District
Representative, Young Lawyers Section, 1986-1987
Member, Executive Committee, National Mock Trial Championship, 1991
Assistant Tort Examiner, Committee on Bar Admissions, 1986 to date)
•Mariners' Club of New Orleans
•Maritime Law Association (Officer, Membership Secretary, 2016
Member, Board of Directors, 2005-2009
Proctor, Chairman of Offshore Industries Committee, 2004-2008
Member, Committee on Maritime Personnel, 1989 to date
Member, Young Lawyers Committee, 1989-1995
Proctor Member, 2001)
•New Orleans Bar Association (President, 2002
Vice President, 2000
Treasurer, 1998
Secretary, 1997
Member, Executive Board of Directors, 1994-1999
Chairman, Maritime Law Committee, 1990-1992
Editor, Briefly Speaking, 1993
Member, It's The Law Committee, 1994-2001
Chairman, Bench/Bar Conference, 2005)
•The New Orleans Bar Association American Inn of Court (President, 2003-2005)
•New Orleans Bar Foundation (President, 2007-2009
Board of Directors, 2001 to present
Vice President, 2006)
•The New Orleans Claims Association
•New Orleans Lympho-Maniac Cancer Fund Inc., Advisory Board
•Offshore Marine Services Association
•The Pro Bono Project (Member, Board of Directors, 2001-2002
Volunteer, 2006 to date)
•Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute
•Southeast Admiralty Law Institute (Member, Board of Directors/Port Captain, 2003-2006)
•St. Thomas More Society
•Tulane Admiralty Law Institute (National Advisory Board, Planning and Program Committee, 2004 to date)
•Tulane Law School: Member, Dean's Advisory Committee on Law Journals, 2016
•Tulane Maritime Law Journal Board of Advisory Editors, 2013 to date
•Tulane University, Alumni Association (President, 1996), Associated Student Body President (1975)
•World Trade Center, Plimsoll Club