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Charles B. Wilmore
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CHARLES B. WILMORE

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,
New Orleans

Chair of Product Liability, Class Action, and Toxic Tort Practice Group

T  504.299.6113
cbwilmore@liskow.com
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Practices

  • Personal Injury
  • Toxic Tort, Mass Torts & Class Actions
  • Energy – Litigation
  • Environmental – Litigation
  • Maritime Litigation & Casualty Response
  • Personal Injury & Wrongful Death
  • Construction Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Contract Drafting & Negotiation
  • Refinery Incidents & Litigation
  • Products Liability
  • Construction
  • Emergency & Incident Response
  • Litigation
  • Contract & Quasi-Contract Disputes
  • Director & Officer Liability
  • Contaminated Sites & Remediation
  • Emergency Response & Disaster Recovery
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Environmental – Regulatory & Litigation

Assistant

Charlotte Wynn

504.556.4051

“No matter the nature of your legal issue, you want seriously good results. I want even better results. I take your problems and my solutions personally, representing your interests accordingly. And I believe this is key to effective representation and advocacy from the backroom to the boardroom to the courtroom.”

Overview

Charles Wilmore is a trial lawyer specializing in complex litigation involving toxic torts, environmental damage, maritime accidents, construction claims and defects, commercial disputes, and insurance coverage. He serves as Practice Group Leader for the firm’s Product Liability, Class Action, and Toxic Tort Team. His toxic tort and environmental practice includes environmental exposure, occupational disease, personal injury, mass tort, class actions, property damage, and regulatory litigation. Charles’ maritime practice focuses on near-shore and offshore litigation for personal injury, property damage, and spill-related claims. He also handles construction and commercial disputes arising out of everything from significant residential and commercial properties to marine and shore-based industrial facilities.

Although based out of New Orleans and licensed in Louisiana, Charles provides guidance to clients with much larger geographic interests and is often asked to seek admission pro hac vice in litigation in other states. He is an approved trial counsel for industry-leading companies and has successfully defended many thousands of cases as both counsel of record and as a strategic advisor. Charles brings significant, effective experience in the development of expert evidence ranging from cutting edge science and medicine to complex engineering and construction issues.

Talks about

#environmentallitigation #triallawyer #personalinjury #toxictorts #classactions

Highlights

Chambers USA Review

“Charles Wilmore is a strong trial lawyer with experience in environmental litigation and toxic torts. His practice covers a range of issues including property damage, class actions and regulatory litigation.” – Chambers USA Review, Environment: Litigation – Louisiana, 2022

Client Comment

“I work closely with Keith Jarrett, Scott Seiler, Charles Wilmore and Devin Reid. Great Team. Very Knowledgeable, Subject Matter Expertise, Practical Sound Advice, Cost Efficient, Responsive, Dependable, Dedicated.” – J. Tracey Rogers, bp

Notable Experience

  • Defended an international energy company against thousands of personal injury lawsuits following an oil spill resulting in thousands of dismissals based upon effective use of scientific and medical evidence.
  • Defended an international joint venture against thousands of claims following a chemical release in a densely populated area. The defense succeeded in removing the environmental exposure case to federal court, and secured a defense verdict on liability.
  • Defended an international company in a multi-week trial in state court in Orleans Parish. Thousands of plaintiffs claimed personal injury as a result of alleged chemical exposure in an urban area. Through the use of expert witnesses and effective cross-examinations of the plaintiffs’ witnesses, the trial team was able to undermine the exaggerated claims and secured a defense verdict on liability.
  • Prevailed in hundreds of Daubert motions striking unreliable expert testimony on scientific and medical causation issues, ultimately resulting in dismissal of those lawsuits.
  • Defended an international energy company against claims for alleged oilfield contamination resulting from decades of oil and gas production via development of scientific evidence.
  • Prevailed in securing insurance coverage for clients in litigation ranging from catastrophic events to construction damage to environmental exposure to marine operations.
  • Successful pursuit of CERCLA cost recovery claims for an international energy company.
  • Defense of major commercial real estate holdings in residential mold claims.

Involvement

  • Litigation Counsel of America, Fellow
  • Liskow & Lewis Board of Directors, Former Member
  • New Orleans Bar Association Young Lawyers Section, Former Member, Board of Directors
  • New Orleans, Louisiana State, Federal, and American Bar Associations, Member

Recognition

  • Chambers USA - Ranked Nationally (Band 1) Product Liability: Toxic Torts, 2025;  Environmental Litigation - Louisiana, 2021-2025
  • The Best Lawyers in America®, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Commercial Litigation, 2014–2025
  • Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America
  • Louisiana Super Lawyers, Personal Injury, 2020-2025
  • New Orleans Magazine’s List of “Top Lawyers,” 2015-2019

 

Credentials

Education

  • Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center (B.C.L., J.D., 2003)
    • Order of the Coif
    • Louisiana Law Review, Member
  • University of Louisiana at Monroe (B.A., magna cum laude, 1999)

Bar Admissions

  • Louisiana, 2003

Court Admissions

  • Louisiana State Courts
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District, Louisiana
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District, Louisiana
  • U.S. District Court, Western District, Louisiana
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

Presentations

Charles has presented to industry groups and for the purposes of providing continuing legal education. His presentation topics include jury selection, ethics, incident investigations, insurance coverage, marine insurance, and contractual defense and indemnity.

After Hours

Charles is an accomplished international outdoorsman and fisherman ­and an ardent conservationist. His travels have led him from the tidal marshes of Louisiana to the turquoise flats of Belize to the high grass of much of Southern Africa.

WHAT’S TRENDING WITH Charles

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