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Fourteen Liskow Lawyers Selected to Acadiana Profile’s Top Lawyers

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Liskow & Lewis is pleased to announce the following Lafayette-based attorneys have been selected to the 2018 list of Acadiana Profile’s Top Lawyers:

George Arceneaux III, Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law

Hunter A. Chauvin, Energy Law, Environmental Law

Julie S. Chauvin, Banking and Finance Law, Commercial Transactions/LLS Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law

Billy J. Domingue, Banking and Finance Law, Commercial Transactions/LLS Law, Corporate Law, Energy Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law

Joseph C. Giglio, Jr., Alternate Dispute Resolution, Corporate Law, Commercial Litigation

Joseph P. Hebert, Bankruptcy & Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency & Reorganization Law Alternate Dispute Resolution, Corporate Law

Jeffrey D. Lieberman, Natural Resources Law

Mark A. Lowe, Admiralty & Maritime Law, Environmental Law

Penny L. Malbrew, Environmental Law

James N. Mansfield III, Energy Law, Natural Resources Law

Richard W. Revels, Jr., Energy Law, Natural Resources Law

Jamie D. Rhymes, Energy Law, Oil and Gas Law

April L. Rolen-Ogden, Commercial Litigation, Energy Law, Oil and Gas Law

Lawrence P. Simon, Jr., Appellate Practice, Energy Law, Natural Resources Law

Each year, Acadiana Profile publishes its Top Lawyers list. The voting to determine the 2018 top attorneys for Acadiana Profile magazine was open to all licensed attorneys in the Acadiana, Louisiana market area. Each attorney was asked which attorney, other than himself or herself, they would recommend in the Acadiana area.

Trinity Brown Joins Liskow & Lewis

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Liskow is pleased to announce Trinity Brown has joined the firm as an energy litigator in the firm’s New Orleans office. Trinity has experience representing clients in contract disputes, tort claims, and oil and gas disputes. She also has experience with First Amendment issues, securities fraud, and trademark infringement.

Trinity received her Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, and her Bachelor of Arts from Duke University, cum laude. She was a member of the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic and the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project at Yale Law School and a Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholar and a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow at Duke University. 

After graduating from Yale Law, Trinity was a law clerk to The Honorable Myron H. Thompson, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.

Liskow Shareholders Named to CityBusiness’ Leadership in Law 2018

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Liskow is pleased to congratulate Tiffany Davis and Shannon Holtzman for being selected to New Orleans CityBusiness’ Leadership in Law Class of 2018.

CityBusiness spotlights several of Greater New Orleans’ most prominent leaders in the legal field in its annual Leadership in Law selection. The honorees include 50 area attorneys, court-associated professionals, and educators who have established themselves as leaders through their distinctive professional contributions and community involvement.

Tiffany Delery Davis

Tiffany is a litigator focused on complex energy-related matters concerning maritime and oilfield torts and contracts, environmental cleanup, property damage, and coastal erosion. Tiffany also handles toxic tort litigation related to claims for occupational exposure to asbestos. She also has experience with regulatory and transactional matters concerning environmental and energy law.

Tiffany serves as the Chair of Liskow & Lewis’ Diversity Committee, and is active in several professional and community organizations. She serves on the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and on the Board of Directors for the New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute. She is Co-Chair of the New Orleans Bar Association’s Oil & Gas Committee, and a Fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation. Tiffany devotes significant time to community service at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church and School as a parish religious education instructor and summer camp volunteer. Tiffany is a Board Member of Edward Hynes Charter School PTO and holds troop leadership positions with Girl Scouts, Louisiana East, Inc., and Boy Scouts of America, Southeast Louisiana Council.

Tiffany is AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell in Litigation, Admiralty and Maritime Law, and Natural Resources. She was recognized by New Orleans Magazine in 2017 as a “Top Lawyer,” and she was selected to the New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute Class of 2017. Tiffany received her Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School in 2005.

Shannon Skelton Holtzman

Shannon has more than 25 years’ experience devoted exclusively to business litigation and appellate matters involving complex contract disputes and business torts such as unfair trade practice claims, fraud, and trade secret-related claims. She also handles construction contract-related disputes and helps project owners with respect to risk management issues and compliance with the Louisiana Private Works Act.  

Shannon is a member of Everytown for Gun Safety and serves as the Legislative Advocacy Lead for the Louisiana Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. She is on the Board of Sophie B. Wright Charter School and she is very active in St. Charles Ave. Presbyterian Church where she serves on the church’s governing board and other committees and participates in community outreach events.

Shannon has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America in Commercial Litigation since 2013. She is listed in Louisiana Super Lawyers and she was selected by New Orleans Magazine as a “Top Lawyer” in Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation, and Construction Law.

Shannon serves on Liskow & Lewis’ Board of Directors, Diversity Committee, and Associate Committee, and she is the Assistant Leader of the firm’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group.

Shannon received her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Tulane University Law School in 1988.

Cody J. Miller Joins Liskow & Lewis

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Liskow is pleased to announce Cody “C.J.” Miller has joined the firm as a business lawyer in the firm’s Lafayette office. His practice will focus on general business and real estate matters. 

C.J. received his Juris Doctor and Diploma of Comparative Law from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, summa cum laude. C.J. was the recipient of the CALI Award for the Highest Grade Achieved in the Class for 26 individual classes, and he received the 2016 Association Henri Capitant Award for an Outstanding Comment on a Civil or Comparative Law Topic.

James Brown Named Distinguished Achievement Honoree by LSU Law Center

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Liskow is pleased to announce James A. Brown has been named a Distinguished Achievement honoree by the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. James will be honored at a ceremony in New Orleans on March 2.

LSU Law Center’s Distinguished Achievement Award is given annually to graduates for professional achievement and career distinction, service to and support of LSU Law, and service to the community.

James is a 1984 graduate of the Paul M. Hebert LSU Law Center and holds an undergraduate degree from LSU in Political Science. He supports the Law Center in various ways, including serving as a member of the Dean’s Council and as an adjunct professor.

James is a shareholder in Liskow & Lewis’ New Orleans office, heading the firm’s Commercial Litigation Section as well as its Professional Liability Practice Group. He is an experienced trial lawyer handling complex litigation throughout the courts of Louisiana and the U.S., with a focus on banking, contract and professional liability disputes. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he has a national reputation in key areas of complex litigation: legal malpractice defense, director and officer liability, antitrust, trusts and estates litigation, First Amendment and Education Law. 

For over three decades, James has represented federal banking agencies and banks in complex commercial and professional liability cases.  He also has defended national legal malpractice carriers and law and accounting firms, and has handled trust and estates litigation and other types of commercial claims and disputes.  James has tried difficult, high-stakes cases in these areas in both state and federal courts.

James serves on the New Orleans Ethics Review Board by appointment of the Mayor. The Board administers and enforces the New Orleans Code of Governmental Ethics and appoints and oversees the New Orleans Inspector General.

He is listed by Chambers USA – America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as among America’s top commercial litigators. James is also named in Best Lawyers in America in the areas of Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law, Litigation – Antitrust, Litigation – Trusts and Estates, and Professional Malpractice Law. He is listed among Top Lawyers by New Orleans Magazine, and New Orleans CityBusiness named him one of New Orleans’ “Leaders in Law.”

Following law school, James served as law clerk to the Honorable Alvin B. Rubin, Circuit Judge, United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1984-85. Since 1992, he has served as an Adjunct Professor in Torts and Trial Advocacy at the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center.

Ray Waid to Present in Seattle on Maritime Best Practices

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Ray Waid will be presenting in Seattle on February 1 at the Admiralty & Maritime Law Committee of the American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section's Maritime Best Practices Roundtable.

Ray will be presenting with Nathan Orf, Assistant General Counsel with Port of Portland, and Dave Boyajian with Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt. The roundtable will discuss best practices for drafting maritime contracts and master service agreements, addressing: 

  • Choice of Law 
  • Maritime Liens 
  • Indemnity 
  • Additional Insureds 

You can reserve a seat for the roundtable and attend a reception following the discussion by emailing [email protected], or click here for more information.

In Support of the Environmental Needs of Louisiana

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The Calcasieu River Waterway Harbor Safety Committee has recognized Liskow & Lewis lawyer Louis Buatt “for his exceptionally innovative thinking and his steadfast support of the Calcasieu Ship Channel and the environmental needs of southwest Louisiana.”

The Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District maintains the Wetland Restoration Escrow Account — a reserve account under the supervision of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. 

Mr. Buatt recommended that the Account be submitted to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality as a Beneficial Use Project under that department’s guidelines. This recommendation was approved, making the Escrow Account eligible to receive funds, under the Department's guidelines, from settlements entered into with the Department.

As a result, The Wetlands Restoration Escrow Account has received its first contribution in the amount of $550,000.

Liskow Lawyer Marilyn Maloney is Vice President of American College of Real Estate Lawyers

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Liskow is pleased to announce Marilyn Maloney is the new vice president of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, the premier organization of U.S. real estate lawyers.

The college is a national association of approximately 1,000 distinguished real estate lawyers. Admission into the college is by invitation only after a rigorous screening process. The American College of Real Estate Lawyers’ distinguished lawyers have been elected to fellowship for their outstanding legal ability, experience, and high standards of professional and ethical conduct in the practice of real estate law.

Marilyn is a Houston-based business lawyer helping clients with real estate needs along with various other important transactions, including commercial lending, energy deals, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate trust. Marilyn is an in-demand real estate conference organizer and speaker, and she is continuously recognized for her work in this area. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, and she is a Top Rated Real Estate Attorney in Super Lawyers.

Marilyn is a leader in many civic, legal, professional and religious associations. In 2013, she received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University, and, in 2004, she was recognized by the Louisiana Bar Foundation with its President’s Award. The same year, she was selected by New Orleans CityBusiness as one of the Women of the Year.