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Terri Hill

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“What worked in years past likely won’t work now. The complexities of litigation and recent procedural rules increasingly reward proactive planning and implementation.  From the discovery plan forward, I want to have more information than my opponent and to constantly evaluate it to increase my client’s chance of success.”

Overview

During his nearly 40 years of practice as a commercial litigator, George Denegre has tried cases in federal and state courts, before federal and state administrative agencies and in arbitrations. His wide-ranging practice includes securities fraud, professional liability, intellectual property, franchise, and other complex litigation. Additionally, he has represented automobile manufacturers/distributors in dozens of matters before the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission.

Talks about

#commerciallitigation #intellectualproperty #securities

Highlights

Recognition

The Best Lawyers in America, 2005–2025

 

Recognition

Chambers USA – Litigation: Securities, 2020-2024

Recognition

Louisiana Super Lawyers, 2013–2025

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Notable Experience

George’s representative matters include the following:

  • Part of team that represented a major baby products manufacturer in an eight-day trial in the Western District of Louisiana.   The Liskow team secured a judgment invalidating their opponent’s utility patent based for obviousness and established that the opposing party had engaged in deceit and “reprehensible” conduct during the litigation, resulting in the dismissal of all  other  claims against our clients based on unclean hands. (W.D.La. 2022)
  • Was lead trial counsel for a major energy producer in a U.S. Department of Interior administrative hearing that resulted in the reversal of over one million dollars in penalties imposed by the Office of Natural Resources and Revenue arising out of two federal royalty audits (2017).
  • Part of a team that defended a regional brokerage firm against claims by investors for losses of over $350 million arising out of the sale of mortgage backed securities. (W.D.La. 2017)
  • With other attorneys, secured a $33 million settlement on behalf of the FDIC in a major director and officer case arising out of the failure of Westernbank Puerto Rico. FDIC v. Stipes (D.P.R. 2015).

Involvement

Professional

  • Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Compliance and Legal Division - Member
  • New Orleans, Louisiana State and American Bar Associations - Member

Community

  • Society for the Relief of Destitute Orphan Boys, Board of Directors (Current)
  • St. George Episcopal School, Chairman of the School Endowment Committee, (Current)
  • St. George’s Episcopal School, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, 2011–2013
  • Friends of the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts Institute, Board of Directors, 1998–2008

Recognition

 

Credentials

Education

  • Tulane University Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 1983)
    • Order of the Coif
    • Tulane Law Review, Senior Notes and Comments Editor, 1982-1983
  • Tulane University (B.A., 1980)

Bar Admissions

  • Louisiana, 1984

Clerkships

  • Law Clerk to the Honorable Morey L. Sear, Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, 1983-1984

Presentations

  • "2015 Jazz Fest CLE - Depositions," Louisiana State Bar Association, April 24, 2015
  • "Rule 30 (b) (6) Depositions & Subpoenas Duces Tecum: The Perils and Pitfalls," Louisiana State Bar Association's 26th Annual Summer School Revisited, December 11, 2014
  • 2014 LSBA Annual Meeting and Summer School: Rule 30(b)(6) Depositions and Subpoenas Duces Tecum: Perils & Pitfalls
  • "Ethical Issues in Complex and Multiparty Litigation," Louisiana State Bar Association, 2009
  • "Professionalism & Ethics: Watch Your P's & Q's," Louisiana State Bar Association, 2006
  • “Securities Law for the Non-Securities Lawyer,” Louisiana State Bar Association Summer School, 2001
  • Louisiana State Bar Association's Summer School Revisited, 2001

Publications

  • "Handling Harmful or Deficient Rule 30(b)(6) Deposition Testimony," with Carey L. Menasco, American Bar Association Section of Litigation Professional Liability Newsletter, Spring 2015,  Vol. 11, No. 2
  • "A Meaningful Rule 30(b)(6) Deposition Is Not Always Possible," with Carey L. Menasco, American Bar Association Section of Litigation Professional Liability Litigation Newsletter, Fall 2012, Vol. 9, No. 1
  • "Professional Malpractice Peremption: Clarified Through Adversity," 59 La. B. J. 176 (Oct./Nov. 2011)
  • "A Bull Market for Investor Claims: Disputes between Customers and Brokers/Brokerage Firms," (with John C. Anjier), 49 La. B.J. 283 (2001–2002)
  • "Tortious Interference and Unfair Trade Claims: Louisiana’s Elusive Remedies for Business Interference," (with Shannon S. Holtzman and John A. Lovett), 45 Loy. L. Rev. 395 (1999)
  • Note, "Carrier-Owned Shipping Container Found Not to Be a COGSA 'Package,'" 56 Tul. L. Rev. 1409 (1982)

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