Stephen is a partner in the firm's insurance practice group in New Orleans. He practices in the areas of insurance coverage law, environmental insurance litigation, and asbestos litigation, and has gained considerable experience since joining the firm in 1983 litigating coverage issues throughout the United States on behalf of the London insurance market and various domestic insurers. The types of liabilities over which Stephen has litigated disputed coverage issues include: environmental, asbestos, broker errors and omissions, aviation, and business torts. In addition, he has gained significant experience representing insurers as "direct action" defendants in litigation filed in Louisiana.

• Tulane University, J.D., magna cum laude, 1983; Research Editor, The Maritime Lawyer; Order of the Coif
• Tulane University, B.A., 1980

• Member: Louisiana State Bar Association; State Bar of Texas; Federal Bar Association; American Bar Association (Tort and Insurance Practice Section); Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel

• "The LHWCA Situs Requirement Adjoining Area Construed Broadly in Keeping with the Remedial Purpose of the Act," 6 The Maritime Lawyer 118 (Spring 1981).