Phelps Dunbar Partner Honored with LSBA’s 2009 Friend of Pro Bono Award

May 20, 2009

Phelps Dunbar partner Christopher K. Ralston was recently selected by the Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA) to receive the 2009 Friend of Pro Bono Award. The annual award recognizes individuals (attorneys or non-attorneys), law firms or organizations who have made major contributions to the enhancement and promotion of pro bono legal services to the poor. Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Catherine D. Kimball and LSBA President Elizabeth Foote presented the award to Mr. Ralston in a ceremony hosted by the Louisiana Supreme Court in New Orleans on May 19.

Mr. Ralston is a partner in the commercial litigation regional practice group in the New Orleans office. He concentrates his practice in the areas of antitrust law, business torts, trial practice, securities litigation and arbitration, intellectual property, and appellate litigation. Mr. Ralston is a member of the New Orleans Bar Association (Member, Board of Directors; Chair, Public Service Committee; Immediate Past Chair, Young Lawyers Section); Fifth Federal Circuit Bar Association; Louisiana State Bar Association; Federal Bar Association; American Bar Association; and Former Federal Law Clerks Association. Mr. Ralston currently serves on the American Diabetes Association's New Orleans Community Leadership Board and the Southeast Louisiana Legal Services' Board of Directors. He has also been awarded the Leadership in Law Award by New Orleans CityBusiness (2009); Pro Bono Publico Award by the Louisiana State Bar Association (2008); the Distinguished Service Award by the Pro Bono Project (2008, 2007, 2002); the Outstanding Young Lawyer of Louisiana Award by the Louisiana State Bar Association (2006); and named Outstanding Young Lawyer by the New Orleans Bar Association's Young Lawyers Section (2004).

Phelps Dunbar is a regional law firm of more than 260 attorneys, with offices in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Jackson, Tupelo, and Gulfport, Mississippi; Houston, Texas; Tampa, Florida; and London, England.

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