Overview
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The Baton
Rouge Office was the first regional office of Phelps Dunbar,
opening in 1984 with three attorneys, and also is the
largest. In its first 25 years of existence, it has grown
to 55 attorneys. The Baton Rouge Office is a full-service
office, providing to the firm’s clients comprehensive
expertise in business and casualty litigation at the trial
and appellate levels in both state and federal courts, as
well as a vibrant practice in business and lending
transactions and in employment law. Within those broad
areas of expertise, Baton Rouge Office attorneys offer
specialized services in construction law, insurance
regulatory matters, public utilities law, lobbying,
administrative and regulatory matters, environmental
regulatory and counseling matters and intellectual property
issues.
Its location in
Louisiana’s state capital is especially important in giving
depth to the office’s ability to advise clients on lobbying,
administrative and regulatory issues. The office has an
extensive practice before the Louisiana Public Service
Commission and the Pilotage Fee Commission. The office’s
location also permits it to serve as the key access point
for clients and for the other regional offices to Louisiana
governmental entities such as the Department of Insurance,
the Secretary of State and the Department of Revenue and
Taxation. Since the local state district courts are the
exclusive venue for a wide variety of actions against
foreign corporations and insurers as well as state
governmental entities, the office’s litigators are sought
out by both clients and other regional offices of the firm
on a regular basis.
The Baton Rouge
Office has the advantage of being located in the same city
with Louisiana’s two state-supported law schools, Louisiana
State University and Southern University. Two of the firm’s
former partners are currently serving as the chancellors of
those respective law centers, and a number of the partners
in the Baton Rouge Office currently serve as adjunct
professors at those two law centers, as they have for
years. The location of the office and the close and
longstanding academic relationships with the two law centers
have permitted the office to have a virtually unmatched
recruiting advantage. Attorneys in the Baton Rouge Office
are strongly encouraged to participate in community and
professional activities, and they are well represented in
state and local bar associations, the Baton Rouge Chamber of
Commerce, boards of charitable organizations and in Forum
35, a group of young professionals dedicated to
participation in local civic and philanthropic projects. |
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