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As a firm, Phelps Dunbar is as much a part of New Orleans’
history as the Mississippi River. Our history began in 1853
when Joseph Dirrhammer formed a practice. Since that time, we
have undergone many transformations in name, while still
maintaining our focus on excellence in legal service. Our New
Orleans office is the largest office of Phelps’ regional legal
practice, with nearly one hundred attorneys in residence. Our
attorneys represent a wide range of practice areas within six
key groups:
- Admiralty
- Business
- Commercial Litigation
- Employment Law
- Insurance and Reinsurance
- Tort Litigation
Our admiralty group includes more than a dozen attorneys
focusing on matters ranging from cargo disputes to collisions,
from marine financing to personal injury, and from blue water
experience to marine pollution. As a firm founded on the
practice of admiralty law, we are proud to maintain a highly
sought after and prestigious admiralty practice. In the last
several years, our attorneys have been called upon to handle
some of the largest and highest profile cases in their field
and have thrived on the challenges placed before them.
Our business group covers a diverse range of practice areas,
including corporate and securities, energy and mineral law,
gaming, public utilities, real estate and tax. Attorneys from
all of these practice areas work together to represent some of
the largest corporations and financial institutions in the
country. The diversity and experience of our business group
enables us to offer full-service representation to a wide
range of business entities.
Our commercial litigation group is the largest practice
group of the firm and serves as an umbrella for such differing
practice areas as appellate litigation, bankruptcy and
creditor’s rights, commercial recovery, construction,
environmental and intellectual property. Several attorneys
within our ranks have written authoritative works on trial
evidence and procedure and are consistently asked to share
their insight not only with students of the law, but also with
their peers.next
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