Criminal Law

• Restraining Order
  From our home office in New Orleans, we’ve successfully opposed some of the world’s most powerful companies. We’ve represented entrepreneurs when big corporations tried to steal their ideas. We’ve represented the City of New Orleans in a dispute with the world’s largest financial firm. After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, we obtained a temporary restraining order against BP to protect the claims of local fishermen, and we worked with other law firms to file a motion to compel BP to set aside $20 billion in an escrow fund for potential commercial claimants. We’ve sued the country’s largest owners and servicers of student loans to force them to cease collections of private student loans that we claimed were discharged in bankruptcy, and received an important ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in a case we brought against Navient Solutions, LLC, formerly Sallie Mae, that the loans at issue are indeed dischargeable. We won class certification at the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in a matter we brought against NextGear Capital, the largest independent inventory finance company in North America, on behalf of a class of used automobile dealers we claim were overcharged interest on their automobile finance plans. We’ve also brought a class action and requested class certification for Louisiana residents and property owners who suffered physical and economic damage as a result of the catastrophic failure of the Hard Rock Hotel Construction Site in New Orleans in October 2019.