Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  Our lawyers have extensive experience and expertise in civil litigation, including insurance defense, medical malpractice, personal injury, worker's compensation, law enforcement defense, municipal liability, commercial litigation, construction litigation, insurance coverage, mediation, arbitration and other areas of civil litigation. The firm also has extensive experience and expertise in commercial transactions, banking and business law.
• Business Transactions
  Listed by Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading firm in the field of banking and finance, the firm represents a variety of state and national banks, as well as other corporate clients, in commercial transactions, financings and business matters.

Employment Law

• Workers Compensation
  Joshua Monteleone was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 6, 1979. Raised in Baton Rouge, he graduated from Catholic High School in 1997 and obtained a BS degree from LSU in 2001. He obtained his JD from Georgia State University College of Law in 2005. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Monteleone served as in-house counsel for a commercial construction finance firm in Atlanta, Georgia. He and his wife, Mary, are the proud parents of two daughters. Josh’s practice includes insurance and casualty litigation, worker's compensation defense and other general litigation.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
• Premises Liability
• Construction Litigation
  Mike practices in the areas of insurance coverage, insurance defense and commercial litigation. He serves as state wide coverage counsel for one of the world’s 20 largest insurance and reinsurance companies. He counsels clients, manages disputes, and tries cases involving a wide variety of insurance coverage issues, including matters arising from bad faith, construction defect claims, third-party liability claims, first-party claims, transportation claims, environmental claims, general and toxic tort claims, multiple-year trigger and allocation issues, Louisiana direct action claims and numerous others.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Don Armand was born and raised in Alexandria, Louisiana. He graduated from Menard High in 1978. He graduated from LSU in Baton Rouge with a major in English Literature in 1982 and from Tulane Law School in 1986. Don and his wife Lori are the proud parents of their daughter Allinder and sons Joseph and Jackson. Don represents clients throughout Louisiana in litigation involving general casualty, industrial accidents, personal injury, construction and construction defect litigation, products liability, insurance coverage litigation and other general civil litigation. He has extensive experience in mediation as both attorney and mediator. He also serves on the adjunct faculty of Centenary College as an Instructor in Negotiations for the Executive MBA Program.
• Medical Malpractice
  Rendi Wiggins was raised in Texarkana, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and summa cum laude from Texas Tech University School of Law. Rendi's practice is civil litigation with an emphasis in medical malpractice defense.

Finance Law

• Foreclosure
  David's practice is concentrated in the areas of commercial finance, banking and real estate, including particularly construction lending, asset-based financing, real property acquisitions and leasing, commercial loan workouts, commercial foreclosures, and negotiations of a wide variety of contracts. An Order of the Coif graduate of Tulane Law School, he is listed in Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading individual in the field of banking and finance. He is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and is a licensed title insurance agent for First American Title Insurance Company of Louisiana. A member of the Council and Vice President of the Louisiana State Law Institute, David presently serves as reporter of its Security Devices Committee, which drafted the recently enacted revision of the Civil Code titles on security and pledge as well as the 2019 comprehensive revision of the Louisiana Private Works Act. He is also a member of its Uniform Commercial Code Committee and was an active participant in that committee's adaptation of revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code for enactment in Louisiana. David is the author of Louisiana Secured Transactions, a treatise in Thomson-Reuters' Louisiana Practice Series, and a co-author of Secured Credit: Louisiana and American Perspectives, a law school casebook on Louisiana security devices. He is also the author of numerous published articles on secured interests in farm products, vendor's privileges, real obligations, and the Private Works Act. He is a frequent lecturer on secured lending, real property law and other commercial topics and has lectured on secured lending each year at the annual Bank Counsel Conference of the Louisiana Bankers Association for over 30 years.