I was born in New Orleans but grew up in Lafayette, LA where I attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette (now ULL) and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974. I earned a Juris Doctorate degree from the Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans in 1977. I was admitted to the Louisiana State Bar in October of 1977.
My office is devoted exclusively to helping injury victims and their families. I represent "the little guy" to achieve fair treatment and justice against "the big guy" insurance companies or major corporations.
None of my clients are corporations or insurance companies; all of my clients are injured persons and their families.
Every day, my goal is to do whatever it takes to obtain a fair and just resolution of my clients' cases. That might be a settlement, or it might be an appeal to the highest court in the land. I am not a mass-marketing advertiser, and I do not run a high-volume, low-settlement practice.
As the second eldest in a family of eight children, I learned early in life lessons in responsibility and experienced the give and take required to get along in this world. Being reared in a large South Louisiana family, and then having and rearing six children of my own, I know what it is like to work hard and shoulder responsibility. At a young age, I took on a paper route and continued working in retail, hard labor in construction and service industry jobs to pay my own way through undergraduate and law school. I served in the United States Army Reserves as a combat engineer earning an honorable discharge in 1977.
