Thank you for visiting my profile. My law firm is located in Houma, Louisiana. I received my Bachelors of Science Degree in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana Tech University in 1985 and worked as a Petroleum Engineer for Mobil Oil Corporation (now Exxon-Mobil) from 1985 through 1991. During the summers of 1980 through 1984 while studying engineering at Louisiana Tech, I worked offshore in the Gulf of Mexico as a roustabout in the oil field.
From 1991 to 1994, I attended Loyola University Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana. After graduating from Loyola, I worked as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Judge Edward J. Gaidry in the 32nd Judicial District Court, State of Louisiana. In 1996, I started The Yancey Law Firm. The Yancey Law Firm is committed to making the community where its clients live and work, a safer place. As part of its efforts, The Yancey Law Firm represents people who have been injured by other people’s choices to ignore rules that exist to keep people safe. My firm always strives to provide the best legal services possible to its clients. We help clients, and their families, get through the very difficult time of recovering from personal injuries, including assistance in finding appropriate medical care.
Since 1996, my firm has represented many people who have been injured or killed as a result of someone else’s fault. We have handled injury cases related to working offshore in the oil and gas industry, 18 wheeler crashes, car crashes, airplane/helicopter crashes, drilling rigs, tugboats, supply boats, jackup boats, diving vessels, derrick barges, pipe laying barges, industrial/refinery explosions and other industrial casualties, defective products, including defective medication and exposure to chemicals in the work environment, including asbestosis (which causes mesothelioma, a deadly form of cancer). In almost every case, the injury (or death) was preventable if the defendant party in the case would have followed the safety rules that existed to protect our client, which in almost every case could be you or me. The victims of rule violations are random; they could be anyone, anywhere, anytime.
