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FRANK
P. TRANCHINA, JR.
517 N. Columbia Street
Covington, Louisiana 70433
Telephone: 985-892-6474
Facsimile: 985-892-7307
Email: COVINGTON
@ Duteltranchina.com
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FIELD
OF PRACTICE:
Family
Law, Divorce, Personal Injury
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 18, 1953
1979 Admitted to Louisiana Bar
1981 U.S. Court of Appeal, Fifth Circuit
1994 Admitted to California Bar
EDUCATION:
Loyola University (B.A. 1976; J.D. 1979)
Jesuit High School
OFFICES HELD:
Assistant State Bar Exam Grader for Civil Code I, 1989-present;
Continuing Legal Education Chairman, Family Law Section of the Louisiana
State Bar, 1989-1990; Continuing Legal Education Chairman, Jefferson
Parish Domestic Relations Section, 1989-1990; Treasurer, Family Law
Section of the Louisiana State Bar, 1990; Chairman, Jefferson Parish
Domestic Relations Section, 1991-1992; Vice Chairman, Family Law Section
of the Louisiana State Bar, 1991-1992; Chairman, Family Law Section
of the Louisiana State Bar, 1992-1993, 1993-1994; Assistant Bar Exam
Grader for Civil Code 1, 1989-1996; Chairman, Family Law Certification
Testing Committee, 1996-1997.
MEMBER:
New Orleans Bar Association, Louisiana State Bar (Sections
on: Family Law; Negligence and Insurance Law); American Bar Association;
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Family Law Section, American
Bar Association (Trial Techniques Committee, Law Practice Management
Committee); Family Law Section, California State Bar Association.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 1992-present;
Board Certified Family Law Specialist, Louisiana;
Listed, "Who's Who in American Law," 1996-present;
Listed "Best Lawyers in America," 1997-present;
Listed Life Member of the National Registry of Who’s Who in
American Law, induction year 2000;
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WILLIAM J. "BILLY" DUTEL
517 N. Columbia
Street
Covington, Louisiana 70433
Telephone: 985-892-6474
Facsimile: 985-892-7307
Email:
COVINGTON
@ Duteltranchina.com
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FIELD
OF PRACTICE:
Commercial
Litigation, Business Law, Real Estate Law, Estate Planning, Succession
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 11, 1947
Admitted to Louisiana Bar.
Admitted to Kentucky Bar.
EDUCATION:
Tulane University (J.D. 1976) University of New Orleans (BS
1973) De La Salle High School
MEMBER:
Delta Sigma Pi accounting fraternity Beta Alpha Psi, accounting
Honorary Fraternity Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity.
For the first nine years, Billy practiced law in the real estate
closing and title insurance business as well as corporate and business
litigation with his father, Louis G. Dutel, Jr. as Dutel & Dutel,
a firm of eighteen attorneys in four offices. During that time he was
managing partner. In 1985 he established his own firm until 1999 when
he merged his firm with Frank P. Tranchina, Jr. to form Dutel &
Tranchina.
Billy has lectured at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting.
He has served for many years as a Judge of the finals of the American
Bar Association’s Law Student Division Moot Court Competition.
He served for two years as the Assistant Secretary of the American Bar
Association’s Real Property Probate and Trust Section. He served
on the Section’s Counsel for two years.
ADMITTED:
1976, Louisiana, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1977, U.S. Tax Court; 1978,
U.S. District Court, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana; 1979,
U.S. Supreme Court; 1985, Kentucky
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Delegate to the Louisiana State Bar House of Delegates, Covington Bar
Association, Louisiana State Bar Association, Kentucky Bar
Association, Covington Inns of Court. He is a past President of the
University of New Orleans Alumni Association.
Billy practices
in the area of wills, trusts and estates. He practices in the areas
of corporate formation, management business sale and acquisitions. He
litigates cases in the areas of succession, corporate and real estate
disputes. In the real estate litigation area, cases include title issues
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JON G. BETHUNE
Two Lakeway,
Ste: 1130
3850 N. Causeway Blvd
Metairie, Louisiana 70002
Telephone: 504-831-0055
Facsimile: 504-831-8483
Email:
JBETHUNE
@ Duteltranchina.com
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questions. Only general inquiries will be answered. |
FIELD
OF PRACTICE:
Family
Law, Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Personal Injury
EDUCATION
Loyola University New Orleans School of Law
Civil/Common Law Juris Doctorate May 2005
New
York University, College of Arts and Sciences
Bachelor of Arts, English and American Literature 2001
LEGAL
ADMISSIONS
Admitted to practice before the several courts of the State of Louisiana.
Admitted to practice before the Eastern District of Louisiana.
MEMBERSHIPS
Louisiana State Bar Association
American Bar Association
CONCENTRATIONS
Family Law, Wills, Trusts, and Estates, and Personal Injury.
EMPLOYMENT
DUTEL
& TRANCHINA October 2006 – Present
JACOBS
& SARRAT New Orleans, LA October 2005 – September 2006
LOYOLA LAW CLINIC New Orleans, LA August 2004 – May 2005
LAW FIRM OF JOSEPH MCMAHON, III Metairie, LA May 2003 – August
2004
ATTORNEY GENERAL RICHARD IEYOUB New Orleans, LA Winter 2003/2004
RMTS
New York, NY July 2001 - August 2002
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CHRISTINE
L. DE SUE
Two Lakeway,
Ste: 1130
3850 N. Causeway Blvd
Metairie, Louisiana 70002
Telephone: 504-831-0055
Facsimile: 504-831-8483
Email:
CDESUE
@ Duteltranchina.com
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FIELD
OF PRACTICE:
Maritime law, general personal injury, complex litigation,
class actions and products liability actions.
EXPERIENCE
April
2007- Present Dutel & Tranchina, L.L.C.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Active
in firm’s commercial litigation, succession law, family law
and personal injury practice.
April
2007- 1995 Partner in the Law Offices of Leger, Shaw & DeSue,
LLC
New Orleans, Louisiana
ADMISSIONS
State
Bar of Louisiana
Bar
Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
American
Bar Association
Association
of Trial Lawyers of America
Board of Governors of the Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association
EDUCATION
Loyola
Univerity School of Law
New Orleans, Louisiana
Juris Doctor, 1995
Distinguished
At Loyola by her selection as a member of the Moot Court Program
Tulane
University
New Orleans, Louisiana
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science
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THOMAS G.
HOPKINS
Two Lakeway,
Ste: 1130
3850 N. Causeway Blvd
Metairie, Louisiana 70002
Telephone: 504-831-0055
Facsimile: 504-831-8483
Email:
THOPKINS
@ Duteltranchina.com
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FIELD
OF PRACTICE:
Commercial
Litigation, Personal Injury
Raised
in Metairie, Louisiana
Admitted to Louisiana Bar
Admitted to California Bar
EDUCATION:
University of San Francisco, School
of Law (J.D. 1998)
The American University, Washington, D.C. (B.A., Political Science
& Literature, cum laude, 1995)
De La Salle High School (1991)
WORK RELATED HISTORY:
Law Offices of Frank J. D’Amico,
Jr. 2004-2006
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein 2000-2003
United Behavioral Health 1999-2000
Law Offices of John E. Miller, 1998-1999
ADMISSIONS:
Louisiana
State Bar Association
California State Bar Association
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RONALD S. HAGAN
517 N. Columbia
Street
Covington, Louisiana 70433
Telephone: 985-892-6474
Facsimile: 985-892-7307
Email:
RHAGAN
@ Duteltranchina.com
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FIELD
OF PRACTICE:
Family
Law, Divorce, Custody
Born in Crowley, Louisiana, May 26, 1958
1987 Admitted to Louisiana Bar
1988 Admitted to United States District Courts for the Middle, Eastern,
and Western Districts of Louisiana
1990 Admitted to United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
1996 Admitted to the United States Supreme Court
EDUCATION:
TULANE LAW SCHOOL, Juris Doctorate, 1987
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, B. S. Environmental Science, 1981
FAMILY LAW CERTIFICATION, 2000
PERSONAL WORK-RELATED HISTORY:
Capella Law Firm
September 1998 to August 2003
Family Law, Succession, and Personal Injury
Wiley J. Beevers, P.L.C. / Beevers & Hagan, l.l.p.
August 1994 through September 1998
Family Law, Succession, Personal Injury, Wills, and Criminal Defense
Ronald S. Hagan, Attorney at Law
Solo Practitioner, February 1989 through July 1994
Family Law, Bankruptcy, Insurance Defense, Personal Injury, and Criminal
Defense.
Windhorst, Gaudry, Talley & Ranson
September 1988 through January 1989
Insurance Defense
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal
Judicial law clerk for Judge Robert L. Lobrano, August 1987 through
August 1988; Judicial intern for Judge William H. Byrnes, January
1987 through May 1987.
MEMBER:
Louisiana State Bar Association, Covington Bar Association.
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MARK J. MANSFIELD
517 N. Columbia
Street
Covington, Louisiana 70433
Telephone: 985-892-6474
Facsimile: 985-892-7307
Email:
MMANSFIELD
@ Duteltranchina.com
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FIELD
OF PRACTICE:
Family
Law, Personal Injury, Criminal Law, Commercial Litigation
Born
in Metairie, Louisiana January 14, 1975
2000 Admitted to Louisiana Bar
2003 U.S District Court, Eastern District
2005 U.S. Supreme Court
EDUCATION
Loyola
University School of Law (J.D. 2000) Member - Phi Delta Phi
Franciscan
University of Steubenville (OH) (B.A. 1997 with honors)
Jesuit
High School
LEGAL
EXPERIENCE
Jefferson
Parish District Attorneys Office, ADA, First Parish Court, 2004
Jefferson
Parish District Attorneys Office, ADA, Second Parish Court, 2003
Jefferson
Parish District Attorneys Office, ADA, Juvenile Court, 2002-2003
David
J. Lukinovich, APLC, Associate, 2000-2002
As an
Assistant District Attorney, Mark practiced in Juvenile
Court, earning convictions and jail time for “Deadbeat
Dads" for failing to pay child support. Mark also prosecuted
in both First Parish and Second Parish Court of Jefferson Parish,
and successfully tried cases from traffic tickets to more serious
crimes such as DWI, domestic abuse battery, assault. Mark
has vast trial and courtroom experience for criminal defense
and civil trials.
MEMBERSHIPS:
Louisiana State Bar Association
Jefferson Parish Bar Association
Notary
Public
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Who's
Who in American College Students 1993-97
Vice
President of Student Body - Franciscan University of Steubenville
- 1996-97
Who's
Who in American Law School Students 1998-2000
Board
Member - New Orleans Medical Mission Services Foundation
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VICTORIA V. OLSON
517 N. Columbia
Street
Covington, Louisiana 70433
Telephone: 985-892-6474
Facsimile: 985-892-7307
Email:
VOLSON
@ Duteltranchina.com
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FIELD
OF PRACTICE:
Family
Law, Divorce
Born
in New Orleans, Louisiana, February 26, 1965
1992 Admitted to Louisiana Bar
EDUCATION:
Davidson College, Davidson, N.C. (B.A. 1986)
Louisiana State University Law Center (J. D. 1992)
LECTURES:
"Ethical Dilemmas for Domestic Attorneys,"
New Orleans Association for Women Attorneys, November 2004
WORK RELATED HISTORY:
Dutel & Tranchina, LLC 1999- present
Mang, Batiza, Gaudin, Gododsky & Penzato
Dwyer & Cambre, APLC
Lewis & Kullman
MEMBER:
Louisiana State Bar Association
Covington Bar Association
22nd Judicial District Inns of Court
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ELENA
PEREZ
Two Lakeway,
Ste: 1130
3850 N. Causeway Blvd
Metairie, Louisiana 70002
Telephone: 504-831-0055
Facsimile: 504-831-8483
Email:
EPEREZ
@ Duteltranchina.com
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FIELD OF PRACTICE:
Divorce, Family law, Wills, Successions, Personal Injury
EDUCATION:
2006 Loyola University School of Law
Juris Doctorate
2001 Vanderbilt University
B.S.:
Human and Organizational Development
Concentration in Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness
Child Development
1998 St. Martin’s Episcopal School
LEGAL
EXPERIENCE
2006- Dutel & Tranchina, L.L.C.
Present
2005-2006
Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s Office
Law Clerk for Parish Courts Division
Clinic Student for Parish Courts Division
2004
Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office
Law Clerk for Felony Division
2002-2003
Robert L. Manard Law Firm
Law Clerk, Plaintiff Personal Injury
MEMBERSHIPS
AND ORGANIZATIONS
American
Bar Association
Sections:
Family Law
Litigation
Torts and Insurance Practice
American Association for Justice (formerly the Association of Trial
Lawyers of America)
Louisiana Bar Association
Covington Bar Association
Jefferson Bar Association
Young Leadership Council of New Orleans
Toastmasters
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RICHARD R. SCHULZE
Two Lakeway,
Ste: 1130
3850 N. Causeway Blvd
Metairie, Louisiana 70002
Telephone: 504-831-0055
Facsimile: 504-831-8483
Email:
RSCHULZE
@ Duteltranchina.com
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FIELD
OF PRACTICE:
Commercial
Litigation, Business Law, Real Estate Law, Estate Planning, Succession,
Personal Injury
General
civil practice specializing in business, employee and commercial law,
estate planning and succession law, interdiction, property law.
Admitted to practice before all courts of the State of Louisiana and
the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Louisiana
and licensed Notary Public.
Cases tried before the Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, St. Tammany,
St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, Plaquemines and Terrebonne Parish
District Courts, the Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals and the Louisiana
First, Fourth and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal.
EDUCATION:
Loyola University School of Law Juris Doctor, 1990
University of New Orleans, Bachelor General Studies, 1983
De La Salle High School 1974
LEGAL
EXPERIENCE:
1999-present Assoicated with Dutel & Tranchina, L.L.C., 3850 N.
Causeway Blvd., Suite 1130, Metairie, LA 70002, (504) 831-0055.
1992-1999: Associated with Law Office of William J. Dutel, 1100 Poydras
Street, Suite 2960, New Orleans, LA 70163, (504) 582-2429.
1990-1991 Sole Practitioner, Law Office of Richard R. Schulze, 2939
Energy Centre, 1100 Poydras Street, Suite 2939, New Orleans, LA 70163-2939.
Primary responsibilities include meeting with clients, preparing and
prosecuting in a general civil arena, specializing in general business
law, real estate, wills, succession and estates and family law; transactional
attorney, drafting contracts, agreements, and legal opinions; litigation,
mediation and arbitration, including drafting pleadings, research,
preparing briefs and memoranda, and arguing at hearings.
SELECTED
REPORTED DECISIONS:
Key West End, Inc. v. Werner, 01-861 (La.App. 5 Cir. 12/12/01); 806
So.2d 710; Szodomka v. Lambert, 94-979 (La.App. 5 Cir. 5/30/95); 657
So.2d 363; Holmes v. Parish of St. Charles 94-844 (La.App. 5 Cir.
3/15/95; 653 So.2d 653; 730 Bienville Partners, Inc. v.. Seiler, 97-2835
(La.App. 4 Cir. 12/19/97); 703 So.2d 1386.
Activities and Memberships:
Notary Public, State of Louisiana (1990)
Louisiana Bar Association (1990)
S.B.A. Representative (1986-88)
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Volunteer (1988-90)
Honor Board Representative (1989-90)
Boy Scouts of America, New Orleans Area Council (1994-present)
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LOUIS
G. DUTEL, Jr.
(1921-2007)
Two Lakeway,
Ste: 1130
3850 N. Causeway Blvd
Metairie, Louisiana 70002
Telephone: 504-831-0055
Facsimile: 504-831-8483
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be answered.
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Born
1921
Admitted
1948; Loyola University - New Orleans, B.S.; Tulane University, LL.B.
Louis
Dutel has over fifty years of experience in real estate law and title
work. He currently enjoys an of counsel relationship with
the Firm and helps with real estate and title issues at the Metairie
office.
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JUDGE FREDRICK S. ELLIS
517 N. Columbia
Street
Covington, Louisiana 70433
Telephone: 985-892-6474
Facsimile: 985-892-7307
Email:
COVINGTON
@ Duteltranchina.com
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FIELD
OF PRACTICE:
Commercial
Litigation
Frederick
Stephen Ellis was born in Amite , Louisiana , on October 20, 1924
, the son of Ezekiel Parke Ellis and the former Lelia Marguerite Rightor.
He received
his high school education at New Orleans Academy , earned his B.S.
(Geology) degree from Tulane University in 1948, and his LL.B. degree
in 1951. He was Vice President of the Student body of Tulane; Editor-in-Chief
of Jambalaya; Chairman, Publications Board, Kappa Delta Phi, honorary
leadership fraternity; Thetu Nu, honorary journalism fraternity; Gamma
Epsilon Omega, honorary geology fraternity; Phi Delta Phi, honorary
legal fraternity; Alpha Tau Omega, social fraternity; Pan Hellenic
Council, Cross Country team, and while in law school, served on the
Moot Court Board and the Tulane Law Review.
After
practicing law in Covington , Louisiana , with the late Dalton J.
Barranger, Judge Ellis was elected Judge of the Twenty-Second Judicial
District Court, Division "B", where he served from October
31, 1960 to December 6, 1966 . Judge Ellis was elected to the Court
of Appeal, First Circuit, on November 8, 1966 , and re-elected in
November of 1970. He served as Chief Judge of the First Circuit from
September, 1979, until his retirement on September 1, 1982 .
He has
served as Chairman of the Conference of Court of Appeal Judges, on
the Judicial Council, Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Ethics and
the Judicial Budgetary Control Board. Judge Ellis belongs to the following
organizations: Louisiana State Board Association, Covington Bar Association,
St. Tammany Historical Society, the Boston Club and the Pickwick Club.
He has
taught at the Tulane and LSU Law School .
Judge
Ellis is a former member of the Louisiana Council of Juvenile Court
Judges, the Louisiana District Judges Association, the American Judicature
Society and the American Legion. He has served as an officer and director
of Covington Playmakers, Inc., Covington Community Concert Association,
the Louisiana Association for Mental Health, Louisiana Conference
for Social Welfare, Louisiana Council for Music and the Performing
Arts, Covington Lions Club and Covington Rotary Club.
Since
his retirement in 1982, he has served as Judge ad hoc in the Civil
District Court for the Parish of Orleans, the 21st, 22nd, 25th, 29th
and 40th Judicial District Courts, the Court of Appeal, First Circuit
and the Louisiana Supreme Court.
From June,
1989, until April, 1992, he served as Liquidator of the Champion Insurance
Company, at the time one of the biggest insurance company failures
in the United States .
Judge
Ellis is now of counsel with the law firm of Dutel & Tranchina,
LLC, in Covington , Louisiana . He also serves as Independent Counsel
for the State Board of Medical Examiners.
Judge
Ellis is the author of "American Activity in Louisiana in the
Revolutionary War" and " St. Tammany Parish: L'Autre Cote'
du Lac", a history of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
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