352 attorneys and law firms across Louisiana are listed here, with the deepest coverage in Baton Rouge, Alexandria, New Orleans, Mandeville and Slidell. The practice areas represented most often are personal injury, business law, maritime law and products liability.
How the courts are organised
Louisiana is organised into parishes rather than counties, and its trial courts are district courts numbered by judicial district. Appeals go to one of five circuit courts of appeal and then the Louisiana Supreme Court. Federal cases fall to the Eastern, Middle or Western District of Louisiana.
Points that shape Louisiana cases
— Louisiana is the one state whose private law derives from the civil law rather than the common law. Its Civil Code governs obligations, contracts, sales, property and succession in terms that differ from the rest of the country, and out-of-state form agreements frequently do not work as intended.
— The state uses its own vocabulary — prescription rather than statute of limitations, usufruct, forced heirship — and several deadlines are shorter than in neighbouring states.
— Louisiana is a community property state, and it applies pure comparative fault.
— Maritime and offshore work is a substantial part of practice along the coast and the river corridor, and those claims run under federal admiralty law rather than state law.
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