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ATTORNEY PROFILES
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Lawrence S. Kullman
New Orleans, Louisiana
Founding Partner, since 1987
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(504) 588-1500
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(504) 588-1514
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- Areas of Practice:
Admiralty Law
Medical Malpractice
Products Liability Law
Litigation Percentage:
97% of Practice Devoted to Litigation |
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Bar Admissions:|
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Louisiana
U.S. District Court Western District of Louisiana
U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
Education:
Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975
J.D.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970,B.A.
Honors: Cum Laude
Major: Government
Representative Cases:
Acosta v. Campbell, 744 So. 2d 112 (La. App. 4 Cir. 1999)
Bank of New Orleans & Trust Co. v. Oil Screw Tracy Marie, 455 F. Supp. 78, 1979 A.M.C. 642 (W.D. La. 1978)
Bank of New Orleans & Trust Co. v. Oil Screw Tracy Marie, 580 F.2d 808, 1979 A.M.C. 646 (5th Cir. 1978)
Bastoe v. Sterling Drug, Inc., 683 F. Supp. 586 (S.D. Miss. 1988)
Bourgeois v. McDonald, 622 So. 2d 684 (La. App. 4th Cir. 1993)
Brunner v. Maritime Overseas Corp., 779 F. 2d 296, 1986 A.M.C. 2630
(5th Cir. 1986)
Descant v. Administrators of Tulane Educational Fund, 627 So. 2d 214
(La. App. 4th Cir. 1993)
Descant v. Administrators of Tulane Educational Fund, 653 So. 2d 819
(La. App. 4th Cir 1995)
Descant v. Administrators of Tulane Educational Fund, 706 So. 2d 618
(La. App. 4 Cir. 1998)
Descant v. Herrera, 890 So. 2d 788 (La. App. 4 Cir. 2004)
Finkelstein v. Barthelemy, 678 F. Supp. 1255 (E.D. La. 1988)
Finkelstein v. Barthelemy, 565 So. 2d 1098 (La. App. 4th Cir. 1990)
Fortier v. Dehne, 804 So. 2d 819 (La. App. 4 Cir. 2001)
Gotto v. ARA Living Center, 570 So. 2d 1172 (La. App. 5th Cir. 1990)
Grantham v. Avondale Industries, Inc., 964 F.2d 471, 1993 A.M.C. 1671 (5th Cir. 1992)
International Soc. for Krishna Consciousness, Inc. v. Lentini, 461 F. Supp. 49
(E.D. La. 1978)
Kennedy v. U.S., 750 F. Supp. 206 (W.D. La. 1990)
In re Kaufman, 455 So. 2d 1269 (La. App. 4th Cir. 1984)
Landry v. Board of Levee Com'rs of Orleans Levee Dist., 477 So. 2d 672 (La. 1985)
Landry v. State, 466 So. 2d 758 (La. App. 4th Cir. 1985)
Lucas v. Tenet Health System Hospitals, Inc., 818 So. 2d 269 (La. App. 4 Cir. 2002)
Marriott Hotel Property II, Ltd. Partnership v. U.S. Gypsum Co, 675 So. 2d 751
(La. App. 4th Cir. 1996)
Miles v. AIG Life Ins. Co., 2004 WL 2381516 (E.D. La. 2004)
Miles v. AIG Life Ins. Co., 2004 WL 2988472 (E.D. La. 2004)
Miles v. AIG Life Ins. Co., 2005 WL 147387 (E.D. La. 2005)
Miles v. AIG Life Ins. Co., 2005 WL 1038668 (E.D. La. 2005)
Owens v. Boh Bros. Const. Co., Inc., 816 So. 2d 311 (La. App. 3 Cir. 2002)
Rajnowski v. St. Patrick's Hosp. of Lake Charles, 551 So. 2d 806 (La. App. 3d Cir. 1989)
Rajnowski v. St. Patrick's Hosp., 564 So. 2d 671, reh. den. (La. 1990)
Rajnowski v. St. Patrick's Hosp of Lake Charles, 768 So. 2d. 88 (La. App. 3d Cir. 2000)
Rajnowski v. Guidry, 768 So.2d 90 (La. App. 3rd Cir. 2000)
Rohde v. Southeastern Drilling Co., Inc., 667 F. 2d 1215 (5th Cir. 1982)
Savelle v. Heilbrum, 552 So. 2d 52 (La. App. 3d Cir. 1989)
Stamoulos v. Howland Panama, S.A., 610 F. Supp. 453 (E.D. La. 1985)
Tramonte v. Chrysler, 136 F.3d 1025 (5th Cir. 1998)
Tyler v. Sterling Drug Co., 19 F. Supp. 2d 1229 (N.D. Okla. 1998)
Usry v. Louisiana Dept. of Highways 459 F. Supp. 56 (E.D. La. 1978)
Wesley v. Louisiana Patient's Compensation Fund, 712 So. 2d 594
(La. App. 1 Cir 1998)
Williamson v. Hospital Service Dist. No. 1 of Jeffersons, 888 So. 2d 782
(La. App. Cir. 2004)
Young v. Armadores de Cabotaje, S.A., 617 So. 2d 517 (La. App. 4th Cir. 1993)
Young v. Armadores de Cabatoje, S.A., 645 So. 2d 1266, 1995 A.M.C. 800
(La. App. 4th Cir. 1994)
Classes/Seminars Taught:
ERISA Plans and Medicare HMO's: Preemption and Remedies, Louisiana Trial Lawyer's Association Last Chance Seminar, 2003
Post - Chittenden: The Ethics of Financing Cases and Client Advances (A Progress Report), LSU Center of Continuing Professional Development, 2nd Judge Alvin B. Rubin Conference on Maritime Personal Injury Law, 2003
The Ethics of Financing Cases and Client Advances, Louisiana Trial Lawyer's Association, Money 101 for Lawyers: Liens, Loans & Liability Program, 2002
"Loss of a Chance", Louisiana State Bar Association, Medical Malpractice Section, 1997
"Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act", Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association, Medical Malpractice Section, 1997
"Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act", Louisiana State Bar Association Yours to Choose Seminar, 1996
"Medical Review Panels", The Hampton Group How to Handle a Medical Review Panel Seminar, 1995
"Screening Medical Malpractice Cases and Getting Around the Cap", Academy of New Orleans Trial Lawyers Seminar, 1993
"Injury and Disability of the Back", Tulane Law School Program on Medical Anatomy for Attorneys, 1992
The Ethics of Motion Practice, Loyola Law School Seminar on Trials and Errors, 1992
Trials and Errors, "The Ethics of Motion Practice", Loyola Law School Seminar, 1992
"Screening of Medical Malpractice Cases and Recent Developments", Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association Law and Medicine Seminar, 1992
"Expert Witnesses - Testimony of the Expert Economist", Louisiana State Bar Association Eighth Annual Summer School for Lawyers, 1992
"The Rehabilitation Specialist in Litigation: The Plaintiff's Perspective", Touro Infirmary Hospital, 1991
"Admissibility of Expert Testimony: Increasing Judicial Scrutiny and the Rules of Evidence", Louisiana Trial Lawyers AssociationAspen Winter Seminar, 1991
"Taking Depositions", Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association Discovery and Settlement Seminar, 1990
"Ethics and Motion Practice", Loyola Law Seminar in the CBD, 1990
"Federal Preemption of State Tort Remedies", Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association Spring Seminar, 1990
"An Ounce of Prevention", Tulane Continuing Legal Education Avoiding Legal Malpractice Seminar, 1988
"Issues in Professional Malpractice", Loyola Law School Seminar, 1988
Honors and Awards:
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers, 1999 - Present
Professional Associations and Memberships:
Louisiana State Bar Association, 1985 - 1996
Medical-Legal Committee on Inter-Professional Relations
American Bar Association
Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association, 1985 - Present
Board of Governors
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America, 1990 - 1997
Chairman, Amicus Curiae Committee
Louisiana Medical Disclosure Panel
Past Employment Positions:
Kierr, Gainsburgh, Benjamin, Fallon & Lewis, Partner, 1981 - 1987
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Washington, D.C., Executive Assistant, 1980 - 1981
Kierr, Gainsburgh, Benjamin, Fallon & Lewis, Partner, 1978 - 1980
Kierr, Gainsburgh, Benjamin, Fallon & Lewis, Associate, 1975 - 1978
From our law offices in New Orleans, Louisiana, our personal injury lawyers serve clients along the Gulf Coast, from Texas to Alabama. We can help clients in Florida, Mississippi, and anywhere in the US in matters of maritime law and serious personal injury.
Contact us today to schedule your free initial consultation.
toll free: 1-800-960-1526 local: 504-588-1500
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