More than $100 million recovered puts Scott Vicknair among the busier New Orleans personal injury lawyers. Partners Brad Scott and David Vicknair lead a team with over 120 years of combined legal experience.
The firm handles car and truck wrecks, motorcycle crashes, slip and fall claims, and aviation cases. Maritime work is a specialty, covering Jones Act, Longshore Act, and offshore rig injuries for seamen and dockworkers.
Separate practice pages cover injuries at the Caesars Superdome, in the French Quarter, and during Mardi Gras. Staff answer calls around the clock and speak Spanish. Cases run on contingency, so nothing is owed unless the firm wins.
Loyd Bourgeois built his practice around people the system tends to overlook, starting with disability claimants in 2005. Today he is an injury lawyer in Metairie serving Jefferson Parish and the wider New Orleans area.
Case results include $2 million for a hotel fall and $2 million for the widow of a mesothelioma victim. Bourgeois holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been named to Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers.
A second office sits in Luling. Clients also get a 30-day guarantee: if the fit is wrong, the file goes back at no charge.
The Chopin Law Firm LLC is a father-and-son practice with more than 100 years of collective courtroom experience. Richard Chopin belongs to the American Board of Trial Advocates and has tried over 125 cases to verdict.
Clients have reclaimed upwards of $115 million, including a $12.55 million medical malpractice settlement after a hospital mishandled a stroke. Much of the team spent years on the defense side, so they quickly read insurance company tactics.
These personal injury attorneys in New Orleans are licensed in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi. Their work spans trucking crashes, workers' compensation, offshore claims, and Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest injuries.
Boutique by design, Bloom Legal Network keeps its caseload small so a senior attorney handles every matter start to finish. Seth Bloom has practiced for two decades in Orleans Parish and is admitted in Louisiana, Texas, and every federal court in both states.
Criminal defense, estate planning, and business law lead the practice today. Injury and hurricane property claims are taken selectively.
Over 40,000 cases won in three decades make Forstall a familiar name to anyone looking for an accident lawyer in New Orleans. Chip and Jonathan Forstall run the office together, backed by more than 100 years of combined experience.
Settlements include $4 million for a family after a fatal collision and $3.25 million for an injured motorcyclist. The practice also handles mesothelioma, hurricane damage, and pedestrian claims, and serves Spanish-speaking clients.
Tom Shlosman is a New Orleans injury attorney who began his career trying serious felony cases. He prepares every file as though it will reach a jury.
His practice centers on maritime work across the Gulf Coast. Claims involve rig explosions, barge and dock injuries, commercial diving, and the rights of brown-water seamen.
He also takes 18-wheeler collisions and catastrophic injury cases. Consultations are free.
Few downtown practices pair Social Security disability work with injury claims. Benjamin Misko has guided hundreds of disabled clients through a process that defeats most people who try it alone.
On the injury side, he handles car crashes and falls caused by someone else's negligence. Misko belongs to NOSSCR, the Louisiana Association for Justice, and the New Orleans Bar Association.
Mike Mahone answers his own phone. He runs the practice alone and keeps his docket small, so clients reach the attorney rather than a paralegal or an intake screener.
His injury work covers car, truck, and bicycle collisions, workplace harm, and vessel claims involving maintenance and cure or an unseaworthy ship. Commercial disputes and unpaid overtime matters fill out the rest.
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Founded in 1975 by Judge David Gertler, this injury law firm now runs under Mike, Louis, and Josh Gertler. Fifty years on, it is still known for taking opponents with deep pockets to court.
A $591 million verdict against tobacco companies funded a statewide smoking cessation program. Other results include a $4.95 million product liability award and repeated seven-figure mesothelioma settlements.
The team also handles birth injuries, nursing home neglect, and traumatic brain injury claims across Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard parishes.
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Bruno & Bruno is a family-run trial practice that three generations have carried since 1950. Offices in New Orleans and Covington serve clients statewide, with Spanish-language intake available.
Cases include motor vehicle collisions, medical negligence, premises claims, and maritime matters. The firm has also handled class actions tied to the BP oil spill, Chinese drywall, and the Agriculture Street Landfill. Reported results include $1.5 million for a FEMA trailer explosion.
Before opening his own office, John S. Williams served as legal director for the ACLU of Louisiana, working on juvenile justice and prison reform. That background shapes how he handles cases where a driver blames the person they hit.
He represents cyclists, pedestrians, and rideshare passengers hurt from the French Quarter to the Central Business District. That includes visitors who have already flown home.
More than $100 million in verdicts, judgments, and settlements backs this Mid-City practice. Its trial lawyers bring over 80 years of combined experience. James Kambur once represented insurers, which shapes how the team reads an adjuster's file.
Every case is injury work: crashes, bus and taxi collisions, and back or soft tissue damage.
Fishman Haygood is a 40-attorney Louisiana firm better known for mass torts than for everyday accident files. Special counsel Steve Herman served as one of two lead class counsel in the Deepwater Horizon litigation.
Thirty years old this year, the firm ranks Tier 1 in New Orleans for mass tort and class action work.
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Allen Borne founded this Uptown practice in 1985 and has since set a precedent in the Louisiana Supreme Court. He teaches as an adjunct professor at Tulane Law School.
Work splits between successions and civil claims, with an emphasis on auto and 18-wheeler collisions and wrongful death.
Serving the metro area from offices in Metairie, Gretna, and New Orleans East, John W. Redmann has taken injury claims since 1994. Recoveries include $3.9 million after a truck crash and $3.5 million in a fatal-accident case. Staff work in English and Spanish.
Injuries on the water and at U.S. military installations are the whole practice here. Arthur Brewster handles Longshore Act and Defense Base Act claims nationwide, traveling to meet clients wherever they are based.