Chambers USA 2022 Ranks 19 Phelps Practice Areas and 56 Lawyers

NEW ORLEANS — June 1, 2022  — Phelps lawyers and practices showed their strongest performance on a list released today of premier lawyers and law firms across the country. Chambers USA recognized 56 Phelps lawyers in its 2022 edition. The guide also ranked Phelps as a leading law firm in 19 practice areas.

For the 18th straight year, Phelps’ Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Litigation (outside New York) practice was nationally ranked. The guide praised Phelps as a “formidable presence in the Gulf Coast region, particularly regarding issues involving the oil industry” with “both brown-water and blue-water capacity” and “deep industry expertise, sought after by multinational companies, shipowners and underwriters, including major P&I clubs.”

Three Phelps lawyers in this practice were also recognized on the national level, with clients highlighting their “honest, candid legal advice” and crediting them as “excellent, practical and savvy” and “timely, organized and focused on the critical issues.”

Phelps earned Chambers USA’s highest recognition, Band 1, in nine practice areas:

• • Banking and Finance - Louisiana
  • Energy and Natural Resources: Utilities - Louisiana
  • Environment - Louisiana
  • Gaming and Licensing - Louisiana
  • Insurance - Louisiana
  • Labor and Employment - Louisiana and Mississippi
  • Real Estate - Louisiana
  • Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Litigation (outside New York) - Nationwide

Chambers USA also recognized Phelps in 10 other practices:

• • Construction - Florida and Louisiana
  • Corporate/M&A - Louisiana
  • Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation - Louisiana
  • Health Care - Louisiana
  • Insurance - Florida
  • Intellectual Property - Louisiana
  • Labor and Employment – Florida
  • Litigation: General Commercial - Louisiana and Mississippi

Chambers USA ranks lawyers based on exhaustive research compiled by its in-house independent research team and editors, including submissions and feedback from clients and comments from peers at other firms. Rankings are based on categories such as technical legal ability, client service, professionalism and diligence. Several of the firm’s lawyers were recognized in more than one practice area, and six joined the list for the first time this year. Ranked Phelps lawyers include:

Alabama

• • James F. Henry – Health care
  • Crawford S. McGivaren, Jr - Litigation: general commercial

Florida

• • A. Brian Albritton - Litigation: white-collar crime and government investigations
  • Bret Feldman - Construction
  • Matthew L. Litsky - Insurance
  • Dennis McClelland - Labor and employment
  • Michael McGriskin - Insurance
  • John Phillips - Labor and employment
  • Reed L. Russell - Labor and employment
  • Seth M. Schimmel - Construction

Louisiana

• • Lee Adler - Marine finance
  • M. Nan Alessandra - Labor and employment
  • Jane E. Armstrong - Employee benefits and executive compensation
  • Jeffrey M. Barbin – Gaming and licensing
  • William Bishop - Corporate/mergers and acquisitions
  • Shelton Dennis Blunt - Litigation: general commercial
  • Kim M. Boyle - Labor and employment
  • Philip deV. Claverie, Sr. – Banking and finance, real estate
  • Philip deV. Claverie, Jr. – Banking and finance, real estate
  • Virginia Dodd - Insurance
  • Warner Delaune - Intellectual property
  • Mark A. Fullmer - Corporate/mergers and acquisitions
  • Kelsey Funes – Construction
  • Susan W. Furr - Labor and employment
  • Cecile L. Gordon - Health care
  • Karleen J. Green - Employee benefits and executive compensation
  • J. Alan Harrell – Environment: litigation
  • David D. "Beau" Haynes - Health care
  • Michael D. Hunt – Construction
  • Nathan Huntwork – Energy and natural resources: utilities
  • Thomas H. Kiggans - Labor and employment
  • Errol King, Jr. - Health care
  • David M. Korn - Labor and employment
  • Steve J. Levine – Environment, environment: litigation
  • Daniel Lund, III – Construction
  • Daniel Pancamo – Energy and natural resources: utilities
  • David Patrón - Litigation: general commercial
  • Christopher Ralston - Litigation: general commercial
  • P. Ragan Richard - Real estate
  • Harry Rosenberg - Litigation: general commercial, white-collar crime and government investigations
  • Randy P. Roussel - Real estate
  • Mary Ellen Roy - Intellectual property
  • Rick Shelby - Bankruptcy/restructuring
  • John O. Shirley – Energy and natural resources: utilities
  • James A. Stuckey – Banking and finance, Real estate
  • Michael Williams - Employee benefits and executive compensation
  • Alan C. Wolf – Energy and natural resources: utilities

Mississippi

• • G. Todd Butler - Labor and employment
  • James W. O'Mara - Bankruptcy/restructuring
  • Bridgforth Rutledge - Real estate
  • W. Thomas Siler, Jr. - Labor and employment
  • James Shelson - Litigation: general commercial
  • James G. Wyly III - Litigation: general commercial

USA - Nationwide

• • Gary Hemphill - Transportation: shipping/maritime: litigation - outside New York
  • Kevin LaVie - Transportation: shipping/maritime: litigation - outside New York
  • Ivan M. Rodriguez - Transportation: shipping/maritime: litigation - outside New York

About Phelps Dunbar

Phelps is a full-service law firm of more than 350 attorneys. We blend valuable traditions and progressive ideas to foster a culture of collaboration among our lawyers in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, and London. Our six core practice groups — admiralty, business, health care, insurance, labor and employment, and litigation — work together to offer clients a progressive, diverse practice and partnership that handles a broad range of sophisticated business needs regionally, nationally, and internationally.