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Kevin Welsh Associate
Baton Rouge
kevin.welsh@phelps.com
225-376-7954  direct
kevin.welsh@phelps.com
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Kevin Welsh practices in the areas of insurance, reinsurance and litigation. He has represented clients in a range of litigation matters including professional liability claims, commercial class actions, education law, real property disputes and casualty litigation.

Outside of litigation, Kevin has assisted clients in regulated industries by preparing draft legislation in support of broader, successful legislative lobbying efforts.

Experience Insights Memberships & Affiliations

Practice Focus

Experience

  • Representation of multiple insurers in state-wide federal class action regarding first-party property damage valuation practices.
  • Representation of a Louisiana parish school board from trial proceedings through Louisiana Supreme Court writ practice in teacher tenure dispute.
  • Representation of insurer's managing general agent in errors and omissions claim involving multiple rounds of district court and appellate proceedings.
  • Representation of a railroad in mass tort litigation in all stages of appellate litigation.
  • Representation of a commercial lender involved in security interest priority dispute with competing Internal Revenue Service tax lien.
  • Advising clients regarding industrial construction dispute in Latin America.
  • Representation of architectural firm in a multi-party construction contract dispute.
  • Representation of client in riparian property rights dispute including district court and appellate proceedings.
  • Advising landowners in multi-state servitude/easement dispute.
  • Preparation of draft legislation later enacted by the Louisiana Legislature.

Insights

Publications
  • "Collision Course: How Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) Has Silently Undermined the Prohibition on American Pipe Tolling During Appeals of Class Certification Denials," 73 La. L. Rev. 1183

Memberships & Affiliations

  • Louisiana State Bar Association

Education

  • Louisiana State University Law Center
    J.D./D.C.L., summa cum laude, 2013; Order of the Coif; Editor, Louisiana Law Review
  • Loyola University New Orleans
    B.A., magna cum laude, in Political Science, 2010

Admissions

  • Louisiana
  • Representation of multiple insurers in state-wide federal class action regarding first-party property damage valuation practices.
  • Representation of a Louisiana parish school board from trial proceedings through Louisiana Supreme Court writ practice in teacher tenure dispute.
  • Representation of insurer's managing general agent in errors and omissions claim involving multiple rounds of district court and appellate proceedings.
  • Representation of a railroad in mass tort litigation in all stages of appellate litigation.
  • Representation of a commercial lender involved in security interest priority dispute with competing Internal Revenue Service tax lien.
  • Advising clients regarding industrial construction dispute in Latin America.
  • Representation of architectural firm in a multi-party construction contract dispute.
  • Representation of client in riparian property rights dispute including district court and appellate proceedings.
  • Advising landowners in multi-state servitude/easement dispute.
  • Preparation of draft legislation later enacted by the Louisiana Legislature.
  • "Collision Course: How Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) Has Silently Undermined the Prohibition on American Pipe Tolling During Appeals of Class Certification Denials," 73 La. L. Rev. 1183
    • Louisiana State Bar Association