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Three Louisiana Galloway Attorneys Named Super Lawyers 2018
Three Louisiana Galloway Attorneys Named Super Lawyers 2018
Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr and Smith would like to congratulate the following three Louisiana attorneys on being selected at Super Lawyers 2018: Jason Waguespack (New Orleans) Kathleen Charvet (New Orleans) Timothy Hassinger (Mandeville) Super Lawyers selects attorneys using a patented…
Department of Labor Adopts New Intern Test
Department of Labor Adopts New Intern Test
On January 5, 2018, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it will conform to case law and no longer follow the six-part test it previously recommended for determining whether interns are employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). …
New Orleans Attorneys Obtain Summary Judgment in Premises Liability Case
New Orleans Attorneys Obtain Summary Judgment in Premises Liability Case
A Louisiana state court recently entered summary judgment in favor of the firm’s client, a New Orleans hotel, on the grounds that the hotel did not owe a duty to protect plaintiffs from third-party criminal activity. New Orleans attorneys James Prather…
Case Updates from United States Supreme Court, Fifth Circuit, Eighth Circuit, and Eleventh Circuit
Case Updates from United States Supreme Court, Fifth Circuit, Eighth Circuit, and Eleventh Circuit
United States Supreme Court Civ. Pro.: Jurisdictional v. Mandatory Processing Rules Hamer v. Neighborhood Hous. Servs. of Chicago, No. 16-658, 2017 WL 5160782 (U.S. Nov. 8, 2017): The U.S. Supreme Court clarified whether the time allowed to file appeal under…
Fifth Circuit Considers OPA’s Third-Party Defense in Connection with Mississippi River Oil Spill
Fifth Circuit Considers OPA’s Third-Party Defense in Connection with Mississippi River Oil Spill
United States v. Am. Commercial Lines, L.L.C., 2017 WL 5146110 (5th Cir. Nov. 7, 2017) Right after midnight on March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck the Bligh Reef off the coast of Alaska’s Prince William Sound. The…
Pensacola Attorneys Obtain Summary Judgment From The Florida First District Court of Appeal
Pensacola Attorneys Obtain Summary Judgment From The Florida First District Court of Appeal
The Florida First District Court of Appeal recently affirmed an order of summary judgment obtained by Dave Jester, Austin Moretz, and Jessica Scholl of the firm’s Pensacola office. The issue on appeal was whether the general contractor was entitled to…
Alabama Attorney Resolves Client’s Title Defect and Avoids Potential of Costly Litigation
Alabama Attorney Resolves Client’s Title Defect and Avoids Potential of Costly Litigation
George Gaston of the firm’s Mobile office resolved a client mortgage lender’s title defect without the necessity of filing potentially drawn-out and costly litigation. The matter regarded two defective deeds in the borrower’s chain of title, both of which failed…
St. Louis Attorney Obtains Set Aside of Bankruptcy Discharge Order
St. Louis Attorney Obtains Set Aside of Bankruptcy Discharge Order
Despite inflexible precedent followed throughout the federal judicial circuits construing the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure and Bankruptcy Code, the Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri recently set aside an order of…
Judicial Estoppel Leads to Complete Dismissal of Plaintiff’s Wrongful Foreclosure Case
Judicial Estoppel Leads to Complete Dismissal of Plaintiff’s Wrongful Foreclosure Case
George Gaston of the firm’s Mobile office obtained a complete dismissal of a borrower’s wrongful foreclosure lawsuit in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Our client is a loan servicer and had been named as one of two defendants in the lawsuit based on alleged failures in…
Mobile Attorneys Obtain Summary Judgment in Negligent Procurement Case
Mobile Attorneys Obtain Summary Judgment in Negligent Procurement Case
Jonathan Minchin and Natalie Daugherty, both of the firm’s Mobile office, recently secured summary judgment on behalf of their clients, an insurance company and its agent, in a negligence and negligent procurement case in the Circuit Court of Winston County, Alabama. …
Galloway Attorney Delivers Remarks at U.S. District Court Naturalization Ceremony in New Orleans
Galloway Attorney Delivers Remarks at U.S. District Court Naturalization Ceremony in New Orleans
Special Counsel Megan Jackler, an attorney with Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith in the firm’s New Orleans and Mandeville offices, was invited to serve as guest speaker at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana’s…
Katrina at 20: How Galloway Turned Crisis Into Growth
Katrina at 20: How Galloway Turned Crisis Into Growth
In late August 2005, Hurricane Katrina entered the Gulf of Mexico, quickly intensifying to an extremely dangerous Category 5 hurricane. On August 29, 2005, it made landfall as a powerful Category 3 storm which caused major devastation in the Greater…
Texas Defense Attorney Adraon D. Greene Joins Prestigious FDCC
Texas Defense Attorney Adraon D. Greene Joins Prestigious FDCC
Texas defense attorney Adraon D. Greene, a Director at Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith in the firm’s Houston and Dallas offices, has been accepted as a member of the exclusive Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC). Adraon joins…
Galloway Secures Rare Dismissal of Longshore Claim in 11th Circuit
Galloway Secures Rare Dismissal of Longshore Claim in 11th Circuit
Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith recently obtained a favorable result for their client before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Special Counsel Susan F. E. Bruhnke and her sophisticated strategies led the team to secure the dismissal of a Longshore…
71 Galloway Attorneys Recognized in 2026 Best Lawyers in America®
71 Galloway Attorneys Recognized in 2026 Best Lawyers in America®
Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith proudly announces that 71 attorneys have been named to the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers and its…
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