Experience

Sutterfield & Webb LLC

• United States
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Partner-Attorney

  • Jun 2016 - Present

  At Sutterfield and Webb, LLC, I specialize in a broad range of litigation matters, including workers’ compensation, insurance coverage, first-party commercial property insurance disputes, premises liability, personal injury defense, and toxic tort litigation. I am a graduate of Tulane University Law School, where I was a member of the Moot Court Board and was the individual runner-up in the 1998 Junior Appellate Tournament. I am admitted to practice in all state courts in Louisiana, Florida and Alabama. I am also admitted to all Louisiana and Alabama federal courts and to the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.



Fitzpatrick &Burnette, LLC

• Attorney

  • 2014 - 2016

  Wide range of litigation matters, focusing on large first-party commercial property insurance disputes.



Nielsen, Carter & Treas, LLC

• United States
• Legal Services

• Associate Attorney

  • 2013 - 2014

  - Worked with over thirty other attorneys as national trial counsel for most major insurance carriers participating in the National Flood Insurance Program. - First-chair litigator representing numerous NFIP carriers in over sixty cases in "Superstorm Sandy" litigation in New York and New Jersey federal district courts.



Kanner & Whiteley, LLC

• United States
• Legal Services

• Associate Attorney

  • 2010 - 2013

  - Represented the State of Louisiana (special counsel to the Louisiana Attorney General) in the Federal Multi-District Litigation for the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster (E.D. La. MDL-2179). - Played a prominent role in largest civil litigation in U.S. history, as Louisiana’s claims against BP exceed one half billion dollars ($500,000,000) in damages. This included conducting scores of depositions of BP, Transocean and Halliburton executives and other witnesses, taken on behalf of Louisiana in London, UK and New Orleans, as well as working with experts on complex economic damage claims and high-level research and drafting of major filings on behalf of State of Louisiana. - Other casework provided class action experience in Louisiana, New Jersey and Nevada federal courts on matters ranging from consumer fraud to environmental/toxic torts and natural resources damages.



Lloyd, Gray, Whitehead & Monroe, PC

• United States
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Attorney

  • Jan 2002 - Jul 2009

  - Nearly eight years’ experience for this reputable 35-attorney defense firm, focusing on insurance coverage, workers’ compensation, medical malpractice, commercial litigation and complex tort litigation in Florida and Alabama.- Prepared successful writ of mandamus brief and formulated legal argument adopted by Alabama Supreme Court regarding waiver of psychotherapist-patient privilege in Ex parte T.O., 2004 WL 2201931 (Ala. 2004) - Assumed a leading role in complex multi-million dollar Florida insurance value appraisal case involving condominium reconstruction- Authored over twenty liability insurance coverage opinions, handled over two hundred workers’ compensation and general liability cases- Extensive record of successful appellate and mandamus work in Alabama Supreme Court