I was court-appointed in MDL 330 Swine Flu Immunization Products Liability Litigation to represent all the plaintiffs (approximately 4,000) across the United States in reference to the Swine Flu Inoculation Program.  These cases were tried and handled in Washington, D.C. before U. S. District Judge Gearhart Gisel (deceased), with settlements and/or verdicts in excess of five hundred million dollars.

            I have been involved in a number of air crash disasters in both Louisiana and Colorado.

            I was appointed to the Plaintiffs' Legal Committee by U. S. District Judge Henry Mentz in reference to Watson v. Shell Oil Company, which concerned a refinery explosion of May 5, 1988, and involved approximately 18,000 claims.  This case was ultimately settled for more than two hundred million dollars.

            I was appointed Lead Counsel in reference to Deion McGee, et al v. Shell Oil Company, et al,  involving 5,000 people.  The class was certified by Judge Joel T. Chaisson and affirmed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Louisiana State Supreme Court.

            I was appointed to the Plaintiffs' Legal Committee as lead counsel by Judge Joel Chaisson in Gail Clement v. Occidental Chemical Company, a class action involving approximately 10,000 people.  I recently settled this case for thirteen million dollars, and my office handled all claim forms, depositions and settlement for over 8,000 people.

            I was appointed to the Plaintiffs' Legal Committees by both U. S. District Judge Parker and U. S. District Judge Polozola in reference to two separate explosions at the Exxon Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  These cases involved more than 9,000 people each.

            I was appointed lead counsel in the Dupont Chemical Company Explosion, which involves approximately 1,200 people in Reserve, Louisiana.

            I was appointed lead counsel and tried to a successful verdict after four weeks the United Gas Pipeline Case.  This case involved the rupture and/or explosion of a gas pipeline on three separate occasions.  Approximately 18,000 people were involved in this litigation.  The sample case was ultimately settled, after trial, for more than one and a half million dollars.  The class cases were tried, one to a jury verdict and one before a District Judge, resulting in a punitive damage award of double the amount of compensatory damages.  This was the first class action punitive damage award in Louisiana.

            In reference to MDL 926 In re Breast Implant Products Liability Litigation, my office supplied forty-three attorneys, full time, for over two years to the document depository in Cincinnati, Ohio.  In addition, I supervised approximately thirty lawyers who were supplied by Wendell Gauthier, John Cummings, Calvin Fayard and Hugh Sibley.  I personally took numerous depositions in this litigation, including the CEO of Dow Corning Corporation and Dr. Georgiade, the inventor of the MEC breast implant devices (a Bristol-Myers defendant).  At the request of MDL Judge Pointer I loaned four of my attorneys, full time, to handle the incoming calls of unrepresented women who needed questions answered in reference to the Breast Implant Litigation (it should be noted that this resulted in only a ten thousand dollar profit to my firm).  I personally spent, on the common effort, in excess of four million dollars.

            In addition, my office provided thirteen lawyers, full time, to a computer center in Louisiana which allowed me to represent women in the Breast Implant Case who could not find attorneys willing to handle their cases.  Under MDL Judge Pointer's direction, these women were represented on a per hour basis and not on a percentage.  My staff and I handled approximately six hundred of these cases. 

            I regularly try at least five or six major jury trials per year and work seven days a week, ten to fourteen hours per day.

            My firm does a great deal of indigent defender work on criminal cases where we are paid less than $10 per hour.  Within the past few months, this work has included two murder trials.

            My office provides free office space to a legal aid service to help indigents with civil cases.

             During the  ABA Convention in New Orleans, at the request of the State Department and the ABA, my wife and I hosted Supreme Court Justices from Estonia, Romania, Lithuania, Slovakia and Albania  for a week-long stay at our residence.  These Justices were here to learn how U.S. State and Federal Courts function as an example of how they may adopt democratic reform in their court system.

            My office was involved in the Penile Implant Case and negotiated a grid settlement with Bristol- Myers before that case was even presented for a MDL argument. 

            As one of the founding members of Dianne Castano, et al v. The American Tobacco Company, et al, a class action suit against the tobacco industry, my office represented Governor Gray Davis and the State of California in the states’ settlement with the tobacco industry.  My office also did extensive work in cases against the tobacco industry that were pending in New York and Pennsylvania.  At the present time, I have three lawyers assigned full time to the Louisiana class action titled Scott v. The American Tobacco Company, a certified class action for medical monitoring and cessation assistance in the State of Louisiana before Judge Ganucheau, Orleans Parish.  Jury selection began on June 18, 2001.

            I have been one of the lead attorneys in the case of Barbara A. Brown, et al v. Acromed, et al,  Civil Action No. 94-1236, Section I, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and in fact, I argued the Pedicle Screw case before the MDL panel in Colorado Springs, Colorado on July 22, 1994.  Moreover, I supplied seven lawyers full time to MDL 1014 Orthopedic Bone Screw Products Liability Litigation before U.S. District Judge Louis Bechtle. 

            My office represents thousands of women in the Norplant Case and has the only remanded case before a State Court Judge at this time.  That case was remanded from the Federal Court to the State Court by U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous on December 29, 1994, and is now pending before State District Judge Richard Ganucheau.  I am a member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee. 

            I was appointed to the National Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in MDL  1038 Norplant Contraceptive Products Liability Litigation by Judge Richard A. Schell, and the National MDL depository is located at my office complex in Louisiana, under my direction.

            I was appointed to the National Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in MDL 1057 Telectronics Pacing Systems, Inc., Accufix "J" Leads Products Liability Litigation, by U.S. District Judge S. Arthur Spiegel.  This case was certified as a national class action on April 2, 1997.

            I was appointed by U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon to be Lead Counsel in the case of Yvette Cooper v. Koch Pipeline, Inc.,  which is a class action involving a release of ammonia involving over 10,000 people.  This case was remanded to State Court and ultimately settled.

            I spoke before the International Symposium on Product Liability and Failure Prevention in Japan at the request of forty-five Japanese Corporations and all Mechanical Engineers in Japan.

            I spoke in Vienna, Austria at the SPT-5 Conference in reference to the Shell Explosion Case.  This involved Engineers from all over the world who convene an International Symposium every three years.

            I was appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Legal Committee by District Judge Patricia Hedges in reference to the In re Chemical Release at Bogalusa.  I have been working virtually full time securing experts, filing pleadings and working on the jurisdictional problems.  I directed, along with Ronnie Penton and others, the inspection of the failed tank car.  I have also done research in reference to medical monitoring.  This case  was tried for three and a half months and a jury found all parties liable, and included a $92 million punitive damage award to the class.  In addition, settlements with other defendants were reached in the amount of approximately $150 million.

            I was the lead attorney in the case of Katharine Christiano, et al v. Napp Technologies, Inc. in Bergen County, New Jersey. That case has settled.

            My office is involved in the litigation titled In the Matter of the Complaint of Clearsky Shipping Corp. as Owner, and Cosco (H.K.) Shipping Company Limited, as Manager of the M/V Bright Field, for Exoneration From and/or Limitation of Liability pending before U. S. District Judge Morey L. Sear (current member of the MDL Panel).  My office is one of ten firms that is handling the litigation in this maritime disaster.

            I was appointed by U.S. District Judge John Parker to the Claimants' Steering Committee in the litigation titled In the Matter of the Complaint of Ingram Barge Company, as Owner of the M/V F.R. Bigelow and the IB-960, and Ingram Ohio Barge Co., as Owner Pro Hac Vice of the Ing-371, Petitioning for Exoneration From or Limitation of Liability.  This case settled for forty one million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in 1999 (my office handled claims for over 17,000 people in this toxic tort maritime disaster).

            I was appointed to the Plaintiffs' Legal Committee and the Executive Committee in reference to MDL 1148 In re Latex Gloves Products Liability Litigation, by U. S. District Judge Edmund V. Ludwig.

            I was appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the case of Jimmie Badon, Jr., et al v. DSI Transports, Inc., et al, 19^th Judicial District Court, Number 450,957.  This case settled for nine million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars (my office handled all Proof of Claim forms for 2,300 people in this tractor trailer tanker chemical release).

            I was appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the case involving the Kaiser explosion of July 5, 1999 titled Carl Bell, et al v. Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation, 23^rd Judicial District Court, No. 25,975.  This case settled for twenty six and a half million dollars, plus eleven million dollars for the inside-the-gate cases.  My office handled all Proof of Claims, as well as over two hundred depositions in this litigation.

            I was appointed by U.S. District Judge Louis Bechtle (a member of the MDL Panel), as State/Federal Liaison to the national class action in MDL 1203 In re Diet Drug (Phentermine/Fenfluramine/Dexfenfluramine) Product Liability Litigation.  My office has personally  settled

hundreds of individual cases.

            I was appointed by U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee and Executive Committee in MDL 1355 Propulsid Products Liability Litigation.  My office has provided office space for the document depository which is also managed by my computer specialist.

            I was appointed by U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Lemmon to serve as Liaison Counsel in the case of Aline Ricks, et al v. American Home Products, et al (PPA Litigation, MDL 1407).  I argued this case before the MDL Panel on July 26, 2001 in Chicago. 

            I was appointed by U.S. District Judge Edith Brown Clement to serve on the Interim Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the case titled Alicia Tanguis, et al v. M/V Westchester, et al, Eastern District of Louisiana, Case No. 01/0449 c/w 01-1558.

            The Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in MDL 1373 Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc. ATX, ATX II and Wilderness Tires Products Liability Litigation has requested that I secure all experts and become a member of the Discovery Committee and the Trial Committee. My office coordinated with U.S. Congressman Tauzin, Chairman of the Commerce Committee, regarding the current ongoing investigation involving tire failures and/or rollovers.  I have been to Washington on two occasions to provide all information

concerning these failures to Mark R. Paoletta, Chief Counsel for Oversight and Investigations.  Ron Motley, Richard Arsenault and I attended the hearings in Washington to assist the Committee in its investigation.

            I was appointed by U.S. District Judge Kathleen McDonald O’Mally to serve as Class Counsel in MDL 1401 Sulzer Inter-Op Hip Prosthesis Products Liability Litigation (a class settlement in the amount of over one billion dollars has been reached).

            I was appointed by U.S. District Judge Michael J. Davis to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in MDL 1431 In Re Baycol Products Liability Litigation.

            I recently argued for MDL status in both MDL 1477  In Re Serzone Products Liability Litigation and MDL 1481 In Re Meridia Products Liability Litigation. 

            I was appointed by U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin to serve on the Executive Committee and the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in MDL 1477 In Re Serzone Products Liability Litigation.

            I was appointed by U.S. District Judge James S. Gwin to serve on the Executive Committee the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in MDL 1481 In Re Meridia Products Liability Litigation.

            I was appointed by U.S. District Judge Kathleen McDonald O’Malley to serve on the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in MDL 1535 In Re Welding Rod Products Liability Ligiation.

            My office has 15 attorneys, 2 nurses, 3 computer specialists and over 20 secretaries, paralegals and administrative personnel.  My employees include African-Americans, Hispanics and numerous female attorneys.