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On November 23, 2024 Mike Patterson, along with Ed Walters presented a CLE at the Louisiana State Bar Association’s annual New York CLE titled “What Can Go Wrong? Conundrums of the Trial Lawyer”. The presentation included several videos to illustrate the sometimes-difficult circumstances a trial lawyer encounters.

Valerie Briggs Bargas is a graduate of Tulane Law School and practices in many areas of law, including Medical Malpractice Defense and Professional Liability Defense. She is an active member of the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, Baton Rouge Bar Association, American Bar Association, American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), and serves as the current President of the Dean McMahon Inn of Court. During her time as an attorney, she has been involved in many Pro Bono activities as well.

Sallie C. DuPont is a 2010 graduate of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. She practices Casuality Defense, Business Litigation, Insurance Defense, Bad Faith Litigation, and Administrative law. Sallie is also a current member of the Baton Rouge Bar Association, Louisiana State Bar Association, and the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel.

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Dale Clary recently attended "Experience the Charm of Quebec - A Multi-Topic CLE" hosted by the Louisiana State Bar Association that took place February 28 - March 1, 2024. During the event, Dale was a panelist alongside the Hon. Wilson E. Fields, Bobby Harges, Inemesit O’Boyle, and Kenneth L. Tolar, with the Hon. James E Kuhn (ret.) acting as the moderator, of a seminar entitled: "Recent Developments in Arbitration and Arbitrator/Attorneys Obligations". Check out the paper written by Bobby Harges and Dale Clary that accompanied the panel below!

LLF congratulates Attorney Michael W. McKay on being a 50-year member of the Bar.  Mike was recognized by the Baton Rouge Bar Association at its recent Opening of Court, Memorial and New Member Ceremony. Mike has handled high-stakes disputes ...

The continued expansion and development of new technology will undoubtedly be beneficial to mankind in countless ways, however, new techonology will also come with its own disadvantages and faults as well. Michael Patterson addresses one of these dis...

Jamie Watts is a long time member of the Manship Theatre Board of Directors and will serve as President of the Board from July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2025. The Manship Theatre is the premier non-profit theatre in the Baton Rouge area. The v...

LLF is delighted to announce that Dale Clary presented "Recent Developments in Architecture and Engineering Law" alongside Mary Anne Wolf of Keogh Cox at the Baton Rouge Bar Association Construction Law Section CLE on October 5th....

LLF’s Adrian Nadeau participated in a Legal Panel discussion on “Protecting Your Profession:  Design Professional Law and Updates”, along with Justin Sanders of Alexander & Sanders, a division of Cadence Insurance, and Mary...

During the 2023 Baton Rouge Bar Association Bench Bar Conference, which took place in Point Clear, Alabama from April 13th through April 15th, Long Law Firm's Michael A. Patterson presented a CLE titled Ethics in Negotiations and Mediation a...

At Long Law Firm, our founder’s desire to use the law for the greater good is essential to the work we do. This approach has never been more urgent than when a rapid occurrence of natural disasters over the course of 2020-21 caused widespread d...

As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent in society, it also begins to affect our lives in drastic ways, and you may not even know that AI is the cause until you find yourself with a lawsuit where the deduction of an AI algor...

After a fierce election, on June 16th, Mark Barbre was re-elected as Vice President for the Fifth Circuit for the Federal Bar Association (FBA) FY2023 national officers. He will serve a two-year term, beginning October 1, 2022 and expiring September ...

Chambers and Partners has named Jamie Watts to its 2022 rankings of leading lawyers in the "Energy & Natural Resources: Utilities - Louisiana" practice area. Jamie represents industrial users of electricity and utility clients in a rang...

Upon finding out that their childrens' school - Baton Rouge International School (BRIS) - would be permanently closing at the end of the 2021 - 2022 school year, Brooke Barnett-Bernall and other shocked parents of students came together to preser...

The 2022 - 2023 officers and members of the Louisiana State Bar Association's Board of Governors were installed June 9 at a ceremony at the LSBA’s Annual Meeting in Destin, Florida. Long Law Firm's own Adrian Nadeau was installed a...

Catherine Smith will serve on the Louisiana State Bar Association Young Lawyer's Division Wills for Heroes Committee for a one year term, June 2022 - June 2023.  The Wills for Heroes project provides free wills and estate planning documen...

Mark Barbre was one of a select number of attorneys invited to attend the United States Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference this past May.  The conference included circuit, district, magistrate, and bankruptcy judges of the Fifth Circuit (TX, LA, ...

Adrian Nadeau recently attended the Louisiana State Bar Association's Board of Governor's Leadership Orientation on April 28th through May 1st this year in Point Clear, Alabama. He was elected to the Board of Governor's in 2020 and his te...

From April 28th through April 30th, Mark Barbre was in Washington D.C. attending the Federal Bar Association's Capitol Hill Day and Leadership Summit. Capitol Hill Day (CHD) is a motivating and mobilizing event in which FBA leaders and members...

On April 9, 2022, Wendell Clark and Mike McKay attended CAA's FurBall 2022, of which LLF was one of many co-sponsors, to support CAA in their mission to provide compassionate care and adoption hope to East Baton Rouge’s lost, abandoned...

Jamie Watts recently participated in J.P. Morgan’s Public Finance Transportation & Utility Investor Forum as a presenter on Ratepayer-Backed Securitization in Louisiana conducted in New York on March 30, 2022.  As a member of the Utili...

LLF Partner, Brooke Barnett-Bernal, recently authored a Legal Trends article for the Baton Rouge Business Report! Titled “Emojis and the law: Why these cartoonish symbols have evidentiary value,” Brooke delved into how the increasing...

On November 21,2021 Mike Patterson, along with Hal Adkins, presented a CLE at the Louisiana State Bar Association’s annual New York CLE on mediation titled “Preparation v. Improvisation: The Path to Mediation Success”. The p...

On November 23, 2024 Mike Patterson, along with Ed Walters presented a CLE at the Louisiana State Bar Association’s annual New York CLE titled “What Can Go Wrong? Conundrums of the Trial Lawyer”. The presentation included several videos to illustrate the sometimes-difficult circumstances a trial lawyer encounters.

Valerie Briggs Bargas is a graduate of Tulane Law School and practices in many areas of law, including Medical Malpractice Defense and Professional Liability Defense. She is an active member of the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, Baton Rouge Bar Association, American Bar Association, American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), and serves as the current President of the Dean McMahon Inn of Court. During her time as an attorney, she has been involved in many Pro Bono activities as well.

Sallie C. DuPont is a 2010 graduate of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. She practices Casuality Defense, Business Litigation, Insurance Defense, Bad Faith Litigation, and Administrative law. Sallie is also a current member of the Baton Rouge Bar Association, Louisiana State Bar Association, and the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel.