James A. Brown

Mr. Brown heads the firm’s Commercial Litigation Section as well as its Professional Liability Practice Group. He is a member of the firm’s Board of Directors and serves as the firm’s Loss Prevention Partner. His practice focuses on complex litigation, including banking and contract disputes, professional liability litigation, legal malpractice defense, antitrust litigation, trusts and estates litigation, First Amendment litigation, and Education law.

For over two decades, Mr. Brown has successfully represented federal banking agencies and banks in complex commercial and professional liability cases. He also has defended national legal malpractice carriers and law and accounting firms. Trust and estates litigation and other types of commercial litigation are also part of his practice background. Mr. Brown has tried major cases in these areas in state and federal courts.

Widely recognized for his excellence, Mr. Brown is listed by Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business as among America's top commercial litigators. He also is named in Best Lawyers in America in the fields of Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law and Professional Malpractice Law. He is listed among Top Lawyers by New Orleans Magazine. In 2005, New Orleans City Business Magazine named him one of New Orleans’ “Leaders in Law." Mr. Brown also is listed in Louisiana's Super Lawyers.

Following law school, Mr. Brown served as law clerk to the Honorable Alvin B. Rubin, Circuit Judge, United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1984-85. Since 1992, he has served as an Adjunct Professor in Trial Advocacy at the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center.

Mr. Brown serves as the Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Professional Liability Litigation Committee, which addresses legal issues of concern to professionals, including lawyers, accountants, and corporate directors and officers around the nation.

He is the immediate past Chair of the Continuing Legal Education Program Committee of The Louisiana State Bar Association, which plans and oversees all programs of continuing legal education sponsored by the state bar.

He frequently speaks, teaches and publishes in the areas of professional liability, ethics and trial advocacy.