Kathleen K. Charvet

With more than 25 years’ experience counseling, representing, and advocating for employer and contractor clients, Kathleen Charvet’s knowledge of the intricacies of the laws and regulations governing her clients enables her to quickly determine the best strategies for defending their interests. Kathleen engages in a collaborative practice with clients; medical, engineering, safety, and vocational expert witnesses; mediators; the bench; and other attorneys to attain optimum results.

Kathleen focuses her practice on the Longshore & Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act and Defense Base Act. Her other practices include admiralty and maritime law, railroad and transportation defense, federal workers’ compensation, and labor and employment law. Throughout her legal career, Kathleen has represented vessel owners and operators, railroads and transportation companies, stevedoring companies and terminal operators, energy companies, multi-national chemical technology companies, military employers, government contractors, and insurance underwriters. Whether the case occurred aboard a vessel or train, commercial transportation, dockside, offshore, or on a military base, Kathleen has the skills and experience to advise her clients in the boardroom and defend them in the courtroom. Kathleen has served as trial and appellate defense counsel in litigation involving personal injury claims brought by Jones Act seamen, Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act claimants, and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act offshore workers. She defends Defense Base Act claims, Federal Employers Liability Act lawsuits, contractual disputes, limitation of liability, vessel arrests and attachments, as well as issues involving regulatory matters before the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Following law school, Kathleen served as a law clerk for the Office of Administrative Law Judges, U.S. Department of Labor. In addition to private practice, Kathleen has had the privilege of representing members of the vulnerable and underserved populations in the New Orleans community before and after Hurricane Katrina through Immaculate Conception Jesuit Parish, the HELP Program and Lantern Light at St. Joseph’s Church, Animal Rescue New Orleans, and St. Francis Animal Sanctuary.

When not busy representing her clients, Kathleen appreciates time spent with her family and her membership in several botanical gardens.