When an attorney or firm lacks the resources or experience to handle a specific case for their clients, they may refer those clients or co-counsel with another law firm. The referral and co-counsel relationships help clients get the best legal representation from a litigation partnership or referral attorney with the skills, resources, and leverage to best pursue the case.
New matters are frequently referred to us or co-counseled with us from other lawyers and law firms all over the country. Whether they know of our reputation and history of success, or have partnered with us previously, they have confidence that Unglesby Law Firm will diligently represent clients and aggressively advocate to obtain the greatest results for clients. Unglesby Law Firm is committed to devoting the legal, financial, technological, and staffing resources necessary to aggressively litigate cases in pursuit of the best possible results.
The attorneys at the Unglesby Law Firm accept referrals and co-counsel agreements from other firms in compliance with the applicable rules and regulations routinely. However, we also know the value of creating a customized agreement that meets the needs of the referring attorney, co-counsel attorney, and the clients. Our attorney referral, partnership, an co-counsel relationships have earned incredible verdicts and settlements for our partners and clients.
Lewis Unglesby and the Attorneys at The Unglesby Law Firm are ready to assist all of our partners. We have a history of obtaining extremely successful results for our partners and clients. We have worked with firms which refer Serious Personal Injury Cases, Mesothelioma Cases, Toxic Tort Cases, Defective Products Cases, Defective Drug Cases, White Collar Criminal Defense Cases, and other Mass Torts such as Essure Permanent Birth Control.
Asbestos defendants need to be forced into putting fair value into a case. The Unglesby Lawyers in New Orleans pride itself on doing just that. In 2006, Lewis Unglesby won the highest mesothelioma survival action verdict in Louisiana history at $5,000,000 against Exxon. True to form, Exxon appealed the verdict, but Mr. Unglesby successfully had the decision upheld. (Terrance v. Dow Chem., 971 So.2d 1058) Seven years later, Mr. Unglesby won the second highest reported mesothelioma verdict at $3,800,000 against Entergy. That case was upheld on appeal as well. (White v. Entergy Gulf States La. LLC, 2014 La. App. LEXIS 2712)
Asbestos defendants need to be forced into putting fair value into a case. The Unglesby Lawyers in New Orleans pride itself on doing just that. In 2006, Lewis Unglesby won the highest mesothelioma survival action verdict in Louisiana history at $5,000,000 against Exxon. True to form, Exxon appealed the verdict, but Mr. Unglesby successfully had the decision upheld. (Terrance v. Dow Chem., 971 So.2d 1058) Seven years later, Mr. Unglesby won the second highest reported mesothelioma verdict at $3,800,000 against Entergy. That case was upheld on appeal as well. (White v. Entergy Gulf States La. LLC, 2014 La. App. LEXIS 2712)
New Orleans, La. – Two pesticide companies agreed Tuesday to pay $50 million to about 3,500 people who lived near a pesticide plant that contaminated their New Orleans neighborhood. T.H. Agriculture and Nutrition and Harcros Chemicals Corp., both of Kansas City, agreed to the state court settlement on the fifth day of jury selection for the class action lawsuit, attorney Lewis Unglesby said.
He represented people who lived near the pesticide and herbicide plant, which operated from the 1950s until 1987, when the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board discovered contamination in its wastewater.
Testing by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1994 found substantial amounts of contamination in the neighborhood, he said. Those included DDT and some components of Agent Orange, Unglesby said.
T.H. Agriculture & Nutrition and its parent, Philips Electronics North America Corp., have paid for most of the cleanup work at the site and in the surrounding neighborhood, which EPA is considering as a possible Superfund site. An employee of Harcros, which bought the plant shortly before the pollution was found, said company spokesmen all had left the Kansas City offices for the day.
Unglesby said amounts for each plaintiff will range from small to substantial, depending on what years people lived in the area, the extent of their exposure, whether they own land there, and what illnesses, if any, were caused or worsened by the exposure. Unglesby said the case would have been much harder to bring and a settlement much less likely under new laws passed this month.
“You would not have had the concern about punitive damages, which clearly would have been warranted,” he said. During the special session that ended last week, the Legislature passed a law ending punitive damages in certain hazardous waste cases. Another new law eliminates the concept of “strict liability” from lawsuits. Backers said it gives property owners a chance to prove they were not negligent when an accident happens on their property.
Under the new law, plaintiffs would have had to prove that the company knew pesticides were spreading beyond its property line, Unglesby said. “By failing to test and by refusing to put up any kind of monitoring devices … they could have claimed they didn’t know,” he said.
In 1997, Syvella Totson was seriously injured when a drunk driver pulled into her path on Louisiana Highway 2. James Pardon, the driver of the other vehicle, was drunk at the time of the crash. However, Mr. Pardon turned onto Louisiana 2 from Lane’s Ferry Road. At that intersection, a defective railing on the Bayou Macon Bridge created a blind spot for drivers turning onto Louisiana 2 from Lane’s Ferry Rd.
At trial, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) argued that Mr. Pardon’s intoxication was the sole cause of the accident. However, the plaintiff countered with evidence that East Carroll Parish officials had contacted the state about fixing the bridge railing for decades.
Following trial, the jury found DOTD to be 100 percent responsible for the accident. However, the Court of Appeals reversed the trial court ruling that Mr. Pardon was 100 percent responsible. The Louisiana Supreme Court granted certiorari and found DOTD to be 80 percent responsible and ordered the Department to pay the Ms. Totson and her family $7.5 million.
In 1997, Syvella Totson was seriously injured when a drunk driver pulled into her path on Louisiana Highway 2. James Pardon, the driver of the other vehicle, was drunk at the time of the crash. However, Mr. Pardon turned onto Louisiana 2 from Lane’s Ferry Road. At that intersection, a defective railing on the Bayou Macon Bridge created a blind spot for drivers turning onto Louisiana 2 from Lane’s Ferry Rd.
At trial, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) argued that Mr. Pardon’s intoxication was the sole cause of the accident. However, the plaintiff countered with evidence that East Carroll Parish officials had contacted the state about fixing the bridge railing for decades.
Following trial, the jury found DOTD to be 100 percent responsible for the accident. However, the Court of Appeals reversed the trial court ruling that Mr. Pardon was 100 percent responsible. The Louisiana Supreme Court granted certiorari and found DOTD to be 80 percent responsible and ordered the Department to pay the Ms. Totson and her family $7.5 million.