Lawrence E. Abbott
Of Counsel

Email:
labbott@csa-lawfirm.com

650 Poydras Street
Suite 2810
New Orleans, LA 70130

504-568-9393 (Main)
504-524-1933 (Fax)

Practice Areas

• Admiralty/Maritime
• Appellate
• Banking Law
• Business and Transactional Law
• Class Actions
• Commercial Litigation
• Employment and Labor
• Environmental Litigation
• Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA)
• Insurance Defense, Coverage, Subrogation & Casualty
• Mass Torts/Toxic Tort Litigation
• Medical Malpractice
• Personal Injury
• Planning and Zoning
• Premises and Products Liability
• Tax Controversy
• Tort Claims

(Primary Focus is on the Conduct of Trials)

Admissions

• State Bar of Louisiana
• State Bar of Texas
• District of Columbia
• United States District Court, Eastern, Middle, & Western Districts of Louisiana
• United States District Court, Southern District of Texas
• United States Court of Appeals, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits
• United States Supreme Court

Education

• J.D., Tulane University (1972)
• B.A., St. Edward's University (1967)

Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Lawyers of America (a distinction that is restricted to only 100 attorneys in Louisiana)
• Louisiana Super Lawyer in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011
• DuPont's “Leader's Circle Award”
• New Orleans City Business Leadership and Law Class of 2009
• Sager Award for the Southwest Region of the United States in 2008 given annually by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association to firms who excel in the development and promotion of females and people of color within the legal industry

Martindale-Hubbell® Rating: AV

General

LAWRENCE E. ABBOTT is Of Counsel in Cotten Schmidt & Abbott with a special and focused emphasis on trial practice.

Notably, Mr. Abbott has tried in excess of 157 cases in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, and Montana. The predominant focus of those trials has been in the diverse areas delineated above.

Without being exclusive, certain of those trials have involved (a) claims of individuals of exposure to allegedly toxic chemicals, (b) multiple, simultaneous deaths offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, (c) a maritime casualty involving eleven deaths and three burn survivors aboard a vessel, (d) alleged destruction of thousands of acres of pecan orchards as the result of exposure to a fungicide, (e) a commercial litigation case in which plaintiffs alleged that our client breached a contract for the sale of nitrogen oxide emission reduction credits, (f) a challenge by a homebuilders’ association to the constitutionality of two construction ordinances that had been promulgated and put into effect by our client, and (g) a matter involving platform damage and down-hole reserve losses sustained by two clients as the result of faulty work performed by a contractor.

Certain of Mr. Abbott’s representative clients include E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, The Dow Chemical Company, Union Carbide Corporation, Tyco International LLP, FMC Technologies, Inc., The City of Slidell, Louisiana, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, The Louisiana Medical Center and Heart Hospital, New Orleans Cold Storage & Warehouse Company, Ltd., and El Paso Corporation