January 3, 2022; 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Petroleum Club - 15th Floor
Cost: $20
Speaker: Mike Adams of Blanchard, Walker, O’Quin & Roberts
Topic: Update on Legacy Litigation (allows for 1 CEU credit)
Reservations for lunch need to be made by noon Thursday before the event.
Please be prompt in your reservations.
Mr. Adams' practice involves civil, oil and gas, and commercial litigation, natural resources, insurance, labor and employment law, toxic torts and products liability. He earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana and his law degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he was a member of Order of the Coif and Omicron Delta Kappa and served as Associate Editor of the Louisiana Law Review. Prior to joining Blanchard Walker, Mr. Adams served as law clerk for Honorable Edwin F. Hunter, Jr., Chief U.S. District Judge, Western District of Louisiana. He was admitted to practice in 1973 and joined the firm in 1974. Mr. Adams has tried cases in the state and federal courts in Louisiana and other states and at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He has appeared before the Louisiana appellate courts, the Fifth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court (as co-counsel). He is a member of the American (Member, Litigation, Tort and Insurance Sections), Louisiana (Assistant Bar Examiner, 1985-2002), and Shreveport (Program Chairman, Sections; CLE Chairman), Fifth Circuit Bar Association and the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel. In the community, Mr. Adams has served as Chairman of the Board of the Volunteers of America of North Louisiana (2005-07) and is presently Chairman of the VOA Endowment Committee. He has served as President (1993-94) and Vice President (1991-92) of the Governing Board of the Red River Arts Festival, board member of the Cotillion Club of Shreveport (President, 1998; Vice President, 1997) and is a sustaining member of The Community Foundation of North Louisiana. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the LSU Law Alumni Association, is a volunteer with the Volunteers of America of North Louisiana Lighthouse after-school tutoring program, member of the Chancellor's Council of the LSU Law Center and is currently an active Sunday school teacher and Chairman of the Legal Committee at First United Methodist Church of Shreveport. Mr. Adams is a Director and former President of the firm and may be reached at (318) 934-0251.
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