NEW ORLEANS, LA – Irwin Fritchie Urquhart Moore & Daniels LLC is proud to announce that 33 attorneys – in both the New Orleans and Baton Rouge offices – have been recognized in the 2024 Edition of Best Lawyers^®, including 2024 Best Lawyers in America^®, 2024 “Lawyer of the Year,” and 2024 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch^® in America.

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Click the categories below to view which Irwin Fritchie attorneys were honored and for which practice areas.

Best Lawyers^® 2024 “Lawyer of the Year”

Gus A. Fritchie III has been named 2024 New Orleans “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers^® for his work and leadership in the category of Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants. 

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2024 Best Lawyers in America^®

*The year in parenthesis is the first edition year the lawyer was recognized in Best Lawyers for any practice area.

Matthew W. Bailey (2023)

• Litigation – Insurance
  
  

Kelly E. Brilleaux (2020)

• Insurance Law
• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
• Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  
  

Betsy Britton (2024)

• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
  
  

Camala E. Capodice (2018)

• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  
  

Celeste Coco-Ewing (2015)

• Appellate Practice
• Bet-the-Company Litigation
• Commercial Litigation
• Litigation – Insurance
• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  
  

Timothy F. Daniels (2010)

• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
• Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
• Railroad Law
  
  

Gus A. Fritchie III (2009)

• Insurance Law
• Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants
• Litigation – Insurance
• Litigation – Real Estate
• Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
• Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants
  
  

Elizabeth L. Gordon (2016)

• Construction Law
• Litigation – Construction
  
  

Christopher H. Irwin (2023)

• Insurance Law
• Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants
  
  

Jimmy Irwin (2020)

• Electronic Discovery and Information Management Law
  
  

Jay M. Mattappally (2022)

• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  
  

David M. Melancon (2020)

• Insurance Law
• Litigation – Insurance
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  
  

Douglas J. Moore (2016)

• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
• Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  
  

Kim E. Moore (2010)

• Insurance Law
• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
• Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  
  

Stephen G.A. Myers (2016)

• Litigation – Labor and Employment
• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
• Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  
  

Claire A. Noonan (2021)

• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  
  

David W. O'Quinn (2010)

• Insurance Law
• Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  
  

Kelly Juneau Rookard (2019)

• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  
  

Sarah Segrest-Jay (2024)

• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  
  

Lloyd N. “Sonny” Shields (2008)

• Construction Law
• Litigation – Construction
  
  

John W. Sinnott (2013)

• Litigation – Construction
• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  
  

Ali Spindler (2022)

• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  
  

Edward W. Trapolin (2015)

• Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants
• Litigation – Environmental
• Litigation – Insurance
• Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
• Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants
  
  

Quentin F. Urquhart, Jr. (2010)

• Insurance Law
• Litigation – Environmental
• Litigation – Insurance
• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
• Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  
  

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2024 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch^® in America

*The year in parenthesis is the first edition year the lawyer was recognized in Best Lawyers for any practice area.

Katherine M. Cook (2022)

• Insurance Law
• Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
• Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
• Workers' Compensation Law – Employers
  
  

Madison Sharko (2021)

• Commercial Litigation
• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

Shannon M. Kippers (2022)

• Insurance Law
• Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants

Laura A. Leggette (2021)

• Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants

Diana Masters (2024)

• Commercial Litigation

Connor W. Peth (2023)

• Litigation - Environmental
• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Gretchen F. Richards (2022)

• Insurance Law
• Legal Malpractice Law
• Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
• Professional Malpractice Law

Elizabeth R.R. Showalter (2023)

• Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Gabriel J. Winsberg (2022)

• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

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Best Lawyers^® has been regarded by lawyers and the public for more than 40 years as the most credible measure of legal integrity and distinction in the United States. To be recognized by Best Lawyers^® signifies excellence in practice by that respective attorney or law firm.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers^® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers^® recognitions are compiled based on an exhaustive Purely Peer Review^® evaluation. More than 123,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received more than 20 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world.

For the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America^®, more than 13.7 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 76,000 leading lawyers included in the milestone 30th edition. For the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch^® in America, more than 2.4 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 25,000 lawyers honored in the new edition.

About Irwin Fritchie (www.irwinllc.com)
With a national reputation as one of the premier defense litigation firms in the country, Irwin Fritchie Urquhart Moore & Daniels LLC serves as national, regional and local counsel for public companies, privately owned businesses, governmental entities, non-profit organizations, individuals, and insurers with civil litigation needs, including Products Liability, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device, Construction, Railroad and Transportation, Trucking, Premises Liability, Professional Liability, and Casualty.

Irwin Fritchie was founded in 2000 by six partners from one of the oldest firms in New Orleans who had a collective vision of creating a firm that would provide clients with the highest level of service. With offices in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Irwin Fritchie has since become the only Louisiana-based law firm – and its individual attorneys are the only Louisiana lawyers – to be recognized by Chambers and Partners on the national level for Product Liability & Mass Tort.