NEW ORLEANS, LA – Irwin Fritchie Urquhart Moore & Daniels LLC is proud to announce that 34 attorneys – in both the New Orleans and Baton Rouge offices – have been recognized in the 2025 Edition of Best Lawyers^®, including 2025 Best Lawyers in America^®, 2025 “Lawyer of the Year,” and 2025 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^® 2025 “Lawyer of the Year”

Gus A. Fritchie III 

• Litigation - Insurance

Claire A. Noonan

• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants

Edward W. Trapolin

• Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants

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2025 Best Lawyers in America^®

Matthew W. Bailey (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2023)

• Litigation - Insurance
• Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants

Kelly E. Brilleaux (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2020)

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

Betsy Britton (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2024)

• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants

Camala E. Capodice (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2018)

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

Celeste Coco-Ewing (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2015)

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

Timothy F. Daniels (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2010)

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

Gus A. Fritchie III (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2009)

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

Elizabeth L. Gordon (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2016)

• Construction Law
• Litigation - Construction

Jimmy Irwin (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2020)

• Electronic Discovery and Information Management Law

Christopher Irwin (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2023)

• Insurance Law
• Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants

Kelly G. Juneau Rookard (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2019)

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

Jay M. Mattappally (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2022)

• Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

David M. Melancon (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2020)

• Environmental Law
• Insurance Law
• Litigation - Environmental
• Litigation - Insurance
• Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

Kim E. Moore (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2010)

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

Douglas J. Moore (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2016)

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

Stephen G.A. Myers (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2016)

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

Claire A. Noonan (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2021)

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

David W. O'Quinn (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2010)

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

Darleene Peters (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2025)

• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants

Alexander R. Saunders (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2025)

• Litigation - Construction
• Litigation - Environmental
• Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

Sarah Segrest-Jay (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2024)

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

Lloyd N. "Sonny" Shields (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2008)

• Commercial Litigation
• Construction Law
• Litigation - Construction

John W. Sinnott (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2013)

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

Ali Spindler (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2022)

• Litigation - Environmental
• Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

Edward W. Trapolin (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2015)

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

Quentin F. Urquhart, Jr. (Recognized in Best Lawyers since 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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2025 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 (Recognized since 2022)

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

Shannon M. Kippers (Recognized since 2022)

• Insurance Law
• Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants

Laura A. Leggette (Recognized since 2021)

• Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants

Diana J. Masters (Recognized since 2024)

• Commercial Litigation

Connor W. Peth (Recognized since 2023)

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

Gretchen F. Richards (Recognized since 2022)

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

Elizabeth R.R. Showalter (Recognized since 2023)

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

Gabriel J. Winsberg (Recognized since 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 2025 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 2025 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.