On Wednesday, Gov. Bobby Jindal signed into law a bill that will limit the attorney general’s use of contingency fee attorneys on...

BATON ROUGE – Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed a bill into law that limits the attorney general’s ability to engage in contingency fee...

Looks like our Louisiana lawyers are going fishing again! A second fisherman, Jarrod A. Burrle has been accused of being represented by a...

NEW ORLEANS – A fisherman who was represented by a law firm alleged to have aided in a previous false BP claim on behalf of another...

A federal report was filed June 10 required a fisherman, Jarrod A. Burrle, to return over $50,000 in BP oil spill money. The report,...

Louisiana Lawsuit Abuse Watch’s Melissa Landry was featured in a letter to the editor in the Times-Picayune this week, as she responded...

“Regardless of what happens to SB 469 in the legislature, the reality is that the goal of the lawsuit has never been to let the courts...

Louisiana Lawsuit Abuse Watch has been monitoring the lawsuits around the levee bill – and been vocal around who is really benefiting...

The role that private plaintiffs lawyers play in state litigation has increased exponentially in recent years. This trend is not unique...

With just two weeks to go, it is almost closing time at the Louisiana State Capitol. But consumers and state legislators should be very...

As state attorneys general gain more responsibility and become more active in civil litigation, they have also become more reliant on...

The most sweeping legal reform bill of the year died pitifully less than halfway through the session. In Louisiana, when the plaintiff in...

On April 15, House Bill 917, which would make sure that all cases that deserve a trial by jury receive one, was dismissed in a sad...

As we head into the 2014 legislative session, voices are sounding off in support of common sense legal reform across the nation and in...

At LLAW, we all know that lawsuit abuse costs our state economy. Business Report issued an article this winter detailing how Louisiana’s...

The Louisiana Legislature kicked off the 2014 regular session today, beginning a series of discussions about the most important issues...

Governor Jindal outlined his key legislative priorities for 2014 in an exclusive interview with the Associated Press — and one of the big...

As we’re preparing to head into a legislative battle for 2014, voices across the state have been voicing concerns on the impact lawsuit...

As today’s Judicial Hellhole rankings came out from the American Tort Reform Association, which tracks jurisdictions across the country...

“Lawsuits around in this country right now, if it keeps going on the way it is, it will just devastate the country and the economy.”...