James A. Brown

James A. Brown


Liskow & Lewis

Recognized since 2005

New Orleans, Louisiana

Practice Areas

Bet-the-Company Litigation

Commercial Litigation

Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants

Litigation - Antitrust

Litigation - Trusts and Estates

Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants

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Mr. Brown heads the firm’s Commercial Litigation Section as well as its Professional Liability Practice Group. He is a member of the firm’s Board of Directors and serves as the firm’s Loss Prevention Partner. His practice focuses on complex litigation, including banking and contract disputes, professional liability litigation, legal malpractice defense, antitrust litigation, trusts and estates litigation, First Amendment litigation, and Education law.

For over two decades, Mr. Brown has successfully represented federal banking agencies and banks in complex commercial and professional liability cases. He also has defended national legal malpractice carriers and law and accounting firms. Trust and estates litigation and other types of commercial litigation are also part of his practice background. Mr. Brown has tried major cases in these areas in state and federal courts.

Widely recognized for his excellence, Mr. Brown is listed by Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business as among America's top commercial litigators. He also is named in Best Lawyers in America in the fields of Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law and Professional Malpractice Law. He is listed among Top Lawyers by New Orleans Magazine. In 2005, New Orleans City Business Magazine named him one of New Orleans’ “Leaders in Law." Mr. Brown also is listed in Louisiana's Super Lawyers.

Following law school, Mr. Brown served as law clerk to the Honorable Alvin B. Rubin, Circuit Judge, United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1984-85. Since 1992, he has served as an Adjunct Professor in Trial Advocacy at the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center.

Mr. Brown serves as the Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Professional Liability Litigation Committee, which addresses legal issues of concern to professionals, including lawyers, accountants, and corporate directors and officers around the nation.

He is the immediate past Chair of the Continuing Legal Education Program Committee of The Louisiana State Bar Association, which plans and oversees all programs of continuing legal education sponsored by the state bar.

He frequently speaks, teaches and publishes in the areas of professional liability, ethics and trial advocacy.

Contact & Links
Location
  • Hancock Whitney Center, Suite 5000
    701 Poydras Street
    New Orleans, LA 70139
Languages
  • English
Demographics
  • Ethnicity: White
Education
  • Louisiana State University, J.D., graduated 1984
Bar Admissions
  • Louisiana, Louisiana State Bar Association
Affiliations
  • Louisiana State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Program Committee - Immediate Past Chair
  • New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Institute - Vice President and Director
  • American Bar Association Section of Litigation - Co-Chair, Professional Liability Litigation Committee
Federal Clerkships
  • United States Court of Appeals

Liskow & Lewis
Headquarters: New Orleans, Louisiana

83 The Best Lawyers in America® awards

28 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America awards

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Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2022 - Litigation - Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2017 - Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Litigation - Trusts and Estates, New Orleans (2022)
  • Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants, New Orleans (2017)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 for work in:
  • Bet-the-Company Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants
  • Litigation - Antitrust
  • Litigation - Trusts and Estates
  • Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants
Special Focus:
  • Appellate
  • Civil Litigation
  • Class Actions
  • Commercial Disputes
  • Complex Litigation
  • COVID-19
  • Defendants
  • Legal Malpractice
  • Professional Liability
Awards:
  • Outstanding Subcommittee Chair - ABA Section of Litigation
  • Order of the Coif
  • Editor in Chief, Louisiana Law Review - 1983
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Legal Malpractice Law
  • Litigation - First Amendment
  • Professional Malpractice Law

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