Andy Jacoby, Associate

Andy Jacoby is an attorney with Jones, Swanson, Huddell & Garrison, L.L.C., where he serves on the firm’s environmental and commercial litigation teams. Andy works on cases involving land and groundwater contamination resulting from oil and gas operations. To support the environmental litigation team, Andy drafts pleadings, researches legal issues, and answers legal questions. He also gathers all publicly available documents about relevant property to ensure that landowners marshal the strongest, most complete documentary support when bringing legal claims. Andy further specializes in legal issues surrounding hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and its effect on landowners. Most recently, Andy worked with the firm’s environmental team to represent a landowner in St. Mary Parish for contamination resulting from oil and gas operations by industry giant ExxonMobil. The team is currently working on contamination cases on behalf of landowners whose properties have been contaminated by BP, Chevron, and Anadarko.

Upon earning his J.D. from Tulane Law School in 2008, Andy worked for the Texas Water Development Board in Austin, Texas, in the fields of environmental, public finance, and administrative law. At Tulane, Andy served as a student attorney in the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, where he worked landfill matters and assisted in a suit stemming from the failure of the federal levee system after Hurricane Katrina. As a managing editor of the Tulane Environmental Law Journal, he reviewed and edited articles for the journal, and published his own article on Texas water law. In 2008 he was guest editor for the Tulane Law Review issue “The Problem of Multidistrict Litigation,” an issue dedicated to complex litigation. Andy received the 2008 Brian P. McSherry Community Service Award from Tulane, which is given annually to the graduating law student who demonstrates the greatest dedication to Tulane’s community service program. He also earned the CALI Excellence for the Future Award for his studies in Environmental Enforcement.

Andy graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999 with degrees in International Business and Spanish. After earning his bachelor degrees, Andy worked for an I.T. auditing association in Chicago, Illinois. He is a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

EDUCATION

Tulane Law School, New Orleans, LA, 2008, J.D. (environmental law and mediation certificates)
University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1999, B.A., B.B.A. (international business and Spanish)

ADMITTED

Louisiana, State Courts of Louisiana
U.S. Eastern District of Louisiana
U.S. Western District of Louisiana
Texas, State Courts of Texas

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Member, Louisiana State Bar Association
Member, Texas State Bar Association
Member, Louisiana Association for Justice
Member, American Bar Association
Vice Chair, Constitutional Law Committee, ABA Environment, Energy, & Resources, 2009-2013
Law Student Division National Liaison to the ABA Environment, Energy, & Resources Section, 2007-2008
Vice Chair, Phoenix Fall Meeting Planning Committee, ABA Environment, Energy, & Resources, 2008
Vice Chair, Pittsburgh Fall Meeting Planning Committee, ABA Environment, Energy, & Resources, 2007

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

• Fracking Contamination and Litigation – Case Law Update, essay and panelist for ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources’ 42nd Spring Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2013.
• Constitutional Safeguards for Future Victims in Class Action Litigation (ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources, Constitutional Law Committee Newsletter, February 2013).
• Demolition by Neglect in Detroit and the Battle to Save Historic Tiger Stadium: Lessons for Baseball Park Preservationists (University of Denver Sports & Entertainment Law Journal, August 2010)
• New Orleans Toxic Tour, Presentation for Tulane Law School’s 15th Annual Summit on Environmental Law and Policy (April 2010)
• Coeur Alaska v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, 557 U.S. ____ (2009): The Court Shores Up Permitting Authority for the Army Corps of Engineers, and Gives Broad Deference to Informal Agency Interpretations of Ambiguous Statutes. (ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources, Constitutional Law Committee Newsletter, August 2009)
• Water Pressure: The Eightieth Texas Legislature Attempts to Protect Instream Flows of Rivers and Streams, and Freshwater Inflows to Bays and Estuaries. (Tulane Environmental Law Journal, 2007)

REPRESENTATIVE LAND DAMAGE CASES

In Re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon”.
Marcus Broussard, Jr., et al. v. Martin Operating Partnership, LP, et al.