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E.E. (Bessie) Daschbach, Associate

E.E. (Bessie) Daschbach, Associate

Bessie Daschbach is an associate with Jones, Swanson, Huddell & Garrison, L.L.C., where she practices in the firm’s environmental and commercial litigation teams.

Ms. Daschbach graduated magna cum laude from Tulane Law School in 2001, where she was awarded the Civil Law Studies Award, the McGlinchey Scholarship, and Order of the Coif Honors. While at Tulane, Ms. Daschbach also served as a student attorney in the Tulane Immigration Law Clinic and as a Managing Editor for the Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality. Prior to that, Ms. Daschbach completed her undergraduate studies at Duke University, from which she graduated magna cum laude in 1998. Ms. Daschbach also earned an LLM in International Law from Columbia Law School in 2006, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Ms. Daschbach previously practiced as a commercial litigator with Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, LLC, in New Orleans; and Siller Wilk LLP in New York; and has also worked with the International Labor Organization in Bangkok; the United Nations Legal Affairs Codification Division; and the Open Society Justice Initiative in New York.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Commercial Litigation
Environmental and Toxic Torts

EDUCATION

Columbia Law School, New York, NY, 2006, LLM (International Law; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)
Tulane Law School, New Orleans, LA, 2001, J.D. (magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Civil Law Studies Award, McGlinchey Scholar)
Duke University, Durham, NC, 1998, B.A. (magna cum laude, Dean’s List with Distinction)
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1996 (Victorian Women Writing Honors Program)

ADMITTED

Louisiana
District of Columbia
New York
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana
U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

  • Member, Louisiana State Bar Association
  • Member, New York State Bar Association
  • Member, American Bar Association (International Law and Practice Section)
  • American Civil Liberties Union, New Orleans, LA (Board Intern, Vice President, Development Committee Chair, Legislative Action Committee Member, Cooperating Attorney; 2003-present)
  • Anti-Defamation League, New Orleans, LA (Cooperating Attorney; Summer 2005-Autumn 2005)
  • International Labor Rights Fund, Washington, D.C. (Research Assistance; Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006)
  • Louisiana Law Institute, New Orleans, LA (Junior Honorary Member; 2002)

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

  • “Where There’s a Will There’s a Way: The Cause for a Cure and Remedial Prescriptions for Forum non Conveniens as Applied in Latin America Plaintiffs’ Action Against U.S. Multinationals,” Law & Business Review of the Americas (Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University), 2007
  • “Sprietsma: The Fate of a Uniform Maritime Law,” Benedicts Maritime Bulletin, Vol. 1 No. 1, 2003
  • “Pillow Talk and Privacy: State v. Smith,” Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality, Vol. 9, 2000
  • “Building a Contract Litigation Case,” National Business Institute, New Orleans, LA, April 2003, March 2005; Sterling Education Services, New Orleans, LA, October 2003, October 2004; Louisiana State Paralegal Association, New Orleans, LA, September 2003