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Bessie Antin Daschbach
Bessie Antin Daschbach is an attorney with Jones, Swanson, Huddell & Garrison, L.L.C., where she practices in the firm’s environmental and commercial litigation teams. Recently, Bessie has begun to serve as the firm’s coordinator of the environmental practice. In this role, she ensures the cases progress and don’t get hung up in an unnecessarily protracted litigation process and instead proceed quickly and efficiently. Bessie has experience with land and groundwater contamination cases, including contamination resulting from oil and gas operations. She also has commercial litigation experience, in which she has handled a variety of files and matters. Most recently, Bessie and the environmental team represented a large landowner in St. Mary Parish for extensive contamination resulting from oil and gas operations by industry giant ExxonMobil, and the team is currently working on contamination cases on behalf of landowners whose properties have been contaminated by BP, Chevron, and Anadarko.
Bessie graduated from Tulane Law School, magna cum laude, in 2001, where she was awarded the Civil Law Studies Award, the McGlinchey Scholarship, and Order of the Coif Honors. While at Tulane, Bessie 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, Bessie completed her undergraduate studies at Duke University, from which she graduated magna cum laude in 1998, and she also earned an L.L.M. in International Law from Columbia Law School in 2006, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Bessie 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
Land Damage and Property Rights
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, Louisiana Association for Justice
- 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