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Lynn E. Swanson, Member
Lynn E. Swanson is the managing member of Jones, Swanson, Huddell & Garrison, L.L.C. Lynn has been practicing law since 1993 in the fields of complex and commercial litigation. She worked the majority of her first ten years of practice representing plaintiffs in pharmaceutical and medical device litigation. She joined Jones, Verras & Freiberg, L.L.C., now known as Jones, Swanson, Huddell & Garrison, L.L.C. in 2004, and was instrumental in developing and establishing the firm’s commercial litigation practice. She is the primary lead attorney coordinating the commercial litigation practice at Jones Swanson and, as such, is instrumental in organizing the strategy and approach to case management, as well as serving, along with Gladstone Jones, as the primary client relationship member. In the past eight years, Lynn has handled a variety of non-formulaic, complicated business disputes, including several matters involving tax strategy advice and issues related thereto. Most recently, Lynn has taken the lead at Jones Swanson in coordinating the firm’s actions in relation to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Lynn was appointed to co-coordinate the multidistrict litigation’s GCCF Outreach Group and has been spearheading the successful efforts of Jones Swanson to recover economic damages on behalf of claimants in a wide variety of industries, including oil and gas, tourism and construction as well as general economic loss and property damage claims.
Lynn graduated from Loyola Law School in 1993 after completing her undergraduate degree at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in 1990.
EDUCATION
Loyola Law School, New Orleans, LA, 1993, J.D.
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 1990, B.A.
ADMITTED
Louisiana, State Courts of Louisiana
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana
U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
AFFILIATIONS
Member, Louisiana State Bar Association
Member, Louisiana Association for Justice
Member, American Association for Justice
Member, Association for Women Attorneys
HONORS
Named a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation, 2011, 2012.
REPRESENTATIVE CASES
In Re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon.”
Active Solutions, et al. v. Dell, Inc., et al.
Jebaco, Inc. v. Harrah’s Operating Co., Inc., et al.
BCR Safeguard Holding, LLC, et al. v. Morgan Stanley Real Estate Advisor, Inc., et al.
Magnolia Marketing Co. v. Southern Eagle Sales and Service, L.P.
Conwill v. Greenberg Traurig, L.P., et al.
Ducote Jax Holdings, L.L.C. v. Bradley.