NEW ORLEANS PARTNERSHIP : Board Members

Trevor G. Bryan, Secretary

Trevor Bryan was born in Kingston, Jamaica, WI, and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts in 1967. Upon graduation from college, he was awarded a John Woodruff Simpson Fellowship for the study of law at Harvard University Law School from which he received his Juris Doctor degree in 1971.

Mr. Bryan served as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy Judge Advocate General Corps from 1971 to 1974. He later practiced commercial litigation as an associate of Lemle & Kelleher in New Orleans from 1974 to 1976.

In 1976, he and the Honorable William J. Jefferson, now a Representative in the United States House of Representatives, founded the Firm. Since that time, Mr. Bryan has been engaged exclusively in the area of civil litigation in the following substantive areas of the law: creditor/debtor rights, professional liability law, health law, construction contract law, constitutional law, election law, commercial litigation, environmental law, school law, products liability and personal injury and appellate practice.

He has been active in bar association activities, having served as President of the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society of New Orleans (1977-1979); member of the Board of Governors of the Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association of the Louisiana; and the Louisiana Lawyer Disciplinary Board. In 1991, the Louisiana Supreme Court appointed Mr. Bryan to serve as Judge Pro Tempore on the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal.

Additionally, Mr. Bryan has lectured in the areas of trial practice, legal ethics, consumer credit law and products liability in continuing legal education programs for practicing lawyers and judges. He served on the faculty of the Tulane University Law School trial advocacy clinic.

He has held appointive public office as a member of the New Orleans Civil Service Commission and as a member of the Louisiana State Mineral Board, which oversees the leasing of state lands for oil and gas production. In recognition of his service on the Civil Service Commission, he received the Monte Lehman Award from the Civil Service League.

Mr. Bryan has held the positions of Secretary-Treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce for New Orleans and the River Region, Senior Warden of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, member of the Louisiana Nature Center Board, the Children’s Museum Board, and Big Brothers, the D-Day Museum Board. He has served as a member of the Visiting Committee of the Loyola University School of Law and as a member of the Endowment Fund committees of Dillard University and Xavier University.

Areas of Practice:
Business & Commercial Law
Contracts
Education Law
Litigation & Appeals
Medical Malpractice
Personal Injury -- Defense

Bar Admissions:
Louisiana, 1974
Education:
Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971
J.D.
Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA, 1967
B.A.

Representative Cases:
Dunne v. Orleans Parish School Board, 463 So.2d 1267 (La. 1985)
Levie v. Orleans Parish School Board, 537 So.2ed 351 (La.App.4Cir. 1988)
Hennecke v. Canepa, 700 So.2d 521 (La.App.4Cir. 1997)
Guillie v. State Department of Transportation and Development,, 554 So.2d 812 (La.App. 5 Cir.)
Williams v. Orleans Parish School Board, 541 So.2d 228 (La.App.4Cir. 1989)
Hondroulis v. Schumacher, 553 So.2d 398 (La. 1988)
Kiefer v. Morial, 351 So.2d 1216 (La.App. 4 Cir. 1977)
U.S. v State of Louisiana, 9 F.3d 1159 (5th Cir. 1993