Lawrence R. Anderson Jr. - Baton Rouge, LA

Overview

Awards and Honors

Education

• Legal Education

  • Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1971
    J.D.
    Law Review: Louisiana Law Review, Associate Editor

• Non Legal Education

  • Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    B.S.
    Major: Business Administration

Current Employment Position(s)

• Attorney

Classes and Seminars

• Collection Law from Start to Finish, National Business Institute, Inc. (“NBI”) (2010)
  
• Real Property Foreclosure: A Step-by-Step Workshop, NBI (2008), (2009)
  
• Bankruptcy Law and Procedure From Start to Finish, NBI (2007)
  
• Landlord/Tenant Law, Sterling Education Services (“SES”) (2006)
  
• Collection Techniques and Law in Louisiana, Lorman Education Services (“LES”) (2004), (2005)
  
• Understanding the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005 in Louisiana, LES (2005)
  
• Creditor’s Rights and Protection of Security Interests in Bankruptcy, SES (2002)
  
• Fundamentals of Bankruptcy Law and Procedure in Louisiana, National Business Institute, 2000
  
• Fundamentals of Bankruptcy Law Procedure in Louisiana, National Business Institute, 1999
  
• Advanced Consumer Bankruptcy Issues in Louisiana, National Business Institute, 1998
  
• Foreclosure and Repossession: How to Do it Right, National Business Institute, 1987
  
• Creditors Rights and Protection of Security Interests in Bankruptcy, National Business Institute, 1987
  
• Enforcing Collection of Judgments in Louisiana, Lorman Education Services, 1996
  
• How to Get Results in Collection of Delinquent Debts in Louisiana, National Business Institute, 1996
  
• Commercial Lending in Louisiana, National Business Institute, 1995
  
• Advanced Collections and the Bankruptcy process in Louisiana, National Business Institute, 1994
  
• Collecting Judgments in Louisiana, National Business Institute, 1992 - 1993
  
• Creditors' Rights and Protection of Security Interests in Bankruptcy, National Business Institute, 1987
  
• Foreclosure and Repossession: How to Do it Right, National Business Institute, 1987

Representative Clients

• J & J Electrical and Instrumentation Service, Inc.

• Zodiac Development d/b/a Essen Centre

• Fidelity National Title Insurance Company

• Prestridge Cars, Inc.

• Advanta Leasing Corporation

• Industrial Coatings Contractors of Greater New Orleans, Incorporated

• Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry

• Surface Preparation and Coating Enterprises, Incorporated

Representative Cases

• Melancon v. Commonwealth Land Title Ins. Co., 20-0196 (La.App. 1 Cir. 12/30/20), 318 So.3d 171, 2020 WL 7769734, (appeal decision affirming dismissal of suit seeking to nullify a default judgment for a title insurer based upon subrogation for the amount it paid its insured to settle a title claim for a mortgage recorded prior to the insured’s mortgage)
• General Financial Services, Inc. v. Thompson, 987 S. Supp. 505 (M.D. La. 1997), affirmed (without opinion) 149 F.3d 1178 (1998), (appeal decision affirming judgment on note and mortgage purchased from the FDIC by a finance company for a note that was lost)
• Matter of Walker, 51 F.3d 562 (5th Cir. 1995), (obtained reversal of bankruptcy court judgment against mobile home dealer sued as a third-party defendant by a secured creditor sued by bankruptcy debtor for repossession of mobile home without obtaining order lifting automatic stay, establishing two important precedents of lack of bankruptcy jurisdiction and no bankruptcy cause of action for a third-party complaint for violation of stay)
• Matter of Sam, 894 F.2d 778 (5th Cir. 1990), (appeal decision affirming judgment of bankruptcy court dismissing a complaint objecting to the bankruptcy discharge of a damage suit against a Louisiana State trooper for violation of the plaintiff’s constitutional rights by alleged arrest and beating by the state trooper for failure to timely file the complaint objecting to the discharge)
• In re Energy Contractors, Inc., 791 F.2d 1222 (5th Cir. 1988), (appeal decision reversing bankruptcy court order invalidating secured creditor’s assignment of accounts receivable by bankruptcy debtor)
• Holland American Insurance Co. v. Succession of Roy, 777 F.2d 992 (5th Cir. 1985) , (appeal decision reversing district court preliminary injunction enjoining suit on an insurance policy by succession of bankruptcy debtor who died in fire of his business premises)
• Baton Rouge Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Ltd. v. General Truck Drivers, Warehousemen and Helpers Local Union No. 5, 403 So.2d 632 (La. 1981), (successful appeal for a local union reversing a district court preliminary injunction and overturning two Louisiana Supreme Court decisions in the mid-1950s as unconstitutional under Louisiana’s “Little Norris-LaGuardia Act” prohibiting injunctions in labor disputes)

Published Works

Articles

• Highlights of the 1978 Bankruptcy Code (Co-Author), 27 Louisiana Bar Journal 151, 1979
  
• The Construction Industry Looks at the New Bankruptcy Code, 1 The Construction Lawyer, No. 3, Forum Committee, ABA (Co-Author), 1981
  

Bar Admissions

• 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
• U.S. Supreme Court

Other Affiliations

• Louisiana State Bar Association
• Baton Rouge Bar Association
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• Bar Association of the Federal Fifth Circuit
• The Federalist Society

Fraternities and Sororities

• Kappa Alpha Order
• Phi Kappa Phi