DeRouen Law Firm - New Orleans, LA

Overview

Awards and Honors

Super Lawyers® Selectees

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DeRouen Law Firm selected for a Super Lawyers® list

• DeRouen, Patrick D. On a Super Lawyers® List
• Royce, Doris A. On a Super Lawyers® List

Classes and Seminars

• "Cell Phones, GPS, and Other Telltale Methods of Uncovering Fraud in Trucking Cases - How the Use of Technology Can Uncover Fraud and Win the Battle of Credibility at Trial", Defense Research Institute, Annual Meeting, October 26th 2012
  
• “Dealing with Disasters – Emergency Management For Your Company and Law Firm -Considerations for Medium and Small Law Firms and Businesses” , Transportation MegaConference IX, CLE Conference, March 5-6th 2009
  
• “Water Under and Over the Bridge: Litigating Property Cases in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina”, Southeastern Claims Executive Association, Annual Meeting, April 24th 2006, Hutchinson Island, Florida
  
• “Is it Covered? Recent Developments in Automobile Insurance Coverage”, Louisiana State Bar Associations sponsored CLE conference, November 5th 2004
  
• “Better Understanding Your Client and The Trucking Industry”, Transportation Megaconference VI - CLE Conference, April 17-18th 2003
  
• “Automobile Insurance Coverage Issues”, Destination Disney/LSBA Multi-Topic CLE Seminar, CLE Conference, March 3-5th 2003
  
• “21st Century Challenges Which Face the Trucking Industry and its Lawyers”, Transportation Megaconference V, CLE Conference, March 15th 2001
  
• “Automobile Insurance” The Who’s, What’s, Where’s and When’s of Coverage”, Insurance Law: Those Continuing and Never Ending Changes CLE Conference, October 2nd 1998
  
• Annual Presentations to various clients on multiple topics including Insurance Coverage, Extra-Contractual issues, SIU issues, Katrina and Catastrophe Litigation, Business Interruption Claims, and Recent Developments in Louisiana Law

Pro Bono Activities

• Non-Flood Protection Asset Management Authority (Non Flood Portion of former Orleans Levee District), 2011 - Present
• Ducks Unlimited - Area Chairman/Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, 1998 - 2007
• Committee for a Better New Orleans, Member of Sub-Committee, City Government & Finance, 2000 - 2004
• St. Pius X Men's Club, 1998 - Present
• Lakeshore Property Owners Association, 2000 - 2004
• Acorn Adoption Agency Board of Directors, 1995 - 2000
• Loyola University College of Business Administration Executive Advisory Board, 1986 - 1993
• Loyola University Alumni Board of Directors Young Alumni Representative, 1989 - 1991

Ancillary Businesses

• Lobbying and Governmental Relations