Eva J. Dossier is a litigator with an active practice at the trial and appellate level in both state and federal court. Ms. Dossier enjoys collaborating with national firms as local counsel. Part of her practice involves the representation of lawyers and law firms with ethics and professional liability matters, and she is a frequent speaker on these issues. Ms. Dossier is an adjunct professor of a law school course on written discovery, which she designed to introduce law students to tactical and cost-effective litigation strategies.
Ms. Dossier graduated Order of the Coif from Vanderbilt University Law School. She was Editor in Chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review and a John W. Wade Scholar. Ms. Dossier received the Vanderbilt Pro Bono Service Award, as well as Vanderbilt Scholastic Excellence Awards in Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, Torts, and Wills and Trusts. Ms. Dossier received a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from Tulane University, where she was a Deans’ Honor Scholar and graduated cum laude with academic honors.
After law school, Ms. Dossier served as a law clerk to the Honorable James B. Loken, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and then the Honorable Lance M. Africk, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Ms. Dossier has served on the Lawyer Disciplinary Committee for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana since 2017. In 2021, the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association recognized her with the Jack Martzell Professionalism Award.
Ms. Dossier is a member of the Insurance Committee of the Louisiana State Bar Association, and the Board of Trustees of CrescentCare (a federally qualified healthcare center formerly known as the NO/AIDS Task Force). She is an American Bar Foundation Fellow. Ms. Dossier is a frequent seminar speaker and an adjunct professor at Tulane Law School, where she teaches an upper-level experiential course on written discovery.