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Stephen J. Herman

Recognized by Best Lawyers® since 2013.
820 O'Keefe Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana 70113
(504) 581-4892
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Herman Herman & Katz, LLC


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Phone Number (504) 581-4892

Steve Herman was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he attended Isidore Newman School. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College, where he was awarded Citations of Excellence in the study of Milton and Shakespeare, and won the Eleanor Frost Playwriting Competition with his one-act play, The Phoenix Sleeps Tonight. Herman was then named Order of the Coif at Tulane Law School, where he graduated, Magna Cum Laude, in 1994.

After graduating from Tulane, Herman clerked for Justice Harry T. Lemmon of the Louisiana Supreme Court. He now practices law in New Orleans, with the firm of Herman, Herman & Katz, LLC.

Developing a broad civil practice, Herman has handled everything from highway defect and products liability cases, to fire and flood loss cases, to attorney fee disputes and employment cases, to special appellate work before the Louisiana Supreme Court and other courts of appeal. In 2010, he was appointed to serve as one of two Co-Liaison Counsel for all businesses, individuals and local governments in the Deepwater Horizon maritime disaster / BP Oil Spill litigation. His primary focus has been commercial, class action, insurance coverage, and professional liability cases, representing both plaintiffs and defendants.

An adjunct professor teaching complex litigation at both Tulane Law School and the Loyola University School of Law, Mr. Herman has given numerous speeches on consumer fraud, tobacco, maritime, and managed care litigation; complex discovery, electronic discovery, and spoliation; preemption, privilege, trial preparation, deposition strategy, motion practice, legal ethics and professionalism, class actions, and complex litigation. He is a former Southeast Louisiana Legal Services board member, a past president of the Civil Justice Foundation, and spent six years on one of the Hearing Committees appointed by the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board.

A fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Litigation Counsel of America, Herman currently serves as the President of the Louisiana Association for Justice, and sits on the boards of the American Association for Justice, the Roscoe Pound Institute, the National College of Advocacy, and the Public Justice Foundation. He has been named in Best Lawyers, Louisiana Super Lawyers, Lawdragon Top 500, National Law Journal Elite, Chambers USA, Who’s Who, was a N.O. City Business Leadership-in-the-Law Recipient in 2010, and was a Finalist for TLPJ Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2005.

Herman maintains a website and blawg for trial lawyers, with periodic updates on Class Actions, Product Liability, Legal Ethics and Professionalism, Spoliation and E-Discovery, the BP Oil Spill Litigation, and ERISA, as well as a section For Trial Lawyers, at www.gravierhouse.com.

The author of America and the Law: Challenges for the 21st Century, his legal writings have been published in Winning Techniques of Successful Trial Attorneys, Tort Litigation, The Federal Lawyer, the Australian Products Liability Reporter, Sidebar, Louisiana Advocates, TRIAL Magazine and the Tulane Law Review. He has also self-published three novels, The Gordian Knot, The Sign of Four, and A Day in the Life of Timothy Stone.

What legal services does this lawyer offer?
Appellate Practice
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs
Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs
Awards
Lawyer of the Year recognition for Stephen J. Herman
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs, New Orleans (2018)
Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs, New Orleans (2017)
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs, New Orleans (2015)
  • Best Lawyers in America (2013-present)
  • Best Lawyers 2015 Lawyer of the Year, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs
  • Best Lawyers 2017 Lawyer of the Year, Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Top 100 Trial Lawyers, American Trial Lawyers Association, Million Dollar Advocates Forum
  • Super Lawyers Magazine for class actions and mass torts (2007-2016)
  • Finalist, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice – Trial Lawyer of the Year (2005)
  • New Orleans City Business Leadership in Law Recipient (2010)
  • A/V-rated, Martindale-Hubbell
  • Association of Trial Lawyers of America Wiedemann – Wysocki Award (2001, 2011)
  • Civil Justice Foundation President’s Award (2001)
  • Advocate, National College of Advocacy (1996)
  • Tulane University School of Law, J.D., Order of the Coif, Magna Cum Laude (1994)
Education
Graduated
Dartmouth College, B. A.
Graduated 1991
Dartmouth College, BA
Graduated 1991
Contact Details and Office Locations
Office: (504) 581-4892
820 O'Keefe Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana 70113
New Orleans, Louisiana 70113
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