Patrick A. Juneau

Copyright (c) 2009 Juneau David. All rights reserved.

Patrick A. Juneau

Patrick A. Juneau obtained a Bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University in 1959. He subsequently served on active duty in the United States Army and attained the rank of Captain. While in the service, he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal. After completing his tour of duty, he entered Louisiana State University Law School where he obtained his Juris Doctor degree in 1965. He has been actively engaged in the private practice of law since 1965 and was admitted to practice in all Federal and State Courts in the State of Louisiana, the United States District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas, the United States Courts of Appeal for the Fifth, Eighth, and Eleventh Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court.

He is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He is a past President of the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel. In 1973 he was elected to and served as a member of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, the body which drafted the new Constitution for the State of Louisiana.

He has been a guest lecturer at the Louisiana State University and Tulane University Law Schools’ Continuing Legal Education programs and has planned and spoken at seminars on such topics of products, environmental, maritime, professional liability litigation, and mediation. He has also served on the faculty of the Louisiana State University Trial Advocacy Program.

In 2018, he was a speaker at the JPRI International Conference in Seoul, Republic of Korea on the subject of Complex Litigation. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

In 1996 he was awarded the Curtis R. Boisfontaine Trial Advocacy Award by the Louisiana Bar Foundation. He was named the LSU Law Center 2006 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year. During his trial practice, he tried in excess of two hundred (200) civil jury cases to a conclusion. For his work in the field of personal injury defense litigation, he has been recognized in “The Best Lawyers in America” published by Woodward/White. In 2015 he was inducted into the Lafayette Bar Association Hall of Fame.
.

Mediation and Special Master Experience

He has served as the mediator in over four thousand (4,000) cases. The mediated cases have been in various states and have involved both state and federal court actions. He has been appointed the designated mediator by federal and state courts and has also served as the court-appointed Special Master in numerous federal and state cases including the following complex and multi-party matters:

  • In Re: Combustion, Inc. U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana – MDL (toxic tort litigation involving 10,800 claimants and superfund site);
  • In Re: New Orleans Train Car Leakage Fire Litigation, Orleans Parish, Louisiana (toxic tort litigation involving 9,300 claimants);
  • In Re: Silicone Gel Breast Implant Products Liability Litigation (Louisiana Breast Implant Litigation);
  • In Re: New Iberia Train Leakage Litigation, U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana – (toxic tort litigation involving over 3,300 claimants);
  • In Re: Chemical Release at Bogalusa, Washington Parish, Louisiana (toxic chemical litigation involving approximately 18,000 claimants);
  • Colonial Pipeline Litigation, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana (sub-surface release involving 5,600 claimants);
  • Mary Self, et al. v. Illinois Central Railroad, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana (toxic tort litigation involving over 2,800 claimants);
  • Bryson Adams, et al. v. Environmental Purification Advancement Corp., U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana (toxic tort action involving over 3,500 claimants and superfund site);
  • In Re: Propulsid Product Liability Litigation, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana – MDL (product liability claims involving thousands of claimants throughout the United States);
  • Icon Class Action, 27th Judicial District Court, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana (product liability claim involving the crawfish industry);
  • Juanita Thibodeaux, et al. v. Conoco Phillips Company, et al., 14th Judicial District Court, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana ( chemical release litigation involving over 18,000 claimants);
  • In Re: Educational Testing Services Praxis Principles of Learning and Teaching, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana – MDL (nationwide settlement class involving educational testing with over 3,000 claimants);
  • In Re: Guidant Corp. Implantable Defibrillators Product Liability Litigation, U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota – MDL (nationwide product liability action involving over 8,500 claimants);
  • Clark Gunderson, MD, et al. vs. F.A. Richard and Associates, 14th Judicial District Court, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana (medical bill discounting litigation involving F .A. Richard and over 2,215 medical providers);
  • Clark Gunderson, MD, et al. vs. Focus, 14th Judicial District Court, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana (medical discounting litigation involving Focus and over 2,304 medical providers;
  • Clark Gunderson, MD, et al. vs. AIGDC, et al., 14th Judicial District Court, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana (medical bill discounting litigation involving AIGDC and over 1,664 medical providers);
  • Clark Gunderson, MD, et al. vs. Amerisafe Risk Services, Inc. and American Interstate Ins. Co., et al., 14th Judicial District Court, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana (medical bill discounting litigation involving Amerisafe Risk Services and American Interstate and over 290 medical providers);
  • Clark Gunderson, MD, et al. vs. Claims Management, Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., et al., 14th Judicial District Court, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana (medical bill discounting litigation involving CMI and Wal-Mart and over 1,369 medical providers);
  • Opelousas Trust Authority, et al. vs. Summit Consulting Inc. of Louisiana, 27th Judicial District Court, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana (medical bill discounting litigation involving over 1,087 medical providers);
  • Barbara Pellerin, etc. vs. Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, 15th Judicial District Court, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana (medical procedure litigation involving over 305 claimants);
  • Mary Gallien, et al. vs. Lafayette General Medical Center, 15th Judicial District Court, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana (medical procedure litigation involving over 108 claimants);
  • Barbara Pellerin, et al. vs. Louisiana Medical Mutual Ins. Co., et al., 15th Judicial District Court, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana (medical procedure litigation involving over 415 claimants);
  • Gwendolyn Guillory, et al. vs. Union Pacific Corp., et al., 14th Judicial District Court, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana (chemical release litigation involving over 500 claimants);
  • Darcy Guidry, et al. vs. American Public Life Ins. Co., et al., 14th Judicial District Court, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana (insurance premium litigation involving over 3,002 claimants);
  • In Re: Vioxx Products Liability Litigation, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana- MDL (nationwide product liability action involving over 80,000 claims);
  • George Raymond Williams, MD. vs. SIF Consultants, et al., 27th Judicial District Court, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana (medical discounting litigation involving over 1,000 medical providers);
  • George Raymond Williams, MD. vs. Hammerman Gainer, Inc., et al., 27th Judicial District Court, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana (medical discounting litigation involving over 780 medical providers);
  • In Re: Kugel Mesh Hernia Repair Patch Litigation, U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island-MDL (product liability litigation involving over 1,000 claimants);
  • In Re: Avandia Marketing, Sales Practices Products Liability Litigation, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania -MDL (product liability litigation involving over 30,000 claimants);
  • Kathleen Ryan-Blaufuss, et al. vs. Toyota Motor Corporation, et al., U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Settlement Special Master in massive product liability action);
  • Rose Goudeau, et al. vs. The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund, et al., Orleans Parish, Louisiana (willed body litigation involving over 2,000 claims);
  • Opelousas General Hospital Authority, et al. vs. Fair Pay Solutions, Inc., 27th Judicial District Court, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana (medical discounting litigation involving over 200 medical providers);
  • In Re: Toyota Motor Corp. Unintended Acceleration Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation, U.S. District Court, Central District of California -MDL; Toyota Motor Cases, Superior Court, Complex Department, Los Angeles County, California;
  • In re: Takata Airbag Products Liability Litigation, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida – MDL (massive settlement involving thousands of claims throughout the United States);
  • In Re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon,” U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana-MDL (massive settlement class action involving over 450,000 claims from Florida to Texas);
  • In Re: Hurricane Laura and Hurricane Delta Claims, U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana (all claims resulting from Hurricanes Laura and Delta);
  • Cheng, et al. vs. Toyota Motor Corporation, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York (Settlement Special Master in massive products liability action);
  • Jean Boudreaux, et al. vs. The State of Louisiana, et al, 2181 Judicial Court, Parish of Tangipahoa, Louisiana (Class action involving 1,310 members in flood claims);
  • In Re: ZF-TRW Airbag Controls Unites Products Liability Litigation, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Settlement Special Master in massive products liability action);

He is qualified as a civil mediator and is listed on the Register of Qualified Civil Mediators under the provisions of Louisiana Revised Statute 9:4106. He is also a charter member of the Academy of Court-Appointed Masters.

Comments are closed.