Canal HR is a licensed Professional Employer Organization (PEO) based in Metairie, Louisiana that serves companies across the southeast region of the United States. We specialize in providing administrative services to business owners, including payroll administration, worker's compensation, 401K plans, risk management and human resource compliance. We also have an on-staff attorney to consult on any HR-related topics, and we provide an interactive web portal that allows your employees to look at past paychecks and access tax forms at any time of day. Our program provides worker’s compensation coverage with the support of our safety and risk management team, including our company nurse. Our Risk Manager can inspect your work-site for possible hazards and make appropriate recommendations. We will also aggressively manage each claim and return your injured employees to work as quickly and cost effectively as possible. Canal HR can provide your company with a 401K plan that does not have any on-going administrative costs to your company. We also offer comprehensive major medical with prescription drug coverage, life and dental, including cost containment, rate forcasting and renewal rate strategies combined with top notch service. Get the “big company” advantage when buying employee benefits by joining the Canal HR team. Listed above are some of the highlights of our PEO services, that can free your company from time-consuming personnel management functions. Let Canal HR handle all the negotiations for worker’s compensation premiums, premium audits, first reports of injury and claim’s management! You can devote your time to the true nature of your business. Call for 504.837-8680, for a free consultation or submit your information now for a quote.

The mission of the Louisiana State Bar Association is to assist and serve its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the Supreme Court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the honor of the courts and the profession, promote the professional competence of attorneys, increase public understanding of and respect for the law, and encourage collegiality among its members.

Our founders believed in quality work, diligence, personal service, cost-effective representation, and high standards of ethics and professionalism. These values continue in Christovich & Kearney lawyers today in their representation of our clients. Christovich & Kearney first earned a reputation for excellence in trial advocacy and insurance defense litigation. The firm enhanced that reputation and has broadened its expertise and practice to meet the diverse needs of our clients. Christovich & Kearney provides quality representation on a responsive and cost-efficient manner. We are aware of the needs of our clients to predict and control costs and we work with them to achieve the goals of litigation management programs and to arrive at suitable arrangements consistent with the requirements of the case and the client. Our founders built Christovich & Kearney through hard work, personal service, quality counsel, cost-effective representation, and high standards of ethics and professionalism. These values continue to guide Christovich & Kearney today. The firm practices throughout Louisiana and Texas. Our clients include local, national and international businesses, state and local governmental bodies, non-profit organizations and individuals. AREAS OF PRACTICE: Admiralty/Maritime Appellate Practice Art Law Aviation Business Casualty/Insurance Class Action/Mass Tort Collections Construction Employment Litigation Elder Law Employment Litigation Environmental Law / Toxic Tort Estate Planning Health Care Insurance Law Premises Liability Products Liability Professional Malpractice / Ethics Defense Real Estate Transportation Law Workers’ Comp / Employers’ Liability / LHWCA

Steeg Law Firm, LLC is a real estate law firm with decades of experience in commercial and residential real estate, real estate financing, commercial and residential title insurance, and commercial and business litigation throughout Greater New Orleans and Louisiana. Steeg Law has been consistently recognized by Chambers & Partners America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, as one of the top real estate law firms in Louisiana and as a first tier “New Orleans Real Estate Law Firm” in the 2010 and 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and U.S. News & World Report “Best Law Firms” rankings. Our attorneys are also ranked among the best by Martindale-Hubbell, Chambers & Partners, and Best Lawyers in America and U.S. News & World Report. Practice Areas Condominiums Real Estate and Commercial Financing Commercial and Business Litigation Commercial Real Estate Acquisition, Development, Ownership and Leasing Business Enterprises and Emerging Companies Public-Private Transactions Residential and Single-Family Real Estate Title Insurance Orleans Title Insurance Agency, LLC OTIA is Steeg Law’s in-house title insurance agency for commercial and residential closings. Our attorneys have over 100 years of combined title examination, underwriting and claims handling experience, improving the efficiency and quality of these transactions, making for smooth closings for owners, lenders, and lessees.

Welcome to the Duplass APLC LinkedIn Company page. We are glad you found us! Founded in 1987, we provide our clients with dedicated attorneys who understand that your success is our success. We are committed to the principle that exceptional representation requires a superb understanding of the law and a fierce dedication to our clients’ goals. Let us know how we can serve your legal needs. Call: 504.832.3700 or visit http://www.duplass.com today!

Mouledoux, Bland, Legrand & Brackett is a full-service defense firm with decades of experience handling claims. We are based in New Orleans and have an established reputation for delivering favorable results far beyond the Gulf South. Our attorneys are highly experienced in crafting a defense plan in each case, including on-site casualty investigations, gathering evidence, and deposing witnesses, which is crucial to proactively pushing the claim toward a favorable resolution. Our clients trust us to resolve their cases in a timely manner while meeting their objectives efficiently. We trust each other and our attorneys, paralegals and administrative staff work as a team to deliver the highest level of counsel and personal service, case after case. We are one of a handful of firms in the nation with expertise in handling claims under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, Defense Base Act and War Hazards Compensation Act with a robust state workers’ compensation defense practice. We have extensive experience in insurance defense, litigating claims nationwide. Since our founding in 1997, MBLB has tripled in size and expanded into trucking and transportation defense and municipal law. MBLB has been included in Forbes Legal Black Book and recognized by the A.M. Best Company as recommended insurance defense and subrogation counsel. Our attorneys are included in the top legal peer review directories, including Super Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America. We have previously been recognized by New Orleans City Business as one of our city’s “Best Places to Work.” We are grateful for the relationships that we have with our clients. We value deeply every client and every case. We are devoted to providing the best service and achieving the most beneficial results, whether we settle or go to trial. We are available 24/7 to respond to catastrophic accidents and other legal needs.

For the past four decades (since our founding in 1981), Plauché Maselli Parkerson has exceeded in the always challenging defense litigation field. Our attorneys have extensive trial and mediation experience in the fields of auto and trucking liability, premises and products liability, natural gas and pipeline liability, environmental and contamination liability, commercial and construction liability. Our attorneys also have practiced at the highest levels in the interpretation of personal, commercial and professional liability policies.

Headquartered in Louisiana and serving a broad clientele, we are a nationally recognized firm of bond attorneys. Unlike multipurpose law firms, our only focus is on the state and federal laws that pertain to public finance. As a result, our attorneys possess an in-depth understanding of all aspects of bond financings and have developed the specialized knowledge necessary to render comprehensive services to our clients. During our over 100-year existence, we have worked with thousands of local governments, boards, public trusts, authorities, hospitals, colleges, universities, lenders and private companies on bond financings in Louisiana.

Ericksen Krentel, founded in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1960, believes that serving as our clients’ most trusted adviser is grounded in going beyond the numbers. That includes helping clients achieve their business and personal financial goals by providing innovative and exceptional accounting and audit, tax and consulting services to assist clients in achieving their business and personal goals.

• Responsible for managing financials and all accounting functions of 40+ Attorney law firm operating in 2 locations in North as South Florida. • Supervision of the Accounting Department including A/R and A/P staff. • Development of financial outcomes based on strategic policy decisions and the operational impacts. • Implemented new software for client management, time entry, and financial reporting; performed full IT support backup for IT Director in his absence. • Monitored General Ledger and Cash Balances for efficient operations of the firm. • HR responsibilities: prepared payroll, and filed quarterly and annual tax reports. • Reviewed/transmitted 401k payments and Profit Sharing Plan administration. • Ensured all trust funds were managed & distributed according to Florida Bar Rules. • Oversaw all firm insurance needs and requirements. • Prepared all monthly and year-end closing reports and support documentation for outside CPA Tax Preparation of Federal and State Tax Returns.

Leake and Andersson, LLP is an established litigation and general business practice law firm with offices in New Orleans and Lafayette, Louisiana. The firm also acts as counsel for clients in certain matters throughout the United States, including class action and mass tort cases, securities arbitration proceedings and insurance coverage disputes. The combined experience and abilities of its attorneys, as well as their diverse areas of specialization, enable the firm to represent a broad range of individual, business, corporate, and insurance clients. The firm provides its clients with aggressive, objective, and cost-effective representation and counsel. It is committed to providing legal services based on an objective evaluation of the client's business needs and goals which take into account the realities and risks of doing business in the litigious society in which we live. Providing prompt responses, straightforward evaluations and periodic updates are among the firm’s highest priorities. The firm’s attorneys are actively and prominently involved in leadership positions in local, state, national, professional, and defense organizations. Its attorneys lecture widely on many areas of commercial, construction, employment, environmental, ethics, executive liability, insurance, products liability, professional liability, securities and transportation law. Several of the firm's attorneys have been certified as mediators and arbitrators by the American Arbitration Association and approved by Louisiana state court. Leake & Andersson, LLP is a member of ALFA International, the global legal network. With 145 member firms across the globe (80 in the United States) ALFA International is the premier global network of independent law firms whose success is driven by broad, deep, local relationships all over the world. More information is available at www.alfainternational.com.

Salley, Hite, Mercer & Resor (SHM&R) was founded in April of 2004 with the goal of providing outstanding legal services with competitive rates. All of SHM&R's named partners have been in practice for many years at pre-eminent New Orleans law firms where they honed their skills in a variety of areas of litigation, including: insurance coverage and defense, banking, transportation, professional liability, maritime, toxic tort, products liability, environmental law, workers compensation, and construction defect, as well as the general practice associated with all of those forms of litigation. The attorneys that make up the SHM&R team have a vast amount of experience practicing in both the State and Federal Courts of Louisiana. They are actively involved with the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance, the Defense Research Institute and the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel. SHM&R attorneys are first, and foremost, Trial Attorneys. Every case is handled with one goal in mind: successful resolution on the merits. The attorneys of SHM&R have been successful in over 90% of the matters that have proceeded to trial. Cognizant of litigation risks and costs, SHM&R routinely explores alternative dispute resolution, asses business considerations and other risks to the client, and ultimately resolve the majority of cases amicably prior to trial. The attorneys of SHM&R's trial experience as lead counsel in both jury and bench trials is one of the critical factors associated with the success of their individual practices. Please visit SHM&R's website for our firm brochure.