Attorneys

Francis Philip Accardo

Member

Frank Accardo is a founding member of the firm. He has been engaged in trial and appellate product liability litigation for over 30 years. His primary practice responsibilities include serving as mana...

Jamie H. Baglio

Special Partner

Ms. Baglio is a special partner in the firm whose practice is concentrated in toxic torts and environmental litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Baglio practiced toxic tort litigation, casualty,...

Stephen W. Brooks, Jr.

Special Partner

Mr. Brooks was born August 18, 1965 in Metairie, Louisiana. Stephen relocated to Mandeville, Louisiana in 1976. He attended Mandeville High School for a single year and then traveled to Lugano, Switze...

Christopher E. Carey

Member

Mr. Carey is engaged in general admiralty trial and appellate practice, with particular emphasis in cargo subrogation, personal injury defense, limitation of liability, LHWCA defense, charter party ...

Francis X. deBlanc, III

Special Partner

Francis X. deBlanc, III is a Special Partner with the firm. His practice consists primarily of complex mass litigation, and is concentrated in the areas of environmental and toxic tort liability, prod...

Douglas R. Elliott

Special Partner

Douglas R. Elliot is a special partner with the firm and practices in the areas of Commercial Litigation, Toxic Tort & Environmental, Labor & Employment, and Product Liability Law. Before joining the ...

Ernest George Foundas

Special Partner

Ernest Foundas is a Special Partner of Pugh Accardo Haas Radecker & Carey, LLC. Mr. Foundas graduated from Boston University with a B.S. degree in business administration and a concentration in finan...

Frederick T. Haas, III

Member

Ted Haas is engaged in general admiralty and maritime trial and appellate practice concentrating in personal injury and wrongful death defense, oilfield contract negotiations, hull and machinery issue...

Joseph “Jody” H. Hart, IV

Special Partner

Jody Hart is a Special Partner with the firm. His has a broad practice in the areas of products liability, construction defect, and commercial litigation. He serves as National Coordinating Counsel ...

Margaret M. Joffe

Special Partner

Margaret “Peggy” Joffe is a trial attorney who received her law degree from Loyola University School of Law in 1986. She has practiced in New Orleans and Baton Rouge litigating toxic tort cases an...

Katie E. Jordan

Associate

Katie E. Jordan is an Associate with the firm. She received her Bachelor of Science in 2013 from Texas A&M University. She graduated and received her Juris Doctor from Tulane University School of Law ...

Amy Malish

Special Partner

Ms. Malish is a Special Partner with the firm. Her practices focuses on litigating commercial disputes, including defending life, health and disability and ERISA claims, fidelity and commercial crime ...

Lesley Muse-Vincent

Associate

Lesley is an Associate with the firm. She has engaged in litigation in Administrative, Municipal and State Courts throughout Louisiana. Her practice involves general insurance defense and civil liti...

Catherine Sens Napolitano

Associate

Catherine is an Associate with the firm. Her practice involves both commercial and energy litigation. Her commercial litigation practice focuses on defending life, health and disability insurance an...

Daniel E. Oser

Special Partner

Daniel E. Oser is a Special Partner with the firm. His practice consists primarily of Environmental Litigation specializing in the defense of insurers and major corporations in toxic tort cases. Dan ...

Maura Pelleteri

Special Partner

Maura Z. Pelleteri is a Special Partner with the firm engaged primarily in commercial litigation since 1985. Ms. Pelleteri’s practice areas include Surety and Fidelity Law; Insurance Coverage Litig...

Thomas A. Porteous

Special Partner

Tommy is a native of New Orleans who obtained both his undergraduate and law school degrees from LSU. After graduating from law school, Tommy has practiced in the areas of maritime personal injury, c...

Lawrence G. Pugh, III

Member

The founding member of the firm, Larry Pugh has been practicing law in New Orleans since 1986. A skilled trial lawyer, he has defended businesses and individuals in complex civil matters and class act...

H. Philip Radecker, Jr.

Member

As a member with the firm, Mr. Radecker is engaged in products liability, insurance defense, admiralty, maritime personal injury, workers’ compensation, class actions defense, and business litigatio...

Etienne F. René

Associate

Etienne F. Rene is an Associate with the firm. After earning his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Louisiana State University in 2012, he graduated and received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) and Gr...

McGready L. Richeson

Member

McGready Richeson joined the firm in 2017 as a Special Partner primarily engaged in environmental litigation, toxic torts, products liability, and business litigation. A skilled litigator, McGready h...

Jacqueline A. Romero

Member

Jackie is a native of New Orleans. She studied history at Loyola University in New Orleans and following graduation in 1994, magna cum laude, began working for the State of Louisiana in the Department...

Joseph L. Spilman, III

Special Partner

Joseph L. Spilman, III is a Special Partner with the firm. His practice consists primarily of complex, class action, casualty and commercial litigation, and is concentrated in the areas of products l...

Milele N. St. Julien

Special Partner

Milele St. Julien is a Special Partner at Pugh, Accardo, Haas, Radecker & Carey, LLC. Her practice primarily focuses on toxic tort litigation, premises liability, product liability, collections and s...

David M. Stein

Special Partner

David Stein joined Pugh Accardo as a Special Partner in 2017. He focuses his practice on a wide variety of areas including complex commercial litigation, toxic tort, and intellectual property. He is ...

Shelley L. Thompson

Associate

As an associate with the firm, Shelley has been engaged in civil and appellate litigation defending insurers and corporations in personal injury and environmental damage claims, with a specific focus ...

Richard J. Voelker

Associate

Richard Voelker has been primarily engaged in the defense of employers and carriers with regard to Louisiana State Workers Compensation claims. In that practice, he has appeared in all of the Louisia...

G. Benjamin Ward

Special Partner

Ben Ward practices in the areas of insurance coverage and defense litigation. Mr. Ward has experience counseling insurer clients in first and third-party coverage disputes, with a particular emphasis...

Donna M. Young

Special Partner

Donna was born and raised in New Orleans. She graduated from Rhodes College, a small liberal arts school in Memphis, TN. While at Rhodes, she was a member of the college’s first Mock Trial Competiti...