Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C.

Benjamin P. Bucy is a member at Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver LLC in New Orleans, Louisiana. He earned a B.S. from Louisiana State University and a J.D./M.B.A. from The University of Alabama. His practice focuses on complex litigation and representing whistleblowers in qui tam cases under federal and state False Claims Acts, with much of his experience involving health care fraud matters such as hospice, home health, medical device, pharmaceutical, and skilled nursing facility fraud. He also handles commercial litigation, contract disputes, and import law, and is an author of a treatise on health care fraud and enforcement and compliance.

Chloé M. Chetta is an attorney at Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C. in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Tulane University Law School and graduated in 2015. She represents clients in appellate, civil litigation defense, business litigation, constitutional law, and securities litigation matters.

Craig Isenberg is a Member at Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver in New Orleans and works as a trial and appellate lawyer on complex litigation matters, including commercial disputes, mass and toxic torts, environmental, product liability, and securities matters. He earned a B.A. from Amherst College in 1992 and a Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School in 1996. He has tried jury and bench trials in Louisiana and other states, including a Clean Water Act case against the Department of Justice, toxic tort trials, and commercial matters, and has represented clients in industries such as chemical, oil and gas, financial, agricultural, pharmaceutical, and consumer products. He also served as a law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals.

David N. Luder is the managing partner at Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver in New Orleans, and he maintains an arbitration and litigation practice focused on financial services. He represents domestic and international broker-dealers, banks, hedge funds, and registered investment advisors in FINRA and AAA arbitrations and before regulatory bodies, and he also represents European clients in commercial and regulatory matters connected to their U.S. and international business. He holds law degrees from Northwestern University School of Law and the University of Zurich, and he previously practiced in the international arbitration and securities litigation groups at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York and with a firm in Zurich. He serves on the AAA Roster of Commercial Arbitrators.

George C. Freeman, III is a member at Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C. in New Orleans, Louisiana. He completed his legal studies at the University of Virginia School of Law and graduated with the class of 1982. His practice focuses on securities litigation and business litigation, and his profile also lists commercial real estate matters.

Jamie L. Berger is a member of Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver in New Orleans, where she serves as the firm's hiring partner. She practices in complex litigation, handling matters involving securities, corporate governance, contract disputes, and government and regulatory investigations for clients in industries such as finance, banking, energy, and construction. Her securities work includes representing institutional clients and individuals before regulatory bodies, including the SEC and FINRA. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School, and she serves as an adjunct professor of Trial Advocacy at Tulane Law School and a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Janelle E. Sharer is a commercial litigator at Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver in New Orleans who represents businesses and individuals in complex commercial litigation, product liability, and insurance coverage and bad faith disputes. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles and her Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School, where she served as an Editor for the Tulane Law Review. Before joining the firm, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jacques L. Wiener, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and to the Honorable Eldon E. Fallon of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Her work includes insurance coverage and bad faith matters, business litigation, products liability litigation, securities arbitrations, and state and federal appeals.

John W. Joyce is a litigator at Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver in New Orleans whose practice covers most types of civil litigation. He represents insurance companies in coverage and claim-handling cases, broker-dealers and financial advisors in securities and employment disputes, and businesses and individuals in contract, fraud, fiduciary liability, shareholder, restrictive covenant, and trade secret litigation. He has also represented clients in federal and state regulatory matters and internal corporate investigations. He earned his J.D. from Louisiana State University and holds a bachelor's degree from Dickinson College.

Judy Y. Barrasso is a founding member of Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C. in New Orleans. Her practice focuses on commercial litigation, including complex commercial litigation matters and class actions involving commercial contracts, director and officer liability, securities fraud, and insurance coverage and bad faith claims. She earned her J.D. from Tulane University in 1981 and has taught as an adjunct professor at Tulane Law School. She previously served as a board member and chair of the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board and on the Attorney Disciplinary Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Kyle W. Siegel maintains a practice focused on complex litigation, with substantial work in products liability and toxic torts cases in Louisiana and other jurisdictions. She has represented clients in industries including medical devices, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, and consumer products, and has mass tort and multidistrict litigation jury trial experience on bellwether trial teams. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as a litigation associate at Latham & Watkins in New York, focusing on securities litigation, government investigations, and white collar defense. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Lon LeSueur is a Member at Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver in New Orleans whose practice focuses on complex and commercial litigation. He received his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University, and holds a B.S. and B.A. from the University of Mary Washington. Before joining the firm, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Susie Morgan of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. His practice includes False Claims Act litigation involving healthcare fraud, insurance coverage matters, class actions, securities claims, and products liability and environmental litigation.

Michael A. Balascio is a litigator at Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver who represents clients in securities litigation and arbitration, insurance coverage and bad faith cases, and complex commercial litigation. He received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a senior editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Lance M. Africk of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Before joining the firm, he was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York and was previously a teacher with Teach For America. In his securities practice he counsels investment management companies and brokers in litigated matters and FINRA proceedings, and in insurance matters he represents carriers in coverage and bad faith disputes.

Mithun Burde Kamath is a litigation attorney with Barrasso, Usdin, Kupperman, Freeman & Sarver, LLC in New Orleans, Louisiana. His practice areas include litigation, government, criminal defense, election campaigns and political law, and appeals.

Richard E. Sarver is a member of Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C. in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he heads the firm's Product Liability and Toxic Tort Practice Group. He graduated from The University of Michigan Law School in 1982. His practice focuses on products liability defense, class action and mass tort defense, and environmental litigation.

Robert J. Dressel graduated from University of Virginia School of Law in 2014. He is an attorney at Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C. in New Orleans, Louisiana. He handles matters involving Securities Litigation, Appellate, Business Litigation, and Insurance Coverage.

Shaun P. McFall is a Member at Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver in New Orleans, Louisiana, where his practice focuses on complex litigation. His matters include antitrust actions, bankruptcy litigation, class actions, complex commercial disputes, products liability, securities litigation, and toxic tort cases, and he has represented financial institutions in investigations by regulatory authorities including the SEC and FINRA. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law and served in the Foundation Moot Court Program, and he earned a B.A. from Vassar College. Before joining Barrasso Usdin, he was an associate at Sidley Austin LLP in New York.

Stephen H. Kupperman is a Member at Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C. in New Orleans, Louisiana. He earned a B.A. from Duke University in 1974 and a J.D. from Tulane University in 1977. His practice focuses on securities litigation, securities arbitration, class actions, commercial and complex litigation, regulatory investigations, and appellate practice.

Stephen R. Klaffky focuses his practice on commercial litigation, environmental litigation, insurance coverage and bad faith, and securities litigation and regulation. He has represented financial institutions, investors, manufacturers, and employers through trial and on appeal, and as lead counsel has defended clients against allegations involving fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, lender liability, employment discrimination, and wrongful termination. He has also handled claims under federal and state environmental laws, including class action toxic torts, citizen suits by environmental advocacy groups, and claims for contribution and indemnification by private land owners. Before joining Barrasso Usdin, he was a partner at Brown Rudnick LLP in Hartford, Connecticut, and he received a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science from the University of Vermont and his Juris Doctor cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center.

Steven W. Usdin is a founding member of Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C. in New Orleans, Louisiana. He earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1980 and a B.S. from Trinity College in 1976. His practice is concentrated in commercial litigation, including insurance coverage, contracts, class actions and complex litigation, oil and gas litigation, and intellectual property. He has represented public companies in shareholder litigation, a shipbuilder in a contract dispute, and insurance companies in property, coverage, and director and officer matters.