Phelps Louisiana Team Honored in Super Lawyers’ 2025 Lists
NEW ORLEANS — March 28, 2025 — Forty-four of Phelps’ Louisiana lawyers across 17 practice areas made the 2025 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists. Chosen attorneys ranked among the top 5% of nominated Louisiana lawyers.
Super Lawyers ranks attorneys by weighing them on 12 different factors, including experience, client satisfaction, and pro bono and community service. Their peers also vote for them based on their professional achievements.
Twenty-eight lawyers were chosen for the 2025 Louisiana Super Lawyers list:
Baton Rouge, La.
- Shelton Dennis Blunt – Business Litigation
- Susan W. Furr – Employment and Labor
- Karleen Green – Employee Benefits
- Michael D. Hunt – Construction Litigation
- Alston Johnson III - Appellate
- Thomas H. Kiggans – Employment and Labor
- Errol J. King Jr. – Health Care
- Randy P. Roussel – Real Estate
New Orleans, La.
- Nan Alessandra – Employment and Labor
- Kim M. Boyle – Employment and Labor
- Craig L. Caesar – Health Care
- Miles P. Clements – Transportation/Maritime
- Brandon E. Davis – Employment and Labor
- Joseph I. Giarrusso, III – Government Relations
- Pablo Gonzalez – Insurance Coverage
- Gary A. Hemphill – Transportation/Maritime
- David M. Korn – Employment and Labor
- Kevin J. LaVie – Transportation/Maritime
- Daniel Lund III – Construction Litigation
- Allen C. Miller - Business Litigation
- Thomas Kent L. Morrison – Transportation/Maritime
- David L. Patron - Business Litigation
- Christopher K. Ralston - Business Litigation
- Harry Rosenberg – Business Litigation
- Mary Ellen Roy – Media/Advertising
- Jay Russell Sever – Insurance Coverage
- James A. Stuckey - Banking
- Michael S. Williams – Employee Benefits
New Orleans partners Kim Boyle and Dan Lund also made the Top 50 New Orleans and Louisiana Super Lawyers lists. And Kim earned a spot on the Top 25 Women Louisiana Super Lawyers list.
Sixteen lawyers made the 2025 Louisiana Rising Stars list:
Baton Rouge
- Katherine Cicardo Mannino – Health Care
- Madison T. DeWitt – Business/Corporate
- Anthony Gambino – Construction Litigation
- Molly C. McDiarmid – Employment Litigation: Defense
- Christopher Vidrine – Health Care
- Jordan P. Zeringue – Insurance Coverage
New Orleans
- Tucker Bohren – Insurance Coverage
- Regan M. Canfill – Employee Benefits
- Vanessa Graf – Real Estate
- Arthur Kraatz – General Litigation
- Harrison M. Martin – Civil Litigation: Defense
- Casey Q. O’Flynn – Real Estate
- Stephanie M. Poucher – Employment Litigation: Defense
- Rebecca Sha – Employment Litigation: Defense
- Sarah Smith-Clevenger – Employment and Labor
- Ryan Telep – Personal Injury General: Defense
To qualify for the Louisiana Rising Stars honor, lawyers go through the same selection process as Super Lawyers. They must also have 10 years or less in practice or be 40 years old or younger.