Name: Franklin G. Shaw
Item: Franklin G. Shaw
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Franklin G. Shaw

LEGER & SHAW

512 E. Boston St.

Covington, Louisiana 70433

Telephone: (985) 809-6625

Email: fshaw@legershaw.com

Franklin G. Shaw is a partner of the law firm of Leger & Shaw. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, attended Louisiana State University where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting in 1979 and his Juris Doctor in 1982 from Louisiana State University Law Center where he was employed as a research assistant to Professor Frank L. Maraist.

Frank is presently admitted to the Louisiana Bar, the United States District Courts (Western, Eastern, and Middle District) of Louisiana, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. His legal practice includes the areas of Admiralty and Maritime Law, Litigation and Appeals, Personal Injury, Products Liability Law, Professional Malpractice Law, and Toxic Torts. He has litigated claims resulting in multi-million dollar verdicts on behalf of his clients, particularly dealing with burn injuries.

In his 30 plus years experience in the practice of law, he has litigated a wide variety of cases including cases involving admiralty and maritime claims, burn injuries, automobile crashes, road and highway defects, medical malpractice and product liability cases before courts in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Shaw argued on behalf of the plaintiffs in the case of Estate of Hunter v. General Motors Corp., 729 So.2dd 1264 (Miss. 1999), before the Mississippi Supreme Court resulting in a decision favorable to his clients.

Frank also has extensive experience handling class action and mass tort litigation including explosions at the Kaiser Aluminum Plant in Gramercy, Louisiana and the C.F. Industries in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, Billieson v. HANO, a class action case involving poisoning from lead paint and In re: Panacryl Sutures Product Liability Litigation, in which he currently served as a member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee. He also worked extensively on discovery, damages and mediations in connection with the M/V BRIGHT FIELD collision with the New Orleans Riverwalk shopping mall in 1996 in which his firm served as co-lead counsel for the claimants. Most recently his firm has been involved representing claimants in the BP Oil Spill MDL.

Frank is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, the Maritime Law Association of the United States, The Louisiana Association for Justice and The American Association of Justice. He is also a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association Section on Insurance, Negligence, Compensation, and Admiralty Law and the American Bar Association Section on Torts and Insurance Practice and has served on the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Committee on Alcohol and Drug Abuse.

Frank is a loving husband and father of six sons. In addition to his busy law practice he also volunteers his time in church, school and charitable activities.

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