Seth Hopkins litigated 60 high-profile appeals before the Louisiana and Texas Supreme Courts and the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He teaches Appellate Advocacy at the University of Houston Law Center and developed and teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution at Thurgood Marshall School of Law. He has been a Louisiana attorney since 1999 and a mediator since 2003.

 

Seth has worked on civil cases for the Louisiana Attorney General's Office, United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Louisiana, and in private practice in Calcasieu Parish. He clerked for the Honorable Patricia Minaldi in the Western District of Louisiana and the Fourteenth Judicial District Court in Lake Charles.

 

More recently, he served as a special assistant and managing counsel for approximately 30 attorneys in the nation's third-largest county attorney's office during all phases of litigation from inception through appeal. He supervised approximately 650 automobile and premise liability, civil rights, real estate, and specialty cases such as election litigation. He developed litigation practice guides and settlement procedures and trained attorneys to identify and evaluate cases for settlement. 

 

He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in significant commercial litigation, insurance, civil rights, onshore and offshore oilfield disputes, intellectual property, environmental, construction, public health, election, and personal injury cases in Louisiana and Texas. 

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