J. Whitney Pesnell

Employment, Mediation
400 Travis Street, Suite 308
Shreveport, Louisiana 71101


Employment

Admitted

1985, Louisiana; 1987, U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1988, U.S. District Court, Middle and Eastern Districts of Louisiana; 1995, Texas; 1996, District of Columbia, U.S. Court of Appeals for th

Law School

Louisiana State University, J.D., 1984; Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College, LL.M., Environmental Law, 1996

Law School Graduation Year

1996

College

Louisiana Tech University, B.S.M.E., 1981

Memberships

Shreveport, Louisiana State, and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; The District of Columbia Bar; American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Biographical

Pi Tau Sigma; Tau Beta Pi; Phi Kappa Phi; Order of the Coif. Associate Editor, Louisiana Law Review, 1983-1984. Author: Contributing Negligence: When Should it be a Defense in Strict Liability Actions?, 43 La. L. Rev. 801 (1983); The Contribution Bar in CERCLA Settlements and its Effect on the Liability of Nonsettlors, 58 La. L. Rev. 167 (1997).

Military