J. Dwight LeBlanc, Jr.
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Mr. LeBlanc was born at New Orleans, Louisiana in 1937, attended Spring Hill College (1955-’56), and received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Tulane University in 1959. He received his LLB from Tulane University in 1961, and was admitted that year to the Louisiana Bar.
He served in the U.S. Army JAG Corps from 1961 to 1964, and upon discharge began work as an admiralty associate at Chaffe McCall. Mr. LeBlanc presently is a partner with the firm, doing admiralty and trial work. He has served on the firm’s Management Committee, as the firm’s Managing Partner, and has also served as head of the Admiralty Section.
Mr. LeBlanc is a member of the New Orleans, Louisiana State, Federal, Fifth Circuit, and American Bar Associations and a Fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation; he is also a member of the Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute the New Orleans Association of Defense Counsel, The Mariners Club of the Port of New Orleans, the Defense Research Institute, the Louisiana Maritime Task Force, American Waterways Operators, Maritime Law Association of the United States and former member of MLA Executive Committee (1991-’94). He is also a member of the MLA’s Practice & Procedure Committee, CMI Committee, and the Association of Average Adjusters.
Mr. LeBlanc has been a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers since 1988. He has been a member of the Planning Committee and National Advisory Committee of the Admiralty Law Institute and of the Endowment Committee and Advisory Committee of the Tulane Maritime Law Center since 1984; the Tulane Law School Dean’s Council since 1987; the Tulane Medical Center’s Advisory Committee since 1988; has for many years been Louisiana State Coordinator of the Attorneys Liability Assurance Society, Inc.; has been a member of the World Trade Center Board of Directors since 1996, serving as Chairman of the World Trade Center’s Transportation Committee (2001); and he is Chairman of the New Orleans Port Safety Council for the year 2000-’01.
He participated on the "Recreational Boating and New/Non-Traditional Maritime Theories and Remedies" panel at the Admiralty Law Institute seminar in March, 1999; and participated in a panel discussion on Direct & Cross Examination of a Marine Expert at the Tulane Law School 8th Fall Maritime Law Seminar in September, 1999, for which he also presented a paper entitled "Marine Safety Experts, Daubert-Kumho Analysis". He authored "A Seaman’s Personal Injury Action – Some Practical Points," published in 4 Maritime Lawyer 17 (1979); delivered presentation and paper entitled "Collision on Rivers/Lakes – Inland/Western River Rules" for the American Bar Association Convention in Chicago in August, 1984, which was published by the Admiralty & Maritime Law Committee of the Section of Tort and Insurance Practice; has lectured for the Tulane Continuing Legal Education Seminar on "Recent Developments in Personal Injury & Insurance Law/Insurance, Indemnity & Subrogation – Coverage Issues and Repaying the Piper;" lectured and prepared paper on "Current Exception Clauses in Maritime Contracts" for the International Conference on Maritime Liability in the ‘90s held at Seville, Spain in June, 1992.