Brent A. Talbot

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Brent Talbot is a partner in the New Orleans office of Chaffe McCall, L.L.P., Louisiana’s oldest firm, founded in 1826.  He serves on the firm’s Management Committee, as a Practice Area Coordinator, and on the Business Intake and Business Development Committees.

In individual cases, class actions and multidistrict litigation, Mr. Talbot represents vaccine, drug, and medical device manufacturers in product liability claims; railroads in personal injury, grade crossing, environmental, and property damage claims; and a national testing laboratory in malpractice, personal injury, employment and drug testing cases.

He has represented tobacco companies in smoking and health claims and maritime interests in personal injury and hull damage claims.  He has defended the manufacturers of tires, chairs, automotive paints, fire-resistant clothing, food products, bicycles, dryers, ovens, amusement rides, and petrochemical and agricultural products.  He has represented major retailers in premises liability claims and real estate developers and brokers.

Mr. Talbot is “av” rated by Martindale-Hubbell and a Fellow in the Louisiana Bar Foundation.  He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and all state and federal courts sitting in Louisiana.  He has appeared in cases in Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, and New York.  Mr. Talbot graduated from Tulane University School of Law in 1988 and the University of Alabama in 1985.  He is a graduate of Jesuit High School in New Orleans.

In addition to his memberships in the New Orleans, Louisiana State, American, and Fifth Federal Circuit Bar Association, he is a member of the Defense Research Institute, Drug Information Association, and the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel.  Mr. Talbot is a Trustee on the Board of Trinity Episcopal School in New Orleans and has served as an officer and director of United Cerebral Palsy of Greater New Orleans, Inc.