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Lori G. Mince

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Practice Focus

Appellate Group Class Actions/Mass Actions/MDLs Construction Corporate Governance Employment Insurance Coverage Media/First Amendment Real Estate Litigation Tax

About

Lori Mince practices in the areas of commercial litigation, media law, and tax litigation. She is also a certified American Arbitration Association® arbitrator.

“She is an amazingly talented attorney. She is certainly the strongest and most qualified litigator I have ever worked with.” —Litigation: General Commercial Client, Chambers and Partners

In her commercial litigation practice, Lori has represented clients in a variety of matters, including class actions and commercial disputes involving GoAuto Insurance, LLC; Wallace C. Drennan, Inc.; Rouses Enterprises; H&E Equipment Services, Inc.; Stirling Properties; Lloyd’s of London; and ASM Global, LLC. Lori also regularly represents executives in employment disputes with their former employers regarding compensation and restrictive covenants.

Experience

  • Has represented or currently represents the State of Louisiana Department of Revenue in complex transfer pricing litigation against ConocoPhillips, General Mills, W.W. Grainger, Inc., Monsanto Company, Rent-A-Center, Inc., and Home Depot USA, Inc., involving the state’s authority to reallocate income among related entities to ensure accurate reflection of taxable income earned in Louisiana.
  • Represented GoAuto Insurance in high-stakes putative class action litigation challenging automobile policy cancellation practices, involving thousands of proposed class members and billions of dollars in alleged exposure, resulting in dismissal on summary judgment in the company’s favor. The ruling was affirmed by the Fifth Circuit in October 2025.
  • Served as lead trial counsel for Lloyd’s of London in a high-stakes $50 million subrogation action arising from a well blowout in Lafourche Parish, tried to a jury and resulting in a defense verdict.
  • Serves as lead trial counsel in litigation under the Louisiana Public Works Act on behalf of a contractor seeking statutory interest from the City of New Orleans for failure to timely pay for completed work, resulting in two trial judgments totaling more than $900,000, including appellate affirmance of one judgment.
  • Represents the City of Shreveport in an action seeking more than $300 million in damages from the engineering firm that designed and oversaw construction of improvements to the City’s sewerage system pursuant to a Consent Decree between the City and the Department of Justice.

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Credentials

  • J.D., magna cum laude, from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 1998
    • Member of the Loyola Law Review
  • B.A., cum laude, from Tulane University, 1992
  • Louisiana
  • U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court

Notable Rankings

2026 Chambers Top Ranked Lori Mince2026 Benchmark Litigation Litigation Star sealTop 250 Women in Litigation Benchmark Litigation logo for 2025Lori Mince Best Lawyers: Lawyer of the Year 2026 in Litigation - First Amendment BadgeLori Mince Best Lawyers 2026 BadgeSuper Lawyers 2026 badge