Attorney Monica Bergeron | Commercial Litigation Lawyer

Practice Focus

Class Actions/Mass Actions/MDLs, Employment, Insurance Coverage, Real Estate Litigation

Monica Bergeron is an attorney in our firm’s Litigation Section and works on a wide range of commercial matters in both state and federal court.

Monica’s broad civil practice has recently included maritime matters, ranging from issues like the Jones Act to general maritime and limitation of liability. These matters include representation of both plaintiffs and defendants across all three Louisiana federal district courts, as well as in the Southern District of Texas. Monica has also spoken on topics like the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation & Liability Act (CERCLA) and the Oil Pollution Act (OPA), most recently at the Louisiana Association of Justice’s 2025 High Stakes on the High Seas: A Maritime Law Conference.

Monica is a member of the Association for Women Attorneys – New Orleans and the New Orleans Bar Association.

Prior to arriving at Fishman Haygood, Monica served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jane Triche Milazzo of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Monica received her law degree, summa cum laude, from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University in 2020 where she was a member of the Louisiana Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.

Education

J.D., summa cum laude, from Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, 2020
- Member of the Louisiana Law Review
- Order of the Coif
B.A. in Political Science and International Studies, magna cum laude, from Louisiana State University, 2015

Clerkship

Jane Triche Milazzo of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 2020-2021

Publications / Presentations

Speaker, “CWA & OPA Don’t Mix,” Louisiana Association for Justice High Stakes on the High Seas: A Maritime Law Conference, New Orleans (Aug. 15, 2025)
Speaker, “The Intersection of OPA, CERCLA, and General Maritime Law,” Louisiana State Bar Association 31st Annual Admiralty Symposium, New Orleans (Oct. 30, 2024)
Blogpost, “Timbs v. Indiana—One Year Later: Benign or Beginning of the End for Civil Asset Forfeiture,” LLR Lagniappe, The Online Companion of the Louisiana Law Review (April 2020)
- Recipient of “The Lagniappe Award” for Finest Blogpost
Comment, “Second Place Isn’t Good Enough: Achieving True Reform through Expanded Parole Eligibility,” 80 L. Rev. 109 (Fall 2019)
- Recipient of the Vincent and Elkins Best Student Comment Award

Representative Matters

Was part of the team that successfully arbitrated a multimillion contract dispute centered on complex scope of work and change order issues on behalf of Allco, LLC; as a result, Allco obtained an $11.5 million award against a large governmental contractor for disaster recovery work it performed in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.