Herman Serves as Adjunct Professor of Complex Litigation at Tulane University Law School, His Alma Mater

Attorney Steve Herman, special counsel in Fishman Haygood’s Litigation Section, is once again teaching the Advanced Civil Procedure: Complex Litigation course at Tulane University Law School. The weekly course is offered during the fall semester, and this year marks Herman’s fifteenth leading the class.

The course provides students with a deeper dive into important aspects of civil procedure, most of which are only superficially considered in the first year of law school, and is designed for anyone interested in litigation or practice involving multi-party transactions, such as antitrust, securities, product liability, mass torts, consumer litigation, and employment rights. The procedures considered include joinder of parties and structure of lawsuits in complicated multi-party suits; duplicative litigation and use of stay orders, injunctions, consolidation, and transfer to the Multi District Panel; res judicata; class actions; discovery and trial in complex cases; settlement, and attorneys’ fees.

Herman graduated magna cum laude from Tulane University Law School and was named Order of the Coif. In private practice, he has handled everything from highway defect and products liability cases to fire and flood loss cases, to attorney fee disputes and employment cases, to special appellate work before the Louisiana Supreme Court and other courts of appeal. Notably, in 2010 he was appointed by the Court to serve as one of two Liaison and Lead Class Counsel for all businesses, individuals, and local governments involved in the Deepwater Horizon/BP Oil Spill litigation. Learn about his practice here.

Now, Herman has the opportunity to share this knowledge, and his lessons learned, with the next generation of attorneys. In addition to his Tulane class in the fall, Herman teaches a similar Advanced Torts Seminar on Class Actions at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law each spring.

“I’ve served as an adjunct professor for nearly twenty years, since 2005 at Loyola and 2009 at Tulane, and what keeps me coming back to both campuses is the students, plain and simple,” says Herman. “Inevitably, I end up learning just as much from them as they do from me.”

Fishman Haygood attorneys regularly lend their expertise to scholarship and teaching of continuing development in the law. Read more about their civic engagement here.