Steve Herman Marks Milestone 20th Year Teaching at Loyola Law and Leads Advanced Course at Tulane Law, His Alma Mater, During Fall Semester

Fishman Haygood special counsel Steve Herman will spend the Fall Semester 2025 teaching advanced litigation courses at both Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and Tulane University Law School. Significantly, this year not only marks Steve’s twentieth teaching at Loyola but also his fifteenth teaching at Tulane Law, his alma mater.

At Loyola Law, Steve is once again leading Advanced Torts: Class Actions. The weekly seminar is devoted to gaining an understanding of class action and other “mass tort” litigation from both a practical and an academic perspective. The course covers alternative structures for litigation, class definition, and other pleading issues; discovery; the certification process; and trial and settlement issues.

In addition to his fall course at Loyola, Steve is also leading Advanced Civil Procedure: Complex Litigation at Tulane Law. The weekly course explores the important aspects of civil procedure and is designed for any student interested in litigation or practice involving multi-party transactions, including anti-trust, securities, product liability, mass torts, consumer litigation, and employment rights. The procedures taught include joinder of parties and structure of lawsuits in complicated multi-party suits; duplicative litigation and use of stay order, injunctions, consolidation, and transfer to the Multi District Panel; res judicata; class actions; discovery and trial in complex cases; settlement, and attorneys’ fees.

After two decades of sharing his experience and knowledge with the next generation of attorneys, Steve himself is still learning.

“Teaching at Loyola for twenty years, and at Tulane for nearly as long, has been a true privilege,” says Steve. “What keeps me coming back each semester are the students—I learn just as much from them as they do from me.”

Steve graduated magna cum laude from Tulane Law and was named Order of the Coif. With thirty years of experience, Steve’s practice has recently focused on representing both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial, class action, and professional liability cases, and he is often asked to provide expert testimony in such matters. 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 more about his practice here.

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