About Steve Herman
Steve Herman was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he attended Isidore Newman School. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College, where he was awarded Citations of Excellence in the study of Milton and Shakespeare, and won the Eleanor Frost Playwriting Competition with his one-act play, The Phoenix Sleeps Tonight. Herman was then named Order of the Coif at Tulane Law School, where he graduated, Magna Cum Laude, in 1994.
After graduating from Tulane, Herman clerked for Justice Harry T. Lemmon of the Louisiana Supreme Court. He now practices law in New Orleans, with the firm of Herman Herman Katz & Cotlar, LLP.
Developing a broad civil practice, Herman 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. He has recently focused on commercial, class action, insurance coverage and professional liability cases, representing both plaintiffs and defendants.
Mr. Herman is the author of America and the Law: Challenges for the 21st Century, first published by Austin & Winfield in 1998, now available from Gravier House Press. He recently served as the President of the Civil Justice Foundation, a national non-profit organization dedicated to the support of grassroots organizations that protect workers, consumers, children, the environment, and access to the courts. In 2001, he was presented with a special CJF President's Award, as well as a Wiedemann-Wysocki Award from the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He was recently named a 2007 Louisiana "Super Lawyer" in class actions and mass tort cases, and was a Finalist for TLPJ Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2005.
An adjunct professor to the Loyola University School of Law, Mr. Herman has given numerous speeches on consumer fraud, tobacco, and managed care litigation; complex discovery, electronic discovery, and spoliation; preemption, privilege, trial preparation, deposition strategy, motion practice, class actions, and complex litigation.
His works have been published in Winning Techniques of Successful Trial Attorneys, Tort Litigation, The Federal Lawyer, the Australian Products Liability Reporter, Sidebar, Louisiana Advocates, TRIAL Magazine and the Tulane Law Review. In addition, Steve has published three novels, The Gordian Knot, The Sign of Four, and A Day in the Life of Timothy Stone.
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Herman Herman Katz & Cotlar, LLP
Herman Mathis Casey Kitchens & Gerel, LLP
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
Speaking at the 2003 ATLA Convention
With sister, Penny, wife, Karen, son, Andrew, Mom, Dad, daughter, Alexandra, and sister, Elizabeth, in Boston, 2004.
With daughter, Alexandra, at the 2003 Breakfast of Champions.
With CJF President-Elect, David Gottesman.
