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| Attorney Profiles  TREVOR G. BRYAN was born in Kingston, Jamaica, WI, and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts in 1967. Upon graduation from college, he was awarded a John Woodruff Simpson Fellowship for the study of law at Harvard University Law School from which he received his Juris Doctor degree in 1971.
Mr. Bryan served as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy Judge Advocate General Corps from 1971 to 1974. He later practiced commercial litigation as an associate of Lemle & Kelleher in New Orleans from 1974 to 1976.
In 1976, he founded the Firm with William J. Jefferson. Since that time, Mr. Bryan has been engaged exclusively in the area of civil litigation in the following areas of the law: creditor/debtor rights, professional liability, health law, construction contract law, constitutional law, election law, commercial litigation, environmental law, school law, products liability and personal injury and appellate practice.
He has been active in local bar association activities, having served as President of the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society of New Orleans (1977-1979); member of the Board of Governors of the Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association of Louisiana; and the Louisiana Lawyer Disciplinary Board. In 1991, the Louisiana Supreme Court appointed Mr. Bryan to serve as Judge Pro Tempore on the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal.
Additionally, Mr. Bryan has lectured in the areas of trial practice, legal ethics, consumer credit law and products liability in continuing legal education programs for practicing lawyers and judges. He served on the faculty of the Tulane University Law School trial advocacy clinic.
He has held appointive public office as a member of the New Orleans Civil Service Commission and as a member of the Louisiana State Mineral Board, which oversees the leasing of state lands for oil and gas production. In recognition of his service on the Civil Service Commission, he received the Monte Lehman Award from the Civil Service League.
Mr. Bryan has held the positions of Secretary-Treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce for New Orleans and the River Region, Senior Warden of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, member of the Louisiana Nature Center Board, the Children's Museum Board, Big Brothers, and the D-Day Museum Board. He has served as a member of the Visiting Committee of the Loyola University School of Law and also as a member of the Endowment Fund committees of Dillard University and Xavier University.
Areas of Practice:
Creditor/Debtor Rights
Professional Liability
Health Law
Construction Contract Law
Constitutional Law
Election Law
Commercial Litigation
Environmental Law
School Law
Products Liability
Personal Injury
Appellate Practice
Representative Cases:
Dunne v. Orleans Parish School Board, 463 So.2d 1267 (La. 1985) Levie v. Orleans Parish School Board, 537 So.2ed 351 (La.App.4Cir. 1988) Hennecke v. Canepa, 700 So.2d 521 (La.App.4Cir. 1997) Guillie v. State Department of Transportation and Development,, 554 So.2d 812 (La.App. 5 Cir.) Williams v. Orleans Parish School Board, 541 So.2d 228 (La.App.4Cir. 1989) Hondroulis v. Schumacher, 553 So.2d 398 (La. 1988) Kiefer v. Morial, 351 So.2d 1216 (La.App. 4 Cir. 1977) U.S. v State of Louisiana, 9 F.3d 1159 (5th Cir. 1993)
CLARE JUPITER
CLARE JUPITER was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1974 in History, and was awarded her Juris Doctor degree from Duke University Law School in 1978. Prior to joining the Firm in 1979, she was a reporter for the States-Item Newspaper. She has also served on the editorial staff of Southern Exposure, a quarterly journal based in Durham, North Carolina.
Jupiter has specialized in educational/school law, and tort defense litigation. She was the 2001 Chairman of the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board. She is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society, and has served on the House of Delegates of the Louisiana State Bar Association; the New Orleans Board of City Trusts; the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, which sponsors the annual New Orleans Jazz Festival; the Executive Committee of the Metropolitan Area Committee; the Board of Directors of Covenant House of New Orleans; and the Board of Directors of WWOZ, a community radio station. She currently serves on the Louisiana State Bar Association Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct. Jupiter has lectured in the area of workers’ compensation, education law, trial advocacy, legal ethics, and professionalism. She has served on the faculty of numerous training programs sponsored by the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.
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