Clinton Wesley Shinn

Background

Shinn, Clinton Wesley was born on March 7, 1947 in Haworth, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Clinton Elmo and Mary Lucille (Dowdy) Shinn.

Education

McNeese State University (Bachelor of Science, 1969). Tulane University (Juris Doctor, 1972). Harvard Law School (Master of Laws, 1973).

Order of the Coif.

Assistant Articles Editor, 1970-1971 and Editorin-Chief, 1971-1972, Tulane Law Review.

Career

Worked at Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, Limited liability partnership (New Orleans, Los Angeles) specializing in Administrative Proceedings, Admiralty, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust, Banking, Bankruptcy, Commercial Litigation, Commercial Transactions, Constitutional, Corporate and Securities, Domestic Relations, Environmental, Executive Compensation, Employee Benefits, and Employment, Finance, General Civil Practice, Health Care, Insurance Defense, Insurance Regulation, Intellectual Property, International, Media, Mergers and Acquisitions, Non-Profit Organizations, Oil and Gas, Probate, Estate Planning and Trusts, Products Liability, Professional Malpractice, Public and Private Corporate Financing, Public Utilities, Real Estate, Securities Litigation and Arbitration, Taxation (Federal and State), Toxic Tort Litigation, White Collar Criminal Defense. Admitted to the bar, 1972, Louisiana. Order of the Coif. Assistant Articles Editor, 1970-1971 and Editor-in-Chief, 1971-1972, Tulane Law Review.

Author: "The Aleatory Contract in the Louisiana Civil Code: A Distinction Without a Difference," 33 Loyola (North.O.) L.Rev.

295 (1987); "The Federal Grant Program to Aid Construction of Municipal Sewerage Treatment Plants: A Survey of the 1972 FWPCA Amendments," 48 Tul. L. Tev. 85 (1973). Assistant Professor, Oil and Gas, Environmental Law, Evidence, Contracts, Tulane Law School, 1973-1975.

Member: New Orleans, Louisiana State and American Bar Associations. Stone, Pigman is a firm of 70 attorneys.

Founded in New Orleans in 1929 by Judge John Minor Wisdom and Saul Stone, the firm has maintained a commitment to excellence.

Singled out by The American Lawyer "one of the best law firms in the country," Stone, Pigman has "quietly built a practice that"s as good. as of many 200-lawyer firms in New York, Chicago and Los Los Angeles".

Achievements

• Clinton Wesley Shinn has been listed as a reputable Lawyer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Co-founder, board directors Childhood Cancer Families Network, 1987-1990. Co-founder Camp Challenge, 1988. Team leader Campaign for Caring, Children's Hospital, New Orleans, 1989-1991.

Board directors Christ Episcopal School, Covington, 1988-1991, chairman long-range planning, 1990-1991, Executive Committee, 1989-1991, chairman legal committee, 1989-1991, chairman admissions/recruitment committee, 1988-1990, member headmaster search committee, 1993. Board directors Greater New Orleans Young Men’s Christian Association, 1989-1998, 99-, Executive Committee, 1991-1998, assistant secretary, 1994-1995, secretary, 1996-1998, member finance committee, 1994-1998, executive director search committee, 1996, 2dvice-chair, 1998. Member Leadership Council, 1997-1998.

Active Indian Guides/Princesses. Board directors West St. Tammany Young Men’s Christian Association, 1987-1995, Executive Committee, 1988-1995, board chairman, 1989-1990, 92-93. Board directors Christwood, since 1992, board vice president, since 1997.

Board directors Louisiana Air & Waste Management Association, since 1993. Chairman corporation relations committee, 1992-1993, vice-chairman, 1996-1997, chair, 1997-1998, past chair, 1998-1999. Fellow American College Trust and Estate Counsel, Louisiana Bar Foundation, NorthshoreEstate Planning Council.

Member American Bar Association, National Association Securities Dealers (board arbitrators), National Wildlife Federation (life), Louisiana Bar Association, Louisiana ForestryAssn., New Orleans Bar Association (member house of deals since 1999), New Orleans Estate Planning Council, Northshore Estate Planning Council, Air and Waste Management Association, Order of Coif, National Common for Planning Giving (New Orleans chapter).

Interests

• Avocations: backpacking, gardening.

Connections

Married Catherine Borne. Children: Laura Kathryn, Clinton Wesley, Timothy Daniel.

Father:

Clinton Elmo Shinn

Mother:

Mary Lucille (Dowdy) Shinn

Spouse:

Catherine Borne

child:

Timothy Daniel Shinn

child:

Clinton Wesley Shinn

child:

Laura Kathryn Shinn