Background
Burleigh, Lawrence K. was born on February 10, 1932 in Sunset, Louisiana, United States.
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Lawrence K. BURLEIGH
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Louisiana State University and A. and M. College. University of Southwestern Louisiana (Bachelor of Science, 1954). Loyola University (Bachelor of Laws, 1960).
Alpha Sigma Nu.
Career
Worked at Lawrence K. Burleigh, Limited. A Professional Law Corporation (Lafayette, Los Angeles) specializing in Trials and Appeals. Maritime and Personal Injury Law.
Admitted to the bar, 1960, Louisiana.
United States. Supreme Court. United States. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
United States. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Louisiana.
Alpha Sigma Nu. Member: Saint Mary Parish (President, 1971), Sixteenth Judicial District, Louisiana State, Federal and American Bar Associations. Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1976).
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Faculty National College of Advocacy.
American College of Trial Lawyers.
(Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate, by the National Board of Trial Advocacy). Larry, Senior, understands Louisiana, its people, its traditions and its laws. Reared in Jeanerette, he has been around the oil industry all his life.
He served in the Air Force during the Korean War and gained invaluable experience and insight into the oil field, working as a roustabout offshore.
His offshore experience uniquely qualifies him for his area of specialty-maritime litigation with an emphasis on commercial diving cases. He successfully tried to conclusion the first jury trial for a commercial diver under the Jones Acting, a federal statute.
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Membership
Member: Saint Mary Parish (President, 1971), Sixteenth Judicial District, Louisiana State, Federal and American Bar Associations. Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1976). The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Faculty National College of Advocacy.
American College of Trial Lawyers. (Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate, by the National Board of Trial Advocacy).
