Background
Wittmann, Phillip A. was born on January 10, 1935 in Mobile, Alabama, United States.
Wittmann, Phillip A. was born on January 10, 1935 in Mobile, Alabama, United States.
Tulane University of Louisiana (Bachelor of Arts, 1956. Bachelor of Laws, 1961). Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif.
Omicron Delta Kappa.
Member, Board of Editors, Tulane Law Review, 1956-1957. 1960-1961.
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, 1961, Louisiana. Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif.
Omicron Delta Kappa.
Member, Board of Editors, Tulane Law Review, 1956-1957. 1960-1961. Lecturer: Trial Advocacy Seminars, Tulane University and Louisiana State University. Member: New Orleans, Louisiana State (Member, House of Delegates, 1979-1997.
Chairman, Continuing Legal Education Committee, 1982-1983.
Secretary-Treasurer, Antitrust Section, 1982-1983. Vice-Chairman, Antitrust Section, 1983-1984.
Chairman, Antitrust Section, 1985. Chairman, Legal Specialization Committee, 1991-1992.
Chairman, Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization, 1993-1996) and American (Member, House of Delegates, 1986-1997) Bar Associations.
Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association. The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.
Judicial Conference of the United States (Member, Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, 1993-1997).
Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers. International Society of Barristers (Member, Committee on Complex Litigation, Louisiana Supreme Court, 1995).
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".
New Orleans, Louisiana State (Member, House of Delegates, since 1979. Chairman, Continuing Legal Education Committee, 1982-1983. Secretary-Treasurer, Antitrust Section, 1982-1983.
ViceChairman, Antitrust Section, 1983-1984.
Chairman, Antitrust Section, ) and American (Member, House of Delegates, since 1986) Bar Associations. Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers.