MARY K. DENNARD
Associate
mdennard@lpwsl.com
Phone (504) 834-6500
Fax (504) 834-6565
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Main Practice Areas:
Admiralty and Maritime
Insurance
Energy
Trucking and Transportation

Education:
University of Virginia
(B.A., 1984)
Tulane University Law School
(J.D., 1987)

Malise Dennard has been in private practice since 1987 and joined the firm in 2000. The focus of her practice is maritime defense litigation, energy matters, insurance coverage, and coverage litigation. She also has significant experience in general business matters including corporate transactions and zoning disputes.

Ms. Dennard has handled numerous cases involving personal injury and death, marine casualties, gas well blowouts, oilfield accounting disputes, and significant property damage and business losses sustained by companies in the energy industry. She has also defended insurers in numerous cases involving homeowners claims arising out of major hurricanes. She has tried several cases in the state and federal courts of Louisiana and has handled many cases on appeal.

Ms. Dennard graduated from the University of Virginia in 1984, after spending her junior year abroad studying French in Paris. While in college, she was admitted to the Phi Sigma Iota national foreign language honor society and earned first place in the University of Virginia’s Maas Prize contest for essays written in French. In 1987, she graduated cum laude from Tulane University Law School, where she received the American Jurisprudence Award in Admiralty and was an Associate Editor of the Tulane Civil Law Forum.

Admitted Courts:
Louisiana State Courts - 1987
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit - 1988
U.S. District Court, Eastern and Middle Districts of Louisiana - 1988
U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana - 1989
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas - 1993

Bar Admissions:
Louisiana - 1987

Organizations:
Louisiana State Bar Association; The Maritime Law Association of the United States; Former Director, Mariners Club of the Port of New Orleans