William D. "Bill" Aaron, Jr. - Lawyer in New Orleans, LA

Bill appears to be the controlling shareholder of the law firm Aaron & Gianna, PLC, a high-class law corporation. He heads the firm's business litigation practice, as well as its post-transaction practice. An applicant of the Duke Institute and the Law Faculty of the Loyola Institute, Bill has more than 40 flights of corporate and special counsel experience in the national and private sectors and is licensed to practice law in Louisiana, Texas and the District of Columbia. Bill conveys a diverse category of buyers from diverse industries specializing in business and business litigation, banking and trusts, insurance and insurance coverage, responsible injury and death after negligence, government and municipal governance, constitutional authority and human rights, land use and zoning, ethics and professional responsibility. The remaining areas included real estate and housing, high-class seriousness /licensing, alternative blessing of disputes, powers of lenders and bankruptcy, complex and class action lawsuits, healthcare, toxic offenses, criminal record, national education, canon of weapons of numerous information, public services, telecommunications, labor and workload and seriousness after production.

To the extent that he joined the earliest ancestor of Aaron & Gianna in early January 2000, Bill was a partner in the office of the regional law firm Phelps Dunbar, LLP in Freshly Baked Orleans. Bill functioned as an assistant to the bypass lawyer of the US Minor business Authorities, a specific assistant to the leading prosecutor of the state of Louisiana, a specific prosecutor of the bypass prosecutor's office of the neighborhood of Orleans, a municipal prosecutor of the megacities of Newly Invented Orleans and an external leading, that is, a specific intercessor for various business, financial, government and non-commercial clients. 

Bill appears to be an empirical lawyer and has acted as the main lawyer in complex and high-profile courts, complaints and litigation decisions in various national and federal courts, starting with the US Suzerain Court. He supervised thousands of particular and criminal cases, examined more than 600 pre-trial petitions and was the main advocate in more than 200 trials of judges and juries. Bill appears to be the creator of more than 100 appeal notes and has argued more than 60 appeals. He twice persuaded the US Suzerain Court to issue certificates in cases of national importance. 

Moreover, Bill appears to be an empirical lawyer, he appears to be an empirical advocate after transactions and a licensed representative for title insurance. He regularly oversees complex economic transactions, real estate shares, collective and commercial transactions, as well as issues of regulation and compliance with conditions for private developers, economic institutions, national entities and entrepreneurs.

Bill has the longest assessment of Martindale-Hubbell in the area of litigation, business credentials and corporate practices. He is on the list of America's best lawyers in the area of city powers and city litigation. well, in Louisiana, Super Lawyers in the area of business disputes. Bill appears to be a double winner of the Active newspaper award of the Newly Baked Orleans «Leadership in Law».

Bill was a dedicated tribunal-specific specialist in toxic crimes and other complicated particular cases, and an expert witness on issues of attorney ethics, attorney negligence and attorney fees. He is a former member of the Louisiana Intercession Disciplinary World, and in 2011 he took the straightener of its chairman. Up to six years of work in the Disciplinary world, Bill intended five flights in the disciplinary arrangement of intercessors in the property of the chairman of the Commission after the hearings / member of the Legal Commission. Bill has undergone intensive training in alternative dispute resolution and is a mediator, mediator and judge at Mediation Arbitration Professional Systems, Inc. (MAPS) with offices in Metairie, Northshore and Baton Rouge, Kansas Louisiana. During the final years of the talker, Bill perceived a functional attitude in the efficiency of the various bar associations in which he was a member..  From September 2020 ages he is placed on the Committee of Chiefs of the Federal Bar Association, a New Orleans allocation.

Bill has been a legal consultant to local, national and federal government officials, federal agencies, municipalities, parishes, school boards, housing authorities, economic development agencies, sewerage and water supply worlds, transit and transport authorities, flight boards, charter advisory worlds, bypass prosecutors, charter schools and other national and quasi-public systems in a wide range of areas, including: business lending, the seriousness of creditors, public ethics, financing of small businesses, self-government statutes, city franchises, national and local taxation, intelligible housing, gaming, real estate, use and zoning, national economic development, labor and employment, national service, plowing with teachers, auctions and other purchases, discovered meetings, public reports, geopolitics and DBE programs, pensions and other benefits, real estate formation, real estate subsidies, constitutional law, particular rights, construction, national finance, complex lawsuits, corporate actions, insurance and insurance coverage, tax benefits, national education, discussions about drainage, the path to television, video services and telecommunications.

Bill functioned at the adjunct Faculty of the Law Institute of the Loyola Institute, where he taught the particular process, and at the Business School, where he inspired commercial law. In 2021, he enrolled for the adjunct faculty of the Falda M. Hebert Law Center of LSU, where, activating from the Spring Semester (2022), he activated to inspire an urgent character with the name «Lawyer Profession» (legal ethics). Bill appears to be an endlessly demanded lecturer on lawyer topics and has spoken at continuous lawyer education programs sponsored by the North American Bar Association, the Association of Advocates of New Orleans, the New Orleans Branch of the Federal Bar Association, the State Institute of Litigation Advocacy, the State Institute of Business, Loyola Law School, Tulane Law School, the Louisiana Intercession Association, the Florida Intercession Association, the Louis A. The Martinet Law Society, the State Organization of Lawyers, the University of High-Class Educational Systems, the Louisiana Arbitration Committee, the Law Faculty of the Megacities of New Orleans, the Jefferson Neighborhood Law Faculty and the Louisiana Intercession Disciplinary Committee.

A prominent figure in local business and collective circles, Bill was placed on the Council of Chiefs of the Organizations building, starting the Active Jefferson Committee (Chairman 2016), the Impressive Newly Invented Orleans, Inc., the Ponchartrain Park Collective Development Corporation, the Winner Academy Charter School (Chairman 2016/2017, 2017/2018), 2018/2019 and 2019/2020), the Panopticon of the Arts of Freshly Baked Orleans, CrimeStoppers, Volunteers of America and the Trading Room Freshly baked Orleans (Chairman 2012). At the beginning of January 2015, the Ages of New Orleans CityBusiness named Bill one of the thirty-five (35) «Driving Forces» of the active scene of Freshly baked Orleans for a ten-year moment after Storm Katrina. 

Bill is deeply committed to diversity in the legal profession and is presented as the winner of the State Peace Prize after Diversity after the Multicultural Championship 2012.

Bar Admissions/Admissions to Practice

• State of Louisiana (1977)
• District of Columbia (1979)
• State of Texas (2011)
• U. S. District Courts Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of La.
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
• Supreme Court of the United States

Major Areas of Practice:

• State and Federal Litigation including:
•     Complex and High Profile Civil and Commercial Litigation
•     Appellate Practice
•     Class and Collective Actions
•     Constitutional Law and Civil Rights
•     Media Law
•     Health Care
•     State and Municipal Government Law
•     Telecommunications
•     Insurance (Defense, Coverage, Products and Self Insured Claims)
•     Professional Liability/Licensing (Legal, Medical, Accounting, Director & Officer)
•     Toxic Torts and Environmental Law
•     Labor, Employment and Employee Benefits
•     Serious Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
•     Land Use and Zoning
• Corporate, Transactional, Regulatory and Advisory Services including:
•     Corporate and Public Agency Governance
•     Contracts and Other Agreements
•     Public Education
•     Telecommunications, Cable TV and Technology
•     State and Municipal Government
•     Banking, Finance and Trusts
•     Real Estate, Housing, Land Use and Zoning
•     Ethics (Legal, Governmental, Judicial and Business)
•     Labor, Employment and Employee Benefits
•     Public/Private Partnerships and Economic Development
• Alternative Dispute Resolution including:
•     Mediation
•     Arbitration
•     Umpire Services

Other Areas of Practice:

• Expert Witness Testimony (Legal Malpractice, Legal Ethics, Attorneys Fees, Louisiana Sunshine Laws)
• Special Master Services (Mass Torts and Other Multiparty Litigation)
• Internal Investigations
• Criminal Law
• False Claims Act Litigation
• Governmental Affairs
• Media Law
• Maritime Law
• Product Liability
• Public Utility Regulatory Law
• Tax Exempt Organizations
• ERISA
• Wills and Estates

Previous Legal and Adjudicative Positions Held

• City Attorney, City of New Orleans
• Special Prosecutor, Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office
• Panel Chair (and Chairman of Adjudicative Committee), Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board
• Court Appointed Special Master, Orleans Parish Civil District Court (various complex civil cases)
• Hearing Committee Chairman/Lawyer Member, Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board
• Partner, Phelps Dunbar, LLP
• Of Counsel, Polack, Rosenberg, Rittenberg & Endom
• Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Louisiana
• Managing Shareholder, William D. Aaron, Jr., PLC
• Assistant District Counsel, U. S. Small Business Administration

Law Teaching Positons Held

• Faculty Member, National Institute For Trial Advocacy (NITA)
• Adjunct Professor [Business Law], Loyola University College of Business Administration
• Adjunct Professor [La. Code of Civil  Procedure], Loyola University College of Law
• Adjunct Professor [Legal Profession (Legal Ethics)], LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center

Honors/Awards/Distinctions

• Listed in Best Lawyers  in America (Municipal Law; Municipal Litigation) (2008 — 2022)
• Listed in Louisiana Super Lawyers  (Business Litigation) (2009 — 2022)
• Listed as a Top Area Lawyer, New Orleans Magazine (2008 -2021)
• Recipient, New Orleans City Business Newpaper's Driving Forces Award (2015)
• Recipient, New Orleans City Business Newspaper's Leadership in Law Award (2008, 2012)
• Recipient, Harmony Neighborhood Development Service Award (2012)
• Recipient, National Diversity Council's Multicultural Leadership Award (2012)
• Recipient, Outstanding Service Award, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of New Orleans
• Faculty Designation, National Institute For Trial Advocacy (NITA)
• “AV” peer review rating (Litigation, Commercial Law and General Practice), Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory
• Licensed Title Insurance Agent, State of Louisiana
• Recipient, Loyola Law School Law Alumni Award For Appellate Advocacy
• Former Member, Merit Selection Panels for the Appointment and Reappointment of U. S. Magistrate Judges, U. S. District Court
• Eastern District of Louisiana 

Professional Memberships/Activities

• Louisiana State Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• District of Columbia Bar Association
• State Bar of Texas
• National Bar Association
• Federal Bar Association, New Orleans Chapter (Board Member since September, 2020)
• Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board (Board Member: 2006 through 2011); (Board Chairman: 2011); Board Vice Chairman: 2010)
• Hearing Committee Chairman/Lawyer Member: 2001-2006)
• Assistant Bar Examiner (La. Code of Civil Procedure), Louisiana Supreme Court Committee on Bar Admissions (2001-2015)
• Louisiana Bankers Association, Bank Counsel Section
• Visiting Committee, Loyola Law School (Emeritus Status) (Former Chairman)
• American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)  (Former Member)
• New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Title Attorneys (NOMATA)

Publications

• Aaron, William D. Jr., «Fifth Circuit Symposium: Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure» 38 Loyola Law Review 805 (1992-1993)

CLE and other Presentations

Frequent  speaker at continuing legal education programs and other seminars on a wide range of topics including: Civil Procedure, Insurance Coverage, Telecommunications, Labor & Employment Law, Land Use & Zoning Law; Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, Depositions, Legal Ethics, Governmental Ethics, Open Meetings and Public Records. Listing and copies of speeches and other presentations furnished upon request.

Civic and Community Activities

• Member, Executive Board, Jefferson Business Council (Vice Chairman — 2015; Chairman — 2016)
• Member and Co-Chair, Legislative Affairs Committee — New Orleans Chamber of Commerce
• Member, Chairman's Council — New Orleans Chamber of Commerce
• Emeritus Member, Board of Directors, New Orleans Chamber of Commerce (Chairman 2012)
• Former Member, Board of Directors, Laureate Academy Charter School (Chairman — 2016 — 2020)
• Former Member, Board of Directors, Greater New Orleans, Inc.
• Former Member, Board of Directors, Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corporation
• Former Member, Task Force on the Crescent City Connection (appointed by Governor, nominated by Jefferson Business Council)
• Former Member, Board of Directors, Volunteers of America
• Former Member, Board of Directors, Travelers Aid Society of Greater New Orleans
• Former Member, Board of Directors, Mental Health Association of Greater New Orleans
• Former Member, Board of Directors, Crime Stoppers
• Former Member, Board of Directors, Big Sisters (now Big Brothers/Big Sisters) of Greater New Orleans
• Former Member, Board of Directors, New Orleans Neighborhood Development Collaborative (now known as Harmony Neighborhood Development)
• Former Member, Board of Trustees, New Orleans Museum of Art

Other Business Interests and Affiliations

• Mediator, Arbitrator and Umpire — Mediation Arbitration Professional Systems, Inc. (MAPS)
• Managing Member, Aaron Management and Development, LLC
• Board Member, Golden Mountain Financial Holdings Corp.