New Orleans, Louisiana
Managing Partner, since 1974
Phone: (504) 522-0011
Fax: (504) 523-2795
Email: tschafer@schafer-law.com

Areas of Practice:

• Civil Litigation
• Insurance Defense Law

Bar Admissions:

• Louisiana, 1963
• U.S. Federal Court, 1963
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1968
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Louisiana, 1963
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Louisiana, 1963
• U.S. District Court Western District of Louisiana, 1963
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1963

Education:

• Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1963
  LL.B., Bachelor of Law
  Law Review: Loyola Law Review, Member, Board of Editors, 1961 - 1963
• Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1961
  B.B.A., Bachelor of Business Administration

Published Works:

• Community Property: Effect of Act II 86 of 1944, Loyola Law Review , Vol. 1, 1961-1962, 1962
• Sufficiency of Dates - Holographic Wills , Loyola Law Review Vol. II, No. 2, 1962-1963
• Cancellation, Reformation and Expiration of Auto Insurance Policies , Defense Research Institute Automobile Insurance Problem II , 1970

Representative Cases

• Yount v. Maisano, 627 So. 2d 148 (La. 1993)
• Shepard v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 545 So.2d 624 (La.App. 4 Cir. 1989)
• McGowan v. Sewerage and Water Bd. of New Orleans, 555 So.2d 472 (La.App. 4 Cir. 1989)
• Adams v. Security Ins. Co. of Hartford, 543 So.2d 480 (La. 1989)
• Molony v. USAA, 683 So. 2d 891 (La. App. 4 Cir. 1996)

Representative Clients:

• Government Employees Insurance Company
• Lexington Insurance Company
• United Services Automobile Association
• American Alternative Insurance Company
• The Hartford
• Erie Insurance Company
• Titan Insurance Company

References:

• Whitney National Bank
• Ives Business Forms

Classes/Seminars Taught:

• Lecturer, Automobile Insurance Problems, Practicing Law Institute, New York, NY, 1969
• Lecturer, Automobile Insurance Problems IID, Practicing Law Institute, New York, NY, 1970
• Lecturer, Automobile Insurance Problems IID, Practicing Law Institute, Las Vegas, NV, 1970
• Panelist, Seminar on Trial Technique, Practicing Law Institute, New Orleans, LA, 1973
• Instructor/Panelist, Masters in Trial, American Board of Trial Advocates, New Orleans, LA, 2003

Professional Associations and Memberships

• New Orleans Bar Association, 1963 - Present
  Member
• Louisiana State Bar Association, 1963 - Present
  Member
• American Bar Association
  Member
• Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel
  Member
• New Orleans Association of Defense Counsel
  Member
• International Association of Defense Counsel, 1973 - Present
  Member
• Defense Research Institute, 1972 - Present
  Member
• American Board of Trial Advocates, 2003 - Present
  Member

Birth Information

• November 6, 1939, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America