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Overview

Meghan Senter focuses her practice in the areas of products liability, premises liability, maritime law, toxic tort and insurance defense. She has represented automobile and watercraft manufacturers in defect claims, and multiple product manufacturers and premises owners in talc and asbestos exposure claims. She serves as national coordinating counsel for a retailer in talc litigation, ensuring cohesive and strategic expert development and docket management. For clients throughout the maritime industry, Meghan handles high-stakes litigation, casualty claims and USCG administrative proceedings. In the arena of toxic tort and asbestos, she has served as both local and national counsel for various product manufacturers. In all areas of her practice, Meghan participates in each aspect of a case, from pre-suit analysis through verdict in the best interests of her clients.

Meghan is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Louisiana and as a member of a trial team represents clients across the country, helping to develop comprehensive strategies, arguing critical motions and expert challenges, and trying cases.

Meghan earned her JD from Tulane University, where she was a member of the moot board and graduated with honors. She also completed an externship with the Honorable Stanwood R. Duval, Jr. in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and was inducted into the Order of Barristers.

Experience

  • Successfully defended Sea Fox Boat Company in a maritime products liability case in federal court in Lake Charles, Louisiana. At close, plaintiffs' counsel asked for an award of more than $125 million, but the jury returned a verdict for the defense.
  • Represented a product manufacturer during a two month jury trial in California involving a plaintiff with mesothelioma.
  • Achieved a defense verdict for a paint manufacturer and retailer in a product defect action in Louisiana.
  • Represented a joint compound manufacturer at trial in a mesothelioma suit in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Recognition

  • Thomson Reuters, Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2015–2024
  • New Orleans CityBusiness Leadership in Law honoree, 2021
  • Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch—Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions—Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation—Defendants, Product Liability Litigation—Defendants, 2021
  • America's Top 100 Civil Defense Litigators – Louisiana, 2019

Involvement

  • Younger Lawyer’s Division of the Federal Bar Association, New Orleans Chapter
  • Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
  • Federal Bar Association, New Orleans Chapter
  • Louisiana State Bar Association
  • Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America

Education

  • Tulane University School of Law, JD, cum laude, 2011
  • University of Oregon, BS, Human Physiology & Anatomy, Organic Chemistry, 2008

Bar Admissions

  • Louisiana

Court Admissions

  • US District Court, Middle District of Louisiana
  • US District Court, Western District of Louisiana
  • US District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
  • US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit