Patrick D. DeRouen

E-mail: pderouen@phjlaw.com
Phone: (504) 581-3838
Fax: (504) 581-4069
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Patrick DeRouen is a partner in the firm’s New Orleans office. He joined the firm in 1990, and has been a partner since 1995. While in law school, he was a member of the National Order of Barristers and the Moot Court Honor Board. Pat was the Moot Court Junior and Senior Trial winner and was the winner of the Louisiana Trial Competition. He also received the Walter J. Suthon Award for Louisiana Security Rights.
Pat obtained his MBA while attending law school. He was a member of Alpha Sigma Nu and Beta Gamma Sigma honor fraternities. In 2001, Pat graduated from the Loyola Institute of Politics. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. DeRouen was employed as a commercial loan officer with Century Bank. Since joining the firm, Mr. DeRouen has practiced in the areas of general civil litigation, insurance defense, trucking law, transportation law, fraud/SIU investigations and projects, and governmental affairs. He has extensive trial and appellate experience in all Louisiana state and federal courts. Pat has also been a speaker at various CLE conferences including the presentations of “Water Under and Over the Bridge: Litigating Property Cases in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina,” at the Southeastern Claims Executive Association, April 24, 2006, Annual meeting, Hutchison Island, Florida; and “Is it Covered? Recent Developments in Automobile Insurance Coverage,” at the Insurance Law: Ethical Handling of Automobile Lawsuits, Louisiana State Bar Associations sponsored CLE conference, November 5, 2004.

Pat is actively involved in community affairs. He has served as the Young Alumni Representative to the Loyola University Alumni Board of Directors, the Executive Advisory Board of the Loyola University College of Business Administration and the Board of Directors of the Acorn Adoption Agency. He currently serves on the Committee for a Better New Orleans (Sub-Committee, City Government and Finance) and the Lakeshore Property Owners Association.

Pat is married to the former Ms. Ann Marino and is the father of Mary Elizabeth, 14, and the late Katherine Ann, 1997 – 2005.

Education
Loyola University of New Orleans (BA 1995; MBA 1990)
Tulane University School of Law (JD cum laude 1990)

Bar Admission
Louisiana, 1991

Memberships and Affiliations
Association of Defense Trial Attorneys
Defense Research Institute
Federal Bar Assocation
Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel
Louisiana State Bar Association
New Orleans Association of Defense Counsel
New Orleans Bar Association
Trucking Industry Defense Association