Katherine P. Martin

biography

Mary Katherine “Katie” Paine Martin is the managing attorney at the firm’s Lafayette office. After serving as managing partner of a Lafayette insurance defense firm for 25 years, she joined the firm in 2023 to open and manage the firm’s Lafayette office. Her practice includes the defense of insurance companies in personal injury, insurance coverage, premises liability, excess insurance, property, bad faith/extra contractual cases, as well as cases involving suspected insurance fraud. Her experience includes extensive motion practice, serving as lead counsel in numerous jury trials and bench trials, and briefing and arguing appellate issues before Louisiana Courts of Appeal and the Louisiana Supreme Court. Ms. Martin is admitted to practice in all Louisiana state courts, the United District Courts of the Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana, and the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a member of the LSU Law Center Hall of Fame.