Powhatan Lawyers

Julie M. Lafargue has practiced law for over thirty years, focusing her practice on governmental tort law, expropriation and eminent domain, and litigation relating to insurance defense and commercial litigation. Ms. Lafargue represents the Louisiana Department of Transportation in expropriation and highway right of way acquisition, and also handles flooding and tort litigation for the City of Shreveport. After graduating in 1981, Ms. Lafargue worked at Lunn, Irion, Switzer, Johnson & Salley in Shreveport until 1985. She then became a Director at Blanchard, Walker, O’Quin & Roberts, P.L.C., for ten years. In 1995, Ms. Lafargue partnered with...

Disability Judge since 2006. Licensed in Texas since 1973.

Adam is an experienced litigation attorney with northeast Louisiana’s oldest and largest law firm. He has extensive experience in the courtroom, having tried over 30 cases to verdict in multiple states and favorably resolving many more via motion practice and pre-trial mediation. He also has an active appellate practice, having successfully represented clients before the United States Supreme Court (drafting a successful petition for certiorari), the United States Fifth Circuit, the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Louisiana First, Second, and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeal, the Arkansas Supreme Court, and the Arkansas Court of Appeals. His practice is litigation focused with a...