V. Ed McGuire III, born May 17, 1969, obtained a B.S. degree from McNeese State University cum laude in 1992 and J.D. degree from LSU Law School in 1995.
Upon graduation, he became an Assistant District Attorney with the Calcasieu Parish District Attorney’s Office, practicing as a criminal prosecutor and representing the interests of children in Child in Need of Care cases. He was then in private practice before joining the firm in 1998.
Ed is admitted to practice before all state and federal district courts of Louisiana, all state appellate courts of Louisiana, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is a member of the American, Louisiana State, and Southwest Louisiana Bar Associations, and the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel.
Since joining the firm, Ed has practiced insurance defense, worker’s compensation defense, premises, liability, products liability, all manner of public entity defense, defended law enforcement officers in civil litigation, defended retribution suits, and many forms of cases assenting a defense of fraud in response to selected claims. Ed’s experience with criminal prosecution is particularly useful in cases involving allegations of fraud as a claim or a defense.
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