A. Gregory Grimsal

Member

201 St. Charles Avenue
40th Floor
New Orleans, LA 70170-4000

Main: 504.582.1111

Direct: 504.569.1834

Mobile: 504.453.3459

For 30 years, Greg has practiced with the firm in the area of commercial litigation, with some focus on general contract disputes, commercial real estate, commercial leases, risk management and casualty matters (including coverage questions and lost policy issues), and complex product liability litigation.

In 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States appointed Greg as a Special Master to preside over a multi-state water rights dispute; he concluded that work in 2018. In 2010, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights appointed Greg to a two-year term as chair of its Louisiana State Advisory Committee (SAC), whose charter is to gather information about issues within the SAC’s jurisdiction and report to the USCCR in Washington, D.C.

Greg has handled interdictions on behalf of a healthcare facility and also on behalf of the trust department of a financial institution. Greg has served as an expert witness in state and federal courts on the reasonableness of attorney fee claims. He has been appointed as an ad hoc member of the Lawyer Disciplinary Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Admissions
  • Louisiana
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of LA
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of LA
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of LA
  • U.S. Supreme Court
Education

Cambridge University, LL.B. 1981
Tulane University, J.D. 1979
Tulane University, B.A. cum laude 1972

Judicial Clerkships

Honorable Edward J. Boyle, Sr., U.S. District Court, Eastern District of LA

Recognition

  • The Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Banking and Finance, Litigation – Real Estate (listed in publication since 2008)
  • Named the 2018 Louisiana Lawyer of the Year for Litigation – Banking and Finance, The Best Lawyers in America®
  • Selected to Louisiana Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2014 to Present
  • Rated Martindale-Hubbell® A-V Preeminent™
  • Named a New Orleans Magazine Top Lawyer

Rated by Super Lawyers 2023

Affiliations

  • Chair, Board of Advisory Editors, and Trustee, Tulane Law Review 2014-Present
  • Federal Bar Association, New Orleans Chapter, President 2003-2004
  • Louisiana State Bar Association