Martin E. Landrieu

Martin Landrieu has practiced law in the city of New Orleans for 33 years. He knows the city, he knows the courts, and he knows the businesses that drive the region. Throughout his career, Martin has worked with national law firms and corporate clients to navigate the local scene, including local, state, and federal courts and municipal, parish, and state governments.

Martin’s legal practice includes complex corporate litigation, class action defense, state and local tax disputes, telecommunications, franchise, zoning, real estate, property rights and general commercial litigation. He regularly represents clients before various city and state agencies on these and related matters. Martin has successfully represented several large national clients in a variety of cases, ranging from small fiber-optic damage subrogation claims to large scale class actions based on service outages. He has been regularly called upon to draft and negotiate franchise agreements, leases, purchase and sale agreements, cooperative endeavor agreements, contracts, rights of way acquisitions and fiber optic capacity use and service agreements for local and national business clients.

Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, Martin was deeply involved in the City of New Orleans’ unified planning and neighborhood redevelopment initiatives. During hurricane recovery, he chaired the District 5 (Lake Area) Neighborhood Recovery Group consisting of seven distinct neighborhoods serving over 15,000 homes; re-drafted commercial, multi-family and residential zoning regulations for the Lake Area; and assisted in the development of business and community-based recovery programs. His post-Katrina work helped secure a sustainable recovery for the city’s Lake Area neighborhoods and is referenced in the books We Shall Not be Moved and Katrina After the Storm. In the years following, Martin led several members of the firm in assisting state agencies in Louisiana and Texas to draft and implement disaster recovery programs based on Federal Community Development Block Grants.

Martin is a well-respected leader within the firm, the bar, and the community. He has served on the firm’s Management Committee and is currently involved in mentoring and developing educational programs for its associate attorneys. He also chairs in the firm’s Growth Committee and the Diversity committee. Over the course of his career, he has been elected and appointed to various bar leadership positions including chairman of the Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA) Young Lawyers Section Continuing Legal Education Committee and Delegate of the Young Lawyers Division for the American Bar Association (ABA) Annual Meeting.

Among his many charitable endeavors, Martin helped establish the St. Dominic Parish/Haiti Partnership to re-build and sustain a Catholic school and church parish in rural Savanne Henri, Haiti following the devastating 2010 earthquake. He has travelled to Haiti multiple times to build the relationship and oversee the infrastructure projects and school programs funded by the group. The work continues and has expanded its reach. Martin also annually co-hosts a fundraiser benefiting Boys Hope Girls Hope, a non-profit organization that provides a stable home and quality education to at-risk children.

Asked to comment about his 30-plus year tenure at the firm, Martin stated: “This is a wonderful law firm with great attorneys and staff. It is a blessing to work with so many talented people on a daily basis. I learn something new every day.”