When Your Matter Reaches Louisiana or Texas, We Fit Right In
National reach often requires local insight. Gordon Arata partners with law firms and businesses across the country and around the world to provide trusted local and co-counsel support throughout Louisiana and Texas.
Louisiana and Texas are distinct jurisdictions with unique legal frameworks, business environments, and cultures. Success often requires more than understanding the law. It requires understanding how business is done, how decisions are made, and how matters move through the courts and agencies that shape the region.
Our attorneys bring decades of experience navigating local, state, and federal courts, as well as municipal, parish, and state government agencies. Backed by deep knowledge of the region’s legal and regulatory landscape and deep roots throughout the Gulf South, we serve as a seamless extension of our clients’ legal teams, providing the local insight and practical perspective that complex matters demand.
Why National Firms and Businesses Choose Gordon Arata
Local Knowledge
Extensive familiarity with the courts, agencies, industries, and business environment that shape Louisiana and Texas.
On-the-Ground Support
Practical assistance with filings, appearances, hearings, local procedures, and jurisdiction-specific considerations.
Strategic Collaboration
A seamless extension of your legal team, providing local insight and responsive support at every stage of a matter.
Gulf South Experience
Deep roots in Louisiana and Texas, with longstanding experience navigating the region’s legal and business landscapes.
Local Counsel and Co-Counsel Services in Louisiana and Texas
We work collaboratively with our clients’ legal teams to provide strategic guidance, local knowledge, and on-the-ground support at every stage of a matter.
Litigation & Trial Support
- Trial preparation and trial support
- State and federal court filings and appearances
- Motion practice and discovery management
- Appellate advocacy and appeals
Strategic & Regulatory Support
- Regulatory and administrative proceedings
- Alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration
- Investigations
- Emergency and time-sensitive matters
- Local law and procedure guidance
- Regulatory and title issues relevant to properties and operations on the OCS offshore in LA and TX (BOEM and BSEE)
Representative Local & Co-Counsel Engagement
Our experience spans a wide range of industries and practice areas, allowing us to support clients across virtually any type of business dispute, transaction, regulatory matter, or litigation.
Sample matters and experience include:
- Represent corporations on various litigation and transactional matters in Louisiana and Texas, including global energy companies, international retailers, major streaming services companies, and telecommunications businesses operating coast-to-coast
- Litigated a multimillion-dollar tax matter for an international science, technology, and engineering solutions firm before the Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals
- Served as local counsel before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit resulting in a landmark win in the charter fishing industry
- Represented an Illinois-based advanced biomanufacturing and technology company in its acquisition of an ethanol plant in Louisiana
- Served as local counsel advising client on all Louisiana state and local regulatory, real estate and permitting aspects of the financing of a solar arrays
- Represent scores of oil, gas, and pipeline companies, investors, and lenders relating to oil, gas, and pipeline investments on the OCS offshore of Louisiana and Texas
Beyond Louisiana & Texas
While our local and co-counsel practice is centered on Louisiana and Texas, many of our attorneys are licensed in additional jurisdictions across the country. We also collaborate regularly with law firms, businesses, and professional advisors nationwide and through our membership in Alliott Global Alliance, providing clients with access to trusted resources wherever business takes them.