Morton H. Katz, a senior partner of Herman, Herman, Katz & Cotlar, L.L.P., and has significant experience in the practice areas of personal injury, maritime personal injury, products liability, construction litigation, and highway and premises liability.
Mr. Katz was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 5, 1945. He attended Loyola University in New Orleans and received his Juris Doctor degree in 1969. Upon
completing Officer Candidate School in the Louisiana National Guard in 1969, he received commission as Second Lieutenant, and was honorably discharged in 1973.
Mr. Katz is a former member of the Board of Governors and Advisory Board of the Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association, as well as the Maritime Committee and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He is an active member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, American Bar Association, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Louisiana
Bar Examiner, Torts and Ethics, as well as a Founding Fellow of the Southern Trial Lawyers
Association.
Mr. Katz is also the author of Amendments to the Louisiana Workman's
Compensation Act. He was the local and regional winner of the World Law Fund Script Writing Contest in 1966.
Featured in Who's Who in American Law, Mr. Katz is admitted in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, the United States District Court for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He is on the Advisory Board of the American Arbitration Association and is an arbiter of U.S. Arbitration & Mediation.
Mr. Katz practices at the HermanGerel office in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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| Law
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| Loyola University, J.D., 1969 |
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| University of Southern Mississippi, B.A., 1966
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1969, Louisiana
U.S.D.C. Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana
U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. Supreme Court
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| Affiliations |
Louisiana State Bar Association
American Bar Association
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Louisiana Bar Examiner
Southern Trial Lawyers Association
American Arbitration Association
Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association |
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| Honors |
World Law Fund Competition
Who's Who in Emerging Leaders of America
Who’s Who in American Law |
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