Practice Areas
Civil Litigation
Our firm has extensive experience in Civil and Criminal Litigation in City, State and Federal Courts as well as Administrative proceedings in the following matters:
Personal Injury
Civil Litigation
Criminal Defense, including capital cases
Family Law
Expungments
Workers’ Compensation
Successions & Testaments
Corporate Law
Contracts
Maritime & Admiralty
Municipal Law
Municipal Bonds
Trial and Appellate Practice
Personal Injury
Our firm has extensive personal injury experience in City, State and Federal Courts in the following matters:
Automobile Accidents
Defamation
Products Liability
Conversions
Wrongful Death
Trip/Slip & Fall
Accidents
Torts
Assault & Battery
Fraud
Trial and Appellate Practice
Family Law
Our firm has extensive experience in family law in the following cases:
Divorce
Child Custody
Child Support, increase and decrease
Spousal Support, increase and decrease
Community Property
Marriage Contracts
Restraining Orders
Termination of Parental Rights
Criminal Defense
Drug and Narcotic Offenses
D.W.I./D.U.I. Offenses
Homicide/Murder
Internet/Computer Crimes
Sex Crimes
Violent Crimes
Non-Violent Crimes
Theft
Burglary
Alcohol Related Crimes
White Collar Offenses
Assault/Battery
Credit/Access Card Fraud
Felonies
Misdemeanors
Workers Compensation
Workers' Compensation laws are designed to ensure that employees who are injured or disabled on the job are provided with fixed monetary compensation. We will aggressively pursue your workers’ compensation claim and stand up to the insurance companies and employers that seek to subvert these laws and fail to pay sufficient money to those injured or disabled on the job regardless of fault
Contracts
Our firm has extensive experience in contractual litigation:
Breach of Contract
Formation of Contracts
Interpretation of Contracts
Leases
Real Estate Contracts
Buy/Sell Agreements
Promises
Notes
Drafts
Corporate Law
Our firm has extensive experience in corporate law:
Creating Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships
Business Advice
Corporate Contracts
Corporate Disputes
General Counsel to Business Entities
Expungements
When you have been arrested or, perhaps convicted of a crime, we can expunge (i.e., erase) your record of arrest. For additionally information, please read Thomas D. Davenport, Jr., Review and Application of the Louisiana Expungement Statute, The Advocate, Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Spring 2008, at 14 -15.
Federal and State
Extensive litigation experience in both State and Federal Court cases
Maritime and Admiralty
The attorneys of the Davenport Firm have hands on experience in maritime, admiralty law, or the law of the sea is a separate body of procedural and substantive law governing ships and shipping, business or commerce transacted at sea, and the duties, rights, and liabilities of shipowners, shipmasters, and other maritime workers.
Municipal Bonds
Thomas D. Davenport, Jr., has represented body politics that have issued municipal bonds. He has understanding of general obligations bonds, taxes, single and multi family bonds, utilities revenue bonds, and other government bonds.
Municipal Law
The attorneys of the Davenport Firm have represented various political subdivisions. They have experience in civil service, Larson Act matters and inter-governmental contracts.
Successions
Our firm has extensive experience with successions and estate law matters:
Wills and Testaments
Living Wills
Successions
Power of Attorney
Probates