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Judy Barrasso To Receive NOBA's Presidents' Award
We are proud to share that Judy Barrasso will be honored with the Presidents’ Award, the New Orleans Bar Association’s most prestigious recognition, on September 25, 2025. Judy previously served as NOBA President during the 2015–2016 term.
This distinguished award recognizes Judy’s unwavering commitment to professional excellence, integrity, and service to the legal community. As NOBA’s highest accolade, the Presidents’ Award celebrates individuals who exemplify the ideals of citizenship and leadership upheld by the Association’s past presidents.
Congratulations to Judy Barrasso on this well-earned recognition for her remarkable contributions to both the legal profession and the greater New Orleans community.
Learn more here: https://www.neworleansbar.org/?pg=presidents-award

Judy Barrasso is a founding member of Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C. Her practice focuses on commercial litigation, and includes complex commercial litigation matters and class actions involving insurance coverage and bad faith, director and officer liability, securities fraud, and commercial contracts. Judy has handled matters in at least twelve states.
Judy has been ranked by Chambers USA as a top commercial litigator and by Benchmark Litigation as a Litigation Star. She has been recognized among Benchmark's Top 250 Women in Litigation and Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America. Judy was named a Lawdragon Legend in 2020 for being selected to the elite guide ten times and was named to the Lawdragon Hall of Fame in 2023. Judy has also been recognized among Louisiana Super Lawyers' Top 10 and has been ranked Number One among lawyers in the State of Louisiana. According to Chambers, Judy “has a reputation as a formidable trial lawyer,” “stands ‘head and shoulders above much of the competition,’ and is “considered one of the state’s finest litigators.”
About Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C.
Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver is a boutique litigation firm headquartered in New Orleans. The Firm has experience litigating complex civil cases throughout the country, including all types of commercial disputes, class actions, environmental cases, product liability and toxic tort cases, intellectual property cases, insurance bad faith and coverage cases, and securities arbitrations, litigation, and regulatory matters.

