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Partner Jamie L. Berger Featured in CityBusiness' "Ones to Watch"

April 22, 2014

The firm is proud to announce that Jamie L. Berger was recently selected for New Orleans CityBusiness' "Ones to Watch: Law Firms".

Jamie is a member of the firm, and serves as the firm’s hiring partner. Jamie focuses her practice on complex litigation, commercial disputes, and securities arbitration. She has litigated and advised clients in a variety of areas, including securities, corporate governance, contractual disputes, antitrust, and creditors’ rights in complex Chapter 11 cases. She also has represented clients in government and regulatory investigations involving alleged securities fraud, accounting fraud, and tax fraud. Her clients come from a range of industries, including finance, banking, brokerage, energy, communications, transportation, entertainment, and real estate.

Jamie received her Bachelor of Arts cum laude in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and her Juris Doctor cum laude from Tulane University Law School, where she served as a chairperson of the Tulane Moot Court Board, was a regional winner and national finalist on the Moot Court trial team, and was selected as the student fellow for the trial advocacy program. She is licensed in both Louisiana and New York and is admitted to practice before all of the federal District Courts of Louisiana, the Eastern and Western District Courts of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Jamie is active in the community, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Anti-Defamation League (South Central Region). She was recently selected to receive the 2012 Barney Mintz New Leadership Award for her work with the ADL.

Jamie is a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s (NITA) “Deposition Skills” Program. She also conducts admissions interviews for the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Interview Program.

About Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C.

Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C. is a litigation law firm located in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Firm has experience litigating complex civil cases throughout the country, including all types of commercial disputes, class actions, environmental cases, intellectual property cases, insurance bad faith and coverage cases, and securities arbitrations, litigation, and regulatory matters.