CHARLES R. PENOT, JR.
cpenot@midrid.com

Mr. Penot joined Middleberg Riddle & Gianna in 2005, after having spent most of his career at a large regional law firm. Mr. Penot has experience in a wide variety of substantive fields of law. His practice has focused primarily on large, complex commercial cases. His commercial litigation experience includes intellectual property litigation and counseling, D&O, fidelity bond and professional liability insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, ERISA litigation, lender liability litigation, professional liability representation, various types of contract litigation, RICO litigation, securities litigation and arbitration, and consumer credit class action litigation. Mr. Penot also has experience in casualty litigation, including work on asbestos exposure cases, pharmeceutical litigation and mass tort cases.

Peer Review Rated:  AV

EDUCATION:

  • LL.M., Yale Law School, 1988
  • Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, Loyola University Law School, 1982
  • Bachelor of Public Administration, summa cum laude, Loyola University, 1979

PRACTICE AREAS:

  • Corporate and Insurance Defense
  • Industrial Catastrophe Litigation
  • Professional Liability Representation
  • Business Litigation
  • Consumer Credit Defense

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE:

  • Louisiana
  • Texas
  • United States District Court, Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana
  • United States Courts of Appeal, Fifth Circuit

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

  • The American Bar Association
  • New Orleans Bar Association
  • Louisiana Bar Association
  • Federal Bar Association
  • Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association

PUBLICATIONS:

  • Succession Rights of Illegitimates in Louisiana, 27 Loy. L. Rev. 237 (1982).
  • Bad Faith Litigation in Louisiana, National Business Institute CLE (1999).
  • Protecting Your Trademark on the Internet, Inc. Magazine (2001).
  • The Basics of Trademarks, University of New Orleans Small Business Development Center Seminar Series on Intellectual Property (2003).

BACKGROUND:

After receiving his law degree in 1982, Mr. Penot clerked for the Honorable Peter Beer of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Subsequently, he spent five years in full-time academic life, one year of which was spent obtaining an LL.M. at Yale Law School. While teaching full-time at Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans, Mr. Penot primarily taught commercial law courses, including contracts, business organizations (agency, partnership and corporations) and securities regulation. Mr. Penot returned to full-time practice of law in 1990.

Mr. Penot graduated first in his law school class at Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans, where he served as Managing Editor of the Loyola Law Review.