Mark Emerson Hanna

Biographical Information

Mark Hanna is a graduate of Creighton University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985 and a Juris Doctor degree from Tulane University Law School in 1988. Mr. Hanna's areas of practice include governmental and municipal liability, defense of class action litigation, automobile and transportation, maritime and insurance litigation, SIU/insurance fraud litigation and commercial litigation. Mr. Hanna also has extensive experience in the area of toxic tort and asbestos litigation. Mr. Hanna has received Martindale Hubbell's highest "AV" rating.

He has participated in numerous trials both as lead counsel and second chair counsel in state and federal courts and has argued appeals in the Louisiana Supreme Court; First, Fourth, and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeal and the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal. Mr. Hanna is also a mediator following the completion of training at the Attorney Mediators Institute in Dallas and has participated in dozens of mediation.

Mr. Hanna has been active with the Defense Research Institute and its Governmental Liability Committee, the Louisiana Center for Law Related Education and has been a lecturer at Continuing Legal Education Seminars and to the Louisiana Public Risk Managers Association. Mr. Hanna has participated as a judge/mediator at ABA mediation competitions for law students.

Mr. Hanna is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute, the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, the New Orleans and Jefferson Bar Associations and the Louisiana Bar Foundation.