Elvige Cassard (formerly Richards)

Ms. Cassard is Special Counsel to the firm. She specializes in labor and employment advices and litigation and represents employers in labor and employment related lawsuits, arbitrations, mediations, administrative and other actions. Ms. Cassard has special expertise in a wide spectrum of personnel policies and issues and has given and contributed to numerous trainings, speeches and presentations on labor and employment law issues for business owners and managers in New Orleans and throughout the Gulf Coast Region.

Ms. Cassard received her B.A. from Newcomb College of Tulane University and her J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans School of Law where she was a member of the Loyola Law Review and Moot Court Staff. She received the Loyola Law Clinic Award and McCauley Scholarship and served as Student Bar Association Class Representative. Ms. Cassard is admitted to the Louisiana Bar (1988) and all State and Federal District and Appellate Courts throughout Louisiana. Ms. Cassard is a member of the New Orleans Bar Association and the Defense Research Institute where she serves on the Employment Law Committee. With the American Bar Association she is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Section and the Litigation Section. She also serves on the Committee on Ethics and Professionalism. She is a contributor to the BNA treatise, Employment Discrimination Law, and its supplements and is a past faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.