Stuart D. Kottle

Stuart served as a judicial clerk at the Louisiana Supreme Court and now practices appellate litigation and commercial litigation. Stuart previously worked at an international law firm, and his litigation experience spans multiple jurisdictions in both state and federal courts. Stuart also was an adjunct lecturer in law at Tulane Law School, where he taught Advanced Appellate Advocacy. Stuart received his law degree from the University of Arizona College of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Arizona Law Review. Before law school, Stuart was a Fulbright Scholar in China and the lead singer of a rock band. Stuart was born in Shreveport, Louisiana Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Stuart D. Kottle included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Best Lawyers in America “Ones to Watch” 2021-2026 with special designations, during 2023 or a prior year, in Appellate Practice, Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law and Insurance Law Louisiana Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2023 - 2024 Other Sources of Feedback About Stuart D. Kottle Included on the 2024Louisiana Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2023 Louisiana Super Lawyers list

• Member

• Louisiana Supreme Court, Judicial Clerk, 2016 - 2018
• Squire Patton Boggs, Associate, 2015 - 2016
• Polsinelli, Associate, 2013 - 2015

• Evaluation of the Profession: LJC / LSBA Joint Summer School & 2019 LSBA Annual Meeting, “Learning to Grasp the Big Picture – Depositions: What You Always Wanted to Know, But Didn’t have Time to Research,” Louisiana State Bar Association, June 2-7, 2019

• Mestayer v. City of New Orleans, Case No. 19-14432 (E.D. La. 2020)
• Fifth Amendment Takings Litigation - Lafaye v. City of New Orleans, 35 F.4th 940 (5th Cir. 2022)
• Election Dispute - Panepinto v. Smith, 2022-01218 (La. 8/19/2022), ––– So. 3d ––––, 2022 WL 3575729
• Class Action/Traffic Violations - Mestayer v. City of New Orleans, No. 19-14432, 2020 WL 3429826 (E.D. La. June 23, 2020)
• Open Meetings Law - Deep S. Ctr. for Envtl. Justice v. Council of City of New Orleans, 292 So. 3d 973. (La. App. 4 Cir. 2020)
• Breach of Contract/Governmental Code of Ethics – St. Bernard Par. Gov’t v. Perniciaro, 2019-0604 (La. App. 4 Cir. 3/11/2020), 2020 WL 1173569
• Servitudes/Trespass - W&T Offshore, L.L.C. v. Texas Brine Corp., 2018-0950 (La. 6/26/2019), 319 So. 3d 822, 823; 2019 WL 2896773

• Arizona, 2013
• U.S. District Court District of Arizona, 2014
• Louisiana, 2016

• Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, Tulane University, 2018 to 2024
• Touro Infirmary Board Member