Steve Herman

Steve Herman serves as special counsel at Fishman Haygood LLP in New Orleans. The author of America and the Law: Challenges for the 21st Century, Herman teaches an advanced torts seminar on class actions at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and an advanced civil procedure course in complex litigation at Tulane University Law School.

Herman served for six years as a lawyer chair for one of the Louisiana Disciplinary Board Hearing Committees and is a current member of the LSBA Rules of Professional Conduct Committee. Herman is a past president of the National Civil Justice Institute, a past president of the Louisiana Association for Justice, and a fellow of both the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Litigation Counsel of America. He is also a member of the American Law Institute (ALI).

Herman is formerly the president of the New Orleans Bar Association, and the chair of the LSBA Section on Class Actions, Mass Torts and Complex Litigation. He is also admitted to practice in Arizona. He is probably best known for being appointed to serve as one of two liaison and lead class counsel for plaintiffs in the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill litigation.