Alléna is a member of Butler Snow’s Tort, Transportation and Specialized Litigation group. She focuses her practice on insurance defense and legal, medical and professional malpractice.
Overview
Alléna is a member of Butler Snow’s Tort, Transportation and Specialized Litigation group. She focuses her practice on insurance defense and legal, medical and professional malpractice.
Practice Areas
Experience
- Represents insurance companies defending against personal injury claims, auto accident claims and premises liability claims.
- Two-week jury trial defending a claim involving significant automobile accident with heavily-contested causation and damages issues, including severe orthopedic injuries, traumatic brain injury, and cognitive and psychological deficits. Navigated novel procedural concerns regarding COVID-19 precautions in jury trials.
- Represented manufacturing company in premises liability, auto claims and indemnity disputes.
- Secured summary judgment for insurance client based on the application of the Louisiana Construction Anti-Indemnity Statute.
Distinctions
- Super Lawyers®
- Louisiana Super Lawyers Rising Star, Personal Injury - General: Defense, 2024
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana, 2019
- U.S. District Courts
- Louisiana: Eastern, Middle, Western
- U.S. Court of Appeals
- 5th Circuit
Education
- Louisiana State University, J.D.,D.C.L., cum laude, 2019
- Order of the Barristers
- John L. Costello National Trial Competition – National Champion Team Member, 2019
- Board of Advocates, 2018-2019
- Louisiana Law Review, Issue Editor, Vol. 79
- Louisiana Law Review, Junior Associate, Vol. 78
- Top Oral Advocate, LSU Flory Trial Competition, Fall 2017
- Opening Statement Competition Finalist, Fall 2017
- CALI Award, Legal Research and Writing
- CALI Award, Successions, Donations and Trusts
- Tutor, Torts and Federal Civil Procedure 2
- Research Assistant to Dean Tom Galligan, 2017-2019
- University Of Louisiana Monroe, B.B.A., summa cum laude, 2016
- 2016 Top Graduate
- 2016 Outstanding Graduate in Finance
- Phi Kappa Phi
- ULM Mock Trial Team – 2014-2015 Rookie of the Year
- ULM Mock Trial Team – 2016 American Mock Trial Association Regional Outstanding Attorney Award
Associations
- Federal Bar Association
- Louisiana State Bar Association
- Louisiana State Law Institute
- Junior Member, 2020
- American Bar Association
- Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section
- Young Lawyers Division
- Baton Rouge Bar Association
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- Co-Author, "Practice Pointers & Potential Pitfalls of a Corporate Deposition," 2024 Litigation Update: Navigating Emerging Trends and Technology, March 2024.
- Co-Author, “Buckle Up: Louisiana’s Long Road to Tort Reform Ends with New Measures in Effect,” Butler Snow Product Lines Blog, February 17, 2021.