Madaline is a member of Butler Snow’s Tort, Transportation and Specialized Litigation group. She focuses her practice on legal and professional malpractice, commercial litigation, and casualty litigation. Madaline’s experience spans a wide range of subject matters, including professional liability, redhibition, constitutional rights, trucking, personal injury, construction, and commercial disputes. She represents clients in federal and state courts at both the trial and appellate levels.
Overview
Madaline is a member of Butler Snow’s Tort, Transportation and Specialized Litigation group. She focuses her practice on legal and professional malpractice, commercial litigation, and casualty litigation. Madaline’s experience spans a wide range of subject matters, including professional liability, redhibition, constitutional rights, trucking, personal injury, construction, and commercial disputes. She represents clients in federal and state courts at both the trial and appellate levels.
Practice Areas
Experience
- Served as member of trial team for both liability and remedy phases of trial in class action lawsuit alleging constitutional violations.
- Served as member of trial team in preliminary injunction proceedings related to alleged constitutional violations in which injunction was denied.
- Secured dismissal of multiple attorneys in various legal malpractice lawsuits through representation in trial court, appellate court, and Louisiana Supreme Court.
- Obtained dismissal of state retirement system in breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit.
- Prevailed on summary judgment in premises liability lawsuit in federal trial court.
- Obtained dismissal of recreational vehicle dealership in redhibition lawsuit.
- Successfully lobbied for coverage for pro bono client in insurance claims related to Hurricane Ida.
- Secured dismissal of automotive dealership in negligent repair lawsuit through representation at both trial and appellate levels.
- Obtained dismissal of national hotel chain in premises liability lawsuit.
- Represents recreational vehicle dealerships, automotive dealerships, and boat manufacturers in actions alleging redhibition, products liability, negligent repair, and unfair trade practices.
- Represents construction companies in actions alleging breach of contract.
- Represents commercial trucking companies in personal injury lawsuits.
Distinctions
- BL Rankings, The Best Lawyers in America®
- Ones to Watch, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants, 2024-2025
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana, 2018
- U.S. District Courts
- Louisiana: Middle, Eastern, Western
- U.S. Court of Appeals
- 5th Circuit
Education
- Louisiana State University, J.D.,D.C.L., cum laude, 2018
- Graduate Diploma in Comparative Law
- LSU Journal of Energy Law & Resources, Vol. VI, Senior Managing Editor
- CALI Awards: Legal Research and Writing, Legal Traditions and Systems, Litigating Internationally
- Student Bar Association, Academics Committee
- Study Abroad Program: Jean Moulin University Lyon III, France
- Louisiana State University, B.A., Political Science, summa cum laude, 2015
- Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Student Vice President
- Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society, Vice President of Membership
- Omicron Delta Kappa, Alpha Nu Circle Leader of the Year
- Delta Delta Delta, Points Chairperson
- Externship, Magistrate Judge Richard L. Bourgeois, Jr., U.S. District Court of the Middle District of Louisiana
Associations
- Louisiana State Bar Association
- Baton Rouge Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
- American Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute (DRI)
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- Speaker, “Practice Area Highlight – Transaction vs. Litigation,” Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center 1L Career Summit, Jan. 6, 2023.
- A Tribe Faces Rising Tides: The Resettlement of Isle de Jean Charles, 6 LSU J. ENERGY L. & RESOURCES 295.
Civic Involvement
- LSU Law Advocacy Programs, Judge
- Club Blue Great Futures Gala Committee, Chairperson
- Baton Rouge Bar Association Holiday Star Committee, Member
- Hogs for the Cause, Team Member