Jones Walker partner Jeff Tillery has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in North America. The induction ceremony took place during the Annual Meeting of the College in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 28. Jeff joins Pat Vance, Pauline Hardin, Mike Magner, and Rob Worley as active Jones Walker partners who are fellows of the College.

Jeff is a partner in Jones Walker’s Maritime Practice Group and co-leader of the maritime litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution team. For more than 35 years, he has advised and represented clients in maritime personal injury and collision matters, commercial litigation, longshore matters, and marine insurance coverage disputes, and he has tried, as lead counsel, complex marine multiparty casualty cases, including many under the Oil Pollution Act.

Jeff is a regular speaker at seminars and on podcasts around the country. His presentations cover a range of maritime topics, including collisions, offshore casualties, the ramifications of recent court decisions on the industry, and the application of a host of federal and state laws and regulations, including the Jones Act and the Longshoremen and Harbor Workers Compensation Act.

Founded in 1950, the College is composed of the best of the trial bar from the United States and Canada. Fellowship in the College is extended by invitation only, and only after careful investigation, to those experienced trial lawyers of diverse backgrounds who have mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked by the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility, and collegiality. Lawyers must have a minimum of fifteen years’ trial experience before they can be considered for Fellowship.

Membership in the College cannot exceed 1% of the total lawyer population of any state or province. The College maintains and seeks to improve the standards of trial practice, professionalism, and ethics and the administration of justice through education and public statements on independence of the judiciary, trial by jury, respect for the rule of law, access to justice, and fair and just representation of all parties to legal proceedings.

Jeff earned his JD from the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center and his BS from Louisiana State University. He has served as an instructor of maritime law at the University of New Orleans Paralegal Institute for 12 years.

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