BERNEY L. STRAUSS

Berney L. Strauss, Maritime Personal Injury Lawyer

Berney grew up in Alabama and was elected president of the student council in high school. He won the Sewanee University award for Outstanding Character. He attended Dartmouth College in the Ivy League where he graduated near at the top of his class and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated summa cum laude in 1973. In 1975, he received a Masters degree from Yale University. He earned his law degree from Tulane in 1978 where he was selected a finalist in the Tulane Moot Court, a two-year trial tournament to determine the best trial lawyers in his class at Tulane Law School.

After Tulane, he worked for five years at Phelps, Dunbar, the largest maritime offshore defense firm in the country. He then became a Partner in charge of handling maritime personal injury cases at Barham and Churchill. In 1986, he started his own law practice devoted to representing victims of serious trucking and maritime injury cases.
Strauss and King is admitted to practice throughout the Gulf Coast. Because he is licensed in many states, he can represent you if you are from one state (for example, Mississippi or Louisiana) and you are injured or your company is headquartered in another state (for example, if you are injured in Louisiana and your company is headquartered in Texas). Berney has handled cases throughout the Gulf Coast. Strauss and King has won many large settlements in Louisiana and jury awards in Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama.
Berney served as an adjunct professor of law at Tulane University for five years, teaching trial advocacy.

Some of My Memberships and Professional Involvement

  • The Louisiana State Bar
  • United States District Court 
  • United States Fifth Circuit Court of Louisiana Appeals
  • Texas State Bar
  • Mississippi State Bar
  • Alabama State Bar
  • Florida State Bar
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