B. Scott Andrews Selected as the 2024-2025 LAJ President-Elect

At the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Association for Justice (LAJ), B. Scott Andrews was selected as the 2024-2025 LAJ President-Elect.  Andrews has spent his entire legal career as an attorney with Baton Rouge-based Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C., a boutique law firm focused on complex personal injury and wrongful death cases throughout Louisiana. Martindale-Hubbell AV-rated, Andrews has a history of service to LAJ and is a two-time recipient of LAJ’s President’s Award.  A 1996 graduate of the LSU Law Center, Andrews was a member of the Louisiana Law Review, Order of the Coif and LSU Law Center Hall of Fame. A long-time Southern University Law Center adjunct professor of law, Andrews taught Advanced Louisiana Torts, Advanced Legal Analysis and Writing, Insurance Law, and Products Liability.

Andrews has earned recognition for his accomplishments from Super Lawyers’ 2020 Top 50 Lawyers in Louisiana, Best Lawyers in America©, America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators, The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers, Baton Rouge Business Report Forty Under 40, and others. Andrews is a longtime member of the Louisiana State Bar Association’s House of Delegates and served on its Legislation and Ad Hoc Legislation Advisory committees. He is a former Wex Malone American Inn of Court president.

A Jonesboro-Hodge native, Andrews is a 1992 graduate of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, where he was Student Government Association president. His commitment to NSU continued after graduation and includes service as a board member and past-president of the NSU Foundation Board of Directors and as a member of NSU’s Beacon Society.

For a year before law school, he worked as a PPO contract negotiator for the state’s Office of Group Benefits.