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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 BSA-headshot-1-150x150boutique 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.

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Andy-Headshot-150x150Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C. is proud to announce that K. Andrew “Andy” Guidry, Jr. has joined the Baton Rouge boutique personal injury law firm as an associate attorney.

After graduating law school from Southern University Law Center, Andy was admitted to practice law in Louisiana in the Fall of 2022. Andy is also admitted to practice in the Middle, Eastern and Western Districts of Louisiana. He is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Louisiana Association for Justice and the Baton Rouge Bar Association.

Andy was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and graduated from The Dunham School.

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Best-Law-Firms-Standard-Badge-2022-150x150Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C. is proud to be recognized in the 2022 Edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” for professional excellence with consistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. The Baton Rouge, Louisiana boutique law firm received Tier 1 recognition in Baton Rouge in the practice areas of Personal Injury Litigation -Plaintiffs and Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiff.

To be eligible for a ranking, a law firm must first have a lawyer recognized in The Best Lawyers in America©, which recognizes 5% of lawyers practicing in the United States. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.

Firm members, Kirk A. Guidry and B. Scott Andrews, are recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© for Baton Rouge in the practice areas of Personal Injury Litigation -Plaintiffs and Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiff.  C. Scott Courrege is recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in the areas of Product Liability Litigation-Plaintiffs and Workers’ Compensation Law-Claimants.

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Kirk-and-Scott-BR-150x150Kirk A. Guidry and B. Scott Andrews of the boutique law firm, Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C., were selected once again by their peers for inclusion in the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America© in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana litigation practice areas of Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs and Product Liability Litigation-Plaintiffs.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Almost 108,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received over 13 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 9.4 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 67,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.

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HighStakes-2020-150x150B. Scott Andrews of the Baton Rouge, Louisiana boutique law firm of Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C. has been selected among America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators® in Louisiana for 2020.  Selection to America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators® is by invitation only and is reserved to identify the nation’s most exceptional trial attorneys in high value, high stakes legal matters.

To be initially considered for selection, a plaintiff personal injury attorney must have litigated a matter with at least $2,000,000 in alleged damages at stake.  Thereafter, candidates are carefully screened through comprehensive Qualitative Comparative Analysis based on a broad array of criteria, including the candidate’s professional experience, litigation experience, significant case results, representative high stakes matters, peer reputation, and community impact in order to rank the candidates throughout the state.

According to America’s Top 100 Attorneys, only the top 100 qualifying attorneys in each state are selected for membership among America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators®.  Because of the extremely high standards for selection to America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators®, less than one-half percent (0.5%) of active attorneys in the United States receive this honor — truly the most exclusive and elite level of attorneys in the community.

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Scott Andrews was recently selected by his peers for the fourth time for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© in the practice area of Plaintiff Personal Injury.   Scott Andrews is a member of the Baton Rouge, Louisiana injury law firm of Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C., specializing in wrongful death and serious personal injury cases.

First published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as a definitive guide to legal excellence.  Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation with nearly 87,000 industry leading lawyers from around the world eligible to vote.  For the 2019 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 7.8 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in almost 60,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.

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Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C. attorney Kirk A. Guidry was recently recognized by his peers in Best Lawyers as the 2019 “Lawyer of the Year” for Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs in the Baton Rouge area.

Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year,” making this accolade particularly significant. These lawyers are selected based on particularly impressive voting averages received during the peer review assessments.

Receiving this designation reflects the high level of respect a lawyer has earned among other leading lawyers in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism, and their integrity.

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C. Scott Courrege

Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C. proudly welcomes new associate attorney C. Scott Courrege.  After graduating #1 in his law school class, C. Scott Courrege was admitted to practice law in Louisiana on May 10, 2018.   He will work on various types of personal injury and wrongful death cases for the law firm with an emphasis on cases involving car wrecks, motorcycle accidents, and truck accidents.

C. Scott Courrege attended the Southern University Law Center’s evening division program while working for the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office. He was a Senior Editor for the Southern University Law Review, which published his article entitled, “Drugged Driving: How the Legalization of Marijuana Has Impaired the Ability of the Louisiana DWI Law.” C. Scott Courrege received Cali Awards for Excellence in Legal Writing I, Legal Research, Criminal Law, Legal Writing II, Obligations, Torts I, and Advanced Legal Writing.

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Nov. 1, 2017 –U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers, for the eighth consecutive year, the “Best Law Firms” rankings include the Baton Rouge, Louisiana injury law firm of Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C., this year in the practice areas of Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs (T1) and Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs (T2).
Firms included in the 2018 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise. “U.S. News has decades of experience evaluating key institutions in society—from colleges to hospitals,” says Tim Smart, executive editor at U.S. News. “Law firms perform a vital role in American life, and ranking them is a key extension of our overall mission to helps individuals and companies alike make important life decisions.”
The 2018 rankings are based on the highest number of participating firms and highest number of client ballots on record. To be eligible for a ranking, a firm must have a lawyer listed in The Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the top 4 percent of practicing attorneys in the U.S. Over 13,000 attorneys provided more than 1,000,000 law firm assessments, and over 7,500 clients provided more than 65,000 evaluations.  Kirk A. Guidry, Randy A. Piedrahita, and B. Scott Andrews are all recognized in The Best Lawyers in America.

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana trial lawyers, Randy A. Piedrahita, Kirk A. Guidry and B. Scott Andrews, have been selected for 2018 membership in The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers.

According to The National Trial Lawyers criteria, it is a member-driven organization composed of premier trial lawyers from across the country who meet stringent qualifications. Only top trial lawyers from Louisiana who are actively practicing in civil plaintiff are eligible for invitation. Invitees must demonstrate superior qualifications, leadership skills, and trial results as a legal professional. The selection process for this elite honor is based on a multi-phase process which includes peer nominations combined with third party research.