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For the sixth straight year, Baton Rouge, Louisiana personal injury lawyer, Paul H. Dué of Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C. has been rated by Louisiana Super Lawyers. “Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. Super Lawyers magazine features the list and profiles of selected attorneys and is distributed to attorneys in the state or region and the ABA-accredited law school libraries. Super Lawyers is also published as a special section in leading city and regional magazines across the country. Super Lawyers magazine is published in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., reaching more than 13 million readers.”

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana personal injury lawyer, B. Scott Andrews, of Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C. has been recognized by Louisiana Super Lawyers 2012 in the practice area of Personal Injury-Plaintiff. “Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.”

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The Baton Rouge, Louisiana personal injury law firm of Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C. was selected for first tier (those firms that scored within a certain percentage of the highest scoring firms) inclusion in the 2011-2012 rankings of U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms”, in the practice areas of Personal Injury Litigation Plaintiffs/Defendants and Product Liability Plaintiffs, and was selected for third tier inclusion in the practice area of Admiralty & Maritime Law.

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B. Scott Andrews with the Baton Rouge, Louisiana personal injury law firm of Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C. was honored by the Baton Rouge Business Report as one of Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s 2011 Forty Under 40. Each year, the honor recognizes men and women under the age of 40 who are influencing the Capital Region. When asked how best to move Baton Rouge forward, Scott Andrews responded: “By being active in political campaigns and by voting. Baton Rouge can only move forward through the visionary leadership of our elected officials and the key people they surround themselves with.”

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The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld a $23 million St. Landry Parish jury verdict in favor of six members of an Opelousas, Louisiana family who were horribly burned in a house fire and explosion in June 2003. According to the family’s lead trial attorney, Randy Piedrahita, of the Baton Rouge, Louisiana personal injury law firm of Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C., Centerpoint Energy was held responsible for one-half of the judgment for failing to properly lock its gas meter when discontinuing service to a rent house for non-payment. Centerpoint Energy failed to comply with federal law and its internal procedures by either placing a locking device on the gas meter to prevent it from being turned on, or installing a blind plate to prevent the flow of gas through the line in the event the meter was turned on by an unauthorized person. Centerpoint Energy’s negligence enabled just such an unauthorized person to turn the gas meter on to the rent house with devastating consequences to the residents because of a gas pipe that had inadvertently been left open in the house. Fugitive gas flowed into the house for several hours while the family slept, and was then ignited by an unknown source.
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Paul H. Dué of the Baton Rouge, Louisiana personal injury law firm of Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C. has been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America for 2012. For 2012, Dué has been recognized in four categories, including Personal Injury Litigation and Product Liability Litigation. Dué has been recognized by Best Lawyers every year since 1995.

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At its annual meeting in Natchitoches, Louisiana, the Northwestern State University Foundation Board of Directors elected Scott Andrews as its Secretary for the 2012-2014 term. Scott Andrews, an attorney at Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, graduated from Northwestern State University in 1992 after serving as Student Government Association President. Scott Andrews has served on the NSU Foundation Board since 2003, having previously served a three year term on the NSU Alumni Association Board. The NSU Foundation Board serves the University, its students and its faculty, through fundraising and by promoting the educational and cultural welfare of the University.

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After teaching Product Liability during the Spring 2011 semester at the Southern University Law Center (SULC), Baton Rouge, Louisiana personal injury and accident attorney, Scott Andrews, will be teaching Insurance Law at the Southern University Law Center during the Fall 2011 semester.

Scott Andrews is a 1996 Order of the Coif honors graduate of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where he served on the Louisiana Law Review.

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Retired Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal Judge, Bob Downing, now of counsel with the Baton Rouge, Louisiana law firm of Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C., has joined the panel of neutrals of MAPS – Mediation Arbitration Professional Systems, Inc. – with offices in Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Jackson, Mississippi. Created in 1987, MAPS provides mediators and arbitrators for alternative dispute resolution.