EDWARD A. SHAMIS, JR., J.D.
Mr. Shamis was born in Pensacola, Florida in 1949. He attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the College of Arts and Sciences in 1972. Mr. Shamis graduated from Louisiana State University School of Law, Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1974, and entered private practice in Slidell, Louisiana. Mr. Shamis has extensive experience in civil litigation, consisting almost exclusively of personal injury litigation. Mr. Shamis' practice consists primarily of automobile negligence litigation, tractor/trailer trucking accidents, medical negligence, premises liability, brain injury, and admiralty and maritime law.

Louisiana State Bar Association - Admitted 1974

Louisiana Supreme Court - Admitted 1974

United States District Court, Eastern District - Admitted 1975

United States Tax Court - Admitted 1981

United States Court of Appeal, 5th Circuit - Admitted 1982

United States Supreme Court - Admitted 1983

Louisiana State Bar Association - Member; elected to House of Delegates for 22nd Judicial District in February 1985-86, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1994-97.

Slidell Bar Association - President 1978-79; Vice-president 1977; presently a member.

Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association - Member; President's Advisory Council for 1980-81, 1984-85, 1995-96; member of the Membership Committee for 1984-85; Key Contacts Committee for 1985; member of LTLA's Small Firm and Solo Practitioner Committee - 1990 through present; member of the Medical Negligence Section; member of the Auto Torts Section - Chairman of the People's Law School 2000.

American Trial Lawyers Association - member since 1985.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Marquis' Who's Who in America - 55th Edition, 2001; 56th Edition, 2002

Marquis' Who's Who in American Law - 6th Edition, 1989; 7th Edition, 1991; 8th Edition, 1994; 9th Edition, 1995; 10th Edition, 1998; 11th Edition, 2000; 12th Edition, 2002

Marquis' Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America - 3rd Edition, 1990 and 4th Edition, 1992.

Marquis' Who's Who in the South and Southwest - 22nd Edition, 1990 and 25th Edition, 1996.

Marquis' Who's Who in Finance and Industry - 29th Edition, 1995.

Marquis' Who's Who in the World - 12th Edition, 1994 and 14th Edition, 1996; 15th Edition, 1997; 17th Edition, 2001; 18th Edition, 2002

Martindale Hubbell - 1987 to the present.