Giving back: charity event benefitting Barrier Islands organized by John Houghtling. 

Managing Partner John Houghtaling continuing the legacy from nationally-known trial lawyer, Wendell Gauthier. 

Two-time honoree!

Profile of John Houghtaling in New Orleans Magazine. 

Wendell Gauthier has frequently been called the king of the class action...

Indeed, an opposing lawyer once objected to a judge that Wendell Gauthier smiled too often. With his track record, who wouldn't?

The tort wheel of fortune turns round and round. "There is only one thing that will make a big company respond." Gauthier, asking for punitive damages. 

Big civil damages awards have become an increasingly common feature of the American legal landscape, but Monday's nearly $3.5 billion punitive-damages assessment in a 1987 Louisiana railway fire is being seen as a case unto itself...

Gauthier blasts company executives for greedy, hands-off attitude resulting in a railroad car fire that forced 1,000 people from their homes.  

Gauthier represented one of the first plaintiffs in the historic class-action lawsuit against tobacco companies.