PRACTICE AREAS: Admiralty and Maritime Law, Personal Injury Law, Medical Malpractice, Products Liability, Wrongful Death, Toxic Torts, Class Actions, Automobile Accidents, Slip and Fall Cases, and Civil Litigation.
FIRM PROFILE: Walter Z. Steinman, Counsellor at Law and Proctor in Admiralty, has thirty years of experience as a plaintiffs' injury trial lawyer. The firm's sole priority is the representation of the best interests of each and every individual client and the goal of promptly obtaining for them the best possible compensation.
Since 1975, we have been engaged exclusively in plaintiffs' personal injury, wrongful death and class-action litigation. The firm handles complex civil litigation matters in both state and federal courts, including Maritime and Railroad claims. Our practice has encompassed Jones Act injury claims for offshore oil workers, merchant seamen, commercial fishermen and divers, longshoremen's third-party claims and cruise line passenger claims. We have successfully represented numerous plaintiffs in the fields of products liability and FELA railroad worker injuries. A substantial portion of our practice also involves the representation of toxic tort class-action claimants arising out of negligent derailments, explosions and chemical releases. We have extensive experience litigating injury matters in various jurisdictions nationwide, especially in the Gulf Region States of Louisiana, Alabama and Texas.
In the past several years, we have been actively engaged in representing numerous clients in connection with the 1995 Bogalusa/Gaylord Nitrogen Tetroxide Case, the 1998 Bogalusa Water Plant Chlorine Case, the 1999 Pearl River Polymers Case, the Donaldsonville/CF Industries Explosion of May, 2000, the Eunice Union Pacific Derailment Case of May, 2000, Tangipahoa Derailment Chemical Spill of October, 2001, and the Slidell Thompson Meat Packers Ammonia Release of August, 2003. All of these cases involve class-action litigation arising out of toxic chemical releases affecting the local community. We handle these matters through a "team" approach, with each client represented by trial attorneys, paralegal assistants, and other support staff working together to provide comprehensive coverage. We utilize state-of-the-art office computer systems to manage all aspects of the litigation thereby enabling us to effectively generate the necessary legal work and efficiently communicate with our class-action clients.
Our success in securing excellent compensation for our clients over the years has been assured through reliance upon our central tenet that fulfilling the best interests of each and every individual as quickly as possible must always be our top priority.