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![]() | James A. George |
James A. George is a 1962 graduate of the Louisiana State University Law School at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.He is well known for his work in the fields of admiralty and maritime law, products liability and evidence, having published some fifty articles in these areas in legal journals across the country. He served as National President of the American Board of Trial Advocates in 1987 and as Chair of the Admiralty Law Section of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America in 1991. He is also a member of the Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute and Maritime Law Association of the United States.
He recently completed a six year term on the Board of Directors of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, serving in the last year of his term as Vice President, Development, of the Symphony Association.
He is a charter member of the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Mediation Association and maintains his membership in that association.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Organization for Judicial Excellence.
He is a member of the Board of Trustees, American Inns of Court Foundation, and recently completed a two year term as National Vice President. He serves as President of the Dean Henry George McMahon American Inn of Court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana which he founded in 1989. He was the recipient, in a ceremony conducted in The Well of the United States Supreme Court on October 19, 1996, of the A. Sherman Christensen Award, given each year to the member of the American Inn of Court Foundation who at the local, regional or national level has provided distinguished, exceptional and significant leadership to the American Inn of Court movement.
In 1991, he traveled with a delegation of members of the American Board of Trial Advocates to Prague, Czech Republic, to put on a mock trial, that country's first jury trial since 1939, and a year later traveled to Krakow, Poland, to appear on the faculty of a symposium centered on a discussion of the Federalist Papers and American Constitutional Law.
He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America and The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.