SUZANNE M. RISEY
PARTNER

Phone: (504) 599-8231
Fax: (504) 599-8264
Email: Suzanne M. Risey
 

PRACTICE AREAS
Insurance Coverage & Defense
Labor & Employment Mass Tort & Class Actions

EDUCATION
New York Law School, New York, NY, 1997
J.D.  

BAR & COURT ADMISSIONS
Louisiana
Connecticut
New York
U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana
U.S. District Court for the Southern and Northern Districts of Texas
U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals Eleventh Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
Louisiana Bar Association
Connecticut Bar Association
New York Bar Association
American Bar Association (Labor & Employment Sections) 

Frilot partner Suzanne M. Risey primarily focuses her practice in the areas of Insurance Coverage and Defense and Labor and Employment. She has extensive experience in various aspects of insurance defenses, including, excess coverage, bad faith actions and fraud. She also has experience in employment law including Title VII, ADA, FMLA, and FLSA claims. She received her bachelors from Louisiana State University and her Juris Doctorate from the New York Law School.

She has secured bar and court admissions in Louisiana, Connecticut and New York. She is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana and the Southern and Northern Districts of Texas, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth, Eighth, and Eleventh Circuits and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Ms. Risey is a member of the Louisiana Bar Association, the New Orleans Bar Association, the Connecticut Bar Association and the New York Bar Association.