ClaimsXchange Trial Academy: Where Excellence Meets Defense Advocacy Rich King and the following assembled a team of the nation’s finest defense lawyers, to teach at the July 16-19, 2024 ClaimsXchange Trial Academy. The program will include three intensive days of instruction, which will take the students from Pre-Trial Strategies all the way through Summation andRead More
MMK’s own Tiffany Collins will be presenting a CLE at the New Orleans Bar Association’s Bench Bar Conference in Gulf Shores, AL, titled “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” : Professionalism. She will be diving into the intricacies of professionalism where they will unravel the key principles, ethical considerations, and practical tips essential for fostering a cultureRead More
Melchiode Marks King LLC is proud to announce that Matthew R. Fransen has been promoted to Special Counsel of the firm. Matthew is a New Orleans native who brings twenty-four years of trial experience as a litigator to MMK. Matt is married to his wife, Keflyn and they have twin sons, Will and Jackson. InRead More
This year, five MMK members were recognized as Top Lawyers by New Orleans Magazine: Jerry Melchiode (Construction Law), Kevin Marks (Workers’ Compensation), Rich King (Insurance Law), Jennifer Simmons (Insurance Law) and Ben Pri-Tal (Construction Law). CONGRATULATIONS, ALL!
Melchiode Marks King LLC is pleased to announce that Jerry Melchiode and Kevin Marks have been listed in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Jerry was recognized in the field of Construction Law and Litigation, while Kevin was recognized in Admiralty and Maritime Law. Inclusion in Best Lawyers is regarded as one of the most credible measures of legal integrityRead More
MMK is pleased to announce that our continued growth has prompted a recent move of our New Orleans office space. While we are still in the Entergy Building (639 Loyola, in the heart of New Orleans’ “CBD”), we have relocated from the twenty-fifth floor to the eighteenth. Our new suite is spacious and provides ourRead More
The votes are in from the “Reader Rankings” of CityBusiness, the business newspaper of metropolitan New Orleans, and MMK has been declared a “Winner”. In recent polling, the esteemed readership of CityBusiness selected Melchiode Marks King LLC in the Legal Services category as “Best Litigation-Winner”. We are grateful for the recognition and thank CityBusiness andRead More
Melchiode Marks King is proud to be one of the earliest members of LIFT (Lawyer Initiatives For Tomorrow), a coalition of New Orleans law firms organized early in the Covid-19 pandemic to address cultural and economic challenges in our community. During the critical stages of the pandemic, LIFT raised over $150,000 to for the KreweRead More
Richard E. King to teach Coverage II and teach and moderate the Mock Trial for the School of Casualty Claims at the 2022 CLM Claims College, September 7-9, 2022. For more information on the 2022 CLM Claims College go to: Claims College (theclm.org).
On September 29, 2020, the New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation will host its annual “Stake Out for Justice” luncheon at the New Orleans Sheraton Hotel. Melchiode Marks King is proud to be a sponsor of this event. The NOPJF is a private organization which seeks to make New Orleans a safer place in whichRead More
Melchiode Marks King LLC and Lipson Neilson proudly sponsor the claimsXchange’s “Education on Location: Jazz Fest” in New Orleans on Thursday, May 5, 2022. For more information see: Education on Location: Jazz Fest.
MMK’s Kevin Marks will speak at The American Equity Underwriters’ National Forum on May 5, 2022 in New Orleans. Described as “the premier maritime industry event”, the three-day conference allows industry leaders to engage in issues such as claims, safety, personnel and operations. Kevin will join Mary Beth O’Neill (AEU), Rini Raines (Bailey-McCaffery) and MattRead More
MMK’s Jeffery B. Struckhoff will speak at the Annual Longshore Conference sponsored by Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, in conjunction with the United States Department of Labor. The “ALC” is the preeminent event for attorneys and claims professionals handling Longshore, Outer continental Shelf and Defense Base Act cases, and practitioners from around theRead More
Jerry Melchiode and Kevin Marks recently appeared in Biz New Orleans, a magazine focused on the New Orleans business community, in its 2021 list of Best Lawyers. The list can be found in the magazine’s February 2021 issue. Jerry was recognized in the fields of “Construction Law” and “Litigation-Construction.” Kevin was named in “Admiralty andRead More
Richard King will be speaking at a seminar for the 2020 Inspection World Conference held at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans on Monday, January 20th, at 4:00 pm. He will be presenting on the expert panel on the Top 20 ways to Get Sued for Home Inspectors. Please see the below link for registration andRead More
Rich King to teach “Emerging Issues in High Rise and Mixed Use Housing” with some of the industry’s best at 2018 CLM Construction Conference in Chicago, IL from September 26 to 28, 2018. Other Speakers: • Kevin Brown, Berkley Select • Nick Clancy, HDI Global Insurance • Tracey Dodd, J.S. Held • Mark Franke, OldRead More
