Lynn Elizabeth Swanson

Lynn E. Swanson is the managing member of Jones, Swanson, Huddell & Garrison, L.L.C. Lynn has been practicing law since 1993 in the fields of complex and commercial litigation. She worked the majority of her first ten years of practice representing plaintiffs in pharmaceutical and medical device litigation. She joined Jones, Verras & Freiberg, L.L.C., now known as Jones, Swanson, Huddell & Garrison, L.L.C. in 2004, and was instrumental in developing and establishing the firm’s commercial litigation practice. Lynn has spent the past ten years developing and carrying out an organized strategy and approach to case management, by which she has handled a variety of non-formulaic, complicated business disputes, including several matters involving tax strategy advice and litigation related to that advice. Lynn has led Jones Swanson’s efforts related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. She was appointed to co-coordinate the multidistrict litigation’s GCCF Outreach Group and has been spearheading the successful efforts of Jones Swanson to recover economic damages on behalf of claimants in a wide variety of industries, including oil and gas, tourism and construction as well as claims for general economic loss and property damage. Lynn and her team have sued BP Exploration & Production Inc., BP America Production Company and BP p.l.c. outside of the multidistrict litigation on behalf of many of their clients whose claims were not settled through the Deepwater Horizon Settlement. Lynn has also contributed to Jones Swanson’s efforts on behalf of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East to hold oil and gas companies accountable for their role in coastal land loss as outlined in the action filed in July of 2013 styled Board of Commissioners of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority – East, et al. v. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, LLC, et al.