Stephen Conrad Aertker Jr.

Stephen C. Aertker, Jr. is a litigation-focused attorney with over two decades of courtroom experience representing individuals and businesses across Louisiana and Mississippi. He founded Aertker Legal, LLC in Covington, Louisiana in 2003 after beginning his career representing insurance companies and corporate defendants — experience that now gives his clients a decisive advantage when going up against those same interests.
Stephen is AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest peer-review distinction available to an attorney, reflecting pre-eminent legal ability and the highest professional ethics as evaluated by fellow attorneys and judges. In 2009, New Orleans Magazine recognized him as one of the Top Lawyers in the New Orleans metropolitan area in litigation.
He graduated summa cum laude from Louisiana State University in 1994 and cum laude from Tulane University School of Law in 1997, where he received an Honors Designation in Trial Advocacy and a Certificate in Maritime Law.
Stephen is licensed in Louisiana and Mississippi and admitted to practice before all Louisiana and Mississippi state courts, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana, the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Aertker Legal handles personal injury, family law, business litigation and formation, successions and estate planning, medical malpractice, and admiralty and maritime law. Every matter is handled directly by Stephen — no hand-offs, no junior associates.