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Marc C. Hebert is a partner in the firm's Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group and practices closely with the Business & Commercial Transactions, Government Relations and Admiralty & Maritime Practice Groups. He represents clients in the energy, marine, transportation, and manufacturing industries, and before U.S. federal agencies, the U.S. Congress and foreign governments on regulatory, administrative, and legislative matters. Mr. Hebert has published numerous articles on international trade, maritime and environmental law, and has written and spoken at various seminars on those topics.

He is a member of the Greater New Orleans Barge Fleeting Association Seminar Committee and a Seminar Moderator (2009 to present), serves as Chair of the Greater New Orleans Port Safety Council (2011), and is a Board Member and Secretary/Executive Committee of the Mississippi Valley Trade & Transport Council (2006 to present). In 2008 he was appointed by U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and USTR Ambassador Susan Schwab to serve on the Industry Trade Advisory Committee 14, where he served until 2010. Mr. Hebert practiced law with Bracewell & Patterson in Washington, D.C., from 1996 to 2002, following working for the U.S. House of Representatives Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs. From 2002 to 2005, he was an Adjunct Professor at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.

Mr. Hebert graduated from Tulane University in 1991, received his juris doctor degree from Loyola University School of Law in 1994, and his LL.M. in Environmental Law from The National Law Center, George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1996. He is licensed to practice in state and Federal district and appellate courts, and is admitted in the States of Louisiana and Virginia, the District of Columbia, Federal Court in the Southern District of Texas, and the U.S. Court of International Trade.

News

• Maritime Attorneys Win Jones Act Suit
• Hebert Speaks at National Association of Foreign-Trade Zone's 39th Annual Conference
• Maritime Attorneys Speak at Greater New Orleans Barge Fleeting Seminar
• Jones Walker Attorneys to Participate in 29th Annual World Trade & Transport Conference
• Hebert Presents at International Trade & Customs Conference
• Hebert to Speak on Obama's Trade Policy at Cement Industry Conference

Presentations

• "CBP's 'New Verification Policy' for Duty Preference Claims – Here We Go Again...", September 12, 2011
• "Legislative Issues", March 8, 2010
• "Second-Annual Lafourche Maritime Seminar", September 3, 2009
• "Do We Have an Answer to the Following Issues Facing the Marine Industry: The Transportation Worker Identification Credentials Program and Hiring the Illegal Immigrant or Migrant Worker", 2009
• "The Transportation Picture: The Past is Gone! What is Going to or Might Happen in the Future", 2009, Panel Moderator
• "Post-Election Trade Policy & Legislative Update", November 18, 2008

Publications

• "How to Get the Most Out of Federal Katrina Related Contracts"
  E*Lert, January 18, 2006
• "Coastal Restoration Under CWPPRA and Property Rights Issues"
  57 Louisiana Law Review 1165, 1997
• "Unilateralism as a Defense Mechanism: An Overview of the Iran and Libya Sanctions of 1996"
  University of Miami Law School Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 5, 1996–1997,

Memberships

• District of Columbia Bar Association
• Greater New Orleans Barge Fleeting Association (Member, Seminar Steering Committee, 2004 to date)
• International Trade Advisory Committee 14, Customs and Trade Facilitation (Appointed by U.S. Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative, 2008)
• Louisiana State Bar Association
• Loyola University New Orleans College of Law (Adjunct Professor)
• New Orleans World Trade Center (International Business Committee)
• Mississippi Valley Trade & Transport Council (Secretary, Board of Directors; Member, Executive Committee; Representative, Louisiana Deep Water Port & Transfer Station Task Force)
• Virginia State Bar