Jay

O’Brien

Jay is a seasoned litigator who deploys his exceptional leadership skills, legal acumen, and strategic insights to help clients prevent and resolve complex commercial and regulatory disputes. A West Point graduate and former military officer, he excels at assembling and leading teams focused on delivering results and solving client problems. Jay has extensive trial experience handling billion-dollar class-action, multijurisdictional, and other bet-the-company disputes, positioning him as a formidable advocate for clients facing high-profile litigation with substantial financial and reputational consequences. Over the course of his career, he has successfully argued more than 100 federal and state appellate cases.

Jay represents clients from a broad range of industries and has particular experience advising major energy, oil and gas, and pipeline companies — including some of the world’s largest producers, refiners, and distributors — on matters involving traditional, renewable, and alternative fuel sources.

In addition to his energy clients, he advises private equity groups, investors, large banks, and other lenders. Jay has handled a number of cases involving bank lending practices, promissory notes, trusts, personal and corporate guarantees, and commercial, residential, and multiuse real estate development. An adjunct professor at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center of Louisiana State University, he taught in the area of security devices, including mortgages and secured lending practices.