Member
Practice Areas
Education
Irving Oberman Award | Harvard Defenders, President| Board of Student Advisors, Legal Research and Writing Chairman|
University Medal
Biography
Rick Stanley represents clients throughout Louisiana and the surrounding region in complex commercial litigation and in the representation of lawyers and law firms in connection with issues of ethics and professional liability.
Mr. Stanley handles cases in both state and federal courts at the trial and appellate levels. His clients include two of Louisiana’s largest electric utilities (Entergy and Cleco), as well as numerous out-of-state clients with litigation in Louisiana. He has been recognized as Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America in multiple categories, including Bet-The-Company Litigation (2019), Real Estate Litigation (2020), Legal Malpractice Law – Defense (2014, 2016, 2018) and Antitrust (2012, 2015). As an appellate lawyer, Mr. Stanley serves as Chair of the LSBA Appellate Section and as a member of the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization’s Appellate Practice Advisory Commission.
Mr. Stanley graduated from Louisiana State University summa cum laude and received the University Medal for academic achievement. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he received the Oberman Award for legal writing. After graduation, he served as law clerk to the late Honorable Albert Tate, Jr. on the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Since 1985, Mr. Stanley has taught on a part-time basis on the adjunct faculty of Tulane Law School. As an adjunct Professor of Law, his courses have included Criminal Process and Practice, Trial Advocacy, Legal Ethics, and Professional Responsibility. He currently teaches an upper-class seminar on Professional Responsibility.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Professor of Law, Adjunct Faculty, Tulane Law School (1985 – present)
Special Master, In Re: Pool Products Antitrust Litigation, MDL 2328 (E.D. La.)
Chairman, Magistrate Merit Selection Panel, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (2018)
Chairman, LSBA Rules of Professional Conduct Committee (2004 – present)
Chairman, LSBA Committee on Codes of Lawyer and Judicial Conduct (2002 – 2004)
Member, Louisiana Appellate Practice Advisory Commission (2017 – present)
Member, LSBA Ethics 2000 Committee
Member, Louisiana Supreme Court Class Action Committee
Member, Louisiana Supreme Court Committee on Rules Regarding Financial Assistance to Clients
Member, Louisiana Supreme Court Committee on Advertising Rules
Chairman, Board of Directors, Metairie Bank & Trust Co.
Session, Metairie Ridge Presbyterian Church
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Age Restrictions in Housing; The Denial of the Family’s Right to Its Integrity, 19 HARV.C.R. – C.L. REV. 61 (1984).
Albert Tate, Jr.; Judge, Jurist and the Barber in Ville Platt, 47 LA. L. REV. 1011 (1987).
Antitrust Law: Fifth Circuit Symposium, 35 LOYOLA L. REV. 687 (1989).
Antitrust Law: Fifth Circuit Symposium, 36 LOYOLA L. REV. 665 (1990).
Constitutional Law: Fifth Circuit Symposium, 37 LOYOLA L. REV. 631 (1991).
Constitutional Law: Fifth Circuit Symposium, 42 LOYOLA L. REV. 491 (1996).
A Professional Model of Ethics, 47 LOYOLA L. REV. 773 (2001).
Representative Matters
Representative Appellate Matters
Representative Trial Court Matters
Experience
Stanley, Reuter, Ross, Thornton & Alford, L.L.C. (1997 – present)
Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson (1984 – 1997)
Law Clerk, Honorable Albert Tate, Jr., U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (1983-1984)
MDL Experience
MDL 417 Marine Construction Antitrust Litigation (plaintiff)
MDL 863 Taxable Municipal Bond Securities Litigation (defense)
MDL 1098 Masonite Corp. Hardboard Siding Products Liability Litigation (defense)
MDL 1657 Vioxx Products Liability Litigation (defense)
MDL 2047 Chinese Manufactured Drywall Products Liability Litigation (defense)
MDL 2179 Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon” (counsel for the Economic Settlement Claims Administrator)
MDL 2328 Pool Products Antitrust Litigation (Special Master)
Instruction
Tulane Law School, Professor of Law, Adjunct Faculty (1985 – present)
BARBRI, Instructor
Seminar Speaker on Ethics and Professionalism topics for the:
BAR ADMISSIONS
Admitted to practice in all Louisiana state courts and federal courts
Admitted to practice in the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court
Member, New Orleans Bar Association
Member, Louisiana State Bar Association
Member, American Bar Association
RECOGNITION
Best Lawyers in America 2021 for:
Best Lawyers’ Lawyer of the Year Recognition (New Orleans) for:
Thomson Reuters’ Super Lawyers (2020 – 2021)
New Orleans Bar Association, Arceneaux Professionalism Award (2018)
LSBA President’s Award (2005, 2010)
LSBA Distinguished Service to the Profession Award (2009)
New Orleans Magazine’s 2020 Top Lawyers
Harvard Law School Irving Oberman Award (1983)
Harvard Defenders
Board of Student Advisors; Chairman of Harvard’s Legal Research Training Program (1981-1982)
In the News
Rick Stanley and Kathryn Munson Co-Present Ethics CLE
On November 6, 2020, Rick Stanley and Kathryn Munson co-presented a continuing legal education course on “Challenging Ethics Issues Associated with Complex Litigation” with Chuck… READ MOREFour attorneys serve as adjunct professors of law this fall
Four Stanley, Reuter, Ross, Thornton & Alford attorneys are serving as adjunct professors at local law schools this fall. At Tulane Law School, Richard C.… READ MORELynn Luker, Tom Owen, Bryan Reuter, Bill Ross & Rick Stanley named Top Lawyers
Congratulations to Members Tom Owen, Bryan Reuter, Bill Ross, and Rick Stanley, and Of Counsel Lynn Luker for being named Top Lawyers by New Orleans… READ MORERick Stanley appointed to multiple committees
Richard C. Stanley has been appointed to the 2019-2020 LSBA Rules of Professional Conduct Committee, the LSBA Ethics Advisory Committee, and the Eastern District of… READ MORERick Stanley presented with the John R. “Jack” Martzell Professionalism Award
Richard C. Stanley was presented with the John R. "Jack" Martzell Professionalism Award at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Federal Bar Association, New Orleans… READ MORE