Melvin A. Eiden

Of Counsel

Melvin A. Eiden

Mel Eiden is Of Counsel to the Firm and practices in the area of civil litigation with emphasis on personal injury defense and insurance coverage issues including maritime, oilfield, environmental, premises liability, products liability and general casualty as well as all surplus lines matters.

Mr. Eiden was born in New York, New York, November 3, 1949. He graduated from S.U.N.Y. New Paltz in 1973. He received a Masters degree in Public Service Administration from Russell Sage College in 1983. He received his Juris Doctor from Pace University School of Law in White Plains, New York in 1989, Magna Cum Laude.

He is admitted to practice in all of the various civil and appellate courts in New York and Louisiana, as well as the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. District Courts in Louisiana.

Mr. Eiden is a member of the Defense Research Institute, the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, NAPSLO and the Louisiana Surplus Lines Association.