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Mayer, Smith & Roberts, L.L.P.

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About Mayer, Smith & Roberts, L.L.P.

Mayer, Smith & Roberts, L.L.P. is a Shreveport litigation firm founded in 1929 by Joseph Jackson and Alex Smith, Sr. It became Mayer & Smith when Charles Mayer and Alex Smith, Jr. were the most senior members, and took its present name after Caldwell Roberts joined. The firm moved from downtown Shreveport to the Highland neighborhood in the 1950s and to southeast Shreveport in 2022. Its attorneys try cases to judges, juries, and administrative forums throughout Louisiana, and its practice is primarily on the defense side: insurance defense, personal injury defense (auto, trucking, premises, and products), professional liability defense including medical malpractice and architect and engineer malpractice, workers' compensation, discrimination defense, commercial litigation, and wills and successions. The firm holds an AV rating with Martindale-Hubbell and is listed in Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys.

Proven verdicts and settlements won by Mayer, Smith & Roberts, L.L.P.

$4,304,532.05 (as amended on appeal; $5,380,665.06 gross verdict)Verdict

Michael Waller, a 17-year electrician at Kansas City Southern's Shreveport Diesel Repair Shop, leaned against a locomotive fan housing left lying loose on the shop floor. It shifted onto its side and pinned his left foot, crushing it at the ankle and heel.

1st Judicial District Court, Caddo Parish, LA (amended, La. App. 2 Cir.) · 2025Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Attorneys at Mayer, Smith & Roberts, L.L.P.

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