Attorney Profiles

Biography

J. Burton LeBlanc, IV is known throughout Louisiana as a champion of the people and an advocate for individuals who have been harmed by toxic exposure or workplace hazards.
Mr. LeBlanc’s background covers the spectrum of environmental law, and securities litigation. He has extensive experience litigating complex cases and has represented the State of Louisiana in cases against the oil and gas industry involving the underpayment of severance taxes and royalties.

Mr. LeBlanc has also represented governmental entities, including the State of Mississippi, in complex consumer fraud litigation. Today Mr. LeBlanc concentrates his practice in the areas of environmental law, securities litigation, and asbestos litigation. Mr. LeBlanc and his firm have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for injured working men and women in Louisiana, including multiple jury verdicts over one million dollars.

He is a past President of the Louisiana Association for Justice ("LAJ") f/k/a Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association ("LTLA") and serves on the Executive Committee of the LAJ. He has served on the Council of Directors and the Board of Governors for the LAJ as well as the Committee for the Environmental Law/Toxic Tort Section of the LAJ. He serves as Secretary of the American Association for Justice (“AAJ”) f/k/a the American Trial Lawyers Association (“ATLA”), and has previously serves as both Treasurer and Parliamentarian. In addition, LeBlanc has been a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Governors of the AAJ, where he was awarded theWiedeman Wysocki National Finance Council Award two separate times, most recently in July of 2010.

He has been a member of the AAJ National Finance Council, a member of the Board of Trustees of the AAJ PAC Committee, Chair of the National Finance Council, a sustaining member of the AAJ, and a member of the Leaders Forum for AAJ. He is a member of the AAJ's Section on Toxic Torts and Business Torts, a committee member of the American Bar Association's Section on Toxic Torts, and a supporting member of the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation.

LeBlanc is a member of the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys (NAPPA, a member of the National Association of Shareholder & Consumer Attorneys (NASCAT), and a frequent lecturer on the issue of environmental law, asbestos and chemical exposure cases. In addition to being a member of the LAJ and AAJ, he is a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Louisiana State Bar Association, Baton Rouge Bar Association, Texas State Bar Association, American Bar Association, College of the State Bar of Texas and the Louisiana Bar Foundation.

In June 2008, LeBlanc & Waddell, a firm co-founded by LeBlanc, merged with the national law firm of Baron & Budd, P.C., based in Dallas, Texas. Mr. LeBlanc is a shareholder at Baron & Budd, P.C.

LeBlanc and his wife are active in the community and serve on multiple boards, including Cancer Services of Greater Baton Rouge, where LeBlanc served as president.

Appointments

Member of the Capital Area Community Partnership Panel for the Louisiana Bar Foundation (July 2009-June 2012)

Treasurer of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) (July 2009)

Chair of the National Finance Council for the American Association for Justice (AAJ) (July 2009)

Parliamentarian of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) (July 2008)

President of the Louisiana Association for Justice (LAJ) (October 2006)

Secretary/Treasurer - Council of Presidents, State Trial Lawyers Association for North America (July 2006)

American Association for Justice (AAJ) Executive Committee (July 2007)

American Association of Justice for (AAJ) Board of Governors (March 2006)

In Re The Flintkote Company Bankruptcy, No. 04-11300-MFW, United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware; Appointed to the Negotiating Sub-Committee (June 2004-present)

In Re The Flintkote Company Bankruptcy, No. 04-11300-MFW, United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware; Appointed to Committee of Unsecured Asbestos Creditors (June 2004-present)

Communications and Outreach Committee, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation (August 13, 2001)

Louisiana Supreme Court Committee to Study Financial Assistance To Clients (July 3, 2001)

In Re Pittsburgh-Corning Corporation Bankruptcy, No. 00-22876-JKF, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania; Appointed to Committee of Unsecured Asbestos Creditors (June 2000-present)

In Re Babcock & Wilcox Bankruptcy, No. 00-10992-B, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Appointed to Trust Advisory Committee (T.A.C.)

In Re Babcock & Wilcox Bankruptcy, No. 00-10992-B, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Appointed to Asbestos Claimants Committee
(March 2000-present)

In Re Rockwool Manufacturing Co. Bankruptcy, No. 96-08295-TBB-11, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division; Appointed to Asbestos Claimants Creditor Committee