Works with Institute to provide support for research, educational, and pro bono activities that promote individual justice in the administration of the criminal and civil judicial systems.
Works with organization to rehome dogs from shelters to reduce canine euthanasia rates.
Works with other Board Members to select and recognize annual conservation award winners.
Works with Legal Aid Clinic to provide legal services to poor
Works with organization to rehome dogs from shelters to reduce canine euthanasia rates.
Phone: 225.442.1056 | Email:Hansel@HarlanLegal.com
Prior to forming Harlan Law Firm, Hansel worked with another Law Firm, Phelps Dunbar in the Commercial Litigation Section. Mr. Harlan had a general national commercial litigation practice with a specialization in commercial bankruptcy.
Mr. Harlan’s litigation experience includes banking, breach of contract, class action, commercial foreclosure, construction, merger and acquisition, products liability, redhibition, intellectual property, and insurance. His extensive bankruptcy experience includes representation of secured and unsecured creditors and debtors in both Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 cases. Prior debtor-clients include Jitney Jungle Stores of America, Inc., Delchamps, Inc., SGSM Acquisition Corp., LLC (owner/operator of Schwegmann Giant Supermarkets), and Lundy Enterprises, LLC (owner/operator of approximately sixty Pizza Hut franchises in South Louisiana). Prior creditor-clients include General Motors Corporation, Lloyd’s of London, Rubbermaid, Inc., Lucent Technologies, AEGON, USA, Midas International, Inc., Credit Suisse First Boston, G.E. Capital, Hibernia National Bank, and First National Bank of Commerce.
In his previous years, he worked as an associate at a Civil Trial and appellate litigation firm called Barham & Arceneaux. Hansel also has experience working at the Supreme Court of Louisiana as a Law Clerk to the Honorable James L. Dennis.
For the last fifteen years, Mr. Harlan’s practice has focused on residential and commercial real estate title curative litigation on behalf of, or for the insureds of, title insurance companies in Louisiana. Representative clients include Stewart Title Guaranty Company, The Security Title Guarantee Corporation of Baltimore, First American Title Insurance Company, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Bank of America, Bank of New York Trust, Deutsche Bank, Capital One Bank, and Regions Bank. Practice also includes prosecution of legal malpractice actions in the area of real estate closings.
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
All Louisiana State Courts.
American Bar Association
Federal Bar Association
Louisiana State Bar Association
Baton Rouge Bar Association
Supreme Court Historical Society of Louisiana
Louisiana Association of Independent Land Title Agents
Louisiana Land Title Association
Foundation for Historical Louisiana
St. Aloysius Church
Knights of Columbus
Baton Rouge Area Foundation
United States Water Polo Association
American Kennel Club
Baton Rouge Kennel Club
Juris Doctor, May 1994; Admitted to the Louisiana Bar, October 1994
Graduated 26th of 208; Chancellor’s List; Louisiana Law Review
Organization of American States Scholarship for Graduate Studies in International Relations
Bachelor of Arts: History, December 1990
Bachelor of Arts: Political Science, Minor: Spanish, December 1987
Dean’s List; Organization of American States Scholarship—Buenos Aires, Argentina