Mr. Zuckerman represents clients in a wide variety of complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on energy litigation, environmental litigation, and natural gas pipeline expropriation and regulatory work. He also has extensive experience with salt dome activities, including brine solution mining and storage facilities. Mr. Zuckerman also has substantial appellate experience, having participated in numerous state and federal appeals and requests for writs of certiorari, and having served as appeal counsel during trial.
Mr. Zuckerman's litigation experience involves numerous aspects of the energy industry. He has litigated a broad range of environmental issues, including groundwater and surface contamination as well as subsidence issues; royalty disputes; title and lease disputes; Louisiana Oil Well Lien Act claims; operating agreement and other breach of contract disputes; pipeline disputes; downhole and other alleged equipment failures; and the like. Additionally, Mr. Zuckerman has significant experience defending against personal injury lawsuits and toxic tort class action and mass action lawsuits.
In connection with his litigation practice, Mr. Zuckerman routinely works with experts on complex engineering, geophysical, environmental, operational, and other technical matters. His deep knowledge base on environmental issues includes matters related to perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanic acid (PFOA). He has also been involved in hundreds of appellate court proceedings in Louisiana state and federal courts.
Mr. Zuckerman served as Judicial Law Clerk to Chief Justice Pascal F. Calogero of the Louisiana Supreme Court.