Houma, LA

Steven DeBosier

Baton Rouge native Steven DeBosier joined Dudley DeBosier in March 2000. He obtained his undergraduate and law degrees from Louisiana State University. He spent his early career representing insurance companies, gaining insight into their operations. At Dudley DeBosier, he prosecutes personal injury claims against insurance companies across Louisiana, focusing on securing compensation for clients.

Chad Dudley

Chad Dudley, Managing Partner and COO of Dudley DeBosier Injury Lawyers, grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, and played competitive tennis. He received a tennis scholarship to LSU, where he earned his undergraduate degree in Marketing and later his law degree from LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. He has always represented injured individuals and co-founded Dudley DeBosier in 2009. He has recovered over a billion dollars for clients and is an industry expert in law firm management, marketing, and technology, also serving as CEO of cj Advertising.

Patrick Yancey

A native of Houma, Louisiana, Patrick Yancey obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana Tech University. He worked offshore as a roustabout and later as an operations and facilities engineer with Mobil Oil. After six years, he resigned from Mobil Oil and enrolled in the Juris Doctorate program at Loyola University, New Orleans, where he obtained his degree and worked as a law clerk for Judge Edward J. Gaidry. As a Trial Lawyer, Mr. Yancey treats each client with dignity and respect and utilizes all available resources to produce the best results that can be achieved for his clients. Since 1996, Patrick Yancey has represented many people who have been injured or killed as a result of someone else’s fault. He has handled injury cases related to working offshore in the oil and gas industry, 18 wheeler crashes, car crashes, airplane/helicopter crashes, drilling rigs, tugboats, supply boats, jackup boats, diving vessels, derrick barges, pipe laying barges, industrial/refinery explosions and other industrial casualties, defective products, including defective medication and exposure to chemicals in the work environment, including asbestosis (which causes mesothelioma, a deadly form of cancer).

Danna E. Schwab

Danna graduated from Vandebilt Catholic High School in 1982, from L.S.U. with a B.A. in Psychology in 1985 and from Loyola Law School with a J.D. in 1990. She has practiced law for over 30 years. Her current areas of practice are Family Law, Divorce, Custody, Successions, and Personal Injury. In 2016, she was appointed by the Supreme Court to the Louisiana Disciplinary Board. For years, she has been the Houma/Thibodaux coordinator for Solace, a group dedicated to helping those in the legal field with various issues. She is a member of the Lawyers Assistance Program and one of the founding members of CASA of Terrebonne. She is a Board Member of the Ladies Carnival Club/Hyacinthians. Her interests include tennis, golf, fishing, reading and embroidering.

Clint Brasher is the founding partner of Brasher Law Firm, licensed since 1999. He is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 2004. He is licensed in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma, and in various U.S. District Courts. He has been recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer since 2018, is a Life Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and has been rated AV Preeminent by Martindale Hubbell since 2013. His practice focuses on personal injury, bad faith insurance, premises liability, product liability, and wrongful death, having recovered millions for his clients.

Nishi Kothari is a partner at Brasher Law Firm, focusing on bad faith insurance claims and commercial personal injury matters. She is Board Certified in Insurance Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization (2024). She is an experienced litigator and is active in the community, currently serving as President of the South Asian Bar Association of North America. She has received numerous honors including Lawdragon, Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star, and Texas Legal Award 'On The Rise'.

Suzette Bagneris

Suzette Bagneris earned her legal degree in 1993 from Loyola Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana. She practiced at several civil litigation firms as an associate and obtained substantial trial experience litigating civil cases throughout the State of Louisiana, including class actions. Suzette started The Bagneris Firm in 2004 with a strong emphasis on representing victims of personal injury who may otherwise be overlooked or under-represented. She has enjoyed a very successful litigation practice, often successfully taking on “Goliath-like” corporations and national defense firms in very complex cases. She has received over $400 million in recovery for class action suits for her clients and is among the 1% of attorneys in the country who have been admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and won national moot court competitions as a law student. She is a nationally respected civil trial attorney who has handled some of the largest class action cases and personal injury cases ever settled and/or tried in Louisiana.