Our Team
Equipo
A wide range of experiences.
Our members each possess a depth of experience born from long and distinguished legal careers. With a proven track record both in and out of court, we’re confident we can surpass your expectations.
Una amplia gama de experiencias.
Cada uno de nuestros miembros posee una profunda experiencia nacida de largas y distinguidas carreras legales. Con un historial comprobado tanto dentro como fuera de los tribunales, estamos seguros de que podemos superar sus expectativas.

Daniel Davillier
Managing Member
Daniel E. Davillier is the founder of the Davillier Law Group, LLC. Prior to launching the firm, Mr. Davillier was a partner at Phelps Dunbar, LLP. He advises clients in the areas of commercial finance, commercial real estate, commodities trade transactions, general business, local governmental relations, and gaming. In connection with the film industry in Louisiana, Mr. Davillier represents financial institutions and production companies concerning film finance, tax credit, and other related matters. Mr. Davillier also represents a number of professional athletes in the NBA and NFL in connection with various commercial transactions throughout the United States (including the acquisition of businesses, the establishment of 501(c)(3) non-profit corporations, and the recovery of funds from third parties).
Mr. Davillier holds a Bachelor of Science degree in General Business from the University of New Orleans. He graduated, cum laude, from Tulane University Law School in 1994. While at Tulane, Mr. Davillier served as President of the Black Law Students Association and served on the Moot Court Board. He was also inducted into the international legal fraternity, Phi Delta Phi, and won American Jurisprudence Awards for Security Rights and Obligations II. He is a recipient of the 2011 Leadership in Law Award from the New Orleans CityBusiness publication and the 2012 Multicultural Leadership Award from the Louisiana Diversity Council.
Mr. Davillier is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, New Orleans Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, American Bar Association, National Bar Association and the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society. Mr. Davillier is also a graduate of the New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute, and has served on the board of the Louisiana Children’s Museum, the National Conference for Community and Justice, the New Orleans Regional Black Chamber of Commerce, and St. Augustine High School.

Daniel Davillier
Miembro Administrador
Daniel E. Davillier is the founder of the Davillier Law Group, LLC. Prior to launching the firm, Mr. Davillier was a partner at Phelps Dunbar, LLP. He advises clients in the areas of commercial finance, commercial real estate, commodities trade transactions, general business, local governmental relations, and gaming. In connection with the film industry in Louisiana, Mr. Davillier represents financial institutions and production companies concerning film finance, tax credit, and other related matters. Mr. Davillier also represents a number of professional athletes in the NBA and NFL in connection with various commercial transactions throughout the United States (including the acquisition of businesses, the establishment of 501(c)(3) non-profit corporations, and the recovery of funds from third parties).
Mr. Davillier holds a Bachelor of Science degree in General Business from the University of New Orleans. He graduated, cum laude, from Tulane University Law School in 1994. While at Tulane, Mr. Davillier served as President of the Black Law Students Association and served on the Moot Court Board. He was also inducted into the international legal fraternity, Phi Delta Phi, and won American Jurisprudence Awards for Security Rights and Obligations II. He is a recipient of the 2011 Leadership in Law Award from the New Orleans CityBusiness publication and the 2012 Multicultural Leadership Award from the Louisiana Diversity Council.
Mr. Davillier is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, New Orleans Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, American Bar Association, National Bar Association and the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society. Mr. Davillier is also a graduate of the New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute, and has served on the board of the Louisiana Children’s Museum, the National Conference for Community and Justice, the New Orleans Regional Black Chamber of Commerce, and St. Augustine High School.

George R. Wentz, Jr.
Member
George R. Wentz, Jr. is a member of the Davillier Law Group in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. Wentz received his Bachelor of Sciences degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Delaware, where he was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude, in 1983. Mr. Wentz also served as the Administrative Editor of the Georgetown International Law Journal. Mr. Wentz was appointed to the Office of Policy Development of the Federal Trade Commission by President Ronald Reagan, where he analyzed the economic impact of trade laws and regulations, and developed and proposed legislative and regulatory approaches to enhance efficiency.
Mr. Wentz has over thirty years’ experience in handling complex international litigation, maritime litigation, oil and gas exploration and production matters, alternative dispute resolution, international transactions, constitutional law analysis, providing general business advice, and representing state and local governments. He has a reputation as a result oriented lawyer known for innovative thinking and problem solving. During the course of his career, Mr. Wentz has worked in most aspects of the oil and gas business, representing clients including Global Marine (now Transocean), Occidental Petroleum, BP, Marathon and Noble. Mr. Wentz has also represented CFE (power company of Mexico) in various matters. Mr. Wentz has also represented underwriters of various energy and power generation companies in large subrogation matters, including Houston Casualty Company and underwriters at Lloyd’s. He has expertise in international commodities transactions, including banking and financing related to those transactions, as well as international tax issues related to offshore banking. He also represents state and local governmental entities with regard to interaction and disputes with federal agencies with regard to public lands. He quarterbacked the production of a comprehensive constitutional analysis of Utah’s Transfer of Public Lands Act on behalf of Utah’s Commission for the Stewardship of Public Lands.
Mr. Wentz is an active member of the Louisiana State Bar Association. He is a recipient of the 2008 Leadership in Law Award from New Orleans City Business Magazine. Mr. Wentz was active in pro bono work following Hurricane Katrina, where his efforts assisted in the formation of New Orleans’ public-private partnership for economic development.
Mr. Wentz is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Louisiana, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the United States Supreme Court, and all Louisiana State Courts. He has also litigated cases in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, as well as in various state courts in Texas.

George R. Wentz, Jr.
Miembro
George R. Wentz, Jr. is a member of the Davillier Law Group in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. Wentz received his Bachelor of Sciences degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Delaware, where he was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude, in 1983. Mr. Wentz also served as the Administrative Editor of the Georgetown International Law Journal. Mr. Wentz was appointed to the Office of Policy Development of the Federal Trade Commission by President Ronald Reagan, where he analyzed the economic impact of trade laws and regulations, and developed and proposed legislative and regulatory approaches to enhance efficiency.
Mr. Wentz has over thirty years’ experience in handling complex international litigation, maritime litigation, oil and gas exploration and production matters, alternative dispute resolution, international transactions, constitutional law analysis, providing general business advice, and representing state and local governments. He has a reputation as a result oriented lawyer known for innovative thinking and problem solving. During the course of his career, Mr. Wentz has worked in most aspects of the oil and gas business, representing clients including Global Marine (now Transocean), Occidental Petroleum, BP, Marathon and Noble. Mr. Wentz has also represented CFE (power company of Mexico) in various matters. Mr. Wentz has also represented underwriters of various energy and power generation companies in large subrogation matters, including Houston Casualty Company and underwriters at Lloyd’s. He has expertise in international commodities transactions, including banking and financing related to those transactions, as well as international tax issues related to offshore banking. He also represents state and local governmental entities with regard to interaction and disputes with federal agencies with regard to public lands. He quarterbacked the production of a comprehensive constitutional analysis of Utah’s Transfer of Public Lands Act on behalf of Utah’s Commission for the Stewardship of Public Lands.
Mr. Wentz is an active member of the Louisiana State Bar Association. He is a recipient of the 2008 Leadership in Law Award from New Orleans City Business Magazine. Mr. Wentz was active in pro bono work following Hurricane Katrina, where his efforts assisted in the formation of New Orleans’ public-private partnership for economic development.
Mr. Wentz is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Louisiana, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the United States Supreme Court, and all Louisiana State Courts. He has also litigated cases in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, as well as in various state courts in Texas.

Alexander Kolodin
Member
Alexander Kolodin is a member at Davillier Law Group and the head of its Phoenix office. He also serves as co-counsel to the Arizona Republican Party and as part of the core national legal team for the Guardian Defense Fund, an organization dedicated to protecting election integrity and freedom of speech.
Over the years, Mr. Kolodin has served as lead counsel in a variety of high-profile political matters. In 2014, Mr. Kolodin litigated and prevailed in one of the first cases establishing that metadata stored on election tabulator computers is a public record under Arizona law. More recently, Mr. Kolodin won what is perhaps the seminal election case of the past decade. In Arizona Public Integrity Alliance v. Fontes, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that every Arizona voter has standing to challenge violations of election law by public officials and abolished the balancing test for preliminary injunctive relief in such cases. On the other side of the coin, Mr. Kolodin successfully defended the lead contractor of the Arizona Senate’s election audit from attempts to obtain a preliminary injunction.
In addition to his political practice, Mr. Kolodin also has extensive expertise in the fields of commercial litigation and personal injury. He has represented commercial landlords and a variety of other businesses in high-dollar litigation. As a result of these experiences, Mr. Kolodin has frequently been invited to speak at events like Phoenix Startup Week and had the opportunity to teach a course on Business Law at Grand Canyon University’s Colangelo College of Business.
But Mr. Kolodin’s practice is not limited to representing high-profile politicians and companies. One of the most gratifying aspects of his career is representing individuals who have suffered serious injuries and ensuring that they have the peace of mind of financial stability. He enjoys putting the skills he has honed dealing with complex political and commercial cases to work, helping ordinary people get fairly compensated by insurance carriers.
Mr. Kolodin graduated, cum laude, from Georgetown University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a Dean’s Fellow. During law school he was a member of the Federalist Society and worked as a Reagan Fellow at the Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation. He is admitted in the state and federal courts of Arizona, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Alexander Kolodin
Miembro
Alexander Kolodin is a member at Davillier Law Group and the head of its Phoenix office. He also serves as co-counsel to the Arizona Republican Party and as part of the core national legal team for the Guardian Defense Fund, an organization dedicated to protecting election integrity and freedom of speech.
Over the years, Mr. Kolodin has served as lead counsel in a variety of high-profile political matters. In 2014, Mr. Kolodin litigated and prevailed in one of the first cases establishing that metadata stored on election tabulator computers is a public record under Arizona law. More recently, Mr. Kolodin won what is perhaps the seminal election case of the past decade. In Arizona Public Integrity Alliance v. Fontes, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that every Arizona voter has standing to challenge violations of election law by public officials and abolished the balancing test for preliminary injunctive relief in such cases. On the other side of the coin, Mr. Kolodin successfully defended the lead contractor of the Arizona Senate’s election audit from attempts to obtain a preliminary injunction.
In addition to his political practice, Mr. Kolodin also has extensive expertise in the fields of commercial litigation and personal injury. He has represented commercial landlords and a variety of other businesses in high-dollar litigation. As a result of these experiences, Mr. Kolodin has frequently been invited to speak at events like Phoenix Startup Week and had the opportunity to teach a course on Business Law at Grand Canyon University’s Colangelo College of Business.
But Mr. Kolodin’s practice is not limited to representing high-profile politicians and companies. One of the most gratifying aspects of his career is representing individuals who have suffered serious injuries and ensuring that they have the peace of mind of financial stability. He enjoys putting the skills he has honed dealing with complex political and commercial cases to work, helping ordinary people get fairly compensated by insurance carriers.
Mr. Kolodin graduated, cum laude, from Georgetown University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a Dean’s Fellow. During law school he was a member of the Federalist Society and worked as a Reagan Fellow at the Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation. He is admitted in the state and federal courts of Arizona, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mauricio Cardona
Miembro
Mauricio Cardona is a member of the Davillier Law Group in our Sandpoint, Idaho office. He practices in the areas of civil and commercial litigation, exempted securities, FCPA compliance, due diligence for complex commercial transactions, energy law, government law, as well as general business advice. Mr. Cardona has helped clients structure offerings that raised tens of millions of dollars, conducted due diligence for multimillion dollar international transactions, conducted internal investigations for multinational companies facing FCPA compliance issues, and helped numerous businesses to establish governance protocols and management companies to reduce owner exposure.
Mr. Cardona received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Iowa College of Law where he received the University of Iowa’s Philip G. Hubbard Human Rights Award for his work to establish the Center for Worker Justice. He also received the Dean’s Award in Contracts and Sales Transactions and worked as an Immigration Fellow at the University of Iowa’s Legal Clinic. He interned with Briggs and Morgan and Excel Energy in Minneapolis. Mr. Cardona also served on the Dean’s Advisory Council on Diversity, the Pro Bono Society, as the president of the Latino Law Student Association and vice president of the International Law Society.
Mr. Cardona holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Colorado and a Bachelor of Science in International Business from Bradley University. Before his legal studies he worked as an account executive for an international manufacturing company with significant exposure to GSA programs and compliance. Mr. Cardona was also a project coordinator for a design-build contractor specializing in the energy industry and proof of concept facilities. During that time Mr. Cardona developed a reputation for his customer-centered approach and ability to coordinate design, manufacturing, delivery and after sale services for his clients.
After receiving his Juris Doctor, Mr. Cardona became a staff attorney for a Christian non- profit representing clients in immigration proceedings. He then joined the Dane County District Attorney’s Office where he prosecuted thousands of cases and tried over thirty of them, ranging from non-criminal Operating While Intoxicated to the biggest Possession with Intent to Deliver synthetic cannabinoids case in Wisconsin’s history. Mr. Cardona also represented the State in Dane County’s Operating While Intoxicated and Diversion Drug specialty courts.
Currently Mr. Cardona is a Commissioner in the Idaho Governor’s Commission on Hispanic Affairs, a board member of the Sandpoint Kiwanis Club, and the Bonner Classical Academy, the Vice President of the Sandpoint Community Resource Envision Center, and a founding member and Vice President of the Idaho St. Thomas More Society.
Mr. Cardona is licensed in Idaho and admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as well as in Idaho state courts, and is a member of the Idaho Mediation Association.
Mr. Cardona is a native Spanish speaker and fluent in English.

Mauricio Cardona
Member
Mauricio Cardona is a member of the Davillier Law Group in our Sandpoint, Idaho office. He practices in the areas of civil and commercial litigation, exempted securities, FCPA compliance, due diligence for complex commercial transactions, energy law, government law, as well as general business advice. Mr. Cardona has helped clients structure offerings that raised tens of millions of dollars, conducted due diligence for multimillion dollar international transactions, conducted internal investigations for multinational companies facing FCPA compliance issues, and helped numerous businesses to establish governance protocols and management companies to reduce owner exposure.
Mr. Cardona received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Iowa College of Law where he received the University of Iowa’s Philip G. Hubbard Human Rights Award for his work to establish the Center for Worker Justice. He also received the Dean’s Award in Contracts and Sales Transactions and worked as an Immigration Fellow at the University of Iowa’s Legal Clinic. He interned with Briggs and Morgan and Excel Energy in Minneapolis. Mr. Cardona also served on the Dean’s Advisory Council on Diversity, the Pro Bono Society, as the president of the Latino Law Student Association and vice president of the International Law Society.
Mr. Cardona holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Colorado and a Bachelor of Science in International Business from Bradley University. Before his legal studies he worked as an account executive for an international manufacturing company with significant exposure to GSA programs and compliance. Mr. Cardona was also a project coordinator for a design-build contractor specializing in the energy industry and proof of concept facilities. During that time Mr. Cardona developed a reputation for his customer-centered approach and ability to coordinate design, manufacturing, delivery and after sale services for his clients.
After receiving his Juris Doctor, Mr. Cardona became a staff attorney for a Christian non- profit representing clients in immigration proceedings. He then joined the Dane County District Attorney’s Office where he prosecuted thousands of cases and tried over thirty of them, ranging from non-criminal Operating While Intoxicated to the biggest Possession with Intent to Deliver synthetic cannabinoids case in Wisconsin’s history. Mr. Cardona also represented the State in Dane County’s Operating While Intoxicated and Diversion Drug specialty courts.
Currently Mr. Cardona is a Commissioner in the Idaho Governor’s Commission on Hispanic Affairs, a board member of the Sandpoint Kiwanis Club, and the Bonner Classical Academy, the Vice President of the Sandpoint Community Resource Envision Center, and a founding member and Vice President of the Idaho St. Thomas More Society.
Mr. Cardona is licensed in Idaho and admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as well as in Idaho state courts, and is a member of the Idaho Mediation Association.
Mr. Cardona is a native Spanish speaker and fluent in English.

Charles F. Zimmer II
Member
Charles F. Zimmer II is the Head of the Litigation Practice Group in the New Orleans, Louisiana office. Mr. Zimmer has guided multi-national and closely held companies away from risk and eliminated threats through successful litigation and negotiation for over 20 years. His litigation experience includes extensive complex and commercial litigation in federal and state courts, including MDL, class, and mass individual actions. Those matters cover a wide breadth of business litigation from routine business contract and labor disputes to federal antitrust class actions as well as financial fraud litigation and professional accounting defense of a Big Four accounting firm. Mr. Zimmer has extensive experience leading skilled teams from the inception of the dispute, through discovery and trial and on to argument before the courts of appeal.
In addition to representing businesses, Charles is a business owner, inventor, and patent holder. Having lived the role of both client and counsel, Charles understands the need to provide efficient, quality work clients can trust without exception.
Mr. Zimmer is a Tulane Law School graduate (J.D.), and majored in accounting (B.S.) at Louisiana State University. Although he does not practice public accounting, Charles has passed all sections of the national Uniform Certified Public Accounting Examination. He is admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court, the State Courts of Louisiana, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, and the federal district courts of Louisiana.
Some of the reported matters Charles has worked on include the following:
- W&T Offshore, L.L.C. v. Tex. Brine Corp., 2018-0950 (La. 06/26/19) 2019 La. LEXIS 1582; 2019 WL 2750884 (re: pipeline servitude rights)
- Vieux Carre Comm’n Found. v. City of New Orleans, 2017-CA-0527 (La. App. 4 Cir. 1/31/2018) 2018 La. App. LEXIS 171 (re: building permit approval process)
- GE v. West Feliciana Parish Hosp. Serv. Dist. No. 1, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 164214 (E.D. La. 11/29/2016) (re: public bid law dispute)
- ETI, Inc. v. Buck Steel, Inc., 2016-CA-0602, 211 So. 3d 439, 441 (La. App. 4 Cir. 2/1/2017) (re: construction defects)
- Bartholomew-Woods v. Wilson, 2016-1163 (La.App. 4 Cir. 11/04/16) 2016 La. App. LEXIS 2494, 204 So. 3d 639 (re: election challenge)
- Moon Ventures, L.L.C. v. KPMG, L.L.P., 06-1520 (La.App. 3 Cir. 08/15/07) 964 So. 2d 446, 447, 2007 La. App. LEXIS 1553 (re: professional accounting defense)
- Two Canal St. Investors, Inc. v. New Orleans Bldg. Corp., 2016-0825 (La.App. 4 Cir. 09/23/16) 202 So. 3d 1003, 1006, 2016 La. App. LEXIS 1791 (re: public bid challenge)
- Louisiana Wholesale Drug Co., Inc. v. Sanofi-Aventis, et al., Docket No. 07-7343, U.S.D.C. S.D.N.Y. (re: Arava antitrust litigation)
- Admiral Ins. Co. v. Abshire, 574 F.3d 267 (U.S. 5th Cir. 2009); also, 09-30121, U.S. 5th Cir. 2009 (re: fraudulent investment regulation)

Charles F. Zimmer II
Miembro
Charles F. Zimmer II is the Head of the Litigation Practice Group in the New Orleans, Louisiana office. Mr. Zimmer has guided multi-national and closely held companies away from risk and eliminated threats through successful litigation and negotiation for over 20 years. His litigation experience includes extensive complex and commercial litigation in federal and state courts, including MDL, class, and mass individual actions. Those matters cover a wide breadth of business litigation from routine business contract and labor disputes to federal antitrust class actions as well as financial fraud litigation and professional accounting defense of a Big Four accounting firm. Mr. Zimmer has extensive experience leading skilled teams from the inception of the dispute, through discovery and trial and on to argument before the courts of appeal.
In addition to representing businesses, Charles is a business owner, inventor, and patent holder. Having lived the role of both client and counsel, Charles understands the need to provide efficient, quality work clients can trust without exception.
Mr. Zimmer is a Tulane Law School graduate (J.D.), and majored in accounting (B.S.) at Louisiana State University. Although he does not practice public accounting, Charles has passed all sections of the national Uniform Certified Public Accounting Examination. He is admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court, the State Courts of Louisiana, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, and the federal district courts of Louisiana.
Some of the reported matters Charles has worked on include the following:
- W&T Offshore, L.L.C. v. Tex. Brine Corp., 2018-0950 (La. 06/26/19) 2019 La. LEXIS 1582; 2019 WL 2750884 (re: pipeline servitude rights)
- Vieux Carre Comm’n Found. v. City of New Orleans, 2017-CA-0527 (La. App. 4 Cir. 1/31/2018) 2018 La. App. LEXIS 171 (re: building permit approval process)
- GE v. West Feliciana Parish Hosp. Serv. Dist. No. 1, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 164214 (E.D. La. 11/29/2016) (re: public bid law dispute)
- ETI, Inc. v. Buck Steel, Inc., 2016-CA-0602, 211 So. 3d 439, 441 (La. App. 4 Cir. 2/1/2017) (re: construction defects)
- Bartholomew-Woods v. Wilson, 2016-1163 (La.App. 4 Cir. 11/04/16) 2016 La. App. LEXIS 2494, 204 So. 3d 639 (re: election challenge)
- Moon Ventures, L.L.C. v. KPMG, L.L.P., 06-1520 (La.App. 3 Cir. 08/15/07) 964 So. 2d 446, 447, 2007 La. App. LEXIS 1553 (re: professional accounting defense)
- Two Canal St. Investors, Inc. v. New Orleans Bldg. Corp., 2016-0825 (La.App. 4 Cir. 09/23/16) 202 So. 3d 1003, 1006, 2016 La. App. LEXIS 1791 (re: public bid challenge)
- Louisiana Wholesale Drug Co., Inc. v. Sanofi-Aventis, et al., Docket No. 07-7343, U.S.D.C. S.D.N.Y. (re: Arava antitrust litigation)
- Admiral Ins. Co. v. Abshire, 574 F.3d 267 (U.S. 5th Cir. 2009); also, 09-30121, U.S. 5th Cir. 2009 (re: fraudulent investment regulation)
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Our team is bolstered by insight from a broad and varied range of hands-on experience.
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Nuestro equipo se ve reforzado por el conocimiento de una amplia y variada gama de experiencia práctica.

C.J. Dimarco
Special Counsel
C.J. Dimarco serves as special counsel to Davillier’s office in Sandpoint, Idaho. He practices in the areas of civil litigation, constitutional law, employment law, insurance defense, and complex medical-legal matters.
Mr. Dimarco received his Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Kansas State University in 2016. Following undergrad, he received his Juris Doctorate degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in 2019. Mr. Dimarco was also a member of the UMKC Law Review Journal, and served as a Legal Writing and Research Teaching Assistant.
During law school, Mr. Dimarco had the opportunity to clerk for Wagstaff & Cartmell, LLP, a premier civil litigation firm in Kansas City, Missouri. This opportunity provided him with substantial experience in complex personal injury class action and mass tort product liability matters, as well as business disputes and other civil litigation-based actions for both plaintiffs and defendants. After graduating law school, he joined Wagstaff & Cartmell as an associate attorney and continued to primarily focus his practice in civil litigation, with a particular emphasis in complex medical-legal actions.
At the start of 2022, Mr. Dimarco left Wagstaff & Cartmell and accepted an in-house counsel position with America’s Frontline Doctors. Shortly thereafter, he was introduced to the professionals at Davillier and joined the firm in April of that same year.
Mr. Dimarco is licensed to practice law in the states of Missouri and Kansas, as well in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.

Andrew Drexel
Associate
Andrew Drexel is an associate with the firm’s Sandpoint, Idaho office. He graduated from Baylor University Law School in 2020, a school renowned for its litigation training. In 2013, he graduated from Sewanee, the University of the South, a historic liberal arts college in Tennessee, with a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Languages (Latin and Greek). In 2016, he earned a Technical Communication Certificate from Duke University Continuing Studies.
Mr. Drexel practices primarily in civil litigation, municipal, and business law. He represents local government entities, HOA members, and nonprofit organizations among other clients.
Among his accomplishments while studying law, he received the John B. and Eula Berry Fisher Award in Constitutional Law for academic excellence in that area of study, excelled in transactional drafting and various business-related classes such as employment law, and participated in various litigation programs such as Baylor Law’s rigorous Practice Court, which plunges students into six months of nonstop jury trial training that culminates in a mock trial based on months of preparation. He also worked for Baylor University’s Office of General Counsel as an extern and as a research assistant for both the Practice Court program, in which he helped pioneer remote advocacy practices in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, and for the law school’s Intellectual Property Clinic, which operates as a miniature law firm within Baylor Law, where he provided trademark services.
Prior to attending law school and beginning practicing law with Davillier Law Group in 2022, Mr. Drexel worked in the Southern California movie industry as a screenwriting consultant and then in the North Carolina banking industry.
Mr. Drexel is active in the Sandpoint, Idaho community. He sits on the Bonner Classical Academy Board of Directors and serves as Davillier Law Group’s corporate representative at the local Rotary Club. Before attending law school and moving to Sandpoint, he volunteered as a treasurer for Christ Community Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and with Habitat for Humanity building homes in Durham, North Carolina.
Mr. Drexel is licensed and admitted to practice law in the state courts of Texas and Idaho.

Jonathon D. Lewis
Senior Associate
Jonathon D. Lewis is an associate attorney in the New Orleans office of Davillier Law Group. He is a 2012 graduate of Loyola University with a Bachelor Degree in Criminal Justice, and a 2016 graduate of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law with a focus in Civil Law Division, Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Technology. His practice focuses primarily on general commercial litigation and, more specifically, in products liability, toxic torts, construction, intellectual property/trademark infringement and insurance defense related matters.
Mr. Lewis’ legal experience further involves immediate response, assessment and defense of catastrophic incidents and natural disasters. In addition to his litigation practice, he has also represented numerous clients in the entertainment business in contractual negotiations and in the areas of trademark, copyright and other general entertainment law practice concerns. Mr. Lewis has handled and resolved matters for individual performers, record labels and their representatives.
While in law school, Jonathan was an active member of the Student Bar Association, Black Law Student Association, Sports & Entertainment Law Society and Student Ambassadors. He also was an active member of the Loyola Moot Court Program and served as an Oralist for the Civil Rights & Liberties moot court team.
Mr. Lewis is active in the New Orleans community and passionate about charity work. He is also an active member of his local church and other community service organizations. Jonathan is a youth mentor with the Son of A Saint organization, committee chair and member of the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society, active member of the New Orleans Bar Association, and a member of the Young Leadership Council of New Orleans.
Mr. Lewis is licensed and admitted to practice in all Louisiana State and Federal courts.

Veronica Lucero
Senior Associate
Veronica Lucero is a senior associate in Davillier’s Phoenix office. An experienced litigator, she has practiced at both the trial court and appellate levels. Veronica received her law degree from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU, where she was a member of the law review and Federalist Society. Upon graduation, Veronica joined the Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation, where she enjoyed success on high-profile constitutional matters, including Schires v. Carlat, the first case she developed and litigated as lead attorney and for which she drafted the successful petition for review. She then left the Goldwater Institute to pursue a mid-career clerkship at the Arizona Supreme Court before joining Davillier.

Arno T. Naeckel
Associate
Arno T. Naeckel is an associate attorney in the Phoenix office of Davillier Law Group. He is a 1982 graduate of Tulane University with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, a 1990 graduate of Indiana University Business School with an MBA, and a graduate of Georgia State University College of Law with a focus on intellectual property. Prior to joining Davillier, Mr. Naeckel had his own legal practice.
Mr. Naeckel is a Patent Attorney and has practiced before the United States Patent and Trademark Office for 17 years, representing large Fortune 500 aerospace, automobile, and communications companies as well as small businesses and individual investors. Mr. Naeckel is also a trademark attorney and represents a number of clients in the United States and Canada. Over the last 10 years, Mr. Naeckel has also developed a political practice, representing the largest legislative district in Arizona and the Maricopa County Republican Party.
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Naeckel spent 10 years on Wall Street as a securities analyst for large insurance companies such as TIAA-CREF and ING, specializing in complex asset backed securities and structured transactions. Mr. Naeckel is a Navy veteran with 20 years and has retired as a Commander (O-5). He is licensed and admitted to practice in all Georgia and Arizona courts, state and federal.

Jacqueline Parker
Special Counsel
Jacqueline Parker is special counsel to Davillier’s Phoenix office. After graduating from the University of San Francisco School of Law, she worked as a litigator in private practice and as a legal advisor to the Arizona Corporation Commission before joining Davillier. Ms. Parker is also a member of the Arizona House of Representatives and the Vice-Chair of its Judiciary Committee.

Charles L. Rice Jr.
Special Counsel
Charles L. Rice Jr. served as president and chief executive officer of Entergy New Orleans, LLC, a $860 million a year electric and gas utility, from 2010 until 2019.
As president & chief executive officer, Rice took over an electric and gas utility that had been in a growth mode since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Rice was responsible for the company’s financial and operational performance, customer service, regulatory and governmental relations, economic development programs, external and internal communications, charitable contributions and environmental policy. At the core of his operational responsibilities was management of the company’s electric and gas distribution systems to New Orleans customers.
Under Rice’s leadership, Entergy New Orleans negotiated with the New Orleans City Council through the formula rate plan process resulting in lower rates for electric customers for four straight years. Entergy New Orleans also improved service reliability through hundreds of electric system improvement projects throughout the city. Rice also managed the industry’s largest natural gas rebuild effort in history – the replacement of approximately 844 miles of underground pipe damaged after Hurricane Katrina – a project that continued to be ahead of schedule and under budget, while constantly improving reliability to gas customers. During his tenure, Rice also significantly increased the profitability of Entergy New Orleans.
After his first legal private practice position in Louisiana with Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, L.L.P, Rice joined Entergy in the legal department in 2000, serving as senior counsel in the Entergy Services, Inc. litigation group and then as manager of labor relations litigation support in human resources.
Rice was recruited into New Orleans city government in 2002 as the city attorney and later took the critical role of chief administrative officer for the City of New Orleans, where he managed 6,000 employees and the city’s $600 million budget. In 2005, the law firm of Barrasso, Usdin, Kupperman, Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C. recruited him back to private practice, where he was a partner.
Returning to Entergy in 2009, Rice served as director of utility strategy where he was responsible for coordinating regulatory, legislative, and communications efforts to develop and execute strategies that advanced commercial objectives for the company’s regulated service areas. He then served as director of regulatory affairs for Entergy New Orleans.
Rice holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Howard University, a juris doctorate from Loyola University’s School of Law and master’s degree in business administration from Tulane University. After graduating from Howard University, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army and served as a military intelligence officer with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) at Fort Campbell, Ky. While in the Army, he earned the Airborne Badge, Air Assault badge and was awarded the Army Commendation and the Army Achievement medals.
At Howard he was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society. He is a member of the Alabama and Louisiana State Bar Associations, the American Bar Association, the New Orleans Bar Association, the National Bar Association and the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. In 2018, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Loyola University New Orleans and received the Loyola University School of Law Distinguished Moot Court Alumni Award in 2004. New Orleans City Business magazine also recognized Rice as a member of the Power Generation in 2003 and as a “Leader in Law” in 2008.
In addition to serving on the visiting committees of the Loyola University School of Law and the Howard University School of Business, he serves on the boards and Dillard University, Adhera Therapeutics, and I-3 Partners. Rice is the former Area 1 President of the Southern Region of the Boy Scouts of America and is the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the United Way of Southeast Louisiana and the Boy Scouts of Southeast Louisiana. Rice recently was appointed the Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army (CASA) for South Louisiana.

Richard H. Seamon
Special Counsel
Richard H. Seamon serves as Special Counsel to Davillier Law Group, LLC, and is also a fulltime professor at the College of Law, University of Idaho. As a distinguished practitioner, Mr. Seamon has over 30 years’ experience litigating matters in federal courts and federal agencies, including matters before the U.S. Supreme Court, where he has presented oral argument several times. Professor Seamon has published law review articles and also co-authored a book on practice before the U.S. Supreme Court: The Supreme Court Sourcebook (Aspen Pub. 2013) (with A. Siegel, J. Thai & K. Watts). He teaches both administrative law and constitutional law courses, and has previously taught civil procedure, criminal procedure, federal courts, and U.S. Supreme Court practice.
Mr. Seamon earned a B.A. and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He received his J.D. from Duke Law School in 1986, graduating as a member of the Order of the Coif. Mr. Seamon served as a federal law clerk to Kenneth W. Starr, then a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Following his clerkship, Mr. Seamon was an associate with the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., before becoming an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice. In his first two years in that position, he served under then-Solicitor General Starr and then-Principal Deputy Solicitor General John G. Roberts, Jr. (now the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court).
Mr. Seamon is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar, and is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

Allen Shoff
Associate
Allen J. Shoff is an associate with the Davillier Law Group in our Sandpoint, Idaho office. He practices in the areas of civil and commercial litigation, constitutional law, government law, and land use and real estate. Mr. Shoff received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Idaho College of Law. During his time at the College of Law, he was an active member of the Federalist Society, serving a term as the Vice President for Advertising and Marketing, and interned at the Clearwater County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office for two years. Mr. Shoff holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Hillsdale College.
After completing his legal studies, Mr. Shoff served for approximately five years as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Canyon County, Idaho, with two years as criminal prosecutor and three as a civil attorney representing the Board of County Commissioners and their departments. During his time at Canyon County he prosecuted several thousand cases and took multiple to trial, while serving as co-counsel and primary author for motion practice on several major felonies and civil litigation.
Mr. Shoff left Canyon County at the opportunity to move to the beautiful Sandpoint area, working for several months in private practice before co-founding an Idaho-based web design and hosting firm. He started with the Davillier Law Group in 2021.
Mr. Shoff is licensed and admitted to practice in the state courts of Idaho and in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho, and is a member of the Idaho Mediation Association.

Albert A. Thibodeaux
Special Counsel
Albert A. Thibodeaux has been Of Counsel to Davillier Law Group, LLC since March 2012. Mr. Thibodeaux is a seasoned trial attorney with over fifteen years of civil litigation experience before numerous state and federal courts in Louisiana. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Thibodeaux served as the Chief Deputy City Attorney for the City of New Orleans from August 2002 to July 2010. As Chief Deputy City Attorney, Mr. Thibodeaux supervised the General Litigation Division and served as lead trial attorney on several high profile cases, including the City’s Hurricane Katrina insurance litigation. Prior to his appointment as Chief Deputy City Attorney, Mr. Thibodeaux served as a Staff Attorney for the Housing Authority of New Orleans from April 2001 to July 2002, and as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of New Orleans assigned to the Federal/Police Litigation Division from April 1997 to April 2001. Mr. Thibodeaux left the City of New Orleans Law Department in July 2010 to start a full service law firm with a concentration in the areas of commercial litigation, insurance law, municipal law, casualty defense, personal injury law, real estate law, and successions.
Mr. Thibodeaux is a 1996 graduate of Tulane University Law School. While attending Tulane, Mr. Thibodeaux was a student attorney in the Civil Litigation Clinic. He also served as a Law Clerk in the State Farm Insurance In-House Claims Litigation Counsel Group and as a Senior Law Clerk in the City of New Orleans Law Department. Mr. Thibodeaux was also a member of the Student Bar Association and served as Vice-President of the Black Law Student’s Association.
Mr. Thibodeaux is a 1991 graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana’s Division of Education, where he received a Bachelor of Art in Social Studies Education. While attending Xavier University, Mr. Thibodeaux was selected to study at Columbia University’s Teachers’ College in the summer of 1989. Upon graduating from Xavier University, he accepted a position as an Instructor and Department Chairperson at Xavier University Preparatory High School, where he served from August 1991 to May 1993.
In addition to his full time litigation practice, Mr. Thibodeaux is a professor of Business Law at Xavier University of Louisiana in the Division of Business. He has been Magistrate Commissioner of Orleans Parish Criminal District Court since January, 2014. He is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, Louis A. Martinet Legal Society, New Orleans Bar Association, New Orleans Black Chamber of Commerce and the St. Augustine High School Alumni Advisory Board.
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