Based in Lafayette, Mr. Myers's practice includes international and constitutional law, business and corporate law, a variety of tax law issues as well as personal injury matters. His skills as a litigator at the state and federal level are well-known. He has litigated approximately 170 jury trials over 39 years, approximately 160-200 bench trials. He was the sole counsel for a national test case involving tax claims totaling approximately $20 million, 22 consolidated pieces of litigation representing 38 litigants. He is also qualified as a court-appointed mediator by the Mediation Institute in civil matters. He attended Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans (now known as Loyola University New Orleans College of Law) where he was top third in his class. After working in the Washington, D.C., area in private practice, the Treasury Department and in the Court of Claims, he moved to Lafayette in 1983 to raise his family. He has worked with the state of Louisiana as the commissioner for the Louisiana State Police Commission to provide a civil service system for all regularly commissioned full-time law enforcement officers employed by the department of public safety and corrections, office of state police and other law enforcement. He has helped draft legislation sales and use tax here in Louisiana and represented businesses on tax issues before the state legislature.
