Mary S. Johnson

Ms. Johnson is active in the defense of complex environmental, toxic tort, chemical exposure, carbon monoxide, insurance coverage, medical monitoring, naturally occurring radioactive material (“NORM”) occupational injury cases, oyster, oil spill, pesticide, personal injury, property damage, and class action litigation. She also has an active mediation and appellate practice in the same areas. Ms. Johnson has particular abilities in defending premises owners, employers and their executive officers in occupational exposure and related medical monitoring litigation throughout Louisiana. She is defending a number of cases alleging damage to coastal marshes, wetlands, oyster leases, property and global warming claims relating to Hurricane Katrina. She also has substantial experience in multi-party and class action lawsuits, and has handled a number of consolidated NORM, asbestos, pesticide, silica and chemical exposure cases. She defended a major shipyard in the In re: Combustion Inc. toxic tort litigation that included 17 toxic tort suits with over 12,000 plaintiffs alleging personal injury, property damage, and “fear of cancer” against 84 defendants, in addition to third-party demands against over 300 generator companies, the United States Government and the insurers of the former site owners and operators. Ms. Johnson successfully pursued the site owners, operators and their insurers in a CERCLA cost recovery action on behalf of a PRP Group. She was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America for Environmental Law, Mass Tort Litigation and Personal Injury Litigation 2008-2010.


Other Professional Experience:
Founding Member (Nov 2005- Present) Johnson Gray McNamara LLC

Partner (1994 – 2005) and Associate (1988 – 1993) Liskow & Lewis

Law Clerk to the Honorable Wallace A. Edwards, First Circuit Court of Appeal, Louisiana, 1986 – 1988


Year Admitted to Practice:
1986


Education:
Tulane University (B.A., 1983)

Loyola University (J.D., cum laude, 1986)


Law School Honors :
Member, Loyola Law Review

Board Member, Loyola Moot Court Intramural Coordinator