Chip Wagar

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Wagar Hickman, LLC

Experience: 44 years

Medical Malpractice, Products Liability, Maritime Law and Personal Injury

Louisiana and Texas

Superlawyer, Member and Lifetime Member

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Chip applies his more than three decades of civil trial litigation experience to the most complex and difficult cases of medical malpractice and products liability nowadays. Based in the metro New Orleans area, Chip is licensed in Louisiana and Texas, he has a multi-state practice and has been admitted pro hac vice in many other states including Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Chip brings together meticulous preparation with passionate courtroom advocacy on behalf of both his individual and corporate clients.

Chip’s preeminent professional achievements have been recognized by his peers and various legal and professional organizations including Super Lawyers, the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the International Association of Defense Counsel. He is a Life Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and has received Martindale’s highest (AV) rating for lawyers for more than 30 years. In January 2015, he was lead counsel in a medical malpractice wrongful death case in New Orleans that resulted in a multi-million dollar jury award; the highest damage award to a single medical malpractice victim in Louisiana history. Chip handles medical malpractice cases all over Louisiana, southern Mississippi and the panhandle of Florida.

Chip has taught trial advocacy to hundreds of lawyers over the years with the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and to law students at Tulane and LSU law schools in Louisiana. He is presently an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University’s College of Law where he teaches Medical Malpractice law. He is also an award-winning writer of historical fiction, having two published novels, An American in Vienna and The Carpathian Assignment, a newly-released non-fiction work, Double Emperor, The Life and Times of Francis of Austria.

Chip Wagar and his wife Cheryl live in Mandeville, Louisiana on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain just outside New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

Louisiana

Since 1979

Texas

State Bar of Texas
ID Number: 20648100
Since 1982

Professional Experience

2018 - Current

Wagar Hickman, LLC

Partner

1996 - 2018

Chopin Wagar Richard & Kutcher, LLP

Partner

1982 - 1995

Hailey McNamara Hall Larmann & Papale, LLP

Partner

1979 - 1982

Exxon Corporation

Attorney

Education

1976 - 1979

Tulane University School of Law

J.D. | Law

Honors: cum laude

1972 - 1976

George Washington University - Virginia Campus

B.A. | International Affairs

Awards

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American Board of Trial Advocates

Chip Wagar

Lifetime Member

Million Dollar Advocates Forum

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Wagar Hickman, LLC 1590 West Causeway Approach Suite 2 Mandeville LA 70471 Telephone: (985) 888-8740 Fax: (985) 888-8792

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Experience: 44 years

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Phone: (985) 888-8740

Location: USA

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Practice Areas

Medical Malpractice

Birth Injury, Medical Misdiagnosis, Pharmacy Errors, Surgical Errors

Products Liability

Drugs & Medical Devices, Motor Vehicle Defects, Toxic Torts

Maritime Law

Personal Injury

Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death

Languages

English: Spoken, Written

French: Spoken, Written

Certifications

SuperLawyer, 2012

SuperLawyer Magazine

Million Dollar Advocates Forum, 2015

Million Dollar Advocates Forum

American Board of Trial Advocates, Member, 2014

American Board of Trial Advocates

Member, International Association of Defense Counsel, 1982

IADC

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