MICHAEL R. FONTHAM

Michael R. Fontham engages in a civil litigation practice as a partner in the New
Orleans law firm of Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann L.L.C. His practice involves commercial disputes before state and federal courts and regulatory agencies, and includes contract disputes, utility rate matters, public interest cases and varied commercial cases.

Mr. Fontham is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School. He teaches evidence as an adjunct professor at the Tulane University Law School and at the LSU Law Center, where he has also taught appellate advocacy, antitrust and constitutional law. He also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Virginia Law School and lectures frequently on appellate advocacy and evidence. Mr. Fontham is an instructor in the Trial Advocacy Institute at the University of Virginia, has taught advocacy skills courses at the Law School at Loyola University, and taught in the Louisiana Judicial College. He also taught in the Tulane Summer Schools in Paris and Crete.

Mr. Fontham is the author of Trial Technique and Evidence (Lexis, 2d ed. 2002), a text on trial advocacy and evidence. He also authored Persuasive Written and Oral Advocacy: In Trial and Appellate Courts (Aspen, 2002) (with Michael Vitiello and David W. Miller), a treatise on brief writing, oral argument and appellate practice that expands and updates his Written and Oral Advocacy (Wiley, 1985). He has authored a number of articles and delivered numerous lectures on trial and appellate advocacy, evidence, utility regulation, antitrust, and other issues.