Steve Rabalais brings his nearly 40 years of litigation experience — as well as his positive personal relationships with the litigation bar throughout Louisiana — to provide an effective option for your next mediation. Mr. Rabalais has served as a mediator since 2009. He received his formal mediation training at the University of Texas School of Law’s Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution and at the Attorney-Mediator Institute in San Antonio.
PROFILE
Mr. Rabalais’s high rate of success as a mediator stems from his emphasis on preparation, knowledge of the case issues and evidence and, whenever possible, his pre-mediation engagement with counsel to narrow and focus the issues to be addressed. Mr. Rabalais is a diligent mediator who will work through impasses and, if needed, will remain engaged with the parties to bring to a successful conclusion those matters not resolved on the day of the mediation. The settlement of your case matters to Steve.
Mr. Rabalais is a founding partner of the law firm of Rabalais, Hebert and Couvillion in Lafayette. He received a BA from Louisiana State University in 1982 (summa cum laude), and his Juris Doctor from Louisiana State University Law Center in 1985, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board. Steve has earned the AV-Preeminent
and Gold Client Champion
ratings from Martindale Hubbell. He is admitted to practice in all of the various civil and appellate courts in Louisiana as well as the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and all U.S. District Courts in Louisiana.
Through the course of his career, Mr. Rabalais has handled, and tried, cases in a variety of fields, including trucking and auto cases, maritime, premises liability, insurance coverage, oilfield injuries, oilfield remediation/legacy
cases, construction, product liability, and general casualty cases, as well as commercial matters involving business formation, oil and gas operations, property disputes, expropriation, and contractual disputes. He has been a guest speaker at both the American Bar Association Transportation Megaconference
and the Louisiana Motor Transport Association Annual Meeting. He has also covered the topic of the Act 312 Settlement Process in oilfield remediation cases.
Mr. Rabalais is also a published author whose book, General Fox Conner: Ike’s Mentor and Pershing’s Chief of Operations, won the 2016 Army Historical Society’s Distinguished Writing Award for military biographies. Mr. Rabalais has been a featured speaker at numerous programs pertaining to military history and continues to research and write in the field.
Mr. Rabalais has been married to Colleen Rabalais since 1986 and has lived in Lafayette since that time, where they raised three wonderful daughters and are now enjoying life as grandparents.