Laura C. Cannon

Laura Cannon handles federal and state appeals across commercial litigation, insurance coverage, and consumer financial services. She also advises on white-collar compliance and defends public entities in constitutional cases.

Her prior experience includes representing insurers, financial lenders, and securities brokers in state and federal court and in arbitration. Laura previously served as the Criminal Justice Act (CJA) Attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Fifth Circuit, overseeing extended or complex district court representations within the circuit.

Laura clerked for the Honorable Judge Stephen Higginson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Honorable Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

• New Orleans Federal Bar Association
• Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
• New Orleans Bar Association
• Association for Women Attorneys

• Burton Distinguished Legal Writing Award
• Tulane University Law School
  • Order of the Coif
  • Tulane Law Review, Senior Managing Editor
  • Tulane Law Women, President

• "Indecent Communications: Revenge Porn and Congressional Intent of § 230(c)," 90, Tulane Law Review, 471, 2016

• Tulane Law Review Alumni Association
• Friends of the New Orleans Public Library
• City Park Conservancy
• Generation Hope — NOLA