Celeste Coco-Ewing

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SENIOR TRIAL ATTORNEY

Phone: 504-208-5603
Email: celeste.coco-ewing@lawrencebundy.com

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Celeste Coco-Ewing is a seasoned litigator and has defended several large manufacturers in multi-week trials in state and federal courts across the country. Her practice focuses on complex litigation, with a particular emphasis on product liability and toxic tort cases. She has represented clients across various industries, including medical devices, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, insurance, and consumer products. Her trial work contributed to eight defense verdicts in jury trials in federal multidistrict litigation and state court consolidated proceedings.

Celeste has been recognized by Chambers USA as a top commercial litigator, by Best Lawyers as the Lawyer of the Year – New Orleans, for Mass Tort Litigation/Class Action Louisiana, by Law360 as a Legal Lion, by New Orleans Magazine as a Top Lawyer, and by Benchmark Litigation as a Litigation Star and as one of the top 250 women in litigation.

The Louisiana Supreme Court appointed Celeste to serve on the Committee on Bar Admissions and as the Director of the Character and Fitness Panel. She also serves as an adjunct professor of Trial Advocacy and Civil Litigation “Boot Camp” at Tulane Law School.

• Trial counsel for medical device manufacturer for first trial in consolidated Illinois state-court proceeding in Cook, County; defense verdict following five-week jury trial.  Selected as trial counsel for related Multidistrict Litigation in Toledo, Ohio. 
  
  
• Trial team for pharmaceutical manufacturer in two Multidistrict Litigation trials, each of which was tried to a jury and resulted in a defense verdict.  Trials in federal court in New Orleans and Jackson, Mississippi.  Responsible for work-up of numerous MDL cases for trial before global settlement was reached.  
  
  
• Trial team in first bellwether trial in medical device Multidistrict Litigation in U.S. Northern District of Texas following eight-week jury trial.  
  
  
• Successful defense of consortium of welding manufacturers in multi-district litigation and state court proceedings resulting in complete defense verdicts in five jury trials, including a multi-plaintiff jury trial in Civil District Court for Orleans Parish, New Orleans and three jury trials in the U.S. Northern District of Ohio.
  
  
• Trial counsel for medical device manufacturer in two multi-plaintiff trials – (1) 4-plaintiff trial and (2) 6-plaintiff trial - on a recalled-medical device in Cook County, Illinois. Favorable settlement in defense case and at closings respectively.
  
  
• Defense of excess insurer in bad faith litigation on $50 million policy arising out of BP litigation in the U.S. Eastern District of Louisiana.
  
  
• Defense of foreign mutual insurer of energy assets in litigation over a salt dome fracture.
  
  
• Defense of international insurer on COVID-related claims in cases around the nation.
  

Committee on Bar Admissions, Louisiana

Director of the Character and Fitness Panel, Louisiana

Adjunct Professor, Tulane Law School

Litigation Counsel of America

International Association of Defense Counsel

American Bar Association

Louisiana State Bar Association

New Orleans Federal Bar Association

Louisiana Chapter of the International Women’s Forum

PRACTICE AREAS
Complex Commercial Litigation

Class and Collective Actions

Product Liability

EDUCATION
Tulane University
School of Law
J.D.

Tulane University
B.S.

BAR ADMISSIONS
Louisiana

RECOGNITION
Best Lawyers®
Chambers
Benchmark