Mr. David Price Bendana
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (HII)
David has served as in-house labor and employment counsel at HII since 2001.

HII is a Fortune 500 / S&P 500 all-domain defense contractor with more than 43,000 union and non-union employees in 46 states and 13 countries. HII is the nation’s largest military shipbuilder having built 70% of the Navy fleet including Aircraft Carriers, Submarines, Destroyers, and amphibious assault ships like the LHA and LHD.

David serves as the Lead Counsel for the Labor, Employment & EH&S Practice Group for the HII Law Department and supports the HII Corporate Office in Newport News, Virginia, HII’s Corporate Benefits program and HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding including Ingalls’ locations in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Before joining HII, David was a partner at the labor and employment firm McCalla Thompson in New Orleans. David graduated from Duke University and Tulane Law School (Law Review, Order of the Coif, Magna Cum Laude). David is a native of, and lives in, New Orleans with his wife Alicia Bendana (a bankruptcy attorney at Lugenbuhl).

Mr. James R. Bullman
Blackwell and Bullman, LLC
James Bullman is a partner at Blackwell & Bullman, LLC and focuses his practice on wage and hour litigation and education law. James has litigated wage and hour cases throughout the United States including successful jury trials on FLSA collective actions.

Professor William R. Corbett
LSU Law Center
Professor William R. Corbett is the Frank L. Maraist Professor of Law and the Wex S. Malone Professor of Law at LSU Law Center, where he teaches and writes primarily in the area of Labor and Employment Law, but he also teaches Torts. He is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Professor Corbett served as Interim Dean at LSU Law Center during fiscal year 2015-2016, and served as Vice Chancellor from May 1997 to January 2000. He was honored by the Louisiana Bar Foundation as the 2013 Distinguished Professor. He received his B.A. from Auburn University and his law degree from the University of Alabama, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Alabama Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He also received the M. Leigh Harrison Award presented to those graduating in the top 5 percent. He joined the law faculty at LSU in 1991, after practicing in Birmingham, Alabama with Burr & Forman. Professor Corbett has served as Executive Director of the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel for the last 22 years. Prior to that, he served for several years as Executive Director, and then as faculty advisor, of the Louisiana Judicial College.

Mr. Robert J. David Jr.
Juneau David, APLC
Robert J. David, Jr. is a full-time dispute resolution professional with extensive experience in mediation and conflict solutions. He has served by appointment of courts as a neutral, with responsibilities for settlement efforts and/or discovery oversight in a variety of federal and state cases. He has successfully mediated hundreds of settlements in a wide range of disputes. Representative subject areas include: business and commercial claims, including breach of contract, fraud/misrepresentation, restrictive covenants, and trade secrets; products liability and personal injury; insurance coverage; property/bad faith; healthcare; professional liability; employment; wage and hour; and civil rights. Mr. David regularly mediates multi-party and collective/class action claims.

Prior to becoming a full-time neutral, Mr. David handled arbitrations, mediations, administrative trials, and/or litigation in over 25 different states. He has tried cases to verdict on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants. He is a regular speaker on alternative dispute resolution topics.

The Best Lawyers in America recognized Mr. David in the practice areas of personal injury litigation and labor and employment law. He has been a fellow of the International Society of Barristers since 2016, an invitation-only organization that considers the lawyer’s ability, experience, accomplishments, and ethical standards as assessed by trial lawyers and judges. He received an “AV” rating from Martindale-Hubbell for preeminence in the practice of law and professional ethics. Mr. David is an active Committee Member for the Louisiana State Law Institute. In this role, he participates as a legal adviser to the Louisiana Legislature on drafting legislation. He was appointed by the Louisiana Supreme Court to the Committee on Bar Admissions from 1997-2014. Mr. David also serves on the Board of Directors of Louisiana Appleseed, a public interest law nonprofit organization.

Mr. David was admitted to the Louisiana Bar in 1992. He is also admitted to the U.S. District Court, the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana; the U.S. District Courts for Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas; and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth, Sixth, and Eleventh Courts.

Mr. David received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1989, where he was named to the Sphinx Head Honor Society. He graduated from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in 1992, where he was named to the Chancellor’s List and Moot Court Board

Rebecca Dormon
Regional Director - Region 15
People Results
Rebecca Dormon is an experienced traditional labor and employment law specialist with over 25 years of experience managing and supervising employees. She is well-versed in training managers, supervisors, employees, and outside parties on various aspects of labor relations and labor law, and has successfully negotiated agreements between employers and unions. Rebecca is also skilled at engaging with employees to identify low morale issues or other problems, and helping employers develop programs or other solutions to proactively address employees’ issues with managers and other aspects of their workplace.

Rebecca joined IRI Consultants, now rebranded as People Results, in July 2024. As a labor consultant, she has helped organizations improve employee engagement and performance, strengthen communications, and create positive, productive workplaces. Prior to joining IRI, Rebecca was the Assistant to the Regional Director at the National Labor Relations Board for Region 15- New Orleans, Louisiana.

Rebecca has also completed trainings and presentations at law firms, corporations, the American Bar Association Annual Meeting, American Bar Association P&P Midwinter Meeting, Employer Counsel Network Annual Meeting, and two different committees for the Louisiana State Bar Association. She has also had an article published in the Louisiana State Bar Association, as well as a paper for the American Bar Association P&P Midwinter Meeting.

Rebecca earned her B.A. in English and M.B.A from the University of Mississippi.

Daisy Gurdian Kane
Deputy General Counsel
Ochsner Health System
Daisy Gurdián Kane is Vice President, Deputy General Counsel for Ochsner Health. Prior to joining Ochsner’s legal team in 2015, Mrs. Kane was an associate with Jackson Lewis, PC where she specialized in employment litigation and ERISA class actions. Mrs. Kane received her undergraduate and Juris Doctorate degrees from Tulane University.

Mr. Robert B Landry III
Robert B Landry III, PLC
http://www.landryfirm.com
ROBERT B. LANDRY, III is an AV Rated Employment Law Specialist Certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization with offices in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Rob received his BA in Political Science from Tulane University in 1985 and graduated from LSU Law Center in 1988. From 1994 to 2002, he was a partner in the Labor & Employment Section of Chaffe McCall, LLP where he represented numerous Fortune 500 companies with a special emphasis on the healthcare sector. In 2003, Rob transitioned from representing management to representing individuals. Rob became a Registered Civil Mediator in 2022. He has authored numerous articles on employment law issues, both from the management and employee perspective. He is a past Employment Law Section Chair for the Louisiana Association for Justice. He currently serves as the Chair of the Employment Law Advisory Commission of the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization.

Mr. Randy James Marse Jr.
Associate General Counsel
DispatchHealth
RJ Marse serves as Associate General Counsel – Technology & Operations at DispatchHealth, a Denver-based healthcare company building an ecosystem of care in the home. Dispatch operates in 58 markets across 33 states with a workforce of more than 2,000 employees. Prior to his in-house career, RJ was a member in the New Orleans office of Liskow & Lewis. He served as a law clerk for Judge Eugene Davis at the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge Brian A. Jackson at the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. RJ is a graduate of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Louisiana Law Review.

Mr. Charles J Stiegler
Stiegler Law Firm, LLC
http://stieglerlawfirm.com/
Charles Stiegler is a solo practitioner in New Orleans who focuses on Fair Labor Standards Act cases. He is the immediate past president of the LSBA Labor Relations Section.

Hon. Erin Wilder-Doomes
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
Judge Erin Wilder-Doomes has been serving as a magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana since January 2016. Prior to her appointment, Judge Wilder-Doomes was a member of Stewart Robbins & Brown, LLC law firm in Baton Rouge where she specialized in civil litigation. As a practitioner, she litigated a wide variety of civil matters, including insurance coverage, bankruptcy, contract disputes, workers’ compensation, and professional liability.

A 1999 graduate of Paul M. Hebert Law Center (LSU), Judge Wilder-Doomes also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Iowa. Throughout her legal career she has been an active participant in professional organizations at a federal, state and local level. She is the Past President and Past National Delegate for the Baton Rouge Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and a former member of the Louisiana State Law Institute Council, which was established by the Louisiana Legislature in 1933 as an institute dedicated to law revision, law reform and legal research. Judge Wilder-Doomes is also a frequent speaker on ethics and professionalism, removal and remand, evidentiary issues and general matters related to federal court practice, and she has served on the faculty of LSU Law Center’s trial advocacy program and Apprenticeship Week. Judge Wilder-Doomes is currently co-presiding judge over the Middle District of Louisiana’s Rehabilitating Individuals through Strategic Encounters (“RISE”) program, which was designed to increase opportunities for successful re-entry of individuals on supervised release by addressing criminogenic factors that lead to recidivism. From 2019 through 2022, she also served as the Fifth Circuit Director on the national board of the Federal Magistrate Judge’s Association.