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Max is a partner in the New Orleans office of Aultman, Tyner and has been practicing law since 1992. He earned his Juris Doctor from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University. He also holds a Master of Public Health in the field of Epidemiology from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
His practice includes litigation and regulatory compliance counseling concerning a wide range of environmental laws. His trial practice focuses on the defense of toxic tort, occupational disease and environmental claims alleging bodily injury and property damage. These include individual claims as well as mass torts. His experience in these areas has covered a wide range of industries and products including chemicals, food production/food poisoning, building and waste materials, industrial manufacturing and others.
His technical background allows him to bring together legal, medical and scientific teams to insure the best possible defense of these claims. Max has extensive experience in the defense of cases involving asbestos, silica, mold, polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, pesticides, benzene, PFOA, PFOS and other PFCs, other POPs, chemical mixtures, hearing loss, underground storage tanks, indoor air quality issues, due diligence audits, and OSHA and other regulatory compliance. These claims have included personal injury, property damage, groundwater and soil vapor contamination, "fear of disease" and medical monitoring claims. He has represented clients in regional and national capacities and has experience in the investigation of corporate client histories from decades to over a century into the past. Max also counsels clients on issues of liabilities associated with environmental and site contamination and, looking forward, potential future liabilities which may arise from industrial and manufacturing processes. This includes the development of programs for compliance with local, state and federal/national environmental regulations and the formulation of plans to meet future regulatory requirements in the United States, Canada, Latin America and the European Union.
On a national level, Max has been asked to reexamine defense strategies in order to develop new defenses based on epidemiological and toxicological analyses for clients who have been in litigation for decades. He maintains close professional associations with risk assessors, environmental engineers, analytical chemists, certified industrial hygienists and other consultants.
Max also has extensive experience in construction litigation including representation of general contractors and subcontractors arising from defective building products and/or installation of products, construction defects resulting in partial or whole reconstruction of buildings, and litigation involving commercial building systems, such as fire alarm, fire sprinkler, HVAC and HVAC controls systems.
Organizations and Affiliations:
- American Public Health Association
- Epidemiology Section
- International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
- Air Quality Section
- Water Quality Section
- Hazardous Wastes Section
- American Statistical Association
- Statistics in Epidemiology Section
- Statistics and the Environment Section
- Risk Analysis Section
- Defense Research Institute
- Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel
- New Orleans Association of Defense Counsel
Bar Memberships:
- Louisiana Bar Association
- New Orleans Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of LA
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of LA
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- Louisiana Supreme Court
- Mississippi Bar Association
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of MS
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of MS
- Mississippi Supreme Court
- State Bar of Texas
Presentations and Publications:
"Control of Nosocomial Infections in Pediatric Hospitals"
(paper and presentation). Tulane University Hospital and Clinics, April 14, 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana.
"What is Epidemiology and Why Do I Care?"
(paper and presentation). Andrews' Asbestos Litigation Seminar, April 25-26, 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana.
"Estrogen Replacement Therapy and Coronary Heart Disease"
(paper and presentation). Tulane University Hospital and Clinics, July 21, 2004, New Orleans, Louisiana.
"Lipids Analysis Is a Significant, Often Unrecognized Source of Uncertainty in POPs Results for Human Blood"
(paper and presentation). 27th International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants, September 2-7, 2007, The Dioxin Conference - Tokyo, Japan.
"Deposition Survival for the Industrial Hygiene Professional"
(presentation). American Industrial Hygiene Association – Deep South Section for the New Orleans/Baton Rouge area, October 18, 2007.
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