Contact Info
Adams & Reese, LLP
One Shell Square
701 Poydras Street, Suite 4500
New Orleans, LA 70139
Phone: (504) 581-3234
Fax: (504) 566-0210
www.adamsandreese.com
Background
Mark Spansel is a senior partner in Adams and Reese's New Orleans
office. As a trial lawyer with more than 30 years of experience, Mr. Spansel
concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial litigation and complex
litigation, environmental and toxic tort litigation, and energy and maritime
litigation.
Mr. Spansel has served as trial and coordinating litigation counsel for a
major international energy company for 30 years, obtaining successful trial
verdicts and outcomes in casualty and commercial litigation arising in
connection with offshore and onshore drilling operations. He has also
represented a Fortune 500 oil and gas refinery in litigation and corporate
matters for more than 15 years in cases involving environmental exposure,
commercial, casualty, environmental regulation, and transactional matters.
Mr. Spansel frequently lectures on maritime law and offshore/oil field
liabilities at professional and industry seminars. He has been a regular
speaker at IRMI's Construction Risk Conference since 1984 and at its Energy
Risk and Insurance Conference since its inception. He also has coauthored
several articles on maritime law for its Risk Report and was honored
with the Words of
Wisdom speaker's award presented at the Construction Risk Conference in
2007.
In his community, Mr. Spansel serves as an Advisory Board member for Tulane
Law School Center for Energy. He serves on the Steering Committee for the New
Orleans Peace Project, which he helped form with faith and business leaders to
mitigate violence and murder in New Orleans. Mr. Spansel serves on the Board of
Directors of the East Jefferson Hospital Foundation. In the past, he served on
the Executive Committee of Greater New Orleans, Inc., and is involved in the
Super-Region Committee. Mr. Spansel has also served on the Board of Directors
and Executive Committee of the Jefferson Parish Chamber of Commerce and was the
Chamber's general counsel. He was also a member of the Jefferson Business
Council. He formerly served as the cochair of the Christian Brothers
School's Capital Campaign and was the chairman of the 2010 Archbishop's
Community Appeal. He still serves the Appeal as a core member. Mr. Spansel is a
New Orleans native and received his juris doctorate and undergraduate degrees
from Tulane University.