Mark Gilliam was a longtime partner in the firm and now uses his extensive expertise in serving as Of Counsel to Wilkinson, Carmody & Gilliam. He is also a Certified Public Accountant. His practice areas include business and commercial litigation, employment law, construction law, railroad defense, nursing home, and medical malpractice defense and insurance defense. He has extensive litigation experience in Corporate and Commercial matters as well as nursing home and malpractice defense, and defense of personal injury cases. He also has handled a large number of corporate transactional matters. He is a member of the Shreveport, Louisiana State, and Federal Fifth Circuit Bar Associations, the Society of Louisiana CPAs, the American Institute of CPAs, the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel, and the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, and is a master in the Harry V. Booth and Judge Henry A. Politz American Inn of Court.
Areas of Practice
- Medical malpractice defense
- Railroad law
- Civil litigation
- Corporate law
- Commercial law
- Commercial litigation
- Labor and employment
Education
- Louisiana State University Law Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- J.D. – 1981
- University of Arkansas
- B.S. – 1978
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Shreveport Bar Association, Member
- Louisiana State Bar Association, Member, Sections on: Corporate and Business Law; Fidelity, Surety and Construction Law; Health Law; Insurance; Tort
- Fifth Federal Circuit Bar Association, Member
- Federal Bar Association
- Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accountants, Member
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Member
- National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel, Member
- Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, Member
- Harry V. Booth and Judge Henry A. Politz Chapter, American Inns of Court, Senior Master
- Defense Research Institute