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Overview
A highly experienced litigator and transactional attorney, Drew Morock practice is focused on helping clients resolve complex disputes and transactional matters in real estate, insurance, construction, transportation, and other industries, including resolving contractual matters and compliance issues. As a litigator who also provides commercial counsel, Drew is adept at keeping his clients away from disruptive litigation. However, when conflicts result in legal action, Drew guides his clients skillfully and creatively through the entire process.
Drew has litigated major class actions, companies’ trade secret rights and remedies, securities fraud, and disability rights, a highly diverse range of experience that allows him to assimilate complex materials readily, strategically analyze the issues of each case, and find the right strategies and tactics to produce the results his clients need.
Additionally, Drew holds a commercial real estate license and has engaged in commercial real estate sales and leasing for more than 20 years, with a concentration on multi-family housing, hospitality facilities, large retail projects, warehouses, and other investment properties. In negotiations and in the courtroom, this experience helps Drew anticipate the issues that matter most.
Following graduation with his B.A. degree with distinction from the University of the South, Drew worked as a commercial sales associate wherein he facilitated the sales of a variety of commercial and investment properties and was ranked #2 company-wide for sales volume in 2011. He also created and organized CRE Consulting Corps evaluation of Orleans Parish School Board Surplus Property and designed an auction sales process netting $10,491,100 during the time period when the charter school movement was launching in New Orleans. To this end, Drew was instrumental in having the law changed for the sale of school board assets to mirror federal bankruptcy law. This process sparked an interest in education law that continues to the present.
Honors as a law student included several scholarships and earning an Asterisk in Torts I. Drew was a member of the Loyola Law Review and served as teaching assistant to Professors David Gruning and Nikolaos Davrados, helping them develop a course textbook for in their Obligations I & II (civil law contracts) classes by and performing other duties. He also assisted other law professors as research assistant on various publications, including one specifically concerning the charter school system in New Orleans, both during law school and following graduation. Following law school, Drew taught Fundamentals of Criminal Law as an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Arts & Sciences, where he designed the course introducing students to criminal law via state and federal statutes and cases.
Community Involvement
- Lead organizer for St. Baldrick’s Day at Finn McCool’s, which has raised nearly 1.5 million dollars towards pediatric cancer research at local hospitals.
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Education
- Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, J.D. | 2015
- University of the South, B.A. | 2001
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana
Court Admissions
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
- United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Represented the founders of in an art acquisition project.
- Won a directed verdict in a premises liability case with a $1,900,000 demand.
- Represented the investors of $17,000,000 in securities fraud litigation through motions to dismiss and briefed an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th
- Defended a trade secret case through summary judgment.
- Negotiated and closed the sale of a software platform to a national corporation.
- Handled several funding rounds for startup companies and managed due diligence.
- Represented investors’ rights in FINRA arbitration resulting in confidential settlement hours before verdict due.
- Settled investors' joint FINRA claims in mediation.
- Handled briefing, discovery, and deposition work in multiple complex national class actions, resulting in multi-million-dollar verdicts.
- Defended the accused in criminal matter and briefed motion for post-verdict judgment of acquittal granted by trial court and upheld by Fourth Circuit (Cert. denied). Settled companion civil rights matter satisfactorily before federal magistrate.
- Argued on behalf of a Louisiana association for the visually impaired in federal arbitration before U.S. Department of Education.
- Resolved multiple trademark disputes.
- Drafted and negotiated various contracts for multiple clients.
- Managed several §1983 claims.
Education
- Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, J.D. | 2015
- University of the South, B.A. | 2001
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana
Court Admissions
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
- United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Affiliations
- Bar Association of the Federal Fifth Circuit
- Thomas More Inn of Court
- American Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Louisiana State Bar Association, Associate Bar Examiner
- New Orleans Bar Association
Education
- Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, J.D. | 2015
- University of the South, B.A. | 2001
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana
Court Admissions
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
- United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
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