DELISE & HALL LAW FIRM - Key Persons
Alton J. Hall, Jr. is a native of Natchez, Mississippi who resides on a small farm in Covington, Louisiana and oversees the firm's Covington office.
Mr. Hall earned his Bachelor of Science from Mississippi State University where he was a President's Scholar majoring in Agricultural Economics. He earned a Juris Doctor from Tulane University School of Law including study at Cambridge England, graduating magna cum laude, was a member of the Order of the Coif, Moot Court, National Trial Team, and was the recipient of the Dean's Honor Medal and American Jurisprudence awards of excellence in admiralty, trial advocacy and federal procedure.
Mr. Hall joined Delise & Hall in 1994. His practice focuses on admiralty and maritime matters involving recreational, public safety, technical and commercial divers. In addition, Mr. Hall is experienced with treasure/salvage law, charter party and ship collision, allision, United States Coast Guard administrative actions and personal injury litigation. Mr. Hall's diving and general maritime related practice is nationwide and in addition to general bar memberships in Louisiana, Texas and the Mississippi federal bar he has been admitted pro hac vice nationwide at both the state and federal level. He is admitted before the United States Supreme Court, the Federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal Maritime Commission as well as numerous Federal and State Courts. Mr. Hall provides expert services in diving, vessel operations and maritime litigation. Mr. Hall holds Martindale-Hubbell's highest (AV) rating for ethics and legal skill.
In addition, Mr. Hall has been repeatedly peer selected and rated in Louisiana Legal Leaders Top Rated Lawyers, Top Lawyers for Admiralty and Maritime, Top Lawyers in New Orleans, Who's Who, Super Lawyers, Top Lawyers in Louisiana, America's Most Honored professionals - Top 1%, profiled by the National Law Journal and other local, state, national and international recognitions.
Mr. Hall is an active diver having received his initial scuba certification in 1980 and has been a PADI open water Scuba instructor since 1984, with a Master Scuba Diver Trainer rating having provided instruction on every certification level of personal recreational diving including numerous specialties. He is a certified NACD cavern diving instructor, a cave diver through NACD, GUE, NSS-CDS, PSAI and a recipient of the Wakulla award. Mr. Hall holds additional technical diving and other certifications through IANTD, TDI, CMAS, GUE and other related organizations and agencies. He is well versed in commercial diving and has vast and current experience with rebreather diving and operations, mixed-gas diving, deep diving, sidemount diving, drysuit, public safety, rescue, cave exploration and wreck penetration. Several of his legal cases have resulted in changes to the recreational diving standards and procedures.
Job Titles:
- Attorney
- Partner
- Senior and Founding Partner
Bobby J. Delise, senior and founding partner, is a native of New Orleans.
Mr. Delise's primary area of his legal practice is the representation of an international clientele of commercial divers as well as technical, public safety and recreational divers in personal injury litigation. In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Delise has engaged in the representation of individuals and enterprises worldwide in all areas of the law.
Jeannette M. Delise, a resident of New Orleans, received her Juris Doctor and Graduate Diploma in Comparative Law from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University, and her Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and her Bachelor of Arts in History from Louisiana State University. Ms. Delise was admitted to the Louisiana State Bar Association in 2018 and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in 2019.