TONRY BRINSON & GLORIOSO - Key Persons


Brian L. Glorioso - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
Brian L. Glorioso is the firm's managing partner. He is a graduate of Loyola Law School, New Orleans, and the University of New Orleans. Additionally, Mr. Glorioso is a fellow of the Loyola Institute of Politics. Mr. Glorioso's practice focuses on civil litigation, commercial litigation, real property, and successions. He is licensed to practice in all Louisiana District Courts, Courts of Appeal, the Louisiana Supreme Court, the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Glorioso has extensive experience in complex litigation, and has represented national and local clients in Courts across the State of Louisiana. Additionally, Mr. Glorioso has been admitted pro hac vice in Courts in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida.

Eugene "Gene" J. Hoffman, IV

Job Titles:
  • Senior Executive, Strategic Planner, Project Manager, and Team Leader
Eugene "Gene" Hoffman, IV, attorney at Tonry, Brinson and Glorioso Law Firm and Patriot Title, received his Juris Doctorate from Louisiana State University in 1998 and has over 16 years of experience in the real estate, corporate, manufacturing and oil and gas industries. Gene has used his legal expertise as an attorney for various financial institutions and corporate entities. He served as General Manager, COO and Corporate Attorney for Air Quest Systems, Inc. After hurricane Katrina, he helped the unfortunate victims by managing several attorneys, processors and acting as a title closing attorney/notary for approximately 200 Road Home sales and grants per week. While engaged in the program, he performed title exams and curative work including Tax Sale Redemptions, Acts of Ratification and Correction, and drafted related legal documents including Sales, HUD Settlement Statements, Grant Documents, Renunciations, Waivers of Right, Indemnity Agreements, Powers of Attorney and Affidavits. Gene is an exceptional senior executive, strategic planner, project manager, and team leader with successful administrative, managerial, financial, and legal experience. Proven ability to improve operations, impact business growth and maximize profits through achievements in finance, cost reductions, internal controls, and productivity/efficiency improvements. He is an articulate communicator with effective persuasive communication and negotiation skills. He has a high order of knowledge, confidence, experience, and effectiveness in presentation, exposition, and argument in presenting cases to administrative hearings and to courts, as well as in a senior level corporate boardroom.

Raymond J. Brinson

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Raymond J. Brinson is a partner in the firm's Slidell office. Prior to becoming a licensed attorney, Mr. Brinson worked as a commercial loan officer for the largest bank in Louisiana. Since 2000, Mr. Brinson's practice has focused on real property and real estate transactions. In 2003 Mr. Brinson founded Patriot Title, a Louisiana Title Company offering real estate closing services to clients throughout Louisiana.

Richard A. Tonry, II

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Richard A. Tonry, II is a partner in the firm's Slidell office. Mr. Tonry's practice focuses primarily on civil and criminal trial practice, real property, successions, and personal injury. Mr. Tonry has extensive litigation experience and has argued before various state and appellate courts, federal district and appellate courts, and the Louisiana Supreme Court. He is licensed to practice in all Louisiana District Courts, Courts of Appeal, the Louisiana Supreme Court, the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.