Bonnie “Jeanne” Davis

Jeanne Davis began her law practice after an 18-year career as a university researcher and teacher in the area of environmental physiology. Dr. Davis, a registered patent attorney, has a practice both in the intellectual property and toxic tort litigation fields.

In the intellectual property field, her work has been related to evaluating technology, prosecuting patent applications, negotiating and drafting licenses, and infringement litigation. She has also been involved in defending toxic tort class actions suits, particularly in the evaluation and defense of scientific expert testimony.

Dr. Davis was a full professor at San Francisco State University before moving to Louisiana in 1986, where she was an adjunct faculty member at Louisiana State University until entering Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Dr. Davis served as executive senior editor of the Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif. Her published Law Review paper was a discussion of scientific expert testimony after Daubert. From 1995-96, she was a law clerk to the Honorable W. Eugene Davis, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

• Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, J.D., 1995
• University of California, San Diego, Institution of Oceanography, Ph.D.

• Louisiana, 1995
• Registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

• Baton Rouge Bar Association
• Louisiana Bar Association
• Federal Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Louisiana Association of Defense Council (LADC)
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Associate member of the Association of University Technology Managers
• Chancellor’s Council of the LSU Law Center