W. Shelby McKenzie

W. Shelby McKenzie is co-author of McKenzie and Johnson, Louisiana Insurance Law and Practice, 15 Louisiana Civil Law Treatise: Second Edition (West, 1986); Second Edition, 1996; Third Edition, 2006, with annual supplements and frequently cited in Louisiana decisions. He has served as an attorney, consultant, expert witness, mediator and arbitrator on insurance matters and frequently speaks on insurance topics at seminars.

During his career, Mr. McKenzie has litigated hundreds of suits involving many issues such as insurance coverage, torts, product liability, contracts, mineral rights and discrimination. He represented a joint defense group of excess insurers sued in a direct action by a class of 16,500 persons seeking damages arising out of a chemical release. Also, he was coverage counsel in another case for an insurer named in a lead paint class action.

Shelby is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and former President of the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, Baton Rouge Bar Association, and the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center Alumni Board of Trustees.

• Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, J.D.,1964
• Princeton University, BSE, Chemical Engineering, 1961
• 2005 Distinguished Alumnus of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center

• Louisiana, 1964

• Baton Rouge Bar Association (Past President)
• Louisiana Bar Foundation (Distinguished Louisiana Attorney, 2011)
• Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (Louisiana State Chair)
• LSU Law School Alumni Board of Trustees (Past President)
• Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel (DRI) (Past President)
• Defense Research Institute (DRI)