Personal Injury Law Firm representing and helping persons and families who have been injured, or sometimes unfortunately killed in 18 wheeler crashes, car crashes, explosions and incidents in the offshore or inshore oil and gas industry, those working on vessels (Jones Act Seaman) or injured while working in the maritime/marine environment, or from defective products including drug manufacturers (i.e., mesothelioma), aviation casualties and railroad casualties. Patrick Yancey received his Bachelors of Science Degree in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana Tech University in 1985; he worked as a Petroleum Engineer for Mobil Oil Corporation (now Exxon-Mobil) from 1985 through 1991. During the summers of 1980 through 1984 while studying engineering at Louisiana Tech, Patrick Yancey worked offshore in the Gulf of Mexico as a roustabout in the oil field. From 1991 to 1994 Patrick Yancey attended Loyola University Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana. After graduating from Loyola, Patrick Yancey worked as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Judge Edward J. Gaidry in the 32nd Judicial District Court, State of Louisiana. In 1996, Patrick Yancey started The Yancey Law Firm. The Yancey Law Firm is committed to making the community where its clients live and work, a safer place. As part of its efforts, The Yancey Law Firm represents people who have been injured by other people’s choices to ignore rules that exist to keep people safe. The Yancey Law Firm always strives to provide the best legal services possible to its clients. The Yancey Law Firm helps its clients, and their families, get through the very difficult time of recovering from personal injuries, including assistance in finding appropriate medical care. In 2014-15, Patrick Yancey served as Chair of Admiralty Section of the American Association for Justice. Since 1996, The Yancey Law Firm has represented many people who have been injured or killed as a result of someone else’s fault. The Yancey Law Firm has handled injury cases related to working offshore in the oil and gas industry, 18 wheeler crashes, car crashes, airplane/helicopter crashes, drilling rigs, tugboats, supply boats, jackup boats, diving vessels, derrick barges, pipe laying barges, industrial/refinery explosions and other industrial casualties, defective products, including defective medication and exposure to chemicals in the work environment, including asbestosis (which causes mesothelioma, a deadly form of cancer). In almost every case, the injury (or death) was preventable if the defendant party in the case would have followed the safety rules that existed to protect our client, which in almost every case could be you or me. The victims of rule violations are random; they could be anyone, anywhere, anytime. Additionally, The Yancey Law Firm has served as Local Liasson counsel for and with nationally recognized law firms who specialize in class action claims protecting consumers and shareholders of corporations from fraud and negligent conduct of its directors. The Yancey Law Firm is proud to assist in producing justice for consumers who have been wronged.
