Andrew Lilly, New Orleans Business and Litigation Attorney

11/11/2025

For years to come, concepts like "apparent authority" (ostensible authority/putative mandate) and "ratification" will be so much easier to understand based on this Brian Kelly firing. The former editor in chief of the LSU Law Review ought to understand these things without having to think twice.

04/23/2024

Anyone wonder what happened to most of the Brother's Food Marts around town?

Incredible read. Working hard to take these things back and get things moving the right way under the guidance of the founders.

The Georgia retailer was growing fast until it went bankrupt and terminated operations. Several former employees say leadership’s financial mishandlings and dysfunctional culture caused its demise.

03/07/2024

4 years later, client is no longer defending himself against imposters in the industry, he's lead expert witness in the Rust case against Alec Baldwin.

https://www.courttv.com/title/trial-exhibit-expert-armorer-details-red-flags-on-rust-set/

06/29/2023

“A very civilian approach.”

The right result for my clients in a needless, almost 8-year fight with an overreaching lender who’d been made whole for years…now to reopen the federal suit against the bank and flip the proverbial script.

04/19/2023

Great to associate with UK-based industry players like Greg Roselli and Rights, Inc. in this trademark infringement litigation. Hopeful this label's past failures don't prevent everyone involved from attaining a best-case scenario in a royalty world that has changed a lot since house music was born.

Decades after the pioneering Chicago label helped change dance music, former friends are locked in an intense feud over its past, present and future

11/29/2022

Coach Prime even got a mention in the ruling below.

Licensees of a sovereign entity’s trademark—like a college sports team name—would have free rein to infringe if a lower court dismissal stands, the owner of a “Thee I Love” trademark registration told the US Supreme Court.

06/22/2022

"This is a case about beer. It turns on the meaning of the word
'owned,' a pint-sized word with stout implications for craft brewers in Texas."

Judge Wilson's punnery doesn't stop there...he pours out TABC using turns of phrase like "untapped," "buzzkill," and "party on."

And at one point, he declares for the panel: "We hop right to the analysis."

02/07/2022

Congrats LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center on making this list of 25 schools that "overperform" on the bar exam. At no. 13, smack in between Yale and Georgia, and ahead of fellow overachievers Harvard, Wake, Chicago, Penn, W&L, and Vandy.

Despite recent signs of improvement, since 2010, law schools have faced declining enrollment and entering classes with lower predictors of success. At least par

02/01/2022

Great writeup on hospitality client Wetlands Sake. Big grand opening this weekend - great spot.

At the sushi bar, decisions around sake usually entail which Japanese brand to choose, if it should be cold or warm and whether to have another round.

12/09/2021

Big things in store for trademark/brand protection client Krispy Krunchy Foods. Congrats Shapiros and KKF.

NEW ORLEANS – Krispy Krunchy Chicken, a branded convenience store foodservice program, announced it has received a strategic growth investment from Main Post Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity investment firm with experience partnering with iconic brands and multi-location foodservice ...

10/25/2021

Client and film industry armorer Dark Thirty Film Services, and Bryan W. Carpenter discusses the armorer's duties in avoiding filmset tragedy.

Movie weapons expert and armorer Bryan Carpenter says more than one safety rule was broken on the film set leading up to the fatal accident.