Paul C. Thibodeaux, a shareholder in Baker Donelson's New Orleans office, concentrates his practice in energy, environmental, construction, mass tort and class action litigation, and intellectual property matters. Mr. Thibodeaux's engineering background assists him in the defense and prosecution of cases involving complex failure-analyses and technical-based claims. He is also a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Mr. Thibodeaux has experience in many high-profile engineering failure cases such as the BP oil spill multi-district litigation, the Chinese drywall multi-district litigation and the Hurricane Katrina-related Murphy oil spill class action litigation. He has also participated in the successful defense and prosecution of numerous jury trials involving complex engineering-related issues, including multi-million dollar jury verdicts in favor of energy industry clients involving the misappropriation of proprietary information and the installation of defective products on an oil production spar. Additionally, Mr. Thibodeaux has handled multiple environmental cases regarding refinery explosions and emissions, including Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act claims.