Meet The Team
Meet The Team
Alex Aughtry
OF COUNSEL
Alex comes to Katie Lasky Law with an extensive and accomplished litigation background representing privately held businesses, principals, shareholders and trusts in a variety of complex corporate disputes, including litigation involving shareholder oppression, corporate governance and control, fraud, conversion, contractual and fiduciary breaches, stock claw-backs and trust disputes.
Alex has a practical and strategic approach to litigation, which is complemented by her background in social work allowing, her to guide her clients through difficult disputes with compassion and perseverance. Alex also adds to the breadth of our firm’s expertise with her experience representing private and institutional investors against broker-dealers and financial advisors in connection with claims involving mismanagement of investments, contractual and fiduciary breaches, misrepresentations and omissions and other violations of state and federal law.
Alex has experience trying cases in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration proceedings before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the American Arbitration Association (AAA).
Alex’s Credentials
Education
Paul. M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, J.D., cum laude, 2016
Publications Editor, LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources (2015-2016)
Best Student Comment, LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources (2016)
Chancellor’s Scholar (2013-16)
President, American Constitution Society, LSU Student Chapter
Bar Admissions
Admitted to practice in the State of Louisiana, U.S. Fifth Circuit, and U.S. District Courts for the
Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana. Admission to Texas State Bar pending.
Memberships
New Orleans Federal Bar Association, YLD Board
Junior Achievement, Young Professionals Board
Publich Investors Advocacy Bar Association
Honors & Appointments
Outgoing Board Chair, Young Professional’s Board for Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans (I chaired the board from July 2020-July 2022)
Membership Committee Chair, Younger Lawyer Division of the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association (2022-2023)
Member, Board of Directors, Younger Lawyer Division of the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association
Experience
Reasonover & Berg, LLC
Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, LLC
New Orleans Area Habitat For Humanity
Publications Editor, LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources (2015-2016)
Best Student Comment, LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources (2016)
Chancellor’s Scholar (2013-16)
President, American Constitution Society, LSU Student Chapter
Publications
Cartwright, et al., LITIGATING BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL TORT CASES (Thompson Reuters)—
Contributing Editor (2020-2022), treatise on topics including tortious interference, fraud,
defamation, unfair trade practices, securities and antitrust violations, fiduciary breach, civil
conspiracy, RICO, etc.
New Orleans Federal Bar Association, THE ADVOCATE—Contributor (2017-2022), various articles
concerning FBA programs and resources.
Louisiana Association for Justice, THE LOUISIANA ADVOCATE—Contributor (2015-2016), series
of articles on variety of maritime litigation issues.
Stopping the Clock on Coverage: Resolving the Conundrum of LHWCA Maritime Status, 4 LSU
J. ENERGY L. & RESOURCES 143 (2015)—Student comment.
Various presentations and CLEs to in-house counsel and other legal and industry groups, including
but not limited to the National Business Institute, the Association for Corporate Counsel, Women’s
International Shipping and Trading Association, and the Maritime Risk Claims Seminar.
Representative Matters
Froze approximately $5.1 million through federal court injunction, and subsequently recovered those sums through settlement, in action arising out of commercial fraud scheme involving green housing technology.
Obtained federal court injunction freezing accounts of financial adviser, and subsequently recovered approximately $1.2 million in settlement with broker-dealer and investment advisory firm following conversion of personal funds from senior investor.
Obtained judgment of approximately $2.8 million in favor of tech startup against venture capital firm and affiliates for breach of contract and conversion;
Approximately $900,000 settlement in favor of widow in FINRA arbitration against financial adviser and broker dealer improper designation of beneficiary on annuity.
Recovered approximately $445,000 in settlement in a commercial fraud case for misappropriation of assets from a commercial retail development.
Successfully defended claim against widow for approximately $900,000 in life insurance benefits of deceased former spouse; action was dismissed with prejudice on preliminary exceptions.