Kathryn Colvin Goodson

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Special Counsel

  Firm Name

  Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, L.L.P.
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Notable representative matters have included, among others, the following: Counsel for national, regional,
  local businesses, including restaurants, convenience,
  retail stores, in obtaining alcohol
  tobacco licenses, occupational licenses, health permits,
  occupancy permits. Counsel for various annual events such as the New Orleans Jazz
  Heritage Festival
  Bayou Country Superfest in obtaining necessary licensure. Counsel for alcohol manufacturers in obtaining necessary licensure, including assistance with zoning
  other property issues. Counsel for national property management company in various claims involving lease
  property issues. Participation as counsel in the defense of physicians in multiple jury trials involving medical malpractice claims. Participation as counsel for a major chemical manufacturing company in defending multiple occupational disease premises liability suits relating to allegations of asbestos exposure. Represented national retail pharmacy as liaison to state
  local agencies in securing the necessary licensure to conduct business pursuant to corporate merger
  restructure. Participation as counsel regarding higher education matters for the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University
  Agricultural
  Mechanical College. Ms. Goodson is admitted to practice in all Louisiana state courts, the United States District Courts for the Middle, Eastern,
  Western Districts,
  the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Goodson is a member of First United Methodist Church, where she has served on various councils. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Leukemia
  Lymphoma Society
  volunteers with the H.Y.P.E. after-school program
  the Early Learning Center. She has also served as the firm coordinator of various Baton Rouge Bar Association programs. She was selected in 2013 by the Baton Rouge Business Report as one of Baton Rouge's Top Forty Under 40 community
  business leaders,
  in 2015 she received the Mary Frey Eaton Community Service Award.