LSBA Board of Governors
Seventh Board District
Mr. Thomas M Hayes III
2012-15
2509 Myrtle St
Monroe, LA 71201
Phone: (318) 237-4734
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Thomas M. Hayes III is a partner in the Monroe firm of Hayes, Harkey, Smith & Cascio, L.L.P. He graduated, with honors, in 1974 from the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, and received his JD degree in 1977 from Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center. He was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 1977.
Tom served on the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Board of Governors from 1992-94 and has served several terms on the Nominating Committee. From 1991-97, he served as an examiner on the Supreme Court’s Committee on Bar Admissions; he currently serves as assistant examiner.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American Bar Foundation and the Louisiana Bar Foundation. He is a council member of the Louisiana State Law Institute and a member of the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, the Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel and the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys.
Tom and his wife, Karen Luikart Hayes, have been married for 37 years and are the parents of four children.