LSBA Board of Governors

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Patrick A. Talley, Jr. is a partner in the New Orleans office of Phelps Dunbar, LLP. He received his BA degree in 1976 from Armstrong College (Georgia Southern University), his JD degree in 1982 from Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center and a LLM in Energy and Environmental Law in 1993 from Tulane University Law School. He was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 1982. He also is admitted in Texas.

Talley served as president-elect of the Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA) from 2023-24, as LSBA secretary and editor-in-chief of the Louisiana Bar Journal from 2019-21, and as a member of the LSBA’s Board of Governors from 2014-17 for the First Board District. Prior to this service, he was a member of the LSBA’s House of Delegates (since 1994) and was re-elected to the House in 2017. He previously served on the Louisiana Bar Journal’s Editorial Board and currently serves on the LSBA’s MCLE Committee.

He served as a member of the board of directors of the Louisiana Bar Foundation and the Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program. Additionally, he is a member of the Louisiana State Law Institute, the New Orleans, American, Federal, 5th Circuit and Baton Rouge Bar Associations, the State Bar of Texas, the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel (secretary and Executive Committee member) and the Maritime Law Association of the United States (Proctor member).

Talley is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized in several editions of Best Lawyers in America, including as the 2016 and 2021 New Orleans Lawyer of the Year in Railroad Law. He also has been recognized in several editions of Louisiana Super Lawyers and in New Orleans City Business’ “Leadership in Law.”

In his community, he serves on the boards of the Southeast Louisiana Council of the Boy Scouts of America and Holy Name of Jesus School, where he served as president for many years. Following Hurricane Katrina, he was actively involved in the Louisiana Recovery Authority as a member of the Environmental Task Force and was a co-founder of the New Orleans Charter Schools Foundation, which opened two of the first charter schools in the city limits, as the inaugural vice president. He was also International President of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity and president of the Carrollton Boosters Club, the Upper Hurstville Residence Association and Security District, and Academy of the Sacred Heart. Additionally, he served on the boards of the Louisiana Children’s Museum and St. George Episcopal School.

He is married to Sharon Parker Talley and they have three children, Patrick A. Talley III (Trey), Sarah Ilene Talley and Peyton Joseph Talley; a daughter-in-law, Margaret McDonald Talley; and two grandchildren, Patrick A. Talley IV (Ivey) and Madeleine McDonald Talley.