Mark M. Gonzalez – Of Counsel

AREAS OF PRACTICE

  • Personal Injury
  • General Civil Trial Litigation

Mark M. Gonzalez is an attorney in private practice in New Orleans. He has been practicing for over twenty years – including “Of Counsel” with the firm of Scheuermann & Jones. His practice ranges from personal injury to civil rights, employment discrimination, as well as AIDS related issues and products liability law.

Mark was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1954, and lived in the Chicago area for 18 years, first moving to New Orleans, then to Santa Cruz, and finally returning to New Orleans over 20 years ago. Mark graduated from Loyola Law School in 1985, after two undergraduate years at Tulane and three at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He graduated from U.C. Santa Cruz with two degrees: Sociology and Psychobiology. He was president of the local National Lawyers Guild chapter during law school. He is a member of the American Bar Association and has been a member of the National Lawyers Guild, American Trial Lawyers Association, S.P.C.A. and L.I.S.A. (both are animal right organizations).

After Santa Cruz Mark returned to New Orleans as a VISTA volunteer. Volunteering has stayed with him, as a founding organizer of “GAY-FEST” (now PRIDE) and founding member of AIDSLaw of Louisiana. He has been on the Board of Directors for United Services for AIDS, and the Bywater Community Development Corporation and the Louisiana S.P.C.A.. He volunteered extensively in the past with ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power).

Mark lives in the Bywater neighborhood, outside of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has several outside interests including a coffee catering business along with community activism and volunteering on neighborhood and environmental causes.

EDUCATION

BAR ADMISSIONS

  • Louisiana, 1984
  • U.S. Federal Court, 1985
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of Louisiana, 1984
  • U.S. District Court Western District of Louisiana, 1994
  • U.S. District Court Middle District of Louisiana, 1995
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

  • American Bar Association
  • American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA)
  • Louisiana S.P.C.A. – Board Member
  • Inner Harbor Lock Replacement Project – Board Member, Community Bases Mitigation Committee
  • Bywater Community Development Corporation – Founding Board Member (now member)
  • United Services for AIDS Foundation – Past Board Chairman
  • ACT UP!, New Orleans – Past Member and Attorney
  • Loyola Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild – Founding President
  • National Lawyers Guild – Loyola Chapter – Founding President