Attorney, Alton J. Hall, Jr.

Biography

Mr. Hall’s background includes work as a dive store owner, scuba instructor, deckhand and Divemaster on dive and fishing vessels. He also spent several years on the United States Senate staff, leaving Washington, D.C. to direct a party candidate’s presidential campaign in the southern states. During law school Mr. Hall was employed by the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office. Upon graduation he accepted a position as an associate at Phelps Dunbar handling admiralty and maritime litigation. Thereafter, Mr. Hall assumed a full-time faculty position with Tulane School of Law as one of two directors of Tulane’s Criminal Clinic where he taught classes in criminal advocacy and handled the in-court representation of indigent defendants. In this position Mr. Hall handled hundreds of criminal cases from arraignment through trial as well as appellate work in matters ranging in diversity from simple assault to murder. He continues to litigate major criminal cases in both state and federal courts.

Mr. Hall joined Delise & Hall in 1994. His practice focuses on admiralty and maritime matters involving recreational, public safety, technical and commercial divers. In addition, Mr. Hall is experienced with treasure/salvage law, charter party and ship collision, allision, United States Coast Guard administrative actions and personal injury litigation. Mr. Hall’s diving and general maritime related practice is nationwide and in addition to general bar memberships in Louisiana, Texas and the Mississippi federal bar he has been admitted pro hac vice nationwide at both the state and federal level. He is admitted before the United States Supreme Court, the Federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal Maritime Commission as well as numerous Federal and State Courts. Mr. Hall provides expert services in diving, vessel operations and maritime litigation. Mr. Hall holds Martindale-Hubbell’s highest (AV) rating for ethics and legal skill.