Monica Bergeron works on a wide range of commercial matters in both state and federal court. These matters include representation of both plaintiffs and defendants across all three Louisiana federal district courts, as well as in the Southern District of Texas.

Monica is a member of the Association for Women Attorneys – New Orleans and the New Orleans Bar Association.

Monica previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jane Triche Milazzo of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Monica received her law degree, summa cum laude, from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University in 2020 where she was a member of the Louisiana Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.

Education

• J.D., summa cum laude, from Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, 2020
  • Member of the Louisiana Law Review
  • Order of the Coif
• B.A. in Political Science and International Studies, magna cum laude, from Louisiana State University, 2015

Clerkship

• Jane Triche Milazzo of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 2020-2021

Publications / Presentations

• Speaker, “CERCLA & OPA Don’t Mix,” Louisiana Association for Justice High Stakes on the High Seas: A Maritime Law Conference, New Orleans (Aug. 15, 2025)
• Speaker, “The Intersection of OPA, CERCLA, and General Maritime Law,” Louisiana State Bar Association 31st Annual Admiralty Symposium, New Orleans (Oct. 30, 2024)
• Blogpost, “Timbs v. Indiana—One Year Later: Benign or Beginning of the End for Civil Asset Forfeiture,” LLR Lagniappe, The Online Companion of the Louisiana Law Review (April 2020)
  • Recipient of “The Lagniappe Award” for Finest Blogpost
• Comment, “Second Place Isn’t Good Enough: Achieving True Reform through Expanded Parole Eligibility,” 80 L. Rev. 109 (Fall 2019)
  • Recipient of the Vincent and Elkins Best Student Comment Award

Representative Matters

• Represents commercial fishermen, shrimpers, crabbers, oystermen and others harmed by an oil spill exceeding 31,000 gallons of Venezuelan crude oil from the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) the country’s only deepwater offshore oil port that can store and transport crude oil, operated by a joint venture between several of the industry’s largest multi-national oil and gas producers.
• Represents a Louisiana law firm in disputes with a Texas law firm arising from litigation involving damages from Hurricanes Laura and Katrina. See MMA Law Firm, PLLC v. Morris Bart, LLC, No. 4:24-CV-4446, 2026 WL 184214 (S.D. Tex. Jan. 23, 2026).\
• Represents landowners seeking equipment removal, clean-up and restoration of properties for commercial uses following termination of oil and gas leases.
• Represents residents impacted by a series of July 2023 explosions at Dow Chemical Company in Plaquemine, La., which released thousands of pounds of a cancer-causing chemical, ethylene oxide, into the air and prompted a shelter-in-place mandate for nearby residents; the quantity of ethylene oxide released in the fire is as much ethylene oxide as the Dow Chemical plant typically releases in a decade.
• Represents a class of neighboring property owners against Marathon Oil Co. regarding the forced evacuation of their properties and other damages associated with an uncontrolled fire and related emissions at Marathon’s Garyville, La., refinery.