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Dysart, Veith & Paschal, LLC
Miller, Thibodeaux
Miller Thibodeaux
About Us
Miller Thibodeaux was formed to allow its founding members—seasoned trial lawyers who possess highly technical environmental, industrial failure, finance, antitrust, securities, mass tort, class action, and other sophisticated litigation expertise—the agility to further hone their high-stakes, specialized practices, while injecting focused energy into the matters that the firm prosecutes and defends. The firm is dedicated to delivering unrivaled results and value to the clients we represent, and that commitment serves as the cornerstone to Miller Thibodeaux’s foundation.
Miller Thibodeaux’s attorneys are inventive, unwavering, and fearless in litigating complex matters on behalf of their clients. We are excited for what this new venture has in store.
Strategic legal guidance for individuals and businesses
Founding Members
Kerry Miller
Kerry has developed a highly diverse practice over 30 years, with a focus in the energy and products liability sectors, environmental contamination, and arbitrations for commercial contractors and policyholders.
Kerry was appointed lead counsel representing Transocean in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation, Knauf in the Chinese Drywall multidistrict litigation, and Murphy Oil in Hurricane Katrina related environmental litigation. Kerry continues to represent large corporate clients today.
Kerry also represents individual private plaintiffs, with settlements or judgments exceeding $100 million, primarily in toxic tort and contamination suits arising from refinery operations. He currently serves as lead counsel to a class of residents seeking more than $700 million in damages from former operators of the Limetree Bay Refinery in St. Croix.
Paul Thibodeaux
Paul has represented plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes litigation for more than 20 years with cases centering on construction and environmental matters.
Paul serves as lead defense counsel in the Hard Rock Hotel collapse litigation and routinely represents developers in construction disputes regarding large multi-family commercial and hotel projects. Paul also routinely represents landowners in contamination, remediation, and equipment removal suits with damages ranging from $10 million to $200 million.
Danny Dysart
Danny brings 15 years of experience to the firm, representing Halliburton, Sasol, Knauf, Transocean, Alcoa and other multinational corporations on a wide range of matters throughout the Gulf Coast. Litigation. Danny now represents Kapsch Trafficcom USA, a multinational tolling contractor in class action litigation over tolls authorized by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.
Danny also continues work with the rest of the firm in representing class plaintiffs related to exposures and damages from the current and historic operations of refineries and other petrochemical plants in Garyville, Louisiana (Marathon Oil), Melville, Louisiana (Exxon), and Plaquemine, Louisiana (Dow Chemical Company).
Rebekka Veith
Rebekka has over a decade of experience in complex commercial litigation and arbitration. She has second-chaired five jury trials to verdict in the last four years, and she regularly argues appeals in both state and federal courts.
Rebekka’s clients include the largest roofing materials manufacturer in the United States, Louisiana’s largest personal injury law firm, and multiple private equity firms. She also has represented private landowners, bankruptcy trustees, and public entities as plaintiffs, including most recently, a case against Raymond James as underwriter of $330 million of municipal bonds that settled in the high eight figures before trial.
Hogan Paschal
A graduate of Harvard University and New York University School of Law, Hogan has developed a rapidly growing practice, primarily representing public and private plaintiffs in high-impact suits.
She serves on plaintiffs’ leadership committees in the In re FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapse Litigation and In re Depo Provera Products Liability Litigation, and has developed several antitrust, securities, and other fraud litigation with damages often exceeding nine figures. She also maintains an environmental docket and recently filed suit against Chevron et al., on behalf of Los Angeles County, to decommission idle oil and gas wells in the Inglewood Oil Field, the largest urban oilfield in the United States.
Associates
Monica Bergeron
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
Carly McCleskey
Education
- JD., summa cum laude, from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2022
- Managing Editor of the Loyola Law Review
- B.A. in Political Science and International Studies, cum laude, from Rhodes College, 2016
Clerkship
Janis Van Meerveld of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 2025
Brennan O’Keefe
Education
- J.D., magna cum laude, from Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, 2022
- Member of the Louisiana Law Review
- Order of the Coif
- B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University, 2019
Dylan Futrell
Education
- J.D., summa cum laude, from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2024
- Casenote and Comment Editor of the Loyola Law Review
- B.S. in Marketing from Louisiana State University, 2021
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