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Monette Davis concentrates her practice on insurance defense and commercial litigation matters. 

Monette dedicates time to the legal community by serving in leadership positions with the American Bar Association and the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society where she mentors minority young lawyers and law students. She is also responsible for planning award-winning training programs to help law students navigate their journey through law school and then becoming a lawyer. 

Monette is one of four lawyers in the country to be chosen for the 2022-2024 Young Lawyer Leadership Program with the American Bar Association. She received the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society’s President's Award in 2022 and named “Member of the Month” in 2021 and 2020. She was also recognized by the National Bar Association in 2022 as “Young Lawyer of the Week.”

Professional & Civic Activities

Professional and Civic Activities

  • New Orleans Bar Association's Inn of Court board member.
  • New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association's Young Lawyers Board of Directors member.
  • Nexus Louisiana board member.
  • American Bar Association member and 2022-2024 Young Lawyer Leadership Program member.
  • Louisiana State Bar Association member and Leadership LSBA 2022/2023 Class member.
  • Greater New Orleans Chapter of the Louis A. Martinet Society member.
  • L.E.A.D. Program at Dillard University mentor.
  • Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Pathfinder 2022.
  • The Louisiana State Law Institute Junior member 2019 - 2020.

Honors & Awards

Honors & Awards

  • Best Lawyers in America 2025.
  • New Orleans Magazine "Top Lawyer" 2023.
  • New Orleans CityBusiness 2024 Leadership in Law honoree.
  • Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society's President's Award 2022 recipient. 
    • Member of the Month, March 2021 and April 2022.
  • National Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, "Young Lawyer of the Week," February 2022.

News & Events

Presentations

Panelist, "What Do Lawyers Do?" American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, February 2023.

Panelist, "Transition from Law School to Lawyer," American Bar Association, September 2022.

Panel Moderator, "2021 End of the Year CLE: Balancing the Scales –Tips for Motion Practice and Oral Advocacy," GNO Martinet Legal Society, December 2021.

Panel Moderator, "Raising the Bar Presents: Views from the Bench: Tips for Oral Advocacy & Persuasive Writing," GNO Martinet Legal Society, May 2021.

Practice Areas

Industries

Bar Admissions

  • Louisiana

Education

Southern University Law Center, J.D., cum laude, 2019

  • Editor in Chief, Southern University Law Review
  • CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Torts I
  • GNO Louis A. Martinet Legal Society Scholarship Recipient

Dillard University, B.A. in Sociology/Criminal Justice, cum laude, 2013

Clerkships

  • Judicial Extern for Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
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