Lance McCardle

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Partner

Address:

201 St. Charles Avenue, Suite 4600
New Orleans, LA 70170

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+1 504 586 5298

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Litigation Star

Languages:

English

Jurisdiction:

Louisiana

Practice area:

Commercial
Environmental
Securities

Biography

Fishman Haygood partner Lance McCardle practices in the areas of securities arbitration and litigation, environmental law, and general commercial litigation.

Lance regularly represents investors (both individuals and institutions) in claims against their brokers, investment advisors, and/or investment banks in court or in arbitration proceedings administered by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). He also represents several landowners in claims against oil and gas companies for damage and land loss caused by oil and gas operations.

Lance is a Fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation and a member of the Louisiana, Texas, Federal, and American Bar Associations. He is also a member of the Public Investors Advocate Bar Association (PIABA) and former Editor-in-Chief of the PIABA Bar Journal, currently serving on the journal’s editorial board. Additionally, Lance is Treasurer of PIABA’s 2025 Board of Directors.

Lance is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, an invitation-only trial lawyer honorary society, and a member of the St. Thomas More Inn of Court. He is also part of the American Association for Justice, Louisiana Association for Justice, and the Academy of New Orleans Trial Lawyers. Lance is a former Director of the Younger Lawyers Division of the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and a former member of the ABA Securities Law Committee.

Lance has taught litigation skills classes at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and Media Law at Tulane University Law School. He has also represented criminal defendants on a pro bono basis.

Updated Sep 2025

Recent matter/case highlights

Represents Bradish Johnson Co., Limited in a class action against the operators of three pipelines and pipeline canals that stretch along the entire coast of Louisiana from St. Bernard Parish to St. Mary Parish. The lawsuit alleges that the pipeline companies failed to abide by their legal obligations to prevent damage to the land across which their pipelines and pipeline canals traverse, causing massive destruction and land loss. The lawsuit seeks a mandatory injunction against the pipeline companies requiring them to construct projects that will restore the land that has been lost as a result of the breach Defendants’ legal obligations. The case is the biggest class action ever filed attempting to hold the pipeline industry responsible for the devastation they have caused to Louisiana’s coastline. (Bradish Johnson Co., Ltd. v. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, LLC and Kinetica Energy Express, LLC, No. 2023-10295 (E.D. La.))
Represents a class of Plaintiffs in Louisiana whose property has been damaged by lead-covered telephone cables and associated lead equipment owned, operated, and/or abandoned by Defendants. The case concerns the severe environmental damage to soil and groundwater in areas along Bayou Teche in Louisiana caused by the Defendants’ installation and subsequent abandonment of lead-wrapped telecommunication cables on and under Plaintiffs’ and Class Members’ properties, and the Defendants’ ongoing, decades-long failure to remediate the damage or remove cables no longer in use. The firm filed a class action in early November 2023 seeking injunctive relief for a comprehensive assessment and remediation of the environmental damage to all properties, as well as class-wide compensatory damages. (See Gary Blum, et al. v. AT&T Corp, et al., Case No. 6:23-cv-1748 (M.D. La. 2023))
Represents John P. Nowak and seeks to certify a class consisting of all persons who purchased Solitude and Momentum RVs in Model Years 2017 to 2024 in the United States from Grand Design RV or Winnebago Industries. On behalf of the proposed class, Plaintiff seeks to remedy violations of applicable law in connection with the Defendants’ design, manufacture, promotion, and sale of the RVs. Plaintiff seeks injunctive relief and restitution for the full purchase price of the defective RVs. The suit alleges that the Defendants are liable under various legal theories, including violations of the Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act and Implied Warranties.
Represents the Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Robert Ray Holcomb, Ellen Holcomb, Holcomb Power, LLC, and Holcomb Energy Systems, LLC (Defendants). According to the complaint, the Plaintiffs allege that the Defendants swindled investors into believing that they were getting in on the ground floor of a breakthrough, revolutionary energy technology that was supposedly proven in concept and always on the cusp of realization. Defendants made numerous misrepresentations, and even omitted material facts, that resulted in the Plaintiffs suffering significant monetary damages. Plaintiffs seek to have the Defendants held accountable for their failure to honor their obligations to the Plaintiffs and for the outright fraud and theft of the Plaintiffs’ money. The complaint alleges Fraud/Intentional Misrepresentation, Fraud in the Inducement, Negligent Misrepresentation, Money Lent, Breach of Contract, Unjust Enrichment, and Civil Conspiracy.
Represented Henican Terrebonne Property, LLC against Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, LLC and Gulf South Pipeline Company, LLC, which dredged pipeline canals on the Plaintiff’s property and failed to perform proper maintenance of the canals and pipelines. The contracts required that the pipeline canals cannot exceed 40 feet in width, and—because the canals far exceeded these stated widths—resulted in a breach of the contracts. The expansion of the canals caused significant damage and erosion on the property, resulting in hundreds of acres of marsh loss on the property. The case was settled for confidential amounts in May 2024.