Rebekka Veith

Rebekka Veith is a partner in Fishman Haygood’s litigation section. Her diverse practice includes appellate work, class actions/mass actions/MDLs, fraudulent transfer and specialized bankruptcy litigation, and insurance coverage cases.

As a young attorney, Rebekka has successfully handled all aspects of litigation, from initiating lawsuits to arguing appeals. She has completed five jury trials in the last four years alone; most recently, Rebekka tried a case on behalf of a charter school and the Orleans Parish School Board related to defective construction work at a school building that resulted in the displacement of school children. The month-long trial was held in Orleans Parish Civil District Court and concluded in early February 2025 with a verdict that will total $10 million with interests and costs for the firm’s clients.

Rebekka is committed to educating the next generation of lawyers. Since 2023, she has presented on “Trial Skills” at Justice Camp hosted by the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, for which she serves as Board Treasurer for the Younger Lawyers Division. And since the 2022-2023 school year, she has served as a Trial Advocacy: General Litigation lecturer at Tulane University Law School, her alma mater.

Rebekka is also a member of the Association for Women Attorneys.

In the community, Rebekka is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for HandsOn New Orleans, a nonprofit organization that creates and manages service projects relating to public school revitalization, youth recreation, neighborhood development, urban gardening, and environmental restoration.

During law school, Rebekka served on the Dean’s Advisory Committee and was elected the Senior Managing Editor of the Tulane Law Review. She currently serves on the TLR Board of Advisory Editors.

After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Dee D. Drell of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.

Year joined firm: 2018

• Represents Morris Bart, LLC, in defending its attorneys’ fee interest in hurricane cases acquired from disgraced Texas law firm MMA following its suspension from the practice of law in Louisiana. The firm was successful in obtaining holdings in multiple cases in the Western District of Louisiana that MMA is not entitled to any attorneys’ fee due to its unauthorized practice of law. MMA has since filed for bankruptcy protection and is seeking to obtain fees as part of its estate property, and the firm is defending Morris Bart in those suits against it.
• Represents South Louisiana Methanol, L.P. (SLM), which was a joint venture between Todd Corporation and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) formed for the purpose of developing a methanol plant in Louisiana. When the project failed to get off the ground, SLM divested itself of the land assets it had acquired in connection with the project. One landowner, Zen Noh Grain Corporation, has filed suit arguing that the divestiture violates a right of first refusal granted in its favor over some batture land that was a part of the divestiture.
• Serves as Louisiana counsel to GAF, the largest roofing manufacturer in the U.S. Recently, the firm represented GAF in a suit arising out of a roof blowoff at an assisted living center during Hurricane Ida. Plaintiffs claimed more than $13 million in property damages. The firm successfully removed the case to federal court and obtained dismissal of plaintiffs’ original suit. In Dec. 2024, the Fishman Haygood team obtained a dismissal of all of plaintiffs’ claims against GAF on summary judgment.
• Represented Blue Sky Infrastructure, LLC, a Blackstone Energy Partners portfolio company, in defending its ownership of a carbon dioxide pipeline acquired from a large Louisiana landowner, Palo Alto (which the firm also represented in connection with these matters) in several expropriation suits filed by Denbury Gulf Coast Pipelines, LLC. On behalf of Blue Sky, Rebekka successfully achieved stays of the multiple expropriation suits prior to the matter being resolved favorably out of court.

• Appellate
• Bankruptcy
• Class action
• Commercial
• Commercial disputes
• Energy and construction
• Environmental
• Insurance
• Product liability and recall

• Energy
• Insurance
• Oil and gas

• J.D., cum laude, Tulane University Law School, 2014
• B.A. in English, cum laude, University of North Carolina, 2010
• B.A. in History, cum laude, University of North Carolina, 2010

• Louisiana State Bar Association, 2014
• New Orleans Bar Association, 2015
• Federal Bar Association – New Orleans Chapter, 2015
• Association for Women Attorneys – New Orleans, 2019
• Advisory Board of Editors – Tulane Law Review, 2023

• Louisiana, 2014