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“Salty”
Galvis has since 1980 practiced in many areas
of law, including commercial law, products liability
law, professional liability (errors and omissions)
law, maritime law, insurance law, employment law,
and electric utility industry casualty law.
After a short stint practicing law in Pennsylvania,
Mr. Galvis returned to New Orleans, where he joined
Sessions, Fishman & Nathan, L.L.P. in 1982
and practiced first as an associate attorney and
then as partner until 1997. He then spent
the next ten years as Assistant General Counsel
– Litigation for Entergy Services, Inc., the professional
services subsidiary of Entergy Corporation (one
of the largest fossil-fuel and nuclear energy
companies in the United States). In April
of 2007, Mr. Galvis rejoined the firm and relocated
to Colorado, where he is now the managing attorney
of the firm's Fort Collins, Colorado office.
He currently concentrates his practice in consumer
litigation and debtor-creditor litigation as a
member of the firm’s commercial and business litigation
practice group. He has handled civil litigation
and tried and appealed numerous cases in state
and federal courts in Pennsylvania, Louisiana,
Texas and Mississippi and has written a successful
brief to the United States Supreme Court in a
case the Court heard and decided on a writ of
certiorari.
As an
undergraduate student majoring in Political Science, Mr.
Galvis attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas
and Tulane University in New Orleans, where he was a
Dean’s List and University Scholar student and was
admitted to Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science
honors fraternity, and Phi Beta Kappa. He
attended Tulane University’s School of Law, where he
earned his Juris Doctor degree with honors in
1980 and was the winner of the law school’s senior moot
court competition, successfully arguing his final
appellate round before the full bench of the Louisiana
Supreme Court.
Over the course of
his career, Mr. Galvis has been published in a national
law treatise on maritime law, lectured extensively at
continuing legal education seminars regarding numerous
aspects of civil litigation, and appeared on radio and
television programs discussing legal topics of interest
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