Jamie Harpootlian
Columbia, South Carolina
phone    (803) 252-4848
(866) 706-3997 (Toll Free)
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Jamie Lindler Harpootlian, of counsel to Richard A. Harpootlian, P.A., consults with the firm in areas of federal litigation, civil procedure, and class actions. She was raised in Columbia, South Carolina , where she graduated from the public school system. She then attended Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia , where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated cum laude in 1981 with a degree in Art History and Political Science. In 1984, she received her J.D. from Tulane University Law School and was admitted to the practice of law in Louisiana, where she remains a member in good standing.

Following law school, Ms. Harpootlian served as a career federal judicial law clerk to the Honorable Henry A. Mentz in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans. During her career, Ms. Harpootlian assisted Judge Mentz with a broad docket of civil and criminal cases, including several complex and high-profile proceedings. At the request of the Federal Judicial Center, she contributed to research to the Manual for Complex Litigation, mass torts section, a frequently cited manual for litigators. She also assisted Judge Mentz with civil and criminal trials on inter-circuit assignments in federal district courts in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and Miami.

Following her federal court career, Ms. Harpootlian received judicial appointments as a Special Master in various class actions. Her work involved allocating multi-million dollar settlement funds to class members and overseeing class action procedures. In 2004, she was appointed a Special Government Employee with the Department of Justice to serve as a Deputy Special Master on the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. Ms. Harpootlian conducted hearings with injured survivors of 9/11 in order to determine their eligibility for compensation, and to make recommendations to the Special Master Kenneth Feinberg.

Ms. Harpootlian is admitted to practice before all Louisiana state courts, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Areas of Practice:
Federal Litigation
Civil Procedure
Class Actions

Bar Admissions:
Louisiana, 1984
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Louisiana
U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court

Education:
Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1984
J.D.

Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia, 1981
B.A.
Honors: cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Major: History & Political Science