Adreja Boutte

Chief Operating Officer, Senior Attorney

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Adrejia Lajoy Ann Boutté is a Senior Attorney and the Chief Operating Officer in the Baton Rouge office of Doran & Cawthorne, PLLC. As a native of Olivier and New Iberia, LA, she grew up in a Louisiana Creole French and English-speaking household. Adrejia handles personal injury, insurance defense, creditors’ rights, and compliance related matters [including but not limited to, corporate consultation and training regarding organizational/business ethics, state, federal, and industry standards, and on cyber risk insurance policy issues].

She is a former in-house counsel for the State of Louisiana; a commercial defense litigator; an adjunct instructor for paralegal studies at Herzing University; and an Academic Counselor for Southern University Law Center. As a licensed Title Insurance Producer, Adrejia has performed limited real estate closings work and plaintiff work for a title insurance company. With a certification in Basic Mediation and Conflict Resolution, she also has experience as a co-arbitrator on issues of creditor/debtor and landlord/tenant disputes and experience as a business consultant for the homeless and small businesses.

As a national and statewide presenter, she has (and does) spoken on cyber risk insurance, diversity & inclusion objectives, education inequities, the Innocence Project Program in law schools, the value of multicultural organizations, the Louisiana Vocational Rehabilitation Services, the value of a written contract, and ethics and professionalism for lawyers, insurance claims adjusters and agents, physicians, and business owners.

Actively involved in her community, Adrejia is a volunteer fee dispute arbitrator for the Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA) and an editor for LSBA Bar Journal, among other organizations. She has volunteered with the MDA Telethon Executive Lock-up, The ProBono Project, the Law and Civic Education’s “We the People” competitions, Lawyers in Libraries, the New Orleans Teen Court, the Baton Rouge Bar Foundation, the Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA), Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc., and with various other community beneficial entities in the state and across the nation.

Adrejia received a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Psychology from Xavier University School of Louisiana and a Juris Doctorate (JD) from Southern University Law Center. She also has a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in Business Law, with a Certificate in Compliance Studies. She resides in Baton Rouge with her two cats: Mufasa “Fossie-Pants” and Greyjoy “Grapee.”

Certifications, Licensures, & Board Memberships

Compliance (Certificate)
Title Insurance Producer (Licensed (#729077) in Louisiana since 2017)
Notary Public (Licensed #132426)
Basic Mediation/Arbitration and Conflict Resolution (Certification in Louisiana)
Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Board Member, Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America
Board of Governors, Louisiana State Bar Association
Editorial Board Member, Louisiana State Bar Association Bar Journal

Presentations & Guest Speaking

2022 Cyber Threats and Data Privacy Laws: What you need to know, GNO Louis A. Martinet Society Mid-Year CLE NOLA
2022 Cybersecurity: Knowing is Half the Battle, LSBDC/training class Virtual Class
2021 Cyber Risk and Data Breaches: Our Roles As Attorneys, Ascension Bar Association CLE Prairieville, LA
2021 Mentor, GNO Martinet Pipeline Speed Networking with Young Attorneys, GNO Martinet Society Virtual Seminar
2020 Advanced Real Estate: Data Privacy, Cybersecurity and Wire Fraud, NBI/CLE webinar Virtual Seminar
2020 Covid-19 and Education: Temperature Check!, National Bar Association-Women Lawyers Division Virtual Seminar
2020 Cyber Risk: Our Role As Attorneys and Surviving A Corporate Attack, National Bar Association/CLE New Orleans, LA
2019 Cybersecurity: A Lawyer’s Role, Louisiana State Bar, Ethics CLE New Orleans, LA
2019 Got Cyber Risk Insurance?, Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board 5 LIVE CLEs Statewide, LA
2018 An Overview of Cyber Risk Insurance, GNO Louis A. Martinet Society CLE New Orleans, LA
2018 Cyber Risk Insurance: Get it, Before They Get You?, 2018 Cyber Security Atlanta Conference/Expo Atlanta, GA
2018 Ethics of the Legal Profession, LSBA/SULC Professionalism Orientation Baton Rouge, LA
2018 Cyber Risk Insurance: Come and Get it! Louisiana Claims Association Annual Conference New Orleans, LA
2017 Cyber Risk Insurance: Get it Before They Get You! Loyola University of Chicago Law School Panel Online
2017 The Consequences of Social Media in the Legal Profession Louis A. Martinet Society CLE New Orleans, LA
2017 A Written Contract is # Everything Legal Secretaries of New Orleans Gretna, LA
2015 Legal Profession Panel Speaker LSBA/SULC Freshman Professionalism Orientation Baton Rouge, LA
2013 Multicultural Organizations Louisiana Diversity & Leadership Conference New Orleans, LA
2013 La. Vocational Rehab Panel Moderator LSBA Disability Summit New Orleans, LA
2012 Claims’ Professional Response to Demands for Defense & Indemnity Made Against Their Insured
Liberty Mutual Insurance Seminar Irving, TX
2012 Toxic Talk “Between the Ages” in the Workplace CLE Gilsbar/LSBA Statewide, LA
2012 The Judicial System in LA Estelle Elementary School/Law and Civic Education speaker Gretna, LA
2011 Toxic Talk “Between the Ages” in the Workplace Johns Hopkins University Diversity Seminar Baltimore, MD
2011 Toxic Talk “Between the Ages” in the Workplace LSBA Institute of Inclusion CLE New Orleans, LA
2009-2010 “Lawyers in the Classroom” Law and Civic Education speaker New Orleans, LA
2009-2010 “Power Ties” LSBA/YLC speaker New Orleans, LA

Publications & Accomplishments

2021 Award, Ambassador Volunteer of the Year, Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America
2020 I Am The Sum of My Life Experiences, Not Enslaved By Them, DRI’s For the Defense (2020)
2020 Award, National Bar Association, Women Lawyers Division’s Minority Partner in Majority Firm
2020 Diversity in the Covid-19 Legal Office, DRI’s For the Defense (TBP in the September 2020 edition)
2020 Cyber Risk Insurance: Law Firms Need It Too!, 67 La. B.J. 326 (2020)
2019 Cybersecurity: The Chemical/Manufacturing Industry, DRI’s Data and Security Dispatch (Volume 5, Issue 1 (2019) (coauthored)
2018 Inadequate Cybersecurity Hurts Where it Counts the Most, The Cyber Defense eMagazine (September 2018 Edition)
2018 Healthcare Vendors/Subcontractors: The Risk is Yours!, DRI’s The MedLaw Update (Volume 23, Issue 3 (2018
2018 Cyber risk insurance 101 (New Orleans Bar Association, Tech blog, 2018)
2018 Award, Louisiana State Bar Association’s Pro Bono Century Club
2017 A Written Contract is #Everything, 64 La. B.J. 414 (2017)

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