Ms Jamie Lindler Harpootlian | Attorney

Ms Jamie Lindler Harpootlian

Ms Jamie Lindler Harpootlian

Experience: 42 years

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About Jamie

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 was 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 Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans. During her seventeen-year 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.

Based on her federal court experience with mass torts, Ms. Harpootlian was offered the opportunity to work as a Special Master. She left her federal career and began accepting judicial appointments as a Special Master in various class actions. Her work entailed 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, to assess an amount of compensation, and to enter awards.

In 2005, she evacuated New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina and returned to Columbia, South Carolina, where she and Mr. Harpootlian were introduced by mutual friends. The two were married in 2007.

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.  

Admission

Verified Louisiana

1984

Education

Tulane University School of Law