How Can I Help You Move Forward?

As a commercial litigation attorney, I find that tailored legal strategies, clear and ongoing communication, and a focus on efficiency are the formula for achieving each client’s desired outcomes in disputes – always driven by the clients business objectives. 

Overview

Hannah Quicksell is an experienced litigator representing clients in a wide range of contractual disputes, as well as bankruptcy, data privacy, and various tortious claims, including defamation and fraud. 

Outside the Office

In Hannah’s free time, she enjoys writing fiction, especially speculative fiction including cli-fi, futurism and magical realism. She also plays piano, and crafts costumes, floats and throws with her Mardi Gras krewe. 

Education

  • Loyola University School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, 2021
    • Articles Editor, Loyola Law Review 
    • Judicial clerk, Honorable Judge Carl Barbier, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana 
    • Prose Scholar 
    • Ignation Scholar 
    • William L. Crowe, Sr. Scholar 
    • Asterisk Award for Highest Grade: Constitutional Law; Torts I and II; Property I 
    • Graduated top 5% of class 
  • Grinnell College, B.A., 2015

Admissions

Bar Admissions

  • Louisiana

Court Admissions

  • All Louisiana State Courts
  • U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Professional

  • State Bar Association of Louisiana 
  • Federal Bar Association 

  • “When AI Takes Responsibility for Its Actions,” University of San Francisco’s Intellectual Property and Technology Law Journal
  • “Repairing the Broken Road for Black and Brown Educators,” Thurgood Marshall Law Review at Texas Southern University
  • “Students with Disabilities and the Orleans Parish School to Prison Pipeline: The Argument for a Unified Suspension System,” Loyola Law Review Forum (October 2022)
  • “Giving in Heterosexual Relations: Luce Irigaray and the Commodification of the ‘Signified Woman’,” 1 Affectus: Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy 13 (2014)
  • Novels in progress:
  • Home After the Storm
  • When the Hurley Burley’s Done: The True King of Scotland
  • I’m Not Seeing Anyone Else: Stories of Pandemic Loneliness
  • “Keeping Kids in the Classroom: Tangipahoa School Discipline Training,” Loyola
  • Youth Justice Clinic
  • “From Auto-Affective Phallusies to Transnational Activities,” 7th Global Conference on Persons and Sexualities in Montreal