Jules B. LeBlanc, III is a cofounder and serves as the managing member of LeBlanc & Waddell. He is a lifelong resident of Baton Rouge. His ancestors settled in the Baton Rouge area in 1735. He has owned broadcast properties and was the controlling shareholder in five Louisiana banks. He also has a vast amount of experience in real estate development. He developed projects such as the twenty-one story Hilton Hotel in Baton Rouge, the first air conditioned enclosed shopping mall in Baton Rouge and numerous office buildings and apartment complexes in Louisiana. In his career as a real estate developer, he utilized AFL-CIO union labor on his projects. Consequently, he has a very good and long-lasting relationship with the Louisiana AFL-CIO. Mr. LeBlanc, together with the AFL-CIO leadership, conceived and implemented the ongoing statewide AFL-CIO Occupational Disease Program. This program is the first of its type in the United States and has become a model program for other states. LeBlanc & Waddell has been named as the Occupational Disease Counsel for the LA AFL-CIO and as designated counsel to the LA AFL-CIO in many different consumer fraud matters. Mr. LeBlanc also has a long-standing relationship with the black leadership of Louisiana. As a consequence of this relationship, the LA NAACP has named LeBlanc & Waddell as Occupational Disease Counsel and as counsel in other matters. As an attorney, Mr. LeBlanc is committed to standing up for working men and women in their fight for justice from offending employers and manufacturers. Jules B. LeBlanc, III was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, June 10, 1945; Admitted to bar, 1969, Louisiana; U.S. District Court, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana. Education: Louisiana State University (B.A., 1966, Phi Kappa Phi, Mu Sigma Rho; J.D., 1969). Member: Baton Rouge, Louisiana and American Bar Associations; Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.