About

CLAYTON J. JOFFRION is an International Attorney at Law with an LL.M. in International Law. Admitted to practice in Louisiana and Florida and Federal Agencies & Commissions, Clayton is based in New Orleans.

Clayton has had his own practice since 1989, where he has handled matters of International trade and regulation, NAFTA, international probate, international taxation, foreign and U.S. Customs and tariffs, anti-dumping duties, unfair trade, immigration, domestic and foreign visas, international corporate and business law, transnational litigation, patent, trademark and copyright protection, criminal defense, commercial litigation, and tort law prosecution and defense. He is also a Civil Law Notary Public for Orleans Parish and the State of Louisiana.

Clayton received his LL.M., Master of Laws in International Law in 1996 at University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, FL, where he did a thesis on Liberalization of Financial Markets in the People’s Republic of China

Prior to this, he obtained a Juris Doctor in 1988 from Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans, LA, where his field concentrations were in Common and Civil Law.

His bachelor of Arts in Political Science was from Louisiana State University where he was nominated by Political Science Department’s Senior Professor of the department to a position with the US Senator Russell B. Long Collection in LSU’s Archives.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

• The Florida Bar (1990)
• The Louisiana State Bar Association (1989)
• United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit (1991)
• United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (1991)
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1989)
• United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana (1989)

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:

• Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini Catholic Church/Holy Cross High School, Section 106  Landmark Representative/Attorney for Oak Park Civic Association before FEMA and the New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission
• Successfully prevented landmark designation of church to allow demolition to relocate Holy Cross High School to Oak Park as desired by Archdiocese, Holy Cross, and overwhelming majority of New Orleanians.