J. Clayton Culotta

J. Clayton Culotta is a founding partner at Culotta & Culotta LLP in New Albany, Indiana. His practice combines corporate and business law with complex civil litigation, contracts, compliance, dispute resolution and civil mediation. He advises organizations on formation, employment-related policies and day-to-day legal responsibilities. He also represents individuals in civil rights matters, including claims against governmental or law enforcement entities.

Clay earned a B.G.S. from Louisiana State University in 1990 and a J.D. from Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge in 1993. His legal training preceded positions as an assistant district attorney and a special prosecutor with the Louisiana Department of Justice drug task force. His academic and early prosecutorial experience inform a practice that now spans business counseling, civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution.

Clay prepares and reviews contracts, assists with corporate formation and develops compliance programs and employee handbooks. His litigation experience includes disputes involving private discrimination, civil rights, medical peer review and the National Practitioner Data Bank. He argued matters addressing medical peer review privilege in federal court and the application of Privacy Act requirements to data bank records. He also works as a civil mediator to help parties settle disputes.

Clay is admitted to practice in Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland and the District of Columbia, with additional federal court admissions. He has worked in state and federal litigation and uses that experience in advising corporate clients about preventing disputes as well as resolving them. His practice connects preventive business counseling with courtroom and mediation experience. J. Clayton Culotta assists organizations and individuals facing legal risks that call for informed strategy and careful preparation.

Law Office Affiliations

• Founding Partner, Culotta & Culotta LLP
• Member, Indiana State Bar Association
• Member, District of Columbia Bar
• Member, Louisiana State Bar Association
• Member, Maryland State Bar Association
• Member, Federal Courts of Appeal for the Fourth, Fifth and Tenth Circuits

Licensed State

• Indiana
• District of Columbia
• Louisiana
• Maryland

Education

• Southern University Law Center
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Louisiana State University
  B.G.S.

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