Shiena Marie Burke practices in the casualty and mass tort litigation group. Shiena Marie has extensive experience in litigation and focuses her practice on issues involving product liability, medical malpractice and premises liability matters. She has also advised clients on the interpretation of Louisiana law in various contractual disputes.
Prior to private practice, Shiena Marie served as a federal clerk in the Department of Labor’s Office of Administrative Law Judges. She also served as a clerk in the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Eastern District of Louisiana Federal Public Defenders Office, the Orleans Public Defenders Office, and with the United States Navy Judge Advocate General. She has experience in a variety of areas including Defense Base Act matters, Federal Black Lung litigation, insurance coverage, bad faith litigation, general liability, marine litigation, and workers’ compensation.
Shiena Marie was recently appointed to the Louisiana State Bar Association’s House of Delegates for the 22nd Judicial District. She was also selected by the Louisiana Bar Foundation as one of four contributors for the 2023-2024 Speak Out for Justice! Focus on Civil Legal Aid, a Louisiana Bar Foundation Education Committee program.
Prior to law school, Shiena Marie worked at Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium as a Research Assistant in the Executive Directors Hypoxia lab.
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Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2019
- Oralist & Brief Writer, Admiralty Moot Court Team
- Comment & Symposium Editor, Loyola Maritime Law Journal
- Student Practitioner, Immigration Clinic
- President, Asian Pacific American Law Student Association
- Recipient, CALI Award (Louisiana Property I, Seminar in Marine Pollution)
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Nicholls State University, B.A., Government, cum laude, 2015
- Recipient, Louisiana Sea Grant Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Grant, 2013
- Recipient, 1st Place, 89th Louisiana Academy of Sciences (Social Science Division)
- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Student Government Association
- Philanthropy Chair, Sigma Sigma Sigma
- Member, Order of the Omega Greek Honor Society
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana
Courts
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
- Frank L. Maraist Award Finalist, Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, 2025