James Carter

James Jerome Carter is a nationally accomplished attorney, statesman, educator, and author who has been practicing law for over 25 years. He is the Managing Partner of The Cochran Firm-
Trials & Mass Torts and serves on The Cochran Firm’s national Board of Directors. . He is presently the President- Elect of the National Bar Association (NBA).

Mr. Carter obtained his undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Howard University. He then graduated from Howard University School of Law, where he serves on the Board of Visitors.
He is a formidable trial attorney who is responsible for recovering millions of dollars on behalf of clients, both personal and corporate, throughout the United States. His skillfully aggressive
approach to the civil jury trial world gained him elite membership in the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

He received a prized certification in Mass Tort Multi-District Litigation from the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke University School of Law and in 2021 earned a certificate in Governing for Nonprofit Excellence from Harvard Business School. He is currently one of seven Commissioners of the globally significant Port of New Orleans. For his accomplishments as an attorney and public servant, Grambling State University and the University of New Orleans awarded him honorary doctorate degrees