John W. Houghtaling II

Who is John W. Houghtaling II?

John Houghtaling, is an attorney in New Orleans, LA specializing in business and catastrophic personal injury litigation. He is managing partner of the law firm of Gauthier, Houghtaling and Williams, a firm originally founded in 1971 by the late Wendell Gauthier, a New Orleans attorney credited with forming a legal team to sue the big tobacco companies. Gauthier died in 2001.

Today, John Houghtaling is managing partner and majority owner of Gauthier, Houghtaling and Williams, the law firm that paved the way to the $358 billion U.S. tobacco settlement in 1998. The firm specializes in claim insurance litigation, with offices in New Orleans and Houston. Houghtaling concentrates on disaster recovery law. In 2005 he was hired by the attorney general of Louisiana to protect policyholder rights in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Over the years he has amassed settlements and verdicts of over $200 million for his individual clients, including over $100 million for property owners following Hurricanes Ike and Katrina.