Oris Creighton

Oris R. Creighton began his second career when he graduated law school at 60 years of age. His new vocation followed a career in the construction industry that began in 1950 when he worked for Kaiser Engineers in Chalmette, Louisiana as a fifteen-year-old bulldozer operator.

Oris’s career in construction included supervision in site preparation, marine pile driving, concrete, highway construction, marine dredging and municipal utilities. He has worked on construction projects in every southern state along the Gulf Coast and in California, Hawaii, the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Unlike many of his classmates who graduated from Holy Cross High School in 1954, Creighton soon lost interest in a college education. It was not until the mid-80s, when he was in his late forties, that renewed interests in academia lead him to enter a night study program at the University of New Orleans. He pursued a Liberal Arts curriculum, which included studies at Oxford University, in the United Kingdom. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from UNO in 1993 where he was a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society and Alpha Theta Epsilon National Honor Society.

Oris earned a Juris Doctor Degree from Loyola School of Law, graduating with Moot Court Honors. While at Loyola, Oris was president of the American Association for Justice and vice-president of the Cajun-American Law Society. He studied comparative civil law systems at the University of Vienna Law School in Austria, and at Universití Aix-Marseille III in Aix en Provence, France.

Oris was admitted to the Louisiana State Bar Association on October 11, 1996 after passing the Bar Examination during the summer of that year. He is presently active in the Greater Covington Bar Association, and the Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association. He is a past member of the Construction Panel of the American Arbitration Association.

Upon entering the active practice of law, Oris has resigned all connections with his construction interests, now devoting his entire time to his clients. As might be expected, his area of legal interest is strongly weighted towards construction law and related litigation.