Our Attorneys

Paul Cox

Partner

Paul handles all types of plaintiffs’ personal injury, maritime, and workers’ compensation cases. Paul has devoted his practice to helping families get their lives back on track by recovering the compensation they deserve.

Tom Filo

Partner

Tom has successfully tried and settled hundreds of personal injury cases, including one of the largest punitive damage verdicts for an individual plaintiff in Louisiana. He has obtained numerous multimillion dollar recoveries for clients against oil companies, industrial plants, automobile manufacturers, and insurance companies.

Michael Cox

Partner

Michael has successfully tried over one hundred cases in state and federal courts, including approximately 30 jury trials and the largest individual personal injury verdict reported in the state of Louisiana, over $26 million.

Paul Cox

Partner

Paul handles all types of plaintiffs’ personal injury, maritime, and workers’ compensation cases. Paul has devoted his practice to helping families get their lives back on track by recovering the compensation they deserve.

richard wilson

Partner

Richard handles maritime, personal injury, toxic tort, and workers’ compensation cases.

somer brown

Partner

Somer, a Lake Charles native, graduated from McNeese State and earned her law degree at Baylor. She has practiced in the areas of oil and gas disputes, insurance, and employment law. Her focus here has been on employee rights and union issues, along with personal injury.

Jackson Ritchie

Attorney

Jackson is a native of Sulphur and a McNeese graduate in Business. His law degree is from Louisiana State University Law Center. His focuses are Hurricane Litigation and Personal Injury.

james cox

Of Counsel

Jimmy co-founded the firm in 1969. Throughout his career, he has settled hundreds of cases totaling millions of dollars in Jones Act, maritime, personal injury, and inadequate security litigation. From 1991 to 2000, he served in the Louisiana State Senate.

William Cox
(1928-2011)

Along with his brother Jimmy, William Cox founded the Lake Charles firm of Cox & Cox in 1969.

Jackson Ritchie

Attorney

Jackson is a native of Sulphur and a McNeese graduate in Business. His law degree is from Louisiana State University Law Center. His focuses are Hurricane Litigation and Personal Injury.

Judge Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux

Of Counsel

Judge T is a former Chief Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeal. Upon retiring form the bench, he became Of Counsel the Cox Law Firm.

Roy Wygant

Attorney

Originally from Texas, Roy completed all of his higher education in Louisiana including Tulane Law School. he practices in both Texas and Louisiana in civil, criminal and family law, and has succeeded in cases that went all the way to the Louisiana Supreme Court and the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal.

Derrick D. Kee

Attorney

Derrick is a father of four (4) and the husband of Chasity Kee. He is a native of Chicago, Illinois, but first came to Louisiana when he enrolled in Grambling State University in 1997. While at Grambling, Derrick excelled both academically and athletically as a baseball player and outstanding student.

Judge Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux

Of Counsel

Judge T is a former Chief Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeal. Upon retiring form the bench, he became Of Counsel for the Cox Law Firm.