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Unlike larger firms, Perkins & Associates, L.L.C.,
with its experienced lawyers and highly trained
staff, strive to work more closely with its
commercial, insurance, and corporate clients,
as well as individual clients, by restricting the 

Primary Areas of Practice: Commercial litigation, workers' compensation defense, insurance defense, consumer transactions and redhibition, trucking industry defense and employment related defense.

Mark was born in 1962 in Monroe, Louisiana. He graduated in 1983 from Northeast Louisiana University (magna cum laude) in journalism. 
 

Mark worked for the Caddo Parish District Attorney's Office for four and one-half years as a Felony Assistant and as a Section Chief, litigating hundreds of bench and jury trials. 

Between 1992 and 1998, as a shareholder at the firm of Weems, Schimpf, Hayter, Gilsoul & Carmouche, Mark was actively involved in the development of the insurance and employment defense section. After six and one-half years with the Weems firm, he left to form his own defense practice. 

Mark is licensed in the States of Louisiana and Texas which qualifies him to practice in all parishes of Louisiana and all counties of Texas; however he focuses his practice area within 150 - 200 miles from Shreveport, Louisiana. Because Shreveport is only twenty minutes from East Texas, he can cost effectively represent clients in several counties of Northeast Texas.  

Mark is a member of Federal Western and Middle Districts of Louisiana, the Federal Fifth District Court of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court, Shreveport Bar Association, and the  American Bar Association (employment and litigation sections), Louisiana Bar Association (employment section), Defense Research Institute, Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, Trucking Insurance Defense Association, Transportation Lawyers Association, Louisiana Motor Transit Association, and the American Arbitration Association. He is a former member of the Louisiana Association of District Attorneys

Mark has conducted numerous training seminars for small businesses, industrial relations associations and human resource managers on preventing and defending harassment and discrimination claims. He has also defended many complex litigation claims, particularly trucking related claims.

Mark resides in Shreveport with his wife , Joan Guillot Perkins. Their twin daughters, Erica and Jessica, completed college in May 2009. Erica was married to Michael Rhodes in May 2009 and they live in Baton Rouge.

Mr. Baker was born in Vivian, Louisiana in 1975 and graduated from Louisiana State University in Shreveport with a Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise Science. He attended Regent University School of Law in Virginia where he served as both President of the Federalist Society and Managing Editor of the Regent Journal of Law and Public Policy.

Throughout law school, Mr. Baker worked as a law clerk for the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a conservative legal organization focusing on constitutional and religious liberties. After receiving his J.D. in 2009, Mr. Baker continued as an Associate with the ACLJ in Washington, D.C. involved with issues including international and domestic policy, free speech, free exercise, 2nd Amendment rights, and federal administrative rulemaking. 

Mr. Baker was admitted to the Louisiana State Bar in October 2009 and is currently licensed to practice in Louisiana, the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, and the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. He is also a member of the Louisiana Bar Association, the Shreveport Bar Association, the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, the Defense Research Institute. 

   
Rosalyn Hall
Paralegal

Kelli McNaughton
Paralegal