Andrea Lestelle

Andrea S. Lestelle is an attorney with Lestelle & Lestelle, a Metairie, Louisiana, firm she has practiced with alongside her husband, Terry Lestelle, for more than 25 years. She represents people injured through the fault or negligence of others and helps home and business owners pursue property and casualty losses and insurance bad faith claims. The firm also handles maritime and offshore injuries, longshore and harbor worker claims, truck and auto accidents and wrongful death.

Lestelle earned her law degree at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where she served on the Loyola Law Review and as a teaching assistant in legal research. She is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the American Association for Justice, holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating and has been named a New Orleans Magazine Top Lawyer.

She has served on boards and committees of local nonprofits, including Teen Life Counts, a teen suicide prevention program in New Orleans-area schools, and has taught at local law schools, judged mock trial competitions and mentored law students.