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Our sales and underwriting team focus solely on lawyer’s professional liability insurance so you get the benefit of highly specialized staff members dedicated to serving your specialized needs. Our office features over 60 professionals who are devoted to serving your legal malpractice insurance needs through sales, consultation, claims filing, continuing education and renewals. Our underwriters focus 100% on attorney’s malpractice insurance and nothing else. That’s why when we have the privilege of gaining your business, we keep it; we build trusted relationships for the long term.

Get to know our team and you’ll know why clients stick with GilsbarPRO.

GilsbarPRO Attorneys


Johanna G. Averill

Prior to joining Gilsbar in January of 1999, Mrs. Averill worked as a staff attorney for an Administrative Law Judge for the U. S. Department of Labor and as a judicial clerk for a Judge Pro Tempore for the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal. Mrs. Averill has also practiced law for an insurance defense firm in New Orleans. A graduate of Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing, Mrs. Averill received her Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University School of Law.

Lindsey M. Ladouceur

Ms. Ladouceur is a partner in the law firm of Ladouceur and Ladouceur, L.L.C. She has a general civil litigation practice with an emphasis on commercial litigation, construction law, family law, and professional liability. A magna cum laude graduate of Loyola University School of Law, Ms. Ladouceur is a Board Certified Family Law Specialist, certified civil mediator, and divorce mediator. Ms. Ladouceur is the former President of the New Orleans Association for Women Attorneys and co-author of Planning for Marriage, Separation, and Divorce: A Louisiana Perspective. As a consultant to Gilsbar, Inc., Ms. Ladouceur is also Professional Liability Loss Prevention Counsel to the Louisiana State Bar Association.

Elizabeth LeBlanc Voss

Ms. Voss serves as one of the Loss Prevention Counsel for the Louisiana State Bar Association under the employment of Gilsbar, Inc. in Covington, Louisiana. Prior to joining Gilsbar, Ms. Voss was in-house counsel and regulatory compliance officer for a Louisiana community bank, worked as a civil litigator in New Orleans and served with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office in Houston, Texas. She also was appointed as a tax examiner for the United States Department of Treasury in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Voss received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Louisiana State University. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from South Texas College of Law (affiliated with Texas A & M University). Ms. Voss is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the State Bar of Texas.