Andrew R. Capitelli

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Andrew Capitelli is an accomplished transactions, compliance and business attorney and an experienced litigator.  He concentrates his business practice in Health Care and serves as counsel to several hospitals and physician practice groups.  As a versatile litigator, he is active in governmental liability defense and matters involving Health Care.  He serves as Milling Benson’s Managing Partner.

He is admitted to practice in Louisiana, all federal district courts throughout the state, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

 Andrew Capitelli graduated cum laude in 2008 from The L.S.U. Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where he was selected for the Chancellor’s List and received the CALI Award for Legal Research and Writing and for Corporate and White Collar Criminal Law. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Capitelli received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Louisiana State University, where he majored in English Literature. At Louisiana State University, he was inducted into the Foreaux Society and was selected as a University Medalist.

Mr. Capitelli was selected for the Louisiana State Bar Association’s 2013-2014 Leadership Class, and he received a Certificate of Recognition for his work with the Leadership Class. Mr. Capitelli was voted as Northshore’s Best Attorney in 2012 by Sophisticated Woman magazine and in 2022 by Edge of the Lake magazine. He was selected as the recipient of the Louisiana Appleseed Good Apple Award in 2010. In 2017, Mr. Capitelli was again honored with the Louisiana Appleseed Good Apple Award, and he is the first double recipient of the award. Mr. Capitelli currently serves as Revisions Editor of the Louisiana State Bar Association Emergency Disaster Training Manual, a position he has held since 2009.  He also currently serves as an adjunct professor at the University of New Orleans, where he teaches Healthcare Ethics, Law and Policy to students in the Healthcare Management Program.

  • Expungement: Overview of Current Expungement Rules, presented to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Department as POST training (September 16, 2016)
  • Louisiana Public Records Law Overview, presented to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Department as POST training (September 16, 2016)
  • A Legal Update on the Mental Health Crisis in the Emergency Department, presented with Thomas S. Schneidau, Dr. Charles Preston and Angel Poche at the Louisiana Hospital Association’s Health Law Symposium (November 6, 2014)
  • Mental Health Challenges in the Emergency Department, presented at the Louisiana Hospital Association’s 25th Annual Health Law Symposium, November 6, 2014. (with Thomas Schneidau, Esq., Dr. Charles Preston and Angel Poche, R.N.)

  • Louisiana Medical Information: Disclosure and Access, presented in the Meaningful Use and Medical Records seminar hosted by Lorman Education Services (April 10, 2013)
  • A Legal Update on the Mental Health Crisis in the Emergency Department, presented with Thomas S. Schneidau, Dr. Charles Preston and Angel Poche at the Louisiana Hospital Association’s Health Law Symposium (November 6, 2014)
  • Legal Issues Connected to Ebola in the U.S., published by LAMMICO in a four-part series (November 20 and 26, 2014; December 4 and 10, 2014), available in full at https://www.millinglaw.com/images/newsletters/ebola/LegalIssuesConnectedtoEBOLAintheUnitedStates.pdf
  • Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, Physician, Administrator and Nurse Presentations, published by LAMMICO
  • Emergency Disaster Training Manual for Volunteer Lawyers, Editor, published in association with Louisiana Appleseed and the Louisiana State Bar Association (Contributing Editor for 2008, Revisions Editor for 2009-Present)
  • Landlord Lease Remedies: What Are a Landlord’s Default Rights and What Can It Recover?, Probate & Property, Nov.-Dec. 2009, at 17
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  • Best Lawyers in America
    Litigation – Insurance
  • Martindale Hubbell AV Preeminent

 

  • Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, 2008, J.D.
  • Louisiana State University, 2005, B.A., English Literature