Armistead Long

Practice Areas

• Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors' Rights

• Banking

• Commercial Litigation

• Oil, Gas & Energy Litigation, Arbitration, and Transactions

• Oilfield Service Company Transactions & Litigation

Career

Armistead "Army" Long brings the knowledge and experience he earned over the course of his successful entrepreneurial career. His practice focuses on creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, and commercial transactional work for corporate, oil, gas and energy clients in Louisiana and Texas. Army is also one of only seven Sub-Chapter V bankruptcy trustees selected by the Department of Justice’s United States Trustee Program to serve in the State of Louisiana.

Army is a skilled and diplomatic contract negotiator, facilitating his clients’ national and international service and supply agreements, leases, licensed manufacturing, distribution and labor agreements. His experience includes successfully leading his clients through corporate mergers, acquisitions and sales. It also includes successful “bet the farm” crisis management.

Army understands process, manufacturing and quality control. He served as chief executive officer of JBLCo Holdings, Inc., a leading North American manufacturer of bulk materials sampling systems and mine safety equipment he co-founded in 1986. He is also the co-inventor of several U.S. patents for control and design of bulk material sampling equipment. Following the sale of JBLCo, Army entered law school in the fall of 2002.

Excelling in and out of the classroom while in law school, Army interned with the Honorable Pamela A. Mathy, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Texas and with Region 7 (Western District of Texas – San Antonio) of the Office of the U.S. Trustee. He also clerked with a leading San Antonio intellectual property law firm.

Following law school graduation in May 2005, Army served as law clerk to the Honorable Ronald B. King, Chief Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Texas before moving to Asheville, North Carolina to work in the business and litigation practice groups of one of the state’s most respected and established law firms.

Recognition:

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Energy Law, Litigation - Bankruptcy; Listed in Best Lawyers since 2022

• Selected to Acadiana Profile Magazine “Top Lawyers” list - Bankruptcy and Creditor / Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2021, and Banking & Finance Law, 2022

• Rated Martindale-Hubbell® A-V Preeminent™

Professional Memberships

• American Bankruptcy Institute

• American Bar Association – Business Law Division

• Federal Bar Association

• State Bar Associations of Louisiana and Texas

• Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration

• Society for the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers

• Acadiana Center for the Arts

• Louisiana Folk Roots

• Former Member – American Inns of Court – Acadiana Inn

• Former Board Member – National Stone Association / Manufacturers Division

• Former Board Member – National Weighing and Sampling Association