Jessie Finley Gensler

Attorney Brief

Jessie Finley Gensler is a Blue Williams partner who defends insurers, transportation companies, healthcare providers, property owners, and other businesses in high-exposure civil litigation. Her practice focuses on commercial automobile and trucking accidents, medical malpractice, insurance defense, and property and casualty claims.

Jessie approaches litigation with a strong command of both written and courtroom advocacy. She works to understand the circumstances surrounding an incident, identify the evidence that will shape the case, and give clients a realistic assessment of their options. Her experience encompasses early investigation, discovery, depositions, expert coordination, dispositive motions, settlement negotiations, and trial.

In 2026, Jessie helped secure a complete defense verdict in a seven-day wrongful-death jury trial involving a fatal commercial motor-vehicle accident and a demand for $69 million.

Education

Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, J.D. and Graduate Diploma in Comparative Law

• Order of the Barristers
• Best Overall Brief, Robert Lee Tullis Moot Court Competition, 2016
• First Place, John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court Competition, 2018
• Best Overall Brief, John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court Competition, 2017 and 2018
• ABA Labor and Employment Trial Advocacy Team
• Admiralty Moot Court Team

Louisiana State University, B.A. in Sociology, cum laude

• Minor in Communication Studies

Narrative

Jessie represents clients in claims arising from commercial vehicle accidents, alleged medical negligence, property losses, premises incidents, and other casualty events. She recognizes that serious claims require early attention to physical evidence, electronic data, witness testimony, medical records, and the client’s own policies and procedures.

Her transportation practice includes cases involving catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, driver conduct, alleged impairment, punitive-damages claims, and disputed medical causation. Jessie works with drivers, company representatives, insurers, accident-reconstruction professionals, medical experts, and other specialists to build a clear understanding of the evidence and develop a defense tailored to the client’s objectives.

Jessie also represents healthcare providers in medical-malpractice litigation. She assists clients in evaluating the applicable standard of care, understanding complex medical records, coordinating expert review, and presenting technical information clearly to judges and juries.

Before joining Blue Williams in 2022, Jessie practiced maritime law, insurance defense, and property and casualty litigation in the New Orleans area. Her earlier maritime experience gives her additional familiarity with vessel operations, marine claims, and the federal procedural issues that can arise in Gulf Coast litigation 

Bar, Courts & Professional Affiliations

• Louisiana, 2018
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2018
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 2018
• United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, 2018
• United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, 2018

• Louisiana State Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Federal Bar Association

Representative Work

Complete defense verdict in $69 million wrongful-death claim

Jessie and partner Jacob Best represented the defendant in a seven-day Allen Parish jury trial arising from a fatal, high-speed commercial motor-vehicle accident. The plaintiffs sought compensatory and punitive damages and alleged that the defendant driver was intoxicated through the use of prescription psychiatric medication.

Although the plaintiffs requested $69 million during closing arguments, the jury found no liability on the part of the client and returned a defense verdict. Associate Jamison Beuerman assisted during the trial. Read the case announcement