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Jordan Nixon

With a great love for New Orleans, Jordan came to Louisiana with the intention of building a lifelong career in the city. This meant quickly diving into the toxic tort world: thanks to its many refineries and its location on the Mississippi, New Orleans has a massive volume of toxic tort litigation.

Jordan has served as local Louisiana counsel and national coordinating counsel for asbestos and benzene exposure dockets. Today, she primarily represents manufacturing clients whose products have been used in facilities and refineries, and her cases often center around historic exposures, requiring significant research. Jordan regularly prepares pleadings and motions, coordinates with expert witnesses, handles discovery, and appears in court.

In 2024, Jordan joined Husch Blackwell to help grow the firm’s Louisiana toxic tort practice. She has a solid reputation in the Louisiana toxic tort world and as an experienced, local New Orleans attorney. Clients appreciate her dependability, thorough approach to research, and creativity as she develops successful strategies for their cases.

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BAP1 as Independent Cause

Recent reviews of genetic research continue to challenge long-held assumptions about the causes of malignant mesothelioma. While plaintiffs’ attorneys often cite to asbestos exposure as the only cause of mesothelioma, a January 2025 publication in Scientific Reports led by Dahlia Nielsen includes a novel approach to the subject and provides further evidence that certain inherited genetic mutations—most notably in the BAP1 gene—can independently cause mesothelioma, even in the absence of asbestos exposure.1 The results of Nielsen’s Bayesian analysis and findings, together with a brand new paper2 by Dr. Michele Carbone’s group (which may find its way into a future blog), may alter the landscape of asbestos litigation and influence the strategies used by both plaintiffs and defendants.