Lad was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1967. He graduated with a B.A. in Economics from Tulane University in May of 1990. In May of 1993, he received his Juris Doctorate from Louisiana State University. Prior to joining the firm in 1996, Lad clerked for the Juvenile Court for Caddo Parish for one year and Judge Stephen V. Callaway, Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, for two years. He is a member of the Shreveport, Louisiana, and American Bar Associations. He currently is immediate past President of the Young Lawyer Section of the Shreveport Bar Association. Lad is admitted to practice in all Louisiana State Courts as well as the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana.

Lad is married to Dorothy A. Shemwell, and has three daughters, Brooke, Sarah Margaret and Merrit.

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