KEY TAKEAWAYS: MBLB expanded its headquarters by adding a fifth-floor office at Hancock Whitney Center. The expansion follows mergers with two law firms completed in 2025 and 2026. The firm now employs 80 attorneys across offices in Louisiana, Illinois and Texas. The new office features collab orative workspaces designed by New Orleans architecture firm GOAT.   New Orleans law firm Mouledoux, Bland, Legrand Brackett has expanded its headquarters at the Hancock Whitney Center, adding a fifth-floor office to accommodate growth fueled by recent mergers and geographic expansion. The firm held a ribbon-cutting ceremony June 29 to mark the opening of the new space. MBLB previously occupied the building’s entire sixth floor but expanded after adding attorneys and staff through its mergers with Nalley, Dew and Miner in April 2025 and Larzelere Picou Wells Simpson Lonero LLC in January 2026. The expansion comes as the firm continues a period of growth. MBLB now has 80 attorneys across four offices in Louisiana, Illinois and Texas, including new offices opened in Chicago in 2024 and Houston earlier this year. “The expansion of MBLB’s offices to another floor continues an exciting trajectory that the firm has been on the last several years,” Managing Member Alan Brackett said. “In 2019, we had outgrown our offices on the upper floors of the Hancock Whitney Center, and we then took over the entire sixth floor of the building. We had 40 offices that we thought we might have trouble filling, and here we are six years later and we’ve got two floors. It speaks to the growth of the firm and the addition of the attorneys and staff from Nalley, Dew and Miner and Larzelere Picou.” The new office was designed by New Orleans-based architecture and design firm GOAT, which also designed MBLB’s sixth-floor offices. According to the firm, the design emphasizes natural light, collaborative workspaces and a more contemporary office layout intended to support teamwork and reflect the firm’s culture. Founded in New Orleans, MBLB is a full-service defense law firm representing clients in industries including maritime, construction, energy, insurance, transportation, workers’ compensation and municipal law. In addition to its New Orleans headquarters, the firm has offices in Lafayette, Chicago and Houston. ...read more read less