Hope Phelps

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Hope Phelps focuses her legal practice on civil rights and employment discrimination matters. Her experience includes assisting clients with Title IX cases, workplace sexual harassment claims, and civil claims for sexual assault and rape. Hope was selected to the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Louisiana Rising Stars lists published by Thomson Reuters.

Before joining Most & Associates, Hope spent four years working at local firms that specialize in commercial litigation and insurance defense. She has experience in insurance coverage, personal injury, wrongful death, premises liability, and products liability. Hope secured Daubert and summary judgment wins in state and federal courts across Louisiana, and prepared writs and appellate briefs.  She also has experience working in the restaurant industry in both Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

Outside of the law office, Hope serves on the board of Friends of New Orleans Public Library. She is a Fellow of Loyola’s Institute of Politics (2021). In 2019, she completed the City of New Orleans Civic Leadership Academy. Her volunteer work includes assisting with communications for a political organization, particularly in service of issue-based campaigns.

A New Orleans native, Hope graduated from Mount Carmel Academy, earned a dual degree in English Literature and Psychology with a minor in Latin from Louisiana State University, and returned home to pursue her J.D. at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. And while still at LSU, she completed 40-hours of training to volunteer with the Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response Center (STAR), where she responded to calls on the 24/7 crisis hotline and served as an advocate for survivors at the hospital during forensic exams.

At Loyola, Hope competed on and coached Loyola’s First Amendment Moot Court Team. She served as a Student Attorney with Loyola’s Family Law Clinic, clerked with the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board, Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, and served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Jane-Triche Milazzo of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. While in law school, Hope volunteered as a clinic escort and legal observer with the New Orleans Abortion Fund (NOAF).

Loyola Law Review published Hope’s casenote on an unconstitutional Texas abortion restriction, which anticipated the Supreme Court of the United States’ response to an identical Louisiana law. See Planned Parenthood v. Abbott: Evaluating the Admitting Privileges Requirement Under the Undue Burden Standard, 61 Loy. L. Rev. 437 (2015).

Bar Admissions

  • State of Louisiana

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth District

  • United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana

  • United States District Court, Middle District of Louisiana

  • United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana