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While a student at South Lafourche High School, teachers always told Larose native Jeray Jambon that she should pursue a career in law.
“They said that because I liked to argue,” she said while looking back.
She listened.
After several years of education, Jambon passed the Bar Exam in July 2012 after graduating Magna Cum Laude from the Southern University Law Center in May 2012.
She now has her own practice on 13044 West Main in Larose and she wants everyone to know that she is willing and able to help anyone in need of a passionate lawyer.
“I know people need help,” Jambon said. “I love to help people. I believe our mission in life is to serve others. It’s fulfilling to me to know that I can help someone who really needs it.”
Jambon said her path to law was started by her teachers’ suggestions. But it was sealed during career day her senior year as a Tarpon.
During that year, Jambon said she was involved with Student Government. As a member of that club, she was able to shadow a professional for a day.
She said during that day, she shadowed Judge Jerome Barbera.
That set her passion into motion.
“I fell in love with the courtroom,” Jambon said of her experience shadowing Barbera. “After that day, I knew that I wanted to become a lawyer.”
To follow up on her passion, Jambon attended Nicholls State University where she graduated with a four-year degree in Business Administration.
While there, she rubbed shoulders with a few professors who also put fuel onto her fire.
“While at Nicholls, I was re-inspired by my professors, Henry Lafont and Mitch Theriot, to further my dreams of becoming a lawyer,” Jambon said.
So with her undergraduate under her belt, Jambon headed to Southern for four more years of studying.
Upon graduation from Southern, Jambon spent a year cutting her teeth as a law clerk at Judge Walter Lanier III’s office.
Following that time, she said she took a leap of faith and decided to go on her own.
Jambon currently shares an office space with Lafont and is a solo practitioner.
The new lawyer believes that the life lessons she learned as a South Lafourche native will make her a good attorney.
She credits her parents, Jude and Corinne Jambon as giving her the necessary skills to be successful in life.
“I hope to be successful as an attorney because I think I can relate to people,” Jambon said. “And I have a good work ethic. My parents worked very hard – sometimes multiple jobs – to make sure that my brother Ross and I had every opportunity to become successful. They taught us to do things right the first time and to be honest. I know he and I both work hard to make our parents proud.”
Jambon said as a solo practitioner, she is a sort of one-stop shop for anyone needing judicial advice.
She said she doesn’t specialize in any specific area of the law, touting that she has picked up a wide range of knowledge from her experiences along the way.
“While working for Judge Lanier, I was exposed to various aspects of the law – mostly family law and criminal,” Jambon said. “I’m also a notary, so I also do notary work, as well.”
But more important than all of the legal ins and outs is the comfort that Jambon hopes to bring to her clients.
The new attorney said that because she has grown up in the area, she knows how to cater to the needs of the Tri-parish people.
Jambon added that helping others in her community is one of the biggest reasons for her starting a practice locally and not elsewhere.
“I’m from down the bayou,” she said. “The only reason I ever left the bayou was to go to school, and now I’m back. I just so happen to be knowledgeable in the law, but I am also super laid back and down to earth.
“It is my hope that people would come talk to me if they needed some legal advice or perspective.”
Larose lawyer Jeray Jambon sits at her desk while shuffling through some papers. The local said she returned home to start her practice because she wanted to provide quality assistance to the people of this area.
