W. James Singleton was born in the small town of Frierson, Louisiana. He attended college at Southern University in Baton Rouge and law school at Southern University School of Law. After he finished law school he immediately established his own solo practice and was elected to the Caddo Parish Police Trial Jury in 1976.
Singleton has also been a member of the Louisiana State Legislature, from 1983 to 1996, and a former Assistant State Attorney General. He has also been affiliated with the following institutions at some point in his professional career: Louisiana Law Institute (former member), Board of Governors-Lawyers (former member), Ethics Committee Chairman Shreveport Bar Association, Committee on Judiciary Louisiana State Legislature (former chairman), Committee on Civil Law Louisiana State Legislature (former chairman), and the Executive Committee of the Louisiana Trial Lawyers.
Singleton currently practices in the areas of toxic substances, accidents, train and railroad accidents, medical malpractice, nursing home, wills, successions, and probates, refinery and oil field accidents, patents, brain spinal cord injuries, wrongful death claims, and product liability cases.
