To understand how Zara Zeringue practices law, start with this: she once bungee-jumped 140 feet off an old train bridge with her mother just to see what fear felt like.
Zara has always been drawn to what waits on the far side of fear, and that’s why clients find her when everything in their lives feels like freefall.
Fearlessness surfaced early in her life, long before she ever walked into a courtroom, when riding English hunter jumper horses and swimming in the murky waters of Louisiana bayous as a child, watching the quiet drift of alligators and accepting other unseen creatures nearby.
“Horses were my mental health before we even used that term,” she tells me. “When you connect with a massive, intuitive being, it frees you, challenges you, centers you.”
Perhaps that explains the grounded centeredness you feel when you meet Zara. Calm under pressure, she guides clients with the sort of internal steel that’s been pressure-tested since childhood.
Calm Under Pressure
In Zara’s law practice, one that encompasses family law, personal injury, estate planning, and successions, her clients usually arrive carrying a multitude of emotions, such as anger, fear, confusion, or grief. They’re exhausted, worn down by communication battles, and unsure of what comes next.
Zara meets them in the midst of their storms and offers practical tools. She often instructs clients to wait before firing off emotional texts or answering provocative messages.
“A lot of people don’t give themselves permission not to respond,” she explains. “Sometimes, the healthiest thing you can do is stop, breathe, and answer tomorrow.”
That single shift becomes a new way of engaging that prioritizes stability and long-term sustainability over short-term impulses and scorched-earth victory.
“I’m a big-picture person,” she says. “I start with the end in mind.”
Her goal is simple: healthier families, healthier futures, healthier ecosystems for the children who have no say in the conflict.
Clarity in the Storm
Zara is particularly passionate about fairness for fathers, a subject she approaches with conviction and care.
“Equal time or close to it should be the presumption, not the exception,” she says. “A good family lawyer has the best interest of the child at the center. Everything else flows from that.”
But the courtroom is only part of her work. The real transformation happens long before anyone stands before a judge, when clients learn to communicate without hostility, respond without defensiveness, and parent from steadiness rather than fear.
In those moments, Zara becomes more than a lawyer. She becomes an anchor.
Not one to glamorize conflict, she knows what it means to look fear in the face and choose clarity.
“You have to be courageous,” she explains. “Feel the fear and do it anyway.”
After founding her firm, Zara built a culture that reflects her own principles and attitudes—a work environment where she actively promotes the attorneys who practice with her and makes their success part of her mission.
These days, when Zara isn’t practicing or teaching yoga, she gets her horsepower from a different sort of saddle—her 20-horsepower Royal Enfield Meteor 350 motorcycle.
That same steadiness carries over into her work. In a field where tension is constant and certainty is scarce, Zara offers more than representation; she brings restoration, hope, and a return to center when everything spins off its axis.
If you’re looking for a steady advocate to help you navigate life’s challenging seasons, Zara Zeringue is exactly the presence you want in the room.
To schedule a consultation, visit lawyerincovington.com, email zeringueoffice@lawyerincovington.com, call 985- 801-0050, or find Zara on Instagram @zarazeringuelaw. Zeringue & Associates Law Firm is located at 527 E. Boston St., Suite 201, Covington, LA 70433.