Jones Walker LLP is pleased to announce that 127 attorneys across the firm’s offices are listed in the annual peer-review attorney rankings in The Best Lawyers in America© for 2020. In addition, 14 attorneys also received the esteemed The Best Lawyers in America© “Lawyer of the Year” designation for 2020.

Best Lawyers®, established in 1983, is universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers® ratings are based on peer-review surveys in which thousands of attorneys cast more than two million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers® “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

ATLANTA

Joseph P. Henner – Construction Law, Litigation – Construction

Neal J. Sweeney – Construction Law, Litigation – Construction

Chad V. Theriot – Construction Law, Litigation – Construction

 

BATON ROUGE

Brandon Kelly Black – Litigation – Banking and Finance

John C. Blackman, IV – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Tax Law, Trust and Estates

Boyd A. Bryan – Environmental Law

Fred L. Chevalier – Economic Development Law, Public Finance Law

Jeffry W. Gray – Real Estate Law

B. Michael Mauldin – Corporate Law, Trust and Estates

F. Charles McMains, Jr. – Government Relations Practice

Bernard F. Meroney – Copyright Law

James C. Percy – Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Environmental, Litigation – Municipal, Litigation – Real Estate

Dionne M. Rousseau – Corporate Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law

Robert W. Scheffy, Jr. – Energy Law, Natural Resources Law, Oil and Gas Law, Real Estate Law

Robert C. Tucker – Litigation – Intellectual Property, Litigation – Patent, Patent Law, Trademark Law

Raedtha A. Vasquez – Real Estate Law

B. Trevor Wilson – Tax Law

 

BIRMINGHAM

Emily Sides Bonds – Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, Litigation – Banking and Finance, Litigation – Municipal

C. Ellis Brazeal III – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation – Bankruptcy

Steven F. Casey – Land Use and Zoning Law, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants

John W. Gant, Jr. – Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Tax Law

Mac B. Greaves – Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management

John Beaulieu Grenier – Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation

William W. Horton – Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Health Care Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation

Daniel J. Martin – Health Care Law

Robert C. Walthall – Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Corporate Law, Tax Law

Michael D. Waters – Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, Financial Services Regulation Law

Vernon L. Wells, II – Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Construction

Kary Bryant Wolfe – Litigation – Labor and Employment

Paul O. Woodall, Jr. – Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)

 

HOUSTON

James M. Ardoin, III – Criminal Defense: General Practice, Criminal Defense: White-Collar

Michael A. Chernekoff – Environmental Law, Litigation – Environmental

Lauren J. Harrison – Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Antitrust

 

JACKSON

Joseph Lee Adams – Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management

Jeffrey R. Barber – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation – Bankruptcy

Neville H. Boschert – Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, Litigation – Antitrust

Robert E. Box, Jr. – Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Tax Law

Mark T. Davis – Real Estate Law

William E. Dossett – Tax Law, Trust and Estates

John F. Fletcher – Tax Law

J. Andrew Gipson – Securities Regulation

Chad J. Hammons – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation – Bankruptcy

Kathryn H. Hester – Land Use and Zoning Law, Litigation – Land Use and Zoning

Robert B. House – Administrative/Regulatory Law

Gina M. Jacobs – Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Kristina M. Johnson – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation – Bankruptcy

Linda Bounds Keng – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Trust and Estates

Craig N. Landrum – Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, Financial Services Regulation Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Dennis W. Miller – Energy Law, Government Relations Practice

Christopher S. Pace – Economic Development Law, Gaming Law, Project Finance Law

L. Keith Parsons – Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Public Finance Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation

Kaytie M. Pickett – Commercial Litigation

Keith R. Raulston – Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants, Litigation – Antitrust, Litigation – Banking and Finance, Litigation – Bankruptcy, Litigation – Insurance, Litigation – Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy), Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers

W. Whitaker Rayner – Copyright Law, Information Technology Law, Litigation – Intellectual Property, Trademark Law

Thomas B. Shepherd III – Corporate Law, Gaming Law

Adam Stone – Commercial Litigation

Ann Corso Taylor – Real Estate Law

Aileen S. Thomas – Commercial Finance Law, Commercial Transactions/UCC Law, Corporate Law

Thomas E. Walker, Jr. – Banking and Finance Law, Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, Financial Services Regulation Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law

 

LAFAYETTE

Gary J. Russo – Oil and Gas Law

 

MIAMI

Mark D. Rich – Tax Law, Trust and Estates

Edward R. Shohat – Criminal Defense: General Practice, Criminal Defense: White-Collar

 

MOBILE

Palmer C. Hamilton – Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Law

Ben H. Harris, III – Commercial Litigation

Clay A. Lanham – Real Estate Law

Michel Nicrosi – Commercial Litigation

Ronald A. Snider – Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Richard A. Wright – Banking and Finance Law, Litigation – Banking and Finance, Real Estate Law

 

NEW ORLEANS

H. Mark Adams – Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment

Jesse R. Adams, III – Litigation and Controversy – Tax, Tax Law

William M. Backstrom, Jr. – Litigation and Controversy – Tax, Tax Law

Edward Hart Bergin – Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)

Richard D. Bertram – Admiralty and Maritime Law

Robert B. Bieck, Jr. – Litigation – Banking and Finance, Litigation – Mergers and Acquisitions, Litigation – Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy), Litigation – Securities

Timothy P. Brechtel – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Tax Law

John J. Broders – Admiralty and Maritime Law

Andre B. Burvant – Litigation and Controversy – Tax, Tax Law

Thomas A. Casey, Jr. – Commercial Litigation

Susan K. Chambers – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Tax Law

R. Keith Colvin – Real Estate Law

Richard Cortizas – Land Use and Zoning Law

Mark A. Cunningham – Administrative/Regulatory Law, Antitrust Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Antitrust, Litigation – Mergers and Acquisitions

J. Kelly Duncan – Admiralty and Maritime Law, Gaming Law

David F. Edwards – Litigation – Trust and Estates, Trust and Estates

Madeleine Fischer – Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

George J. Fowler, III – Admiralty and Maritime Law, Commercial Litigation

Elizabeth J. Futrell – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation – Bankruptcy

Covert J. Geary – Commercial Litigation, Litigation – ERISA

Glenn G. Goodier – Admiralty and Maritime Law

Alida C. Hainkel – Commercial Litigation

Harry Simms Hardin, III – Appellate Practice, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Intellectual Property, Litigation – Real Estate, Railroad Law

Pauline F. Hardin – Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: White Collar

Curtis R. Hearn – Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, Venture Capital Law

Miriam Wogan Henry – Litigation – Trust and Estates, Trusts and Estates

William H. Hines – Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, Insurance Law, International Trade and Finance Law, Project Finance Law, Real Estate Law

Thomas P. Hubert – Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment

Grady S. Hurley – Admiralty and Maritime Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Construction, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants

Jonathan R. Katz – Tax Law

Tracy E. Kern – Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment

Edward J. Koehl, Jr. – Admiralty and Maritime Law

Keith M. Landry – Construction Law, Trademark Law

Joseph F. Lavigne – Employment Law – Management

Edward F. LeBreton III – Admiralty and Maritime Law, Insurance Law

Andrew R. Lee – Commercial Litigation

F. Rivers Lelong, Jr. – Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, Real Estate Law

Robert T. Lemon II – Admiralty and Maritime Law

Sidney F. Lewis, V – Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management

Joseph J. Lowenthal, Jr. – Commercial Litigation

Michael W. Magner – Corporate Compliance Law

R. Lewis McHenry – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Real Estate Law

Stanley A. Millan – Environmental Law

Mark A. Mintz – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Kenneth J. Najder – Corporate Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation

J. Marshall Page, III – Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, International Trade and Finance Law, Venture Capital Law

David G. Radlauer – Antitrust Law, Litigation – Antitrust

Rudolph R. Ramelli – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Tax Law

Carl D. Rosenblum – Oil and Gas Law

Jefferson R. Tillery – Admiralty and Maritime Law

Richard J. Tyler – Construction Law, Litigation – Construction

Susan M. Tyler – Banking and Finance Law, Equipment Finance Law, Real Estate Law

R. Patrick Vance – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Banking and Finance, Litigation – Bankruptcy

Edward Dirk Wegmann – Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Banking and Finance, Litigation – Construction, Litigation – Real Estate, Litigation – Trust and Estates, Litigation and Controversy – Tax

Richard P. Wolfe – Corporate Law, International Trade and Finance Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation

Benjamin Paul Woodruff – Banking and Finance Law, Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Commercial Finance Law

James E. Wright, III – Admiralty and Maritime Law

Scott T. Zander – International Trade and Finance Law

 

PHOENIX

H. Hughes Grehan – Corporate Law

 

2019 “LAWYER OF THE YEAR” AWARD RECIPIENTS

Additionally, 14 Jones Walker attorneys have received The Best Lawyers in America© 2020 “Lawyer of the Year” designation.

 

BATON ROUGE

Jeffry W. Gray – Real Estate Law

Robert W. Scheffy, Jr. – Energy Law

Robert C. Tucker – Patent Law

 

BIRMINGHAM

Steven F. Casey – Land Use and Zoning Law

 

JACKSON

Gina M. Jacobs – Mergers and Acquisitions Law

W. Whitaker Rayner – Copyright Law

Thomas E. Walker, Jr. – Financial Services Regulation Law

 

MOBILE

Richard A. Wright – Banking and Finance Law

 

NEW ORLEANS

Jesse R. Adams, III – Tax Law, Litigation and Controversy – Tax

Covert J. Geary – Litigation – ERISA

Harry Simms Hardin, III – Appellate Practice

Michael W. Magner – Corporate Compliance Law

Kenneth J. Najder – Corporate Law

David G. Radlauer – Antitrust Law

 

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