Jones Walker LLP — United States
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Jones Walker LLP is among the 140 largest law firms in the United States serving local, regional, national, and international business interests in a wide range of markets and industries. The firm provides a comprehensive range of legal services to major multinational, public, and private corporations, Fortune® 500 companies, money center banks, worldwide insurers, and emerging companies doing business in the United States and abroad. Since its inception in 1937, Jones Walker LLP has grown over the past several decades in size and scope. With offices across the nation, it has close ties to many types of businesses and industries, and its attorneys are heralded for their experience in several practice areas. The firm focuses on building lasting relationships with clients and gaining a thorough understanding of clients’ businesses and industries. - Main areas of practice Construction: represents international and domestic owners, contractors, architects, and builders in the design and construction of hotels, resorts, hospitals, high-rise office towers, power plants, clean energy facilities, refineries, pipelines, transportation-related manufacturing, and universities, as well as environmental remediation and closure projects. Tax: counsels clients with respect to tax law implications in matters involving mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy and reorganization, health and life insurance law, international business law, estate planning, charitable giving, nonprofit organization law, and trust and estate administration. Real estate: advises clients on matters ranging from simple acquisitions and sale transactions to structuring all aspects of large-scale developments and financings. Banking and financial services: offers comprehensive legal and regulatory compliance counsel to financial institutions, their owners, and executives. Maritime: represents clients engaged in domestic and international shipping and offshore drilling, transport, production activities, and onshore and port-related activities. Gaming: represents all participants in the industry, including casinos, tribes, product manufacturers and suppliers, pari-mutuels, lottery vendors, sweepstakes and charities. The firm also represents other parties — such as investors, lenders and vendors — that have gaming-related interests. Bankruptcy: advises clients from numerous industries in complex and traditional bankruptcies and reorganizations, and includes three members of the American College of Bankruptcy. Labor and employment: offers clients one of the largest, most diverse, and experienced labor and employment law practices in the region counseling an array of companies in a wide range of industries, both locally and throughout the United States. Healthcare: offers a broad range of legal services to healthcare industry clients, including transactional matters, litigation, investigations, and regulatory compliance. Energy: advises clients on the full range of energy and natural resources matters involving oil and gas (upstream, midstream, and downstream, as well as onshore and offshore), power generation, alternative energy, mining and water. ### Staffing Figures - 233 Number of Partners - 114 Number of Other Fee-Earners
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Lawyers in this office
Alex Prochaska
Partner · Environmental Law
Allison Bell
Partner · Corporate Law
Amy Garrity Scafidel
Partner · Corporate Law
Ann Corso Taylor
Partner · Real Estate
Asher Friend
Partner · Mergers and Acquisitions
Beau Grenier
Partner · Corporate Law
Ben Harris
Partner · Commercial Litigation
Bob Holden
Partner · Environmental Law
Brett Beter
Partner · Corporate
Britt Seal
Partner · Corporate Law
Chad V. Theriot
Partner · Construction
Chris Ulfers
Partner · Maritime
Cindy Muller
Partner · Maritime
Curt Hearn
Partner · Corporate
Curtis Hearn
Partner · Corporate Law
David Edwards
Partner · Estate Planning
David Weinstein
Partner · White Collar Criminal Defense
Dionne Rousseau
Partner · Corporate Finance
Etienne Balart
Partner · Maritime
Frederick G. Helmsing, Jr.
Partner · White Collar Criminal Defense
George Fowler
Partner · Maritime Law
Grady Hurley
Partner · Maritime Litigation
Henry O\'Connor
Partner · Corporate
J. Kelly Duncan
Partner · Admiralty Law
James Kearns
Special Counsel · Maritime Law
Jeff Tillery
Partner · Maritime
Jeffry Gray
Partner · Corporate Law
Jennifer Kogos
Partner · Labor and Employment
Jesse R. Adams, III
Partner · Tax
John Fletcher
Partner · Tax
Jonathan Hunter
Partner · Energy
Jonathan Katz
Partner · Federal Taxation
Kaytie M. Pickett
Partner · Litigation
Kelly Lewis
Partner · Tax
Kelly Simoneaux
Partner · Corporate Law
Luis Llamas
Partner · Maritime Law
Marjorie A McKeithen
Partner · Energy
Marjorie McKeithen
Partner · Energy
Mark Adams
Partner · Labor and Employment Law
Mark Davis
Partner · Real Estate
Marshall Page
Partner · Corporate
Meghan Smith
Partner · Environmental Law
Michael Anthony Shaw
Partner · Litigation
Michael Drew
Partner · Government Regulatory
Neal J. Sweeney
Partner · Construction Law
R. Scott Jenkins
Partner · Maritime Law
Richard Bertram
Partner · Maritime
Richard Tyler
Partner · Construction Law
Robert Scheffy
Partner · Real Estate
Sara Kuebel
Partner · Admiralty and Maritime Law
Seth A Levine
Partner · Corporate Law
Sid Lewis
Partner · Labor and Employment
Stephen Drobny
Partner · Litigation
Steve Miller
Partner · Corporate
T. Hart Benton, III
Partner · White Collar Defense
Tiffany Raush
Partner · Construction
Victoria Bagot
Partner · Corporate
W. Whitaker Rayner
Partner · Intellectual Property
Wayne Zeringue
Partner · Maritime
William C. Baldwin
Partner · Maritime Law