Top best Real Estate Lawyers in Baton Rouge near me

Trevor Haynes practices in the area of business law, with a focus on real estate and banking and finance transactions. Mr. Haynes' experience includes industrial/economic development, tax increment financing, and public finance.. Prior to joining Phelps Dunbar, Mr. Haynes practiced primarily in the area of public finance with a prominent Louisiana firm.

Randy Roussel practices in the area of business and finance. His general business practice is concentrated in the areas of real estate, banking, and commercial transactions. Mr. Roussel has represented Wampold Companies, Waffle House, Whitney National Bank, Carmouche Construction, and a variety of multifamily and commercial developers.. Mr. Roussel’s practice emphasizes mixed-use real estate development. He works on HUD 221(d)(4) and other multi-family financing programs.. Prior to joining Phelps Dunbar, he was a certified public accountant for Arthur Andersen & Company in New Orleans from 1978 to 1981. From 1986 to 1987, he was an associate at Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson in Baton Rouge and in 1987 he became partner at Bradford & Roussel in Baton Rouge which merged with Gary Field Landry & Bradford in 1991. Mr. Roussel joined Phelps Dunbar in 1995.

Ragan Richard practices in the area of business law. He focuses in the areas of business, agricultural and corporate law, real estate, finance, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. Mr. Richard has represented both individuals, and companies and underwriters, and led legal teams in the acquisition, financing, development and sale of commercial, industrial, agricultural, office, restaurant, hotel, apartment and retail properties and businesses. His practice includes representation of banking and lending institutions in financing transactions, drafting and negotiating contracts, leases, and servitude agreements, acquiring and developing real estate and commercial business establishments, representing owners of large franchise chains, representing owners of multifamily apartment complexes, representing utilities, agriculture and marketing cooperatives and trade associations, drafting and enforcing subdivision and condominium restrictions for highly regulated developments, entity and joint venture formation, general counseling of both established and emerging businesses, mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity financing and restructuring.  Mr. Richard serves as general counsel to many of his clients and assists them, with the help of other experienced Phelps Dunbar attorneys, in accomplishing their legal needs. He frequently serves as a guest lecturer on purchase agreements at the LSU law school. Mr. Richard also serves as the managing partner of the Baton Rouge office.

Madison DeWitt practices in the area of business law with a focus in the areas of agricultural and corporate law, real estate transactions, commercial transactions, healthcare transactions and gaming law. Prior to joining Phelps Dunbar, she was an associate at Preis & Roy Law Firm in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Jon Benda practices in the areas of contract preparation and negotiation, mergers and acquisitions, documentation of commercial loans, commercial real estate transactions, joint ventures, and general corporate and business law.

Jeff Tomlinson is a Louisiana real estate attorney practicing with a concentration in the areas of commercial real estate, oil and gas and negotiating industrial facility agreements with contractors and suppliers. His real estate practice includes negotiating and drafting purchase agreements; oil, gas and mineral leases; mineral opinions; mortgages; servitudes, restrictions and covenants; and handling the formation of limited liability companies, corporations and other entities.. Mr. Tomlinson focuses a major part of his practice on addressing title insurance and oil and gas matters. In addition, he has experience representing and assisting industrial facilities and contractors in a wide array of service, rental and product supply arrangements.

James S. Fargason has been a member of the auditing and legal. professions for more than 25 years and has extensive experience. auditing legal services, including legal departments and external. law firms. He has worked with a variety of reputable organizations,. including many Fortune 500 companies and large consulting firms.. He has a degree in international and comparative law and currently. serves as a full-time faculty member at Louisiana State University.

I have been practicing law for over 20 years, with an emphasis in commercial real estate, corporate, finance and business work.  Prior to joining WARC, I worked for 13 years at a large regional law firm.  I can bring you big firm solutions in a small firm environment.

Erik Piazza practices in the area of business. He represents a variety of commercial developers. His practice is primarily focused on real estate matters, including commercial and residential developments, commercial leases, banking/financing, condominium regimes and other commercial transactions.

Born and raised in Baton Rouge, I am a product of our local public schools. I graduated from LSU in 1983 with a degree in Finance. I graduated from Loyola New Orleans Law School in 1987, but before graduating, I tried my first jury case. It was a manslaughter charge. The Orleans District Attorney was impressed enough to offer me a job upon graduation. I was an Assistant District Attorney for Mr. Harry Connick from 1987 through 1990 and have been on my own since then.. As to public service after the District Attorney's Office, in 2009 I was elected to the Louisiana State Senate for the Baton Rouge area, District 16. It has been an honor to represent the people of Baton Rouge. During the process, I believe I have become a better lawyer.. Whether your issue is a government relations issue, maritime matter, serious personal injury matter, wrongful death, business litigation or criminal defense, I can help you. I have been helping folks just like you for a long time and am very good at what I do. Perhaps I can help you with an important matter.  Give me a call, day or night, and let's talk about your issue.

Along with his father George L. Carmouche, created the law firm: The Carmouche Group, LLC, predecessor of Carmouche Title, . Scott Carmouche received his Juris Doctorate from the Paul M. Hebert School of Law at LSU along with a Bachelor of Civil Law.  He is a licensed attorney in the State of Louisiana and has worked in the Property Rights realm for most of his 10 year career.  Scott has analyzed and reviewed property title on over 100,000 acres of land in Louisiana.  Over those 10 years, Scott had analyzed and handled a plethora of property rights issues.  He presents regularly on the topics of Servitude, Acquisitive Prescription (Squatters) and many other property and ownership is also certified by the Louisiana State Bar Association as a Civil Litigation and Child Custody & Visitation Mediator.   Prior to attending Law School, Scott worked as a Law Enforcement Officer in California and Florida where a majority of his experience was in Dispute Resolution and Mediation.  Mr. Carmouche has an extensive background and training in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Mediation while in Law School and through various State & Bar sanctioned programs and certifications.  He continues his training and education yearly and participates as an adviser to those learning the practice of mediation and dispute resolution.  George L. Carmouche, has worked in the Oil & Gas legal field for most of his 36 year career: handling multi-million dollar mineral issue cases, teaching Oil and Gas seminars to many of his colleagues in Louisiana, and serving as the Commissioner of Conservation for the State of Louisiana from 1996-1997. The SONRIS system, a complete on-line database of Louisiana mineral records, was developed under George L. Carmouche as Commissioner of Conservation, and has moved Oil and Gas production in Louisiana into the 21st century.  George has since retired and works on an advisory/of counsel role with Scott.