Top Estate Lawyers Near Me in Metairie Area

The Law Office of Lisa Finn, Esq., LL.M. is a client centered, boutique law practice specializing in Estate Planning, committed  to sophisticated planning for everyone, and focused on the preservation of personal autonomy, preservation of family harmony, and preservation of family wealth.

Ryan S. McBride, Attorney at Law LLC, is a Southeast Louisiana law firm specializing in prompt and affordable estate planning, succession, and probate services for Louisiana residents with both small and large estates.  We also speciallize in business incorporation, property matters, and general civil litigation.. Educated in both the legal and financial planning fields, Ryan S. McBride is uniquely qualified to help families cope with the legal and financial issues that often arise for the small business owner,  the property investor, or the family member dealing with the loss of a loved one.. In most cases we offer free consultations to discuss your matter.  Please feel free to call our office at or fill out our online consultation request form on our website at .  Thank you for your consideration and the opportunity to have you as a client.

Ronald “Chip” Morrison, Jr. is a Board Certified Estate Planning Law Specialist as certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization.. Chip has litigated and administered many complex successions and business buy-outs and disputes, and has given numerous presentations to attorneys, CPAs, financial advisors, certified financial planners, insurance agents, the National Business Institute, the Louisiana CPA Society, and individual CPA firms and insurance agencies throughout the State of Louisiana.. He has been qualified by the Louisiana Bar Association, Louisiana Department of Insurance, and the Louisiana Society of CPA’s to present continuing education programs discussing various Elder Law, Medicaid, Business and Estate Planning topics.. Chip Morrison’s areas of practice include:• Estate Planning, including Wills, Living Wills, and Powers of Attorney• Louisiana Successions• Special Needs Trusts• Elder Law & Medicaid Planning• Business Planning. Chip is a proud member of the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys. The Academy is a limited membership organization that provides continuing legal education to members, and practice management support and training. The goal of the Academy is to help foster excellence in attorney member services to their clients. Chip regularly attends specialized and advanced training by the experts in the Academy Education Department several times a year. This includes two national conferences sponsored by the Academy for its members, which allow him to network with Estate Planning Lawyers from across the country.. Chip strongly believes in continuing education. He devotes substantial time and resources to staying up to date on the latest laws, trends, and techniques. He attends numerous local and regional estate planning training courses each year on state and federal laws and developing techniques.. Mr. Morrison is a member of the Jefferson Bar Association, New Orleans Bar Association, Louisiana State Bar Association and the New Orleans Estate Planning Council. He is admitted to practice before all State courts in Louisiana. He is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern and Middle District of Louisiana.. Chip graduated from Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, Georgia and received a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Business Management from the University of New Orleans. He was awarded his Juris Doctorate from Southern University Law Center, and graduated with Cum Laude honors. He is certified to practice before the Veterans Administration Board. Chip enjoys the privilege of representing small business owners, estates and families throughout the State of Louisiana.. Chip is married with three children, and lives in Mandeville. When he isn’t working, Chip enjoys spending time with his family, fishing, and reading.

Robert Kutcher joined our firm in 1996. His practice is divided between business litigation and real estate transactional work. Mr. Kutcher writes and speaks extensively on business entities, litigation issues, federal jurisdiction and ethics. He received his BS degree in 1972 from Cornell University and his JD degree in 1975 from Loyola University Law School Cum Laude. He was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 1976 and in New York in 1976. Mr. Kutcher has been designated a Super Lawyer and named to Best Lawyers, Commercial Litigation and Real Estate.

Nicole Tygier joined our firm in 1996. A graduate of Loyola University, Loyola University School of Law and a member of the Moot Court staff, Nicole Tygier was admitted to practice in 1989. With almost 25 years in practice, she has tried suits in both state and federal courts, and has participated in both arbitrations and mediations. Her practice focuses on providing advice on, and litigating in the areas of business obligations, fiduciary duties, franchisor/franchisee relations, lease negotiations, landlord/tenant disputes and large-scale financings, as well as the needs of business entities from formation to dissolution.

Michael received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Louisiana State University in 2010 and his Juris Doctorate from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 2013. His practice focuses primarily on residential and commercial real estate transactions. In addition, Michael advises clients regarding a variety of real estate related legal matters as well as business formation, wills and successions.

Laurel Salley was born and raised in the New Orleans area. She attended St. Martin's Episcopal School, the University of Miami, Louisiana State University and Tulane Law School.. While at St. Martin's, Laurel was very involved in the Key Club, a community service organization for high school students. During her years at LSU, she was involved with many campus organizations, including Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. After graduation from LSU, Laurel joined the Lakeside Kiwanis Club, the same community service organization that sponsored her high school's Key Club. She is a member of the Lakeside Kiwanis Club to this day.. While attending Tulane Law School, Laurel worked as a research assistant for A.N. Yiannopoulos, Eason-Weinmann Professor of Comparative Law and Editor of the Louisiana Civil Code. She also studied abroad for two summers, where she took courses taught by United States Supreme Court Justices, as well as Louisiana Supreme Court Judges, Appellate Court Judges and other renowned legal authorities.. Upon her graduation from law school, Laurel decided to join her mother in practice, forming the partnership of Salley & Salley, LLC. After practicing family law with her mother for five years, Laurel was certified as a Family Law Specialists by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization.

I’m Sherry Landry Schultz, an attorney licensed in Louisiana and Texas who has always had a passion for research, writing, creativity and learning—in other words, a geek.. I started out as an elementary school teacher in 1986, teaching eager-to-learn second graders in a self-contained environment. A few years later, seeking a new challenge, I moved to the public middle school I attended as a child and taught seventh-grade English. Two years later, I was named the “Jefferson Parish Middle School Teacher of the Year.” The following year (with hopes of one day earning enough to buy a house), I took the LSAT and applied to law school.. Luckily for me, Loyola Law School awarded me a full scholarship. For the next three years, I drove my friends, family and classmates nuts by somehow steering every conversation to a discussion of “the law”—my new (and, as it turned out, lifelong) obsession. In my third year, I was named Editor in Chief of the Loyola Law Review and took great satisfaction in reviewing every word, comma and en dash in each published article. I graduated third in my class and received a clerkship with the esteemed Chief Justice Pascal F. Calogero of the Louisiana Supreme Court.. One year turned into two with the Chief (as we called him), and I left my position as Senior Law Clerk in 1998 to enter private practice in a New Orleans satellite office of a large Texas firm. This was my introduction to transactional law, and I loved it! I cut my teeth coordinating due diligence for mergers and acquisitions and worked my way up to drafting a myriad of organizational documents, contracts and bond documents.. In the spring of 2002, a classmate from Loyola Law School was named City Attorney for the City of New Orleans and recruited me to become the Senior Chief Deputy City Attorney in charge of the City’s transactional legal work. The following year, he was promoted to Chief Administrative Officer and I was promoted to City Attorney, where I supervised a staff of 96 employees, including 40+ attorneys. One of my proudest achievements was reducing the number of cases against the city from 5,800+ when I took office to about 1,500 just two years later. Then came Hurricane Katrina.. I wrote the first mandatory evacuation order in the history of the State of Louisiana, which remained in effect for more than twenty days after the levees broke, flooding more than 80% of the City of New Orleans. It was a time of great chaos. A week after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, I was named the liaison between the City and the federal support, where city, state and federal responders worked tirelessly to get the City on the long road to recovery. It was a very surreal, but inspiring, experience. I resigned as the City Attorney approximately sixty days after Hurricane Katrina when it became apparent that the Mayor, who appointed me, and I did not share a common vision for how to proceed with the recovery.. On January 2, 2006, I joined a small, but very well respected, boutique law firm in New Orleans that primarily represented real-estate developers engaged in the rehabilitation of historic properties.   Recognizing that New Orleans had one of the richest stocks of historic buildings in the United States, I viewed this as an excellent opportunity of continuing to participate in the recovery of New Orleans as a lawyer in the private sector.. Over the next eleven years, my practice focused, almost exclusively, on large-scale real estate transactions that utilized historic, new markets and/or renewable energy tax credits. During this period, I have represented investors, community development entities and lenders, but real-estate developers have always constituted the primary base of my clients. As any typical American, I do love the underdog! In my representations, I have drafted countless tax opinions, partnership agreements, loan documents, leases and other transactional documents, having the pleasure and honor to work with many of recognized leaders in the tax credit industry. I am fortunate to be able to do work that I truly love.. After years of representing entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurial spirit rubbed off on me, and I launched Schultz Law LLC on February 1, 2017. I’m excited to continue working with my existing clients and industry friends and look forward to picking up some new ones along this journey.

I am an attorney law in both the New Orleans and Baton Rouge metropolitan areas at the firm of Newman, Mathis, Brady & Spedale, PLC.  My practice utilizes the Master of Business Administration that I earned in addition to my Juris Doctor.  I practice many areas of law, performing both transactional work and litigation.  My practice areas include Appellate, Banking and Finance, Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights, Collections, Compliance, Corporate and Business, Entertainment, Employment, Real Estate, Tax and Estate Planning.  As part of my real estate practice, I am also a title agent for Gulf Title Corporation.  You can read about these areas of law on my blogs, It's Just Business Law, Trust Me (I'm a Lawyer) and Louisiana Purchase Law.  You can also read about me and my practice on my firm's website.. I am uncomfortable putting my cases on this website due to the privacy of my clients and those I have had cases against.. I joined Newman, Mathis, Brady & Spedale, PLC in 2007 after receiving my Juris Doctorate and Master of Business Administration from the College of William and Mary.  I attended LSU for two years before earning a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Loyola University New Orleans.. I am 36 years old and am married to my lovely wife Corrina.  We have three dogs, Iggy, Binx and Lily, and live in the Marigny in New Orleans.