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Scott R. Simmons earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990 from Louisiana State University and his juris doctor in 1993 from Loyola University in New Orleans School of Law. Mr. Simmons was admitted to the Louisiana Bar Association in 1994 and subsequently to the bars of the United States District Court for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana. He has practiced in the areas of commercial litigation, residential and commercial real estate, title examination and title insurance, real estate development and financing, class actions, personal injury and consumer representation. Mr. Simmons is a Louisiana Notary Public, a Licensed Louisiana Insurance Producer writing for First American Title Insurance Company and Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company and is also an active member of the state and local communities as a member of the New Orleans Bar Association and the LSU Alumni Association. He also serves on the LSU College of Humanities and Social Sciences Advisory Council. Scott also regularly teaches First-Time Home Buyer Training courses for local organizations.

Peter S. Title practices in real estate, bankruptcy and commercial law. He is a graduate of Columbia University and of the Tulane University School of Law. At Tulane, he served on the Board of Editors of the Tulane Law Review, where he was Articles Editor in 1974-75, and received the Rittenberg-Weinstein Award for excellence in legal writing. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and of the Federal, American, Louisiana State and New Orleans Bar Associations. He has served as chairman of Trusts, Estates, Probate and Immovable Property Law Section for the Louisiana State Bar Association, as chair of the New Orleans Bar Association Title Examinations Committee and is a Fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys. Mr. Title is also a member of the Committee on Bar Admissions of the Louisiana State Bar Association. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who in the South and in the South and Southwest, and in The Best Lawyers in America (Real Estate Law). He has lectured on real estate and bankruptcy law to many professional groups. He has also authored a two-volume treatise on Louisiana real estate law entitled Louisiana Real Estate Transactions, published in 1991 by Lawyer's Co-Operative Publishing Company, with a second edition published in 2000 by West Publishing Company. - See more at: #

Ms. Casteix is the firm’s Managing Partner whose practice primarily focuses on business and real estate transactions as well as estate planning and administration (successions). She is a native and lifelong resident of New Orleans.. After receiving her J.D. from Loyola University School of Law, Ms. Casteix began her legal career   as a law clerk for the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. In 1980 she became a partner in the firm of Cleveland, Barrios, Kingsdorf & Casteix where she remained a partner until 1995 when  Barrios, Kingsdorf & Casteix was founded.. Ms. Casteix has counseled clients in a variety of business and real estate transactions, including business sales, residential and commercial mortgage loans, mergers and acquisitions, real estate development, condominium conversions, commercial leases for shopping centers and office buildings, and commercial and residential acquisitions and financing. She has also served as special counsel to a family-owned corporate client in its initial and subsequent public stock offerings.. In her estate planning and administration practice, Ms. Casteix has handled multi-million dollar estates and established charitable foundations for her clients.. Ms. Casteix is an agent for First American Title Insurance Company and  a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the New Orleans Bar Association. She has an AV rating, the highest peer review rating available through Martindale-Hubbell, and has been named by New Orleans Magazine as a Top Lawyer in the New Orleans area.

Melanie Breaux's practice consists of a broad range of business, finance and real estate transactions, including real property conveyances, asset acquisitions and divestitures, secured and unsecured lending, and various other commercial transactions. She also has experience in commercial leasing transactions, representing landlords and tenants in negotiating and drafting office building leases, shopping center leases, industrial leases and ground leases. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Breaux served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Carl J. Barbier.

Lee Adler practices primarily in the areas of general business relationships and finance. He has an extensive transactional-based practice representing clients in a wide variety of fields. Finance transactions include real estate finance, vessel finance, accounts receivable-based finance and equipment and inventory finance, representing both borrowers and lenders. Prior to joining Phelps in 1992, Mr. Adler was an attorney at a large multi-practice firm in New York.

Jim Stuckey practices in the areas of commercial finance, real estate, business, project financing, and leasing. His commercial experience includes complex loan transactions in real estate, construction, project finance, oil and gas, line of credit and asset based loans, as well as leveraged lease and utility securitization financings, and real estate and commercial transactions. His lending practice includes representing lenders and borrowers in oil and gas loans, real estate and construction financings, leveraged leases, and secured working capital loans. He advises clients in negotiations of a wide variety of contracts, including major purchase, lease, and project development and financing agreements. He has represented clients from many industries, including banks and other financial institutions, public utilities, oil companies, chemical and product manufacturers, governmental entities, and universities. He serves as the practice coordinator of the business group in New Orleans.

I am a New Orleans-based attorney with a defense-focused litigation practice.  I primarily handle matters involving immovable property, including condemnations, landlord/tenant disputes, environmental matters, redhibition, and oil and gas issues.  I also handle contested successions and corporate matters, and I represent corporate creditors and debtors.. I attended Loyola University College of Law, where I graduated magna cum laude and was a member of the Loyola Law Review.. Prior to attending law school, I worked on the engineering side of the oil and gas industry.

I am a New Orleans real estate and transaction attorney representing financial institutions and people that buy and sell apartment buildings.. I represent clients in complex commercial real estate transactions involving common law state lenders who require advice and assistance with Louisiana Law as it pertains to and affects transactions, securitized loans, and asset-based lending.. Recently, I was involved in the purchase and renovation of the Pontchartrain Hotel, the largest building on St. Charles Avenue.. I am also a commercial lawyer who has created numerous specialized retail lease agreements, as well as all organizational documents for both corporations and limited liability companies representing many of these entities in the area of general business advice.

Gary Brown is the founder of Brown Weimer, LLC. He has been practicing law almost 40 years, assisting clients with a variety of legal matters. He is primarily engaged now in handling legal matters related to elder law, estates, estate planning, mental health law, and Medicaid planning for nursing homes.. In the past, Gary practiced in the large firm and corporate environment where he represented major financial institutions and corporations in commercial litigation matters. But he missed contact with people and solving their real-life problems. He missed the rewards of personally serving and getting to know his clients. So he founded this law firm to represent people, not business.. Gary has been named Super Lawyer for the past 5 years and has received numerous other awards.. He is a Certified Medicaid Planner, which recognizes him as a leader in the nursing home Medicaid planning field, providing the highest level of assistance, guidance, and advocacy for clients and families faced with nursing home financing and residency. He assists his clients in preserving their income and assets while qualifying them for Medicaid long term care benefits.. Gary and the firm are dedicated to solving your legal problems—timely, successfully, and at a reasonable cost.

Dan Pancamo is counsel in the business group in the New Orleans office. He has an electric public utility regulatory practice, representing clients in matters primarily before the Louisiana Public Service Commission. Mr. Pancamo also has a business and commercial transactional practice, representing clients in: (i) commercial real estate matters, including property development, finance, leasing, and acquisitions and sales for a range of projects, including office, retail, commercial and industrial properties and hospital and healthcare facilities; (ii) construction matters, including drafting and negotiating owner-contractor agreements (including EPC agreements and design-build agreements), agreements for architectural, engineering and other professional services, and construction finance documents (including construction loan agreements) for a range of projects, including power plant construction, hospital and healthcare facility construction, and hotel and apartment complex construction; and (iii) commercial contract matters, including procurement contracts and natural gas supply and transportation agreements.

Dan is a litigation attorney who has been with the firm since 2005. Prior to entering private practice, Dan worked at the Louisiana Supreme Court. Prior to joining Jackson & Jackson, Dan practiced at two small and mid-size defense firms representing insurance companies and businesses focusing on auto liability and mass toxic tort defense litigation.. Dan represents injured persons seeking recovery who were victims of auto accidents, work place accidents, and other disabling injuries caused by third parties. Dan also represents disabled persons seeking recovery through worker’s compensation, disability policies, and Social Security Disability/ERISA.. Dan has extensive experience in first party insurance claims for recovery of businesses against their property and casualty, and business interruption insurers. After Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav and the 2016 Louisiana floods, Dan was instrumental in making full recovery for the firm’s commercial property clients making first party claims against their insurers.. Dan also represents small to mid-sized companies in defending worker’s compensation, longshore/harbor worker’s, auto liability and general liability claims.

Bart Bacigalupi practices in the areas of commercial finance, real estate, banking, leasing and other general business matters. Commercial finance transactions include vessel finance, real estate finance, interest rate hedge matters, and equipment and inventory finance, representing both borrowers and lenders. He also represents clients in drafting and negotiating of a wide variety of general business contracts, real estate lease and purchase documents, and organizational documents for a variety of entities.

17-year Louisiana-licensed attorney with extensive experience clearing real estate titles through transactional and litigation practices, and with particular expertise in curing complex title defects, and quieting, clearing and insuring tax sale titles. Created a title insurance product to systematically insure tax titles; created and developed a due diligence business that has used this insurance product and process to clear, resolve or facilitated the sale of over 4,000 government-held, 15-year average delinquent tax sale properties, since 2015; co-developed and counseled the first national title insurance company dedicated to underwriting title insurance for tax sale titles.. Co-founded, developed and operated a specialized real estate title insurance company with a dedicated operation for handling transactions on tax sale properties for nine years.. Created the first tax sale title insurance product and corresponding underwriting process for Louisiana's title insurers, enabling local government and private investors for the first time to regularly transact business with tax sale properties with clear, insurable title; a product and process now adopted in 15 states.. Created, developed and trained all personnel to operate a business within a software company to market, clear title to and auction government-held, tax-delinquent real estate by utilizing the company's flagship software platform and the created tax sale title insurance product, a business through which, since 2015 over 4,000 such properties, averaging 15+ years of delinquency, have been returned to productive, tax-paying status, generating over $50M in unbudgeted revenue for local Louisiana governments. Briefed and orally argued the first reported case in Louisiana addressing the validity of the State's 2009-revised, tax sale scheme, which produced an adverse ruling, but one that was subsequently overruled n a different case by the State Supreme Court.. Additionally have served as an appointed member of the Louisiana State Law Institute on its Tax Sales Committee, through which, have co-drafted a complete overhaul of Louisiana’s current real estate tax collection statutes and constitutional provisions to be considered for legislative and constitutional adoption in 2020.. Also have served as one of eight legislative commissioners for the National Tax Lien Association, and have extensively presented and provided training on government tax sale processes to the Louisiana Judicial College, the Louisiana Law Institute, the Louisiana Legislature, Sheriffs’ Association, Police Jury and Municipal Associations, the National Association of County Collectors Treasurers & Finance Officers, the National Tax Lien Association, the Tennessee Association of Property Tax Professionals, the Tennessee Trustees Association, the Missouri County Collectors Association, the Arkansas Commission of State Lands, the Florida Tax Collectors Association and over a hundred County/Parish and municipal government bodies throughout Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, West Virginia, Ohio, Idaho, South Carolina, Florida, and Kansas.