Louisiana Lawyers Sherry Schultz to Shonda Legrande

Firm: Schultz Law LLC

3340 Severn Ave. , Metairie , Louisiana 70002 Zip code: 70002

Practice Areas: Real Estate

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.

Firm: Harrell & Nowak

650 Poydras Street , New Orleans , Louisiana 70130

Practice Areas: Drugs & Medical Devices, Wrongful Death, Personal Injury, Personal Injury, Personal Injury

Shirin Harrell is a founding partner of the law firm of Harrell & Nowak. A medical malpractice attorney serving the people of greater New Orleans, she represents individuals and businesses in cases involving medical malpractice, healthcare litigation, products liability, personal injury and insurance disputes. As an attorney and registered nurse, Ms. Harrell’s expertise spans both the medical and legal arenas. Because of her extensive healthcare background she is frequently asked to represent clients whose legal issues usually involve complex medical and healthcare matters in the New Orleans Area.. LEGAL BACKGROUND. Prior to founding Harrell & Nowak, Ms. Harrell practiced law at the firm of Sessions Fishman & Nathan. While at the firm, she served as a key member of the legal team representing Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation and Novartis Consumer Health, Inc. in the phenylpropanolamine (PPA) litigation encompassing 900 plaintiffs in more than 90 separate lawsuits. Ms. Harrell graduated from Louisiana State University School of Law where she was a member of Moot Court Board. She is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Louisiana. She is a member of the Louisiana and New Orleans Bar Associations, the American Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association.. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND. Prior to obtaining her Juris Doctor, Shirin Harrell earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Tulane University. She is a Licensed Registered Nurse in Louisiana and has extensive work experience in the healthcare field, having served in an executive capacity as a Vice President of Pan American Life Insurance Company, the largest mutual insurer in Louisiana, and as a Vice President of Mercy + Baptist Medical Center, a large local hospital.

Firm: Evans and Clesi, A Professional Law Corporation

1340 Poydras St Ste 1770 , New Orleans , Louisiana 70112 Zip code: 70112

Practice Areas: Insurance , Insurance, Insurance, Insurance, Insurance

Firm: Wanek Kirsch Davies LLC

1340 Poydras St Ste 2000 , New Orleans , Louisiana 70112 Zip code: 70112

Practice Areas: Personal Injury

Firm: O'Bryon & Schnabel, P.L.C.

935 Gravier St Ste 900 , New Orleans , Louisiana 70112 Zip code: 70112

Practice Areas: Insurance

Firm: The Stone Law Firm

330 Marshall Street   1005  7110 , Shreveport , Louisiana 71101 Zip code: 71101

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy,Child Custody & Visitation,Child Support,Debtor/Creditor,Family ,Personal Injury,Property ,Wills

Firm: Williams & Boxie Attorney's At Law

1806 Main St , Baker , Louisiana 70714

Firm: Southeast La Legal Services Corporation

1340 Poydras St Ste 600 , New Orleans , Louisiana 70112

400 Saint John St , Monroe , Louisiana 71201

4619 Prytania St , New Orleans , Louisiana 70115

521 Wycliffe Way , Alexandria , Louisiana 71303 Zip code: 71303

Practice Areas: Personal Injury

Firm: Kean Miller, LLP

909 Poydras St Ste 3600 , New Orleans , Louisiana 70112

Firm: 5th Jdc

300 Washington St Ste 100 G , Monroe , Louisiana 71201

Firm: Shiela J. Linscomb

105 Industrial Parkway 207 , Lafayette , Louisiana 70508 Zip code: 70508

Practice Areas: Contracts

Firm: Sheva M. Sims

193   430 Topeka St 193 , Shreveport , Louisiana 71161 Zip code: 71161

Practice Areas: Consumer Protection

107 Brighton Dr , Lafayette , Louisiana 70503

5237 Fieldcrest Ave , Alexandria , Louisiana 71303

Firm: Sherrye K Palmer Attorney At Law, LLC

13347 Brown Rd , Denham Springs , Louisiana 70726

Firm: University of La Monroe

700 University Ave Library 632 , Monroe , Louisiana 71209

Firm: Guideone Insurance Company

301 Main St Ste 2296 , Baton Rouge , Louisiana 70801

Practice Areas: Corporate & Incorporation