NEW ORLEANS, June 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Jones Walker LLP is pleased to announce its top rankings in the 2024 edition of Chambers USA, the world’s leading legal data and analytics provider, highlighting the top lawyers and law firms across the United States for more than two decades, by Chambers and Partners. Attorneys and law firms are selected for inclusion based on submissions by legal practices, interviews, research, and client references.
Jones Walker ranked nationally in eight practices: Construction, Energy Transition, Gaming & Licensing, Occupational Safety and Health, Offshore Energy, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Litigation (outside New York), and Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Regulatory.
The firm also ranked regionally in 17 practices: Banking & Finance (Alabama, Louisiana), Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Louisiana, Mississippi), Construction (Georgia, Louisiana), Corporate/Commercial (Alabama, Mississippi), Corporate/M&A (Louisiana), Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Louisiana), Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas (Louisiana), Environment (Louisiana), Gaming & Licensing (Louisiana), Healthcare (Alabama, Louisiana), Labor & Employment (Louisiana), Litigation: General Commercial (Louisiana, Mississippi), Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Louisiana), Public Finance (Louisiana, Mississippi), Real Estate (Louisiana, Mississippi), Tax (Louisiana, Mississippi), and Tax: State & Local (New York).
This year, 88 Jones Walker attorneys across the firm’s geographic footprint in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, and Texas were recognized for their prominence in specific areas of law.
USA – NATIONWIDE
William C. Baldwin, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance
J. Kelly Duncan, Gaming & Licensing
George J. Fowler, III, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Litigation (outside New York)
Jane Henican Heidingsfelder, Occupational Safety and Health
Grady S. Hurley, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Litigation (outside New York)
R. Scott Jenkins, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Regulatory
Cindy Matherne Muller, Offshore Energy
Thomas B. Shepherd, III, Gaming & Licensing
ALABAMA
C. Ellis Brazeal, III, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Robert L. Carothers Jr., Banking & Finance: Mainly Regulatory
John W. Gant, Jr., Corporate/Commercial
John Beaulieu (Beau) Grenier, Corporate/Commercial
Daniel J. Martin, Healthcare, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Michael D. Waters, Banking & Finance: Mainly Regulatory
FLORIDA
Edward R. Shohat, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
GEORGIA
Neal J. Sweeney, Construction
Chad V. Theriot, Construction
LOUISIANA
H. Mark Adams, Labor & Employment
Jesse R. Adams, III, Tax
Laura F. Ashley, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
William M. Backstrom, Jr., Tax
William C. Baldwin, Marine Finance
Robert B. Bieck, Jr., Litigation: Securities
Timothy P. Brechtel, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Boyd A. Bryan, Environment
Andre B. Burvant, Tax
Christopher D. Cazenave, Construction
R. Keith Colvin, Real Estate
Richard F. Cortizas, Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use
Mark A. Cunningham, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Nadia de la Houssaye, Healthcare
Sarah Y. Dicharry, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
Remy James Donnelly, Real Estate
J. Kelly Duncan, Gaming & Licensing, Marine Finance
Luke Falgoust, Banking & Finance
Elizabeth J. Futrell, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Covert J. Geary, Litigation: General Commercial
Alex H. Glaser, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Jeffrey P. Good, Real Estate
Jeffry W. Gray, Real Estate
Pauline F. Hardin, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Curtis R. Hearn, Corporate/M&A
Jane Henican Heidingsfelder, Labor & Employment
Robert (Bob) E. Holden, Environment
David M. Hunter, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
Jonathan A. Hunter, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
Jonathan R. Katz, Tax
Matthew W. Kern, Public Finance
Jennifer Faroldi Kogos, Labor & Employment
Michael K. Leachman, Intellectual Property
Joseph F. Lavigne, Labor & Employment
Seth A. Levine, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
Sidney F. Lewis, V, Labor & Employment
Michael W. Magner, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Marjorie A. McKeithen, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
Stanley A. Millan, Environment: Litigation
Mark A. Mintz, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Kenneth J. Najder, Corporate/M&A
J. Marshall Page, III, Banking & Finance, Corporate/M&A
Avery B. Pardee, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Alex P. Prochaska, Environment
Rudolph R. Ramelli, Tax
Carl D. Rosenblum, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
Dionne M. Rousseau, Corporate/M&A
Amy Garrity Scafidel, Banking & Finance
Kelly C. Simoneaux, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Meghan E. Smith, Environment: Litigation
Richard J. Tyler, Construction
Susan M. Tyler, Real Estate
R. Patrick Vance, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, Litigation: General Commercial
B. Trevor Wilson, Tax
Benjamin Paul Woodruff, Banking & Finance
Chris Wootten, Public Finance
Scott T. Zander, Public Finance
MISSISSIPPI
Joseph (JoJo) Lee Adams, Labor & Employment
Jeffrey R. Barber, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Neville H. Boschert, Litigation: General Commercial
Mark T. Davis, Real Estate
John F. Fletcher, Tax
Gina M. Jacobs, Corporate/Commercial
Kristina M. Johnson, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Craig N. Landrum, Corporate/Commercial: Banking & Finance
Christopher S. Pace, Public Finance
Kaytie M. Pickett, Litigation: Appellate, Litigation: General Commercial
Thomas B. Shepherd, III, Gaming & Licensing
Adam Stone, Construction, Litigation: General Commercial
Ann Corso Taylor, Real Estate
Aileen S. Thomas, Public Finance
Thomas E. Walker, Jr., Corporate/Commercial: Banking & Finance
NEW YORK
Alysse McLoughlin, Tax: State & Local
Kathleen M. Quinn, Tax: State & Local
TEXAS
Michael A. Chernekoff, Environment
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