Jones Walker LLP

Jones Walker's Estate Planning & Administration practice provides a variety of estate planning and personal planning services for individuals and families, including wills, lifetime trusts, and marital property agreements. Our attorneys administer decedents' estates, both domiciliary and ancillary, and prepare estate and gift tax returns.

Our attorneys, several of whom are members of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, are experienced in structuring estate plans for estates of all sizes, including estates of business owners, as well as in designing charitable giving plans.

As part of Jones Walker's representation of numerous Louisiana banks, our Estate Planning & Administration attorneys advise bank trust departments and frequently represent non-Louisiana banks and trustees administering trusts that own property in Louisiana. We also represent nonprofit organizations in connection with formation and compliance issues.

Our attorneys also represent clients before the Internal Revenue Service and the Louisiana Department of Revenue in disputes involving estate and gift taxes and the income taxation of estates and trusts. Working with our litigation attorneys, we represent clients in connection with fiduciary litigation, handle contested successions, and represent clients in trust disputes.

Diversity Mission Statement

Jones Walker LLP strives to encourage, foster and increase diversity across the firm. To this end, the Diversity Committee has adopted the goal of fostering a work environment that welcomes different perspectives, backgrounds and life experiences and ensures that an individual’s professional growth, experience or advancement is not limited because of gender, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability or other similar factor.

Purposes of the Diversity Committee

• To increase awareness of the importance of diversity within the firm and of the means by which diversity enriches the firm;
• To encourage all lawyers and staff members to develop mutual respect and appreciation for different perspectives and backgrounds; and
• To develop and implement strategies to assist the firm in recruiting, retaining and advancing staff and lawyers from diverse backgrounds.
• Jones Walker values all employees who contribute positively to the firm’s practice, the firm’s environment, and the greater community we serve.

In 2009, Jones Walker was named to MultiCultural Law Magazine’s list of "Top 100 Law Firms for Women," part of a series of listings of the top 100 law firms for diversity. The listings are compiled based on diversity statistics derived from annual surveys that the publication sends to law firms with more than 100 attorneys.