The firm's Tax, Trusts & Estates practice is divided into three groups concentrating in the following subspecialties: tax, estates and trusts, and employee benefits.  In addition to specializing in one or more of these areas, attorneys in the Estates & Tax practice participate in intersectional practice area groups established to counsel clients with respect to the tax law implications in matters involving mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy and reorganization, health and life insurance law, international business law, and family and domestic relations law.

News

• Legislation Enacted During the Second Extraordinary Session of 2008
• Blackman and Lagarde to Speak at Baton Rouge CPA Tax Day
• Friel Joins Jones Walker's New Orleans Office
• Trostorff Speaks on GO Zone Tax Incentives

Events

• "Vexing Issues with Mergers and Acquisitions"
• "Partnership, Limited Liability Companies and S Corporations Update"
• "Selected Provisions of the Final Internal Revenue Code Section 409A Regulations"
• "Structuring the Deal"

Publications

• "Selected Hurricane-Related Tax Relief"
  B. Michael Mauldin
  Oil, Gas & Energy Quarterly, Mathew Bender & Co., Inc., June 2006
• "Legislative Briefing – Katrina Update"
  Fred L. Chevalier & Alex P. Trostorff , January 24, 2006
• "Taxation of Partnerships and LLCs"
  Rudolph R. Ramelli
  Professional Education Systems, Inc., 1997
• Louisiana Reporter, "State Limited Liability Company & Partnership Laws"