The firm's Tax & Estates Practice Group is divided into sub-groups, focusing on the following areas:

• Transactional Tax (Federal & International)
• Estate Planning & Administration
• State & Local Tax
• Employee Benefits, ERISA & Executive Compensation
• Tax & Fiduciary Litigation
• Tax Credit Programs
• Tax Policy & Regulation

In addition to concentrating in one or more of these areas, attorneys in the Tax & Estates Practice Group 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, estate planning, charitable giving, nonprofit organization law, and trust and estate administration.

Many of our attorneys are Board-Certified Tax Specialists or Estate Planning and Administration Specialists as certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization.

News

• Jones Walker Announces New Partners, Office Heads, and Board of Directors Members
• Fifty-Six Jones Walker Attorneys Named to Louisiana Super Lawyers 2012
• Backstrom Named One of the Top Ten Tax Lawyers of the Year by State Tax Notes
• Jones Walker Rates Among Top Law Firms in U.S. News & World Report Rankings

Events

• "Louisiana State & Local Tax for Texans"
• "When Owners of a Closely Held Corporation Go Their Separate Ways"
• COST 2011 Sales Tax Conference and Audit Session
• "Everything an Estate Planner Needs to Know About Grantor Trusts"

Publications

• "A Sale Alone is Not Enough"
  Jesse R. Adams, III and Matthew A. Mantle
  Institute for Professionals in Taxation Tax Report, February 23, 2011
• "Chapter 16: Partnership Mergers and Divisions"
  Rudolph R. Ramelli and Michael Hirschfeld
  Proceedings of the 68^th NYU Institute on Federal Taxation, 2010
• Jones Walker Overview of 2008 Louisiana State Legislature Regular and Extraordinary Sessions
  Jones Walker, July 3, 2008
• "Selected Hurricane-Related Tax Relief"
  B. Michael Mauldin
  Oil, Gas & Energy Quarterly, Mathew Bender & Co., Inc., June 2006