Areas of Practice
- Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors-Debtors Rights
- Business & Finance
- Commercial Lending & Finance
- Disaster Recovery Client Team
- Real Estate
- Real Estate: Land Use, Development & Finance
Education
- Yale Law School, J.D., 1982; Law Clerk, Judge John Minor Wisdom, 5th Cir., 1982–1983; Executive Director, Yale Legislative Services
- Christ Church, Oxford University, Oxford, England, Read M. Litt., 1979; Rhodes Scholar
- Bowdoin College, A.B., 1977, summa cum laude; Brooks-Nixon Prize, first in graduating class; Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana, 1983
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1989
- 5th Cir., 1983
- E.D. La., 1983
- M.D. La., 1983
- W.D. La., 1983
professionalsBio
Lewis McHenry is a partner in the firm's transactional groups. His areas of concentration include advising closely held corporations and partnerships, debtor/credit relations, insolvency acquisitions and dispositions, corporate reorganization, commercial lending and finance, and real estate.
Noteworthy
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2008 (Copyright 2007 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC) in the areas of Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law and Real Estate Law (listed annually since 2003)
- Listed in the 2008 edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers in the area of Real Estate (also listed in 2007)
- AV® Peer Review Rating in Martindale-Hubbell. CV, BV and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell Ratings fall into two categories—legal ability and general ethical standards.
News
- Forty Jones Walker Attorneys Recognized in the 2008 Edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers
- Fifty-Two Jones Walker Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 2008; Jones Walker Top-Listed in Louisiana
- Lewis McHenry quoted on Fairmont deal in The Times Picayune
- Forty-Seven Jones Walker Attorneys Listed in the 2007 Edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers; One In Top Ten, Four In Top Fifty, Two In Top Twenty-Five Women
- Fifty-Two Jones Walker Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 2007
- Jones Walker Named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ Innovators of the Year 2006
Memberships
- American Association of Rhodes Scholars (Member, Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee for Louisiana, 2003)
- American Law Institute
- Friends of the Stables in Audubon Park (Past Chairman and President)
- Louise S. McGehee School (Director, Officer, and Executive Committee Member, 2002)
- Louisiana Bankers Association
- Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (Chair, 2004 to date)
- Louisiana State Bar Association (Past Chairman, Sections on Consumer Protection Law and Bankruptcy Law, 1989–1990)
- Oxford-Cambridge Society (Past President)
