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Rose S.
Sher

Position
Partner
Office
New Orleans

Rose Sher is a partner in the Tax Practice Group and a member of the trust and estates team.


Rose is a board-certified estate planning and administration specialist, as certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization. She advises clients on all aspects of wills, trusts, estate and gift tax planning, asset valuations, business succession planning, and estate administration.

Rose represents a broad range of high-net-worth individuals and families. She understands the unique goals and needs of clients whose concerns include changes of control, succession planning, gift planning, planning for incapacity, marital property planning, planned charitable giving, and other sensitive issues. Rose also represents not-for-profit organizations.

Among other matters, Rose regularly prepares wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and marital property agreements. She also develops, documents, and executes complex wealth transfer, estate tax, and gift tax strategies; assists with estate administration; and prepares and reviews gift and estate tax returns. Rose has helped clients establish living trusts, charitable lead and charitable remainder trusts, and generation-skipping trusts. Additionally, she works with our litigation team to advise clients regarding fiduciary litigation cases.

Rose has earned the Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy®professional designation from The American College of Financial Services. She is adept at helping clients develop and implement philanthropic programs to reach their charitable objectives while simultaneously helping them meet their estate planning and management goals.

Working with lawyers from across the firm, Rose also serves as de facto outside counsel for many of her clients, eliminating unnecessary handoffs; connecting them with Jones Walker’s corporate, real estate, litigation, and other attorneys; and providing the institutional and individual client knowledge that can ensure the legal counsel they receive works in concert with their overall goals.

Prior to entering private practice, Rose served for two years as a law clerk to the Honorable Brian A. Jackson, chief judge of the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana.

Noteworthy

  • Louisiana Super Lawyers, Estate & Probate (2025)

  • The Best Lawyers in America®, "Lawyer of the Year," Elder Law, Trusts and Estates (2023)

  • The Best Lawyers in America®, Elder Law, Litigation – Trusts and Estates, Trusts and Estates (listed annually since 2021)
  • New Orleans Magazine, Top Lawyer (2021, 2023)

Presentations

  • "Estate Planning When Your Business is the Primary Asset," Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), New Orleans, Louisiana, November 30, 2023
  • "Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets: What Trust & Estates Attorneys Should Know," American College of Trusts and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) Southern Regional Meeting, Oxford, Mississippi, May 20, 2023
  • "Taking the 'Cryptic' Out of Cryptocurrency," Tulane University's 31st Estate Planning Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 11, 2022
  • "Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Prenup?" 50th Annual LSU Estate Planning Conference, November 20, 2020
  • "The Brady Bunch Syndrome: Tax and Estate Issues of Divorce, Remarriage, and Blended Families," Tulane Estate Planning Institute, November 14, 2019
  • "The Essential 2019 Estate Planning Playbook – The Latest Xs & Os and the Future Razzle Dazzle," LSBA Estate Planning CLE, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 6, 2019
  • "Transactional Practice – Real World of Transactional Attorneys," Contract Drafting Class, Tulane Law School, April 22, 2019
  • "Transactional Practice – Real World of Transactional Attorneys," Contract Drafting Class, Tulane Law School, April 25, 2018
  • "Key Laws & Client Intake/Goal Setting," Estate Planning and Administration: The Complete Guide, National Business Institute, April 23, 2018
  • "How to Draft Wills and Testamentary Trusts," The Ultimate Guide to Wills and Trusts, National Business Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 13, 2017
  • "Billing for Estate Planning and Successions," Wills, Trusts, and Successions Committee, New Orleans Bar Association, May 11, 2017
  • "Transactional Practice – Real World of Transactional Attorneys," Contract Drafting Class, Tulane Law School, April 26, 2017
  • "Interdictions and Continuing Tutorships," New Orleans Bar Association Procrastinators’ Program, December 20, 2016
  • "Mastering Cocktail Conversation – The Bare Bones Basics of Louisiana Estate Planning," Big Easy Boot Camp, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 28, 2016
  • "Client Intake and Screening," Estate Planning from A to Z, National Business Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 26, 2016
  • "The Pros and Cons of Probate Avoidance," Wills, Trusts, and Successions Committee, New Orleans Bar Association, June 22, 2016
  • "Problems in the Law of Successions and Proposed Resolutions," presented by Max Nathan, Jr., Wills, Trusts, and Successions Committee, New Orleans Bar Association, May 17, 2016
  • "Living Wills" and "Important Documents and Estate Planning", Guest on two John Redmann: Power of Attorney television shows, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 10, 2014
  • "How to File an Estate in Probate Court," The Probate Process from Start to Finish, Institute for Paralegal Education, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 10, 2014
  • "Understanding the Laws of Intestacy," The Probate Process from Start to Finish, Institute for Paralegal Education, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 10, 2014
  • "Federal and State Court Judicial Clerkship Panel," Tulane Law School, October 15, 2014

Memberships

  • Association for Women Attorneys, Member
  • New Orleans Bar Association, Co-chair, Wills, Trusts, and Successions Committee
  • New Orleans Estate Planning Council, Associate Member
  • Jewish Endowment Foundation, Board of Directors (2014–2023)
  • Jewish Children's Regional Service, Board of Directors
  • Louisiana State Law Institute Successions and Donations Committee

New Orleans
201 St. Charles Ave
New Orleans, LA 70170-5100
D: 504.582.8446
F: 504.589.8446
Emailrsher@joneswalker.com

Education

  • Tulane University Law School
    JD, cum laude, 2010
    Civil Law Studies Award for the student who obtained the highest GPA in the Civil Law courses; awards for highest grade in the courses on Successions, Donations and Trusts, Bankruptcy, and Civil Law Security Rights; Walter J. Suthon, Jr., Award; member of the Tulane Law School Inn of Court and the Environmental Law Society; active in the Student Bar Association; volunteer with the Pro Bono Project in the Successions Clinic
  • University of Southern California
    BA, cum laude, Print Journalism major; Environmental Social Sciences minor, 2006
    Recipient of the Victoria Hall Scholarship for a student with a journalism major and a math or science major

Bar Admissions

  • Louisiana

Related Practices

  • Estate Planning & Administration
  • Tax
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