Louisiana Estate Planning, Will Drafting and Estate Administration with Forms

Sessions, Fishman, Nathan, LLC

Max Nathan, Jr. (Deceased)practiced primarily in the fields of estate planning, taxation and general civil law. He was president of the Louisiana Law Institute from 1998 through 2001, and was also a long-time Chairman. The Institute is the official advisory law-revision commission, law-reform agency, and legal-research agency of the State of Louisiana. As a long-time member of the Law Institute's Council, he was a principal author of the current Louisiana legislation on partnership, successions, donations, and wills. He was a member of the International Academy of Trusts & Estates and the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel. He was a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and former president of the New Orleans Estate Planning Council. He served as chairman of the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Committee of the State of Louisiana for six years, and was instrumental in implementing continuing legal education in Louisiana. He was consistently listed in The Best Lawyers in America and in various Who's Who publications. He was a board-certified specialist in taxation and estate planning and administration.

Mr. Nathan was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Northwestern University. He graduated with honors from Tulane Law School where he was a member of the Tulane Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif. After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk for Judge John Minor Wisdom on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Mr. Nathan was a full professor at Tulane Law School, where he had taught on the adjunct faculty for 44 years, and had prepared his own coursebook on Louisiana secured transactions. Also, for four decades he had taught major portions of the annual bar review course for recent law school graduates.

Sessions, Fishman, Nathan, LLC

Carole Cukell Neff (Retired) is a Board-Certified Estate Planning & Administration Specialist certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization. She graduated Order of the Coif from the Tulane University School of Law, where she served on the Board of Editors of the Tulane Law Review. After graduation, she clerked for Justice John A. Dixon, Jr. of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Ms. Neff is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, being elected the first woman and the youngest person from the State of Louisiana. She is the sole New Orleans representative of the Special Needs Alliance.

Ms. Neff was recently named one of the ''Top Ten Attorneys in Louisiana'' by Super Lawyers of Louisiana. She was selected by Best Lawyers as the ''New Orleans Best Lawyers Non-Profit/Charities Lawyer of the Year'' for 2011. For many years she chaired the New Orleans Bar Association's Committee on Probate, Trusts and Estate Planning and has also served as President of the Women's Professional Council, President of the Professional Financial Planners of Greater New Orleans, President of the New Orleans Estate Planning Council, President of the Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana. President of the New Orleans Rotary Fund, Inc. and as Chair of the New Orleans AVODAH Advisory Council. She serves as the Chair of the Louisiana Bar Foundation's Pro Bono Project, and on the Executive Committee of the Algiers Economic Development Foundation and the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans. She recently received the prestigious 2013 Michaelle Pitard Wynne Professionalism Award from the New Chapter of the Association for Women Attorneys. Ms. Neff is a frequent, sought-after speaker at estate planning seminars and institutes to fellow professionals and to lay audiences.

Laura E. Fine is a partner of the law firm of Sessions Fishman & Nathan, LLC, practicing primarily in the areas of Estate Planning and Estate Administration. She received her Bachelor’s degree in psychology at Centenary College of Louisiana, her J.D. from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California, and her LL.M degree in Comparative and International Law from Tulane University Law School. Ms. Fine is admitted to practice in California and Louisiana. She is board certified as a specialist in Estate Planning and Administration from the Louisiana State Bar Association, a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy through the American College, and an Accredited Estate Planner through the National Association of Estate Planning Councils. She serves on the Trust Code Committee for the Louisiana State Law Institute and is a frequent lecturer at professional meetings and estate planning seminars. Ms. Fine was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2016 and 2017.