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Leopold Z. Sher focuses on Business, Estate Litigation, Foreclosure, Franchise, and General.

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Leopold Z. Sher primarily serves clients in New Orleans, Louisiana, with an office at 909 Poydras Street, Suite 2800.

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Leopold Z. Sher

New Orleans, LA

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Leopold Z. Sher is an attorney based in New Orleans, LOUISIANA. The practice focuses on Business, Estate Litigation, and Foreclosure.

Based in: New Orleans, LOUISIANA
Experience: attorney
Known for: Business · Estate Litigation · Foreclosure

Handles Business, Estate Litigation, and Foreclosure matters from New Orleans, LOUISIANA.
Recognized with Lawyer of the Year — Land Use and Zoning Law (New Orleans) (2025).

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Practice focus

Leopold Z. Sher represents clients in New Orleans, Louisiana across the following areas of law. Each area links to other verified attorneys with the same focus.

Biography

About Leopold Z. Sher

Mr. Sher is a business lawyer whose practice is concentrated in commercial real estate and business and finance law. He also practices in the areas of: commercial litigation, creditors' rights, workouts and foreclosures, commercial bankruptcy, disaster recovery, arbitration and mediation, secured finance and asset based lending. Along with his practice, Mr. Sher is actively involved with many professional and trade organizations, including the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, where he served as Treasurer and a member of the Executive Board; the Anglo American Real Property Institute (an organization limited in its membership to the top 50 real estate practitioners in the United States and the top 50 real estate practitioners in the United Kingdom) where he served as Treasurer and a member of the Governing Board; the Real Property Section of the American Bar Association, where Mr. Sher has served in many positions, including the Section's governing Council and as the Section Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates; the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, which selects its members (fellows) from those attorneys in the United States who serve the asset based lending industry; the American College of Mortgage Attorneys; the Business Section of the American Bar Association, particularly the Commercial Financial Services Committee of the Section; and the American Law Institute, where he is currently serving as a member of the Members Consultative Group on the Restatement Third, The U.S. Law of Commercial Arbitration Committee. Mr. Sher is an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, with a special designation for arbitrating Commercial Disputes. Mr. Sher also serves on the Tulane Law School Dean's Advisory Board, whose purpose is to serve as an advisory and consultative group to the Dean of the Law School, bringing the perspective of alumni and other friends of the Law School to bear on matters of Law School policy, activities, programs and goals, and acts as an advocate to assist the Dean in advancing the interest of the school. He also is currently a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, a trade association that represents the interests of those involved in the shopping center industry, including lenders, tenants, owners and developers. From 1986 to 1999, Mr. Sher was also a member of the Lenders' Counsel Group of the American Land Title Association (ALTA), a group limited to 75 lending lawyers who met in conjunction with the ALTA, the title insurance industry trade association.
Over the years, Mr. Sher has been actively involved in virtually every type of major business, real estate and finance transaction representing various and diverse interests as follows: major lenders, including life insurance companies, banks, finance companies and other asset based lenders, savings and loans and other lenders such as Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS), Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits (REMICS) [conduit lending], and CMBS (Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities) lenders for all categories of loans and lending arrangements including private and public financing, industrial development bond financing, public/private partnerships, New Markets Tax Credits financing, and Urban Development Action Grants); commercial developers, including developers of shopping centers, hotels, office buildings, apartment complexes, free standing retail establishments, industrial properties, condominiums, golf courses, Planned Unit Developments, historic rehabilitations, mixed-use projects, conversions, parking lots and garages, warehouses, and other traditional and nontraditional (facade donations, air rights transactions, etc.) real estate projects; businesses, including representation related to the buying and selling of businesses, structuring transactions, joint ventures and other combinations, general business advice and major contracts; landlords and tenants, which representation includes drafting of form leases and negotiation of lease agreements, construction, operation and reciprocal easement (servitude) agreements and other agreements that affect real property; owners and purchasers, which representation includes drafting and negotiation of purchase and sale agreements, construction contracts, development agreements, and acquisition and disposition in bulk of multiple properties. Mr. Sher has also represented major national and international clients in the food service, hospital, title insurance and oil and gas industries.
On behalf of clients of the firm, Mr. Sher regularly practices before and works closely with political entities and public administrative boards and agencies, at the local, parish (county), state and national levels.
Mr. Sher has spoken extensively, both locally and nationally, on many diverse subjects including marine pollution/offshore oil leak disasters, capital markets, real estate finance, government bailouts, disaster recovery, insurance, zoning, land use, eminent domain, environmental law, limited liability companies, workouts, leases, title insurance, asset based lending, lending, lender liability, civil forfeiture, distressed real estate, brokerage agreements and other areas related to his practice. Since Hurricane Katrina, Mr. Sher has spoken extensively all over the country to various business groups, professional organizations, and trade associations on disaster recovery, disaster planning and disaster management.
Mr. Sher is active in the community, currently serving as a board member of both the Arts Council of New Orleans and the New Orleans Opera Association.

Credentials

Education

Tulane University
B.S. Political Science · 1976

Jurisdictions

Bar admissions

Louisiana, Louisiana
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Recognition

Awards & honors

Lawyer of the Year — Land Use and Zoning Law (New Orleans)
2025
Lawyer of the Year — Financial Services Regulation Law (New Orleans)
2024
Lawyer of the Year — Project Finance Law (New Orleans)
2024
Lawyer of the Year — Project Finance Law (New Orleans)
2022
Lawyer of the Year — Land Use and Zoning Law (New Orleans)
2021
Lawyer of the Year — Project Finance Law (New Orleans)
2020
Lawyer of the Year — Administrative / Regulatory Law (New Orleans)
2019
Lawyer of the Year — Corporate Compliance Law (New Orleans)
2019
Lawyer of the Year — Land Use and Zoning Law (New Orleans)
2017
Lawyer of the Year — Administrative / Regulatory Law (New Orleans)
2016
Lawyer of the Year — Financial Services Regulation Law (New Orleans)
2015
Lawyer of the Year — Administrative / Regulatory Law (New Orleans)
2014
Lawyer of the Year — Litigation - Real Estate (New Orleans)
2012
Lawyer of the Year — Real Estate Law (New Orleans)
2011
Best Lawyers in America — Administrative / Regulatory Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Banking and Finance Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Commercial Finance Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Commercial Litigation
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Corporate Compliance Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Corporate Governance Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Corporate Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Equipment Finance Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Financial Services Regulation Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Franchise Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Land Use and Zoning Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Litigation - Banking and Finance
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Litigation - Land Use and Zoning
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Litigation - Municipal
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Litigation - Real Estate
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Municipal Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Nonprofit / Charities Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Project Finance Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Real Estate Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Securitization and Structured Finance Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Additional Areas of Practice:
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Arbitration
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Collaborative Law: Civil
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Collaborative Law: Family Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Commercial Transactions / UCC Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Communications Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Construction Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Derivatives and Futures Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Environmental Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Government Relations Practice
2026
Best Lawyers in America — International Arbitration - Commercial
2026
Best Lawyers in America — International Arbitration - Governmental
2026
Best Lawyers in America — International Trade and Finance Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Litigation - Bankruptcy
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Litigation - Construction
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Mediation
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Mergers and Acquisitions Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Public Finance Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Securities / Capital Markets Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Securities Regulation
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Timber Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Trade Secrets Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Utilities Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Venture Capital Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Water Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Special Focus:
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Administrative
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Arbitration and Mediation
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Business
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Business Disputes
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Commercial
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Commercial Landlord Tenant
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Complex Disputes
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Condemnation
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Condominiums
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Contract
2026
Best Lawyers in America — COVID-19
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Derivatives
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Development
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Easements and Rights of Way
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Eminent Domain
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Energy Projects
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Equipment Leasing
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Finance
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Financial Institutions
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Foreclosures
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Government Relations
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Hospitality
2026
Best Lawyers in America — International
2026
Best Lawyers in America — International Arbitration
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Land Use
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Leasing
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Lending
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Litigation
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Mortgage
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Municipal
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Office Buildings
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Real Estate
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Real Property Law
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Redevelopment
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Securities
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Shopping Center Transactions
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Structured Products
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Tax Certiorari
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Transactions
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Troubled Projects
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Uniform Commercial Code
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Vessel Financing
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Workouts and Restructurings
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Zoning
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Awards:
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Mr. Sher was named a Super Lawyer (2007-2013) by Super Lawyers and one of its top 10 and top 50 lawyers, 2007-2012
2026

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Main office

909 Poydras Street, Suite 2800

New Orleans, Louisiana 70112

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What areas of law does Leopold Z. Sher practice?
Leopold Z. Sher focuses on Business, Estate Litigation, Foreclosure, Franchise, and General.
Where is Leopold Z. Sher located?
Leopold Z. Sher primarily serves clients in New Orleans, Louisiana, with an office at 909 Poydras Street, Suite 2800.
Is Leopold Z. Sher a verified attorney?
Leopold Z. Sher's profile is listed but has not yet been claimed by the attorney. Verification status is pending.
How can I schedule a consultation with Leopold Z. Sher?
You can book a consultation through LawyersListed directly from this page. Initial outreach can also be made by phone at 504-299-2100.