Ms. Rebecca S. Luster Radford
Associate
Wiener, Weiss & Madison, APC
Rebecca S. Luster Radford is a shareholder at the Shreveport, Louisiana law firm of Wiener, Weiss & Madison, a Professional Corporation, and a practitioner primarily in the areas of taxation, estate planning, successions, trusts, and business and commercial transactions. Ms. Radford is a Board Certified Estate Planning and Administration Specialist as Certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Business Administration, cum laude, from Rhodes College and a Master of Science in Accounting from the University of Virginia. Ms. Radford earned a J.D. and a Graduate Diploma in Comparative Law from LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center, cum laude. Subsequent to her studies at LSU, Ms. Radford earned a Master of Laws in Taxation from the University of Florida. She is a frequent speaker on estate planning and taxation topics and is a co-author of Estate Planning in Louisiana, which is part of the Louisiana Practice Series since 2020.

Professor Cherish van Mullem
Director of Low-Income Tax Clinic
LSU Law Center
Cherish van Mullem is the Director of the Low-Income Tax Clinic and an Associate Professor at LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. The clinic, which launched in 2025, provides free legal assistance to Louisiana taxpayers in disputes with the IRS.

Before joining the LSU faculty full-time, Cherish spent several years at LaPorte CPAs & Business Advisors, where she provided tax planning, advisory, and compliance services with a focus on estate, gift, and succession planning, state and local taxation, and family business tax planning. She also served for several years as an adjunct professor at LSU Law, teaching Income Tax I, before moving to the faculty full-time.

Professor Monica Hof Wallace
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
MONICA HOF WALLACE is the Dean Marcel Garsaud, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Advocacy Center at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. Professor Wallace joined the law faculty in 2002 after practicing at the New Orleans firm of Correro Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley & Casteix (now Fishman Haygood et al). Professor Wallace graduated first in her class at Loyola College of Law and while attending law school, served on the Law Review and as Chairman of the Moot Court Program. After graduation, Professor Wallace served as a law clerk for the Honorable Jacques L. Wiener, Jr. of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable Barry Ted Moskowitz of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Professor Wallace is a frequent speaker and author in the areas of family law, successions, donations, trusts, and community property, all of which she teaches at the College of Law. She also lectures on family law for Barbri nationally. She is the author of several articles and books, including the Louisiana Family Law Treatise with Professor Sandi Varnado, and the Louisiana Civil Law Treatise on Successions and Donations. Professor Wallace designed, developed, and fundraised for the Loyola Advocacy Center, over which she served as Director at its inception. She is also an active member of many professional organizations, including the Louisiana Bar Association, the Louisiana Law Institute, and the St. Thomas More Inn of Court, and she is an active Fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation. Professor Wallace has received numerous awards for her teaching, scholarship, and public service.

Mr. Joseph T. Wilson
Liskow & Lewis
Joe Wilson is a business and trusts and estates lawyer focusing on real estate, finance, general business, and estate planning and probate matters. Joe represents business owners, real estate developers, lenders, and manufacturing and industrial facilities operators on a multitude of legal and operational issues, including property acquisitions, sales and development, title insurance, corporate structuring and governance, and regulatory compliance. In addition to his corporate representations, Joe has established himself as a leader in the field of private wealth legal services and succession planning. Joe regularly advises corporate fiduciaries, individuals, family offices, and high-net-worth clients on a wide range of estate planning, probate and administration needs, including the drafting and oversight of wills, trusts and family succession plans, the development and implementation of gifting strategies and tax minimization efforts, as well as charitable and for-profit asset acquisitions and divestitures. Clients frequently engage Joe to negotiate, draft, and interpret purchase agreements, leases, operating agreements, wills, trusts, bylaws and other organizational documents, loans, and security agreements. Joe is a state-licensed title insurance agent, issuing title insurance policies through Lewis Title Co., the firm’s in-house title agency.

Joe is a frequent public speaker on trusts and estates and business law topics, focusing his presentations on legal issues that affect the lives and business operations of his clients.

Joe graduated summa cum laude from Louisiana State University’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as a Senior Editor of the Louisiana Law Review. He received the Law Review’s Vinson & Elkins Award for the Best Student Casenote or Comment.