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.

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.