Mr. Justin T. Mannino
Partner
Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, LLP
http://www.taylorporter.com
Justin Mannino is a partner at Taylor Porter whose practice focuses on federal, state, and local tax matters; estate planning; trusts and successions; business transactions; corporate governance; nonprofit organizations; and tax controversies. He advises individuals, families, fiduciaries, and closely held businesses on wealth transfer planning, trust and estate administration, business sales and acquisitions, tax-efficient ownership structures, and IRS/Louisiana Department of Revenue matters.
Justin received his LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Florida, J.D./D.C.L. from LSU Law, and B.S. in Accounting from LSU. Justin's work has been recognized by his peers, having been elected as a Fellow in ACTEC and recognized in the Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers publications.
In 2025, Justin was selected as a "Forty Under 40" honoree by the Baton Rouge Business Report.
Justin's representative experience includes multimillion-dollar business transactions, nonprofit formation and compliance, tax controversy work, estate planning and administration, and business succession planning. Justin serves his community in various service roles with on the Boards of Baton Rouge Green, WRKF, Capital Area United Way, Catholic High School Alumni Association, and Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Baton Rouge.
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 Ronald J. Scalise Jr.
Tulane University Law School
Ronald J. Scalise Jr. is the Eason-Weinmann Chair of International and Comparative Law and the Director of the Eason-Weinmann Center at Tulane University Law School. He previously held the John Minor Wisdom and the A.D Freeman professorships at Tulane and the McGlinchey Stafford professorship at the LSU law school, where he taught from 2004 to 2009. In his more than two decades of teaching, he has continuously taught both common-law Trusts and Estates and civil-law Successions, Donations, and Trusts.
His scholarship focuses both on domestic trusts and estates issues as well as comparative and civil law perspectives on successions. He has authored an extensive number of law review articles, book chapters, and treatise updates. He is the editor for the Thomson Reuters edition of the Louisiana Civil Code and the primary author for the annual updates for six volumes of the Louisiana Civil Law Treatise series. Professor Scalise has spoken, taught, or lectured in a variety of foreign countries, including the UK (Cambridge), France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Malta, Scotland, Hong Kong, Canada, and South Africa. He has also served as a visiting scholar as the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany, and currently serves as a Professeur Invité at the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas.
Professor Scalise has served on numerous law reform projects on both the state and national level, including as Reporter for both the Successions and Donations Committee and the Trust Code Committee of the Louisiana State Law Institute as well as the Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission's committees on the Community Property Disposition at Death Act and the Conflict of Laws in Trusts and Estates Act.
Professor Scalise's national and international work has also garnered him a number of accolades and recognitions. He is a member of the American Law Institute, an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, the Treasurer of the American Society of Comparative Law, an academician in the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, and an academic fellow in the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC). He currently serves as the Southern Regional Chair and the Louisiana State Chair for ACTEC and is a member of the Board of Regents. He also currently serves on the Board of Governors for the Louisiana State Bar Association.
Professor Cherish van Mullem
Director of Low-Income Tax Clinic
LSU Law Center
Director of the LSU Law School Low Income Tax Clinic and Associate Professor.
Ms. Katherine Wells Gressett
Sternberg, Naccari & White, LLC
Katherine Wells Gressett is an attorney with Sternberg, Naccari & White, LLC, joining the firm in 2022 and practicing in the firm’s New Orleans office.
Katherine brings her considerable talents to the firm’s estate planning and business litigation groups, after working most recently in environmental litigation, and representing states in natural resource damages litigation. She also practiced with a large regional firm based in New Orleans.
In her legal career, Katherine has extensive experience in both federal and state court. She has advocated for both plaintiffs and defendants in environmental, toxic tort, and legacy litigation, as well as commercial, construction and insurance litigation. She has experience in all stages of litigation, from pre-suit investigations and negotiation, to discovery, dispositive motions, oral argument, trial, and federal and state appeals.
Katherine received her Juris Doctor and Diploma in Civil law cum laude from Louisiana State University’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where she was a member of the LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources, was selected for the Moot Court Board and travelled nationally with LSU’s Jessup International Moot Court team. During law school, Katherine also completed an externship with U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Vance at the Eastern District of Louisiana as well as a summer clerkship with Judge Phyllis Keaty in the Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal.
Katherine earned her bachelor’s degree in French Literature at Vanderbilt University. While at Vanderbilt, Katherine completed coursework at the Sorbonne in Paris and Aix-en-Provence.
Before attending law school, Katherine worked in Washington D.C. on a USAID-funded international health policy project advocating for maternal health services in Francophone West Africa.
Katherine is originally from Jackson, Mississippi but has adopted the francophone city of New Orleans as her home. She remains fluent in French. She lives in Mid-City with her husband, Tim, where they enjoy all kinds of outdoor adventures, traveling, and appreciating all the food, music, and culture that the region has to offer.
Mr. Jacob C. White
Wiener, Weiss & Madison, APC
Jacob is a shareholder with Wiener, Weiss & Madison. He joined the firm in 2025 and his practice is focused primarily on transactional matters, including Corporate, Partnership, S-Corporation, Trust and Non-Profit planning areas, with an emphasis on federal and state taxation. In his practice, Jacob advises clients on various business and tax issues and assists with the preparation and implementation of complex estate plans under Louisiana and Texas law. In addition to his primary transactional practice, Jacob has significant experience representing clients in Louisiana probate proceedings, as well as advising clients with respect to myriad entity, fiduciary, and real estate issues. Jacob is a Board Certified Tax Law Specialist and a Board Certified Estate Planning and Administration Specialist by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization.
