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Carole Cukell Neff 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 co-authored a three-volume treatise
with partner Max Nathan, Jr. entitled Louisiana
Estate Planning, Will Drafting and Estate Administration (Lexis Law Publishing, 2d ed.). She is the New Orleans representative of the Special Needs Alliance.
Ms. Neff was selected by Best Lawyers as the “New Orleans Best Lawyers Non-Profit/Charities Lawyer of the Year” for 2011. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America
and in Louisiana Super Lawyers since 2007 as
one of The Top 25 Women Lawyers in Louisiana.
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 and currently is past President of
the Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana. She is President of the New Orleans Rotary
Fund, Inc. and serves on the Executive Committees of the Louisiana Bar Foundation’s
Pro-Bono Project, the Algiers Economic Development Foundation and the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans. Ms. Neff is a frequent, sought-after
speaker at estate planning seminars and institutes
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