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Max Nathan, Jr. practices primarily in the fields
of estate planning, taxation and general civil law.
He was president of the Louisiana Law Institute from
1998 through 2001, and is now the Chairman. The Institute
is the official advisory law-revision commission, law-reform
agency, and legal-research agency of the State of Louisiana.
As a long-time member of the Law Institute’s Council,
he is a principal author of the current Louisiana legislation
on partnership, successions, donations, and wills. With
partner Carole Cukell Neff, he wrote the three-volume
treatise, Louisiana Estate Planning, Will Drafting and
Estate Administration (Lexis Law Publishing, 2d ed.).
He is a member of the International Academy of Trusts
& Estates and the American College of Trust &
Estate Counsel. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
and former president of the New Orleans Estate Planning
Council. He served as chairman of the Mandatory Continuing
Legal Education Committee of the State of Louisiana
for six years, and was instrumental in implementing
continuing legal education in Louisiana. He has been
consistently listed in The Best Lawyers in America and
in various Who’s Who publications. He is a board-certified
specialist in taxation and estate planning and administration.
Mr. Nathan is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Northwestern
University. He graduated with honors from Tulane Law
School where he was a member of the Tulane Law Review
and a member of Order of the Coif. After graduating
from law school, he served as a law clerk for Judge
John Minor Wisdom on the United States Court of Appeals
for the Fifth Circuit.
Mr. Nathan is a full professor at Tulane
Law School, where he has taught on the adjunct
faculty for 44 years, and has prepared his own
coursebook on Louisiana secured transactions.
Also, for the last forty years he has taught major
portions of the annual bar review course for recent
law school graduates.
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