About Sterling
Scott Willis is a partner in Fishman Haygood's Business Section. He practices primarily in the areas of commercial transactions, negotiated acquisitions, banking and commercial real estate acquisitions, development, and financing.Scott is a fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (“ACREL”) and previously served on its Board of Governors, is a member of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys (“ACMA”) and serves on its Board of Regents, and is a past Chair of the Louisiana Bankers Association’s Bank Counsel Committee. He is the past Chair of the ACMA Opinions Committee, the ABA’s Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section Committee on Legal Opinions, and the ACREL Attorney’s Opinions Committee. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Working Group on Legal Opinions Foundation. Scott served as the Chair of the ABA Real Property Trust and Estate Section standing CLE Committee, and as a Supervisory Council Member to the Section. He is also past Chair of the New Orleans Bureau of Governmental Research.Scott has frequently lectured on commercial transactions and legal opinion issues and as a guest lecturer at LSU Law School where he is also an emeritus member of the Alumni Board of Trustees.Scott is ranked by Chambers and Partners in both Banking and Finance and Real Estate.
Scott Willis is a partner in Fishman Haygood's Business Section. He practices primarily in the areas of commercial transactions, negotiated acquisitions, banking and commercial real estate acquisitions, development, and financing.
Scott is a fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (“ACREL”) and previously served on its Board of Governors, is a member of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys (“ACMA”) and serves on its Board of Regents, and is a past Chair of the Louisiana Bankers Association’s Bank Counsel Committee. He is the past Chair of the ACMA Opinions Committee, the ABA’s Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section Committee on Legal Opinions, and the ACREL Attorney’s Opinions Committee. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Working Group on Legal Opinions Foundation. Scott served as the Chair of the ABA Real Property Trust and Estate Section standing CLE Committee, and as a Supervisory Council Member to the Section. He is also past Chair of the New Orleans Bureau of Governmental Research.
Scott has frequently lectured on commercial transactions and legal opinion issues and as a guest lecturer at LSU Law School where he is also an emeritus member of the Alumni Board of Trustees.
Scott is ranked by Chambers and Partners in both Banking and Finance and Real Estate.
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Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Equipment Finance Law, New Orleans (2025)
- Lawyer of the Year: Equipment Finance Law, New Orleans (2021)
- Lawyer of the Year: Real Estate Law, New Orleans (2020)
- Lawyer of the Year: Banking and Finance Law, New Orleans (2018)
- Lawyer of the Year: Equipment Finance Law, New Orleans (2017)
- Lawyer of the Year: Banking and Finance Law, New Orleans (2016)
- Lawyer of the Year: Equipment Finance Law, New Orleans (2012)
- Recognized: Banking and Finance Law
- Recognized: Corporate Law
- Recognized: Equipment Finance Law
- Recognized: Real Estate Law
- Special Focus: Commercial Finance
- Special Focus: Finance
- Special Focus: Loan Documentation
- Special Focus: Maritime Lending
- Special Focus: Mergers & Acquisitions
- Special Focus: Mortgage
- Special Focus: Oil & Gas Lending
- Special Focus: Real Estate
- Special Focus: Transactions
- Special Focus: Uniform Commercial Code