Sterling Scott Willis

Practice Areas

Scott Willis is a partner and a member of our Business Section. He practices primarily in the areas of commercial transactions, negotiated acquisitions, banking and commercial real estate acquisitions, development, and financing.

Professional Memberships

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 Banker’s 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. He is also an emeritus member of the LSU Law School Alumni Board of Trustees.

Experience

Scott is a licensed title insurance producer and president of Commercial Title Agency, L.L.C., the firm's captive title company.

Scott also frequently speaks about and writes on commercial transactions and legal opinion issues, and he has served as a guest lecturer at LSU Law School.