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Proudly Serving Louisiana and the Gulf Coast

HOW WE CAN HELP


  • BUSINESS COUNSEL

    Whether you are an emerging business or a fixture in your industry and community, Sternberg, Naccari & White can help your business tackle complex to everyday challenges.


    Our lawyers have decades of combined experience counseling owners, employees, managers and boards on their business needs. We have worked with early-stage and emerging start-ups, transitional businesses, publicly held corporations, and everything in between. 


    Whether you are looking for business counsel in  contracts, mergers, acquisitions, transitions, transactions, or employment matters, we want to help you grow. We also offer general business counsel and can utilize creative fee arrangements.


    Sternberg, Naccari & White's thoughtful and tenacious litigators have been to courtrooms and conference rooms across the country--and they are always looking out for your bottom line. If your business has been sued or needs to file suit, we may be able to help you today.

  • PERSONAL MATTERS

    At SNW, we make your personal challenges our business. With tax matters,  wealth planning, personal projects, family law, and estates and trusts, we can help. If not, we can point you to a trusted colleague inside or outside our firm who can. 


    Whether you've been sued personally, or need to sue someone or another company for violating your rights, a contract, or you yourself have been sued, having effective, client-focused counsel is the most important part of your plan.


    Sternberg, Naccari, & White has experienced lawyers for all your needs including:

  • HIGHLIGHTED PRACTICES

    The team at Sternberg, Naccari, & White has a number of practice areas that span businesses and individuals, but complex and high-profile matters that are not easily classified. 


    Our team's points of emphasis that may help your business or personal planning and goals include

MEET THE TEAM


WHY SNW? WE WORK DIFFERENTLY


Sternberg, Naccari, & White, LLC, is a different kind of law firm – we formed this law firm around the idea that law should be practiced collaboratively and with the client as the focus, not the number of hours we can bill. With this practice philosophy, we have grown organically: recruiting a talented group of attorneys and advisors who understand that your success is key to our firm's growth and success.


Our practice philosophy is built on three principles: we integrate with our clients' problem areas and Issues in order to help them solve their problems in real time. Our approach is innovative, as we are committed to evolve and be on the forefront of technology – tools we use to save everyone precious time and money. The firm’s final tenet is to keep our eye on the ball: everything we do must advance the client’s goals.


With this philosophy, we have created an innovative practice model and a Firm based around shared success, practicing around Louisiana from offices in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Join us today!

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AND WE DELIVER FOR OUR CLIENTS


$500,000 for Plaintiffs in Unpaid Overtime Claims

$40,000 Settlement for Discrimination Against Plaintiff

$160,000 for Violation of Student's Constitutional Rights

$50,000 for unpaid retirement

$400,000 in a Business-to-Business Claim

DISMISSED: Libel Claim Against Individual for a Google Review

DISMISSED: Personal Injury Claim Against Major Local Business

INVALIDATED: Statewide Law Affecting Consumers

$10,000 Award to Individual Sued for Seeking Public Records

More than 100 Mergers and Acquisitions

$146M, $65M, $58M, & $40M Transactions in Last Five Years

ACQUIRED: A Family Business Doubling in Size

NEGOTIATED: Exit from a Professional Services Practice

SETTLED: Major Claim for Student Sexually Assaulted

DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE: Libel Claim Between Romantic Partners

DRAFTED: Major Pieces of Legislation

Introducing Bradley J. Tate

SNW is excited to announce the addition of Bradley J. Tate to our ranks! Brad's practice focuses on taxation, estate planning, and business transactions. With nearly two decades of legal experience, he has built a reputation guiding clients through a wide range of complex legal and financial matters.


Brad has spent much of his career in public accounting, serving individuals, small start-up companies, and large, multi-national corporations.


While SNW has always been your top choice for planning for the next generation, we're thrilled that Brad will head SNW's new Estate Planning team, already ready to service your wills, trust, and more! Welcome Brad to the SNW family!

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October 8, 2025
On Tuesday October 7, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit further cabined the ability of the City of New Orleans to govern short-term rentals (“STRs”). In an appeal in the ongoing Hignell-Stark suit regarding the regulation of Non-Commercial STRs, the Fifth Circuit affirmed the ruling of the Eastern District in several respects. However, the Court made three rulings against the City of New Orleans that change the landscape significantly. First, the Court held that ordinances that limited licenses for STRs to natural persons (thereby excluding corporations and limited liability companies) violate the Equal Protection Clause. The ordinances had required that STR licenses and operator’s licenses be held by “natural persons.” The Court held that natural persons and corporations were similarly situated for purposes of the Equal Protection Clause and then found that discrimination did not bear rational basis scrutiny. “Nothing…identifies a plausible connection between an STR homeowner’s juridical status and the behavior of STR guests.” Next, the Court identified several claims that sections of the city ordinances governing advertising violated the First Amendment. The Court disagreed with the appellants on all points, save for one hot-button issue. The Court held that the code’s requirement that “’each short-term rental listing advertises only one dwelling unit’ lacks the justification necessary to survive First Amendment scrutiny.” At first blush, this might not seem like a meaningful ruling; however, property owners have long sought to cross-list properties to prospective guests, advertising, for example that two properties were next door to one another, thereby allowing multiple parties to book together. This ruling is likely the most frustrating aspect of the judgment for those seeking to limit large bookings at STRs. Finally, the Court rejected the argument that the City's resident-operator requirement violated the Dormant Commerce Clause. However, the Court held that the City’s interpretation (and judicial admission) that the law “only requires the operator to be present at the property while guests are present” survived the Dormant Commerce Clause analysis. Under the Court’s analysis the resident-operator requirement only survives under the interpretation that “the Code’s language requires that an operator reside on the STR property only while it is actively occupied by guests.” With new STR ordinances expected in the coming months, it is possible that the City starts from scratch, or it may try to take the case to the United States Supreme Court. Contact Graham Williams if you have further questions.
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