Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, L.L.C.
United States 2025
General Information
Year founded:
1999
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Overview
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Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, L.L.C. is located in New Orleans, Louisiana and serves a multi-jurisdictional clientele. Our talented team of over thirty-five attorneys provides our clients with sophisticated legal services common to a large firm practice, but with responsiveness, personal attention and sensible staffing of a smaller firm. Our lawyers are committed to working with one another, our experienced support staff and our clients as a team to deliver legal services of unsurpassed quality, effectiveness and efficiency.
The hallmark of our service is our attention to the needs of our clients that goes beyond the rules of professional responsibility. When representation requires litigation, we are aggressive trial lawyers, who are not afraid to fight to protect our clients' rights. We also believe in reasonableness and cooperation, however, and adjust our representation to suit the needs of any particular client. A client who brings us a transactional matter can expect an honest and accurate appraisal of the matter and a resolution in the most practical, direct and economically feasible manner.
The hallmark of our service is our attention to the needs of our clients that goes beyond the rules of professional responsibility. When representation requires litigation, we are aggressive trial lawyers, who are not afraid to fight to protect our clients' rights. We also believe in reasonableness and cooperation, however, and adjust our representation to suit the needs of any particular client. A client who brings us a transactional matter can expect an honest and accurate appraisal of the matter and a resolution in the most practical, direct and economically feasible manner.
Rankings
Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, L.L.C. is nationally ranked in 2 practice areas and metro ranked in 38 practice areas. Best Law Firms rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process.
Read how Best Law Firms ranks firmsNational Rankings
Tier 3
Tier 3 for Litigation - Construction
Tier 3 for Project Finance Law
Metro Rankings
New Orleans
Tier 1 for Administrative / Regulatory Law
Tier 1 for Admiralty and Maritime Law
Tier 1 for Banking and Finance Law
Tier 1 for Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
Tier 1 for Commercial Finance Law
Rankings
National Rankings
Tier 3
Tier 3 for Litigation - Construction
Tier 3 for Project Finance Law
Regional Rankings
New Orleans
Tier 1 for Administrative / Regulatory Law
Tier 1 for Admiralty and Maritime Law
Tier 1 for Banking and Finance Law
Tier 1 for Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
Tier 1 for Commercial Finance Law
Tier 1 for Commercial Litigation
Tier 1 for Construction Law
Tier 1 for Corporate Compliance Law
Tier 1 for Corporate Governance Law
Tier 1 for Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
Tier 1 for Equipment Finance Law
Tier 1 for Financial Services Regulation Law
Tier 1 for Insurance Law
Tier 1 for Land Use and Zoning Law
Tier 1 for Litigation - Banking and Finance
Tier 1 for Litigation - Construction
Tier 1 for Litigation - Real Estate
Tier 1 for Litigation - Trusts and Estates
Tier 1 for Litigation and Controversy - Tax
Tier 1 for Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs
Tier 1 for Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law
Tier 1 for Nonprofit / Charities Law
Tier 1 for Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
Tier 1 for Real Estate Law
Tier 1 for Securitization and Structured Finance Law
Tier 1 for Tax Law
Tier 2 for Bet-the-Company Litigation
Tier 2 for Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
Tier 2 for Corporate Law
Tier 2 for Litigation - Municipal
Tier 2 for Trusts and Estates
Tier 3 for Appellate Practice
Tier 3 for Litigation - Environmental
Tier 3 for Litigation - Securities
Tier 3 for Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
Tier 3 for Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Tier 3 for Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants
Tier 3 for Project Finance Law
Practice Areas
The below are areas of legal specialty volunteered by the firm and do not designate a specialty in which a Best Law Firms ranking is held.
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Admiralty and Maritime Law
- Appellate Practice
- Arbitration
- Banking and Finance Law
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
- Corporate Compliance Law
- Corporate Governance Law
- Corporate Law
- Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
- Equipment Finance Law
- Financial Services Regulation Law
- Franchise Law
- Insurance Law
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Litigation - Construction
- Litigation - Environmental
- Litigation - Land Use and Zoning
- Litigation - Municipal
- Litigation - Real Estate
- Litigation - Securities
- Litigation - Trusts and Estates
- Litigation and Controversy - Tax
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs
- Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
- Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law
- Municipal Law
- Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
- Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants
- Project Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
- Securitization and Structured Finance Law
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
Individuals Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®
Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, L.L.C. has 17 lawyers recognized for individual performance in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in
America®.
By receiving this Best Lawyers recognition from their peers for their professional excellence, these lawyers made Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, L.L.C. eligible for evaluation for Best Law Firms rankings.
For almost two decades, Best Lawyers has awarded these singular accolades, making them the foundation of our Best Law Firms awards.
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Client Comments
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Awards
Awards are self-reported by firms and are not verified by the Best Law Firms rankings.
- Recognized, by Chambers USA, as One of the Top Litigation and Real Estate Firms in Louisiana
- "Recommended by The Legal 500" in the practice area of Real Estate and Construction Real Estate
- Commercial Property Law, Firm of the Year in Louisiana (Corporate INTL Global Awards 2012)
- Benchmark Plaintiff lists Sher Garner as "highly recommended" among Louisiana litigation firms
- Best Lawyers - Litigation – Construction (Tier 2)
Main Location
New Orleans,
LA
909 Poydras Street, Suite 2800
New Orleans, LA 70112
United States
504-299-2100
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Management and Personnel
Managing Partner
Leopold Z. Sher
Managing Partner
James M. Garner