Areas of Practice
- Business & Finance
- Disaster Recovery Client Team
- Economic Development
- Energy
- Environmental & Toxic Torts
- Real Estate
- Real Estate: Land Use, Development & Finance
Education
- Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, J.D., 1974; Vice President of Senior Class
- Louisiana State University, B.S. in Industrial Management, 1971
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana, 1974
Court Admissions
- E.D. La., 1976
- M.D. La., 1978
- W.D. La., 1994
Rob Scheffy leads the firm's Real Estate Practice Group. Mr. Scheffy has an extensive commercial real estate practice representing lenders, borrowers, and developers. His practice includes extensive title examination work; negotiations of loan agreements and other collateral documents for lenders and borrowers; counsel to lenders and borrowers on land use issues including zoning, coastal use permitting, Sec. 404 permitting, and environmental site assessments. He previously served as the Associate General Counsel for Mid Louisiana Gas Company from 1974–1977 before joining Jones Walker.
Mr. Scheffy’s energy practice includes the representation of pipeline companies and exploration and production companies in connection with the development, purchase, and sale of producing properties. Most recently, Mr. Scheffy has been involved with matters involving the acquisition and permitting for the storage of natural gas in salt dome caverns, and the acquisition of producing properties.
He has also been involved in project development work in connection with commercial real estate development and in connection with industrial plant operations. Mr. Scheffy has provided counsel to clients in connection with developing commercial shopping center sites, residential developments, and in connection with structuring the relationships between chemical plants for the sharing of facilities, utilities, and services, and the granting of reciprocal servitudes for operations. He has also worked on the financing of such transactions. Mr. Scheffy has worked on similar arrangements between electrical power generators and electrical transmission companies and has worked on and drafted the necessary servitude (easement agreements) necessary to bring power and/or fuel to such facilities as well as to deliver product from such plants. In providing such advices, he has been involved in land use planning issues, environmental regulatory issues and financing issues involving the commercial real estate projects, the industrial projects, and the power generation projects.
Noteworthy
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 (Copyright 2008 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC) in the areas of Energy Law and Oil & Gas Law (listed annually since 2005)
- AV® Peer Review Rating in Martindale-Hubbell. CV, BV and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell Ratings fall into two categories—legal ability and general ethical standards.
News
- Sixty-Two Jones Walker Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 2009; Jones Walker Top-Listed in Louisiana
- Fifty-Two Jones Walker Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 2008; Jones Walker Top-Listed in Louisiana
- Scheffy Serves as Co-Chair of 19th Institute
- Bryan Presents at 2006 Bank Counsel Conference
- Fifty-Two Jones Walker Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 2007
- Jones Walker Named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ Innovators of the Year 2006
Presentations
- Real Estate Breakfast Briefing, December 15, 2006
Publications
- "New Construction Codes"
E*Lert, January 11, 2007 - "Rapanos, Carabell and Where Do We Go From Here?"
E*Lert, June 26, 2006
Memberships
- American Bar Association (Member, Sections on Environment, Energy and Resources, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law)
- Baton Rouge Association of Petroleum Landmen (Founding Member and Founding Board Member)
- Baton Rouge Bar Association (Past President, Young Lawyers Section)
- Baton Rouge Property Lawyers Association
- Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company (Approved Agent)
- First American Title Insurance Company (Approved Agent)
- Licensed as a Louisiana Title Insurance Agent
- Louisiana Bank Counsel Association
- Louisiana State Bar Association, Baton Rouge Bank Counsel Association (Member, Section on Mineral Law; Past Council Member, Section on Mineral Law, LSBA; Member, Section on Trusts, Estate, Probate & Immovable Property Law; Member, Section on Environmental Law; Member, Section on Corporate & Business Law)
