PETER S. TITLE

PARTNER

Peter S. Title practices in real estate, bankruptcy and commercial law. He is a graduate of Columbia University and of the Tulane University School of Law. At Tulane, he served on the Board of Editors of the Tulane Law Review, where he was Articles Editor in 1974-75, and received the Rittenberg-Weinstein Award for excellence in legal writing. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and of the Federal, American, Louisiana State and New Orleans Bar Associations. He has served as chairman of Trusts, Estates, Probate and Immovable Property Law Section for the Louisiana State Bar Association, as chair of the New Orleans Bar Association Title Examinations Committee and is a Fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys. Mr. Title is also a member of the Committee on Bar Admissions of the Louisiana State Bar Association. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who in the South and in the South and Southwest, and in The Best Lawyers in America (Real Estate Law). He has lectured on real estate and bankruptcy law to many professional groups. He has also authored a two-volume treatise on Louisiana real estate law entitled Louisiana Real Estate Transactions, published in 1991 by Lawyer’s Co-Operative Publishing Company, with a second edition published in 2000 by West Publishing Company.

On December 2, 2021, Peter Title was inducted as President of the Louisiana Land Title Association,  a statewide association whose purpose is to protect the land title industry in Louisiana.

  • Banking
  • Bankruptcy Law
  • Business & Corporate
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Real Estate
  •  President, Louisiana Land Title Association, 2022
  • New Orleans Bar Association, Member
  • Louisiana State Bar Association, Member
  • American Bar Association, Member
  • Fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys
  • Louisiana Bar, 1975
  • Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana
    • Juris Doctor, 1975
    • Honors: Order of the Coif
    • Rittenberg-Weinstein Award for excellence in legal writing
  • Columbia University
    • Undergraduate Degree
  • Best Lawyers in America© 2024 – Real Estate Law
  • New Orleans Magazine‘s 2023 “Top Lawyer” in the area of Real Estate Law