Walter J. Leger, Jr. is a partner in the law firm of Leger & Shaw and former President of the New Orleans Zephyrs Triple A Professional Baseball Team. He has served as Chairman of the Board of the New Orleans Regional Chamber of Commerce and the MetroVision Economic Development Partnership. Leger is past President of the New Orleans Bar Foundation and the New Orleans Bar Association. He currently serves as a Vice Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans. The Louisiana Bar Journal named Leger a “Louisiana Legal Legend,” along with Louisiana Chief Justice Bernette Johnson, former U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward Douglas White, Jr., Louisiana’s first governor W.C.C. Claiborne, and only eight others. BIZ Magazine called him a “larger-than-life legal legend.” Leger has spoken widely on legal issues at Harvard Law School, Tulane, LSU, Loyola, and others. Leger was a finalist for the “National Lawyer of the Year” Award, has been named to Louisiana “SuperLawyers, New Orleans Magazine’s “Top Lawyers” and Citybusiness Newspaper’s “Leaders in Law Hall of Fame.” He received the “President’s Award” for leadership and public service from the New Orleans Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, and the Louisiana Association of Justice. He has been named “Volunteer of the Year” by both the Southern
Economic Development Council and the Louisiana Industrial Development Executives Association. The Louisiana State Bar Association has given him its “Citizen Lawyer Award.” Lawyers Monthly Magazine named him “Admiralty and Maritime Lawyer of the Year – USA” for 2021and 2023. The Lawyer Network named him “Class Action Expert of the Year for 2022.”
