MARIE A. MOORE is a partner in the New Orleans law firm of Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, L.L.C., where she practices in the areas of commercial leasing, real estate transactions, and general commercial law. Ms. Moore is a member of the Louisiana and Alabama Bar Associations. She served as a member of the Louisiana State Law Institute's Committee for Revision of the Louisiana Civil Code Articles on Lease and assisted in drafting the new Lease Code Articles that became effective on January 1, 2005. Ms. Moore is the New Orleans Vice President for the Louisiana District Council of the Urban Land Institute and is a member of the Silver Flight of the ULI's national Commercial & Retail Development Council. In addition, Ms. Moore is the co-founder and the inaugural President of New Orleans CREW (2002-2003). Ms. Moore is a member of ICSC and is frequently a speaker or workshop leader at ICSC Law Conferences. She is the Louisiana Contributor to State by State Guide To Commercial Real Estate Leases, Mark A. Senn, Editor, Aspen Publisher (last Edition 2004, revised Edition Pending). She is a member of the RPTE Section's Diversity and Corporate Sponsorship Committees and is an Associate Editor of Probate & Property.
Murphy McMillan, in the Birmingham office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial real estate development, finance, leasing, acquisitions and dispositions transactions and on the acquisition, financing and development of private utilities. A significant portion of his practice is devoted to economic development through structuring alternative financing for retail developments and private water and sewer infrastructure projects. Mr. McMillan is an Associate Member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and is the Alabama/Mississippi Co-Chair of the ICSC Alliance Program (Retail Development through Public/Private Partnerships) and is member of the ICSC Alliance Advisory Group, which provides guidance and direction, on a national basis, to the ICSC Alliance Program.