Ms. Heather A. LaSalle

Heather LaSalle Alexis is a partner in Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP's Commercial Transactions section in New Orleans, where she focuses on bankruptcy, creditors' rights, commercial disputes and consumer finance litigation. Ms. Alexis represents secured and unsecured creditors in consumer and commercial bankruptcy proceedings. Her practice includes lift-stay motions, objections to confirmation plans, reaffirmation agreements, obtaining adequate protection orders, objecting to discharge, valuation hearings, adversary proceedings, defense of preferential transfer actions and defending sanctions motions. She also has experience with escrow and bankruptcy accounting issues. Ms. Alexis is an ABI member and serves as co-chair on ABI's New Orleans Consumer Conference. She also sits on ABI's Southwest Bankruptcy Conference Advisory Board and is a member of ABI's Bankruptcy Litigation and Consumer Bankruptcy Committees. Ms. Alexis  is a member of the Louisiana Chapter of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation. She received her B.A. and P.P.A. from Louisiana State University and her J.D. cum laude from Loyola Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Loyola Maritime Law Journal and received several academic awards.