Wesley M. Plaisance
Louisiana, 5th Circuit
Wesley M. Plaisance is a Partner in the New Orleans office of Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson LLP (www.bswllp.com) where he heads the Tax Sale and Quiet Title Litigation Group and practices other commercial litigation with a focus on real estate related litigation. Wesley M. Plaisance regularly handles tax sale litigation matters across Louisiana including without limitation in the following Parishes: Orleans, East Baton Rouge, St. Tammany, Jefferson, Lafayette, Livingston, Plaquemines and Lafourche. Mr. Plaisance represents tax sale purchasers in suits to confirm tax sale title(s) and ownership with and/or without cancellation of mortgages and other encumbrances, in settlement of tax sale litigation matters and in partition proceedings commenced after a tax sale purchaser confirms only a fractional ownership interest. Mr. Plaisance has extensive experience in representing tax debtors, landowners, mortgage holders including banks and other interested parties in actions to annul and/or nullify tax sales. Mr. Plaisance has successfully litigated complex commercial litigation matters arising out of large investment funds created to purchase tax sale certificates and/or tax sale deeds in Louisiana, Georgia, Indiana and Florida. Mr. Plaisance is a resource for tax sale purchasers to buy or sell interest under tax sale certificates/deeds to other investors and has assisted his clients in the acquisition and/or sale of numerous tax sale deeds/certificates in Louisiana. Mr. Plaisance assists his clients in navigating the sale of immovable property with title insurance after confirmation of the tax sale certificates/deeds. Mr. Plaisance graduated magna cum laude from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law where he was a member of the Loyola Law Review. In addition, Mr. Plaisance served as an extern for the Honorable Kurt D. Engelhardt in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.