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Provided by Kean Miller

Kean Miller represents local, national, and international companies in a wide range of environmental litigation in Louisiana and across the South. We frequently develop creative strategies for our clients in complex environmental matters.

Our go-to trial teams defend the energy, petrochemical, and manufacturing sectors against lawsuits in state, federal, and appellate courts involving environmental allegations. We have extensive experience with a wide variety of environmental litigation matters and oversee numerous dockets and individual cases involving climate change, coastal zone management, wetland/land loss, legacy sites, oil spills, pipeline ruptures, NORM exposure, groundwater and soil contamination, air pollution, CERCLA, and additional environmental incidental occurrences. Our team also helps manage regulatory enforcement actions, permitting and compliance disputes, land use conflicts, and remediation demands.

We work closely with in-house counsel and business executives to develop strategies and goals that encompass their priorities and employ sophisticated tools, experts, and techniques to manage risk and drive successful outcomes. Our teams are well versed in managing complex matters involving massive amounts of electronically stored information, historical documents, expert testimonies, and multiple parties.

Chambers Review

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Environment - Louisiana

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Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Kean Miller has an esteemed group of environment attorneys, with expertise across litigation and regulatory issues. The firm offers notable strengths in waste remediation, environmental permitting, Superfund issues and defending enforcement actions. It works for an enviable list of clients, remaining a popular choice for entities in the energy and natural-resources sector. Kean Miller demonstrates notable capabilities in environmental due diligence for M&A.

Work Highlights

  • Kean Miller represents Venture Global in their final investment decision and closing of the $15.1 billion project financing for Phase 1 of the CP2 LNG and associated CP Express Pipeline.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Leonard L Kilgore III
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Leonard L Kilgore III
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Senior Statespeople
Leonard Kilgore has a solid reputation for his environmental litigation practice. He offers deep experience representing his clients in toxic tort and class action cases.

He's very knowledgeable.

Pamela Mascari
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Pamela Mascari
2
Band 2
Pamela Mascari represents clients in the chemical, energy and manufacturing industries in both contentious and regulatory matters. Her experience includes handling a variety of environmental litigation cases, including in federal court.

She presented in trial and was very good and read the room right.

Pam is a strong all-around lawyer who not only has outstanding advocacy skills but knows how to run complex cases in an efficient and effective manner.

Pamela is absolutely terrific.

Lauren J Rucinski
3
Lauren J Rucinski
3
Band 3

Lauren Rucinski is an environmental attorney who supports her clients on matters such as permitting, compliance, enforcement and litigation.

Lauren is energetic, knowledgeable and prompt.

She's a fine attorney.

Lauren has a great technical background.

Michael R Phillips
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Michael R Phillips
3
Band 3

Michael R Phillips leads Kean Miller's Energy and Environmental Litigation group. He regularly handles class actions, single and multi plaintiff claims and multi-district litigations most notably in the energy sector. Michael represents a range of clients including private businesses, Fortune 500 companies as well as individuals.

Michael is very effective in cross-examination, he's a very hard worker with excellent judgment.

Michael R Phillips is a highly experienced and skillful trial lawyer.

Michael Phillips - he's an excellent trial lawyer and I have nothing but praise for him. He's extremely steady and excellent in a courtroom.

Richard McConnell
3
Richard McConnell
3
Band 3

Richard McConnell is an experienced litigator and counsel for businesses undergoing state and federal court cases. Richard acts for clients throughout every stage of dispute resolution and is not afraid to take the case to trial and appeal.

Richard is an excellent trial lawyer. He is smart, aggressive, and is great at distilling complex issues into clear and easy-to-understand points.

He's a good lawyer, he's smart and collegial.

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Louisiana

Environment

Leonard L Kilgore III
S
Leonard L Kilgore III
S
Senior Statespeople
Lauren J Rucinski
3
Lauren J Rucinski
3
Band 3
Environment: Litigation

Pamela Mascari
2
Pamela Mascari
2
Band 2
Michael R Phillips
3
Michael R Phillips
3
Band 3
Richard McConnell
3
Richard McConnell
3
Band 3