Kean Miller LLP’s Post

Last week our Lafayette office welcomed three Summer Associates. We are pleased to welcome Mary-Claire Hollier, Philip Young, and Mattie Zepernick to the Kean Miller family. Be on the lookout for the final introduction of our Shreveport Summer Associates tomorrow!

Last week we welcomed five Summer Associates to our downtown Houston office. Please join us in welcoming Dilari Maggie C., Greg Khammar, Meredith Mire, Sarah Altala-Nevarez, and Hannah Vandermeer. Stay tuned to meet our Lafayette Summer Associates tomorrow!

Please join us in welcoming Shiena Marie Burke as an associate in our New Orleans office. Shiena Marie will practice with our casualty and mass tort litigation group. She has experience in a variety of areas including Defense Base Act matters, insurance coverage, bad faith litigation, general liability, marine litigation, and workers’ compensation. Shiena Marie earned her J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 2019 and her B.A. from the Nicholls State University Honors Program in 2015. Welcome, Shiena Marie! https://lnkd.in/gQCEcb9w

Last week our New Orleans Summer Associates arrived! We are excited to welcome Grace Bordelon, Thomas Celles, CPA, Matthew Delaney, Claire Dinwiddie, Madelyn Graves, Megan Koch, René Paul Simon, Jr., Abigail Strohmeyer, and Marissa Torres to our New Orleans office. Be on the lookout for an introduction of our Houston Summer Associates tomorrow!

Kean Miller is proud to help sponsor the Baton Rouge Children's Advocacy Center’s 18th Annual Celebrity Waiter Event on July 17. This event raises funds to provide important services to victims of child abuse and their families. “Celebrity Waiters” include TV personalities, sports icons, politicians, and more. Kean Miller senior counsel Alexandra Rossi serves on the Board of Directors of the BRCAC. More details on the event can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gxfCSMz8

Last week Kean Miller welcomed 34 2024 Summer Associates who will be working with five of our office locations across Louisiana and Texas. In Baton Rouge, we are pleased to welcome Hannah Grace Babin, MIchael Beck, Elizabeth Bueche, Amelia Dittmar, Joli Gill, Olivia Grice, Blaine Jacob, Jack LeDoux, Joseph Mengis, Tiana Pham, Murphy Richard, Hannah Roppolo, Lorin Wales Staup, Abby Talbot, Jake Voitier, and Rachael Youngblood. Stay tuned as we announce our New Orleans Summer Associates tomorrow!

Congratulations to Kean Miller’s Chief HR Officer Mary Coghlan on being named one of the Top 50 Women Chief HR Officers of 2024 by HRTech Edge. Mary leads the firm’s HR strategy, professional development efforts, training programs, workforce utilization efforts, employee relations, talent development programs, and compensation and benefits administration. HR Tech Edge recognizes the responsibilities and strategic impact Chief Human Resource Officers make in their company’s workforce and organizational culture. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dvJ4sSKf

In this part three of our discussion of the foreclosure process on commercial real estate in Louisiana, we are detailing the procedures involved in ordinary process foreclosures in Louisiana. Foreclosing on collateral by ordinary process in Louisiana involves filing a civil suit against the mortgagor asking the court to recognize that the indebtedness is due and that the mortgage grants the creditor a valid lien on the mortgaged property. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gqpXvCqf by J Eric Lockridge and Katilyn Hollowell

Our Houston summer associates ended their clerkship with Kean Miller with lunch at the Petroleum Club of Houston. They were joined by our Houston attorneys. We are thankful for the time they spent with us and look forward to the amazing lawyers they will become!