Trippe Hawthorne is a partner in the Baton Rouge office of Kean Miller. He joined the firm in 2004 and practices in the construction, ADR and business litigation groups. Trippe has experience in all phases of the construction industry and in a wide variety of commercial litigation, and general litigation matters, including design and construction contracting and dispute resolution across all sectors, including industrial, commercial, public, and residential; public bidding and procurement challenges; and public and private works lien laws. Trippe has experience with administrative law and occupational licensing law, having served as General Counsel for the Louisiana State Licensing Board of Contractors. Trippe also has insight into the Federal Court system, having served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable John V. Parker, United States District Court, Middle District of Louisiana, from 1995 to 1996. He is a Fellow in the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), 2018.
Trippe serves as a special advisor to the Louisiana Law Institute Security Devices Committee for its Private Works Act Revision Project and is a frequent speaker on construction and design related topics such as the Louisiana contractor's licensing law, industrial engineering and construction contracting and procurement, construction industry issues, heavily negotiated contract provisions, and public bid disputes, and on broader topics, such as diversity in the legal profession and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is an arbitrator and mediator with Perry Dampf Dispute Solutions and is listed in the Louisiana Civil Mediator's Registry, maintained by the Louisiana State Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution section.
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business Arbitration, Consumer Arbitration, Family Arbitration
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Construction Law
- Construction Contracts, Construction Defects, Construction Liens, Construction Litigation
- Gov & Administrative Law
- Administrative Law, Election Law, Government Contracts, Government Finance, Legislative & Government Affairs
- Class Action Litigation
- Hearing Loss Defense
- Toxic Tort Litigation
- Louisiana
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- Texas
- State Bar of Texas
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- 5th Circuit
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- United States Court of Claims
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- United States District Courts for the Middle Districts of Louisiana
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- United States District Courts for the Western Districts of Louisiana
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- United States District Courts for the Eastern Districts of Louisiana
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- English
- Partner
- Kean Miller LLP
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- Partner/Associate
- Gold Weems Bruser Sues & Rundell
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- Law Clerk to Judge John V. Parker
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana
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- Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University
- J.D. | Law
- Honors: Member of the Order of the Coif and Phi Kappa Phi and is a member of the LSU Law Center Hall of Fame.
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- Baylor University
- B.A. | Philosophy
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- Citizen Lawyer Award
- Louisiana State Bar Association
- Crystal Gavel Award
- Louisiana State Bar Association
- Edward D. Grant Volunteerism Award
- YMCA of the Capital Area
- 40 Under 40
- Baton Rouge Business Report
- American Bar Association
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- Baton Rouge Bar Association
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- Louisiana State Bar Association
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- Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel
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- Americans Inns of Court
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- Practice Note: Compelling and Staying Arbitration in Louisiana, Practical Law, 2017
- Recent Developments in the Louisiana Public Bid Law, Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, August 24, 2017
- ADR and Mediation: The Next Generation of Dispute Resolution Techniques, Kean Miller Outside Insights, December 6, 2012
- Louisiana Private Works Act, National Association of Credit Management Conference, March 14, 2013
- International Arbitration, Interlaw Americas Meeting, February 2014
- Recent Developments in Private Works Act, Louisiana Bankers Association Bank Counsel Annual Conference, December 10, 2015
- Heavily Negotiated Contract Provisions, Louisiana Engineering Society, September 25, 2015
