Shane Sandefer is a partner in the Baton Rouge office of Kean Miller. He practices in the business transactions and environmental law groups and is a Registered Professional Engineer. Shane represents local, regional, and national clients in a variety of real estate, finance, and environmental matters including, industrial and commercial real estate transactions, title insurance matters, general preparation and negotiation, regulatory proceedings, wetlands permitting, wetlands mitigation, and state and federal environmental advice. Prior to law school, Shane was a project engineer for Turner Environmental and a senior staff engineer for URS. He also served as an assistant project manager for Cajun Constructors and worked in the Hazardous Waste Enforcement group at the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.
Shane counsels industrial and commercial clients on such matters as sales, leases, property law, purchase and sale agreements, environmental assessments, and wetlands issues. Additionally, his practice involves most aspects of environmental regulatory law, including permitting, compliance, enforcement and transactional issues, as well as environmental litigation matters.
As a Registered Professional Engineer, he assisted various municipal, commercial, and industrial clients with environmental permitting, wetlands permitting, solid and hazardous waste management and remediation, environmental sampling, geotechnical engineering design, geotechnical investigations, watershed modeling, and hydraulic design.
Shane earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Louisiana State University in 1995. He earned his M.S. in Civil Engineering, concentrating on Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering, from Louisiana State University in 1998. Shane earned his J.D. and his B.S. in Civil Law in 2005 from the LSU Law Center where he served as Vice President of the Environmental Law Society and was a member of the Order of the Coif and Phi Alpha Delta.
- Environmental Law
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Banking and Finance
- Louisiana
- 5th Circuit
- United States District Courts, Louisiana
- English
- Partner
- Kean Miller LLP
- - Current
- Project Engineer
- Turner Environmental, Inc.
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- Senior Staff Engineer
- URS Corporation
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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 Alpha Delta.
- Activities: Vice President of the Environmental Law Society.
- Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University
- M.S. | Civil Engineering concentrating on Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering
- Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University
- B.S. | Civil Engineering
- Baton Rouge Bar Association
- Member
- Current
- American Bar Association
- Member
- Current
- Louisiana State Bar
- Member
- Current
- Air and Waste Management Association, Louisiana Section
- Speaker Co-Chair
- Current
- Professional Engineer, Credential ID 0029392
- Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board (LAPELS)