Greg Anding is a partner in the Baton Rouge office of Kean Miller. He joined the firm in 1995 and practices in the litigation group. Greg represents clients in civil litigation involving asbestos and benzene defense, other toxic tort litigation, hearing loss claims, expropriation (eminent domain) litigation, commercial litigation and construction law.

Greg has particular experience representing clients in cases involving premises liability, products liability, personal injury involving chemical exposures, and pipeline expropriation.

Representative Experience

• Representation of a major energy company in management of a high-profile 42 inch natural gas pipeline expropriation project: The new pipeline will stretch from the Haynesville Shale in North Louisiana near Mansfield, Louisiana to Napoleonville, Louisiana.  The project involved the acquisition of more than 250 miles of land through conventional agreement and expropriation litigation, as well as environmental, regulatory and governmental relations issues.
  
• Representation of major petrochemical companies in jury trials involving wrongful death and survival claims brought by families of deceased contractors who allegedly developed and died from mesothelioma as a result of exposure to asbestos-containing products at numerous sites during their careers
• Representation of paper mill in numerous hearing loss claims by current and former employees
• Representation of major petrochemical companies in personal injury suits brought by contractors and employees for alleged benzene exposure
  
• Representation of major petrochemical company in several bench trials for the expropriation of property to construct pipelines spanning four parishes in south Louisiana
• Prevailed in the Louisiana Supreme Court landmark decision of Exxon Pipeline Company v. LeBlanc, 2000-C-2559 (La. 10/05/01), 796 So. 2d 665 and Exxon Pipeline Company v. Hill, 2000-C-2535 c/w 2000-C-2559 (La. 5/15/01), 788 So. 2d 1154, which established the appropriate method for the determination of just compensation in pipeline expropriation cases in Louisiana
• Representation of international chemical manufacturer in class certification hearing involving claims brought by crawfish farmers throughout Louisiana for lost crops and resulting profits allegedly caused by crawfish exposure to client's insecticide used to treat rice seed
• Successfully obtained numerous summary judgments based on statutory employer worker's compensation immunity for major petrochemical clients in chemical exposure suits brought by contract workers
• Successfully removed several cases to federal court on the basis of federal officer removal statute for international rubber producer whose facility was controlled by the federal government during World War II as part of the war effort
• Representation of contractor in defective residential construction suit
• Representation of Ethiopian businessmen against a construction company for fees owed as a local representative of the construction company during the bidding for and construction of a sugar refinery in Ethiopia
• Representation of subcontractor in $5 million construction defect claim

Education

Greg earned his B.S., summa cum laude, from Louisiana State University in 1992.  He earned his J.D. in 1995 from the LSU Law Center where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and the Louisiana Law Review.

Admissions

• Admitted, Louisiana, 1995

Memberships

• Member, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State and American Bar Associations; Defense Research Institute

Articles, Publications and Presentations

• Does This Piece Fit?: A Look at the Importation of the Common Law Quitclaim Deed and After-Acquired Title Doctrine into Louisiana's Civil Code, 55 Louisiana Law Review 159.
• Co-Author: 'Just Compensation' or Just a Windfall? Do Sales of Pipeline Servitudes Provide Valid, Reliable Comparables for Determination of Just Compensation in Pipeline Expropriation?, 45 Loyola Law Review 381 (1999).

Community Service

• Board of Directors, Woodland Ridge Homeowners Association, 2000-2004
• Public Relations Co-Chairman, Capitol Sertoma Hall of Fashion Ball, 2007
• Lector, Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, 2002-2007
• Volunteer, Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church Parish Fair, 2000-2006
• President, Capitol Sertoma Club, 2002
• Secretary/Treasurer, Capitol Sertoma Club, 1996-2002
• Capitol Sertoma Club,1996-present
  
• Board of Directors, Volunteers of America, 1996-2002
• Lector, St. George Catholic Church, 1995-2000
• Chariman, Holiday Star Committee, Baton Rouge Bar Association, 1998
• Volunteer, Junior Achievement Teaching Program, Glen Oaks Middle School, 1995-1996
• Catholic High School Men's Club, 1989 – present
• Most Blessed Sacrament Men's Club, 2002 - 2007