Amy Berret is a partner in the Baton Rouge office of Kean Miller. She joined the firm in 1996 and practices in the litigation group. Amy represents clients in medical malpractice defense, commercial and business litigation, toxic tort defense, general litigation and worker's compensation defense.

With regard to worker's compensation cases, Amy has extensive experience in the defense of claims associated with chemical releases, including:

• Representation of a cleaning service in a workers' compensation claim filed by an independent contractor arising from a fall off a ladder in Slidell, Louisiana.
• Representation of a global fertilizer company in a workers' compensation claim filed by an employee alleging that his kidneys were damaged as a result of exposure to silicon tetrafluoride.
• Representation of global fertilizer company in a workers' compensation claim filed by a statutory employee alleging that he sustained injury after being hit by a car on the job site.
• Representation of a global fertilizer company n a workers' compensation claim filed by an employee alleging cervical and lumbar injuries.
• Representation of a worldwide engineering and construction firm in 48 workers' compensation claims which resulted from a chemical release at a refining facility in Geismar, Louisiana.

She also has noteworthy experience in the defense of medical malpractice claims against physicians including preparation and presentation of submissions to medical review panels, bench and jury trials and appeals. She has particular experience representing clients in cases involving emergency medicine and vascular surgery.

Education

Amy earned her B.A. from Louisiana State University in 1992. She earned her J.D. in 1996 from the LSU Law Center where she was a Candidate for the Louisiana Law Review.

Admissions

• Admitted, Louisiana, 1996; United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana; United States Court of Appeals, Fifth District; United States Supreme Court, 2009
  

Memberships

• Member, Louisiana State and American Bar Associations; Baton Rouge Bar Association Workers' Compensation Committee; Baton Rouge Association of Women Attorneys; Louisiana Hospital Association; United Who's Who

Articles, Publications and Presentations

• Louisiana Governor Revises Executive Order Suspending Licensure Requirements for Medicare Professionals and Personnel, Louisianalawblog.com, September, 2005.
• UNCLOS III: Pollution Control in the Exclusive Economic Zone, 55 Louisiana Law Review 1165.
• Speaker, Kean Miller Health Law Year in Review seminar, Juban's Restaurant, November 17, 2004.
• Speaker, Louisiana Society of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology 32rd Annual State Convention.
  

Community Service

• Former Chair, Holiday Star Committee, Young Lawyers Section, Baton Rouge Bar Association
• Former Volunteer, Junior Achievement Teaching Program, Glen Oaks Middle School
• Member, Holiday Star Committee, Young Lawyers Section, Baton Rouge Bar Association
• Member, Volunteer Committee, Baton Rouge Bar Association
• Volunteer, Pro Bono Project, Baton Rouge Bar Association
• Member, Louisiana Hospital Association
• Member, United Who's Who
• Volunteer, Community Partnership Division, Capital Area United Way
• Member, Kean Miller Volunteers in Public Schools Committee
• Member, Youth Education Committee, Baton Rouge Bar Association
• Former Member, Baton Rouge Symphony Young Patrons Organization
• Auction Item Solicitation Committee Chair, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, 2006
  
• Auction Co-Chair Chair, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, 2007
  
• Member, Taste of Louisiana Committee, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
• Member, Annual Giving Committee, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center

Reported Cases

• Five N. Company, L.L.C. et.al., v. Stewart, et.al., 850 So.2d 5l, 2002-0181 (La.App. 1st Cir. 7/2/03).
• Concha Chemical Pipeline v. E.B. Schwing, III, 835 So.2d. 543, 2001-2093 (La.App. 1st Cir. 9/27/02).
• Allain, et.al. v. Martco Partnership, 828 So.2d. 587, 2001-0614 (La.App. 1st Cir. 4/17/02).
• David v. Town of St. Gabriel, et.al., 809 So.2d. 537, 2001-0031 (La.App. 1st Cir. 2/15/02).
• Griffin v. Lapo Espanol, L.L.C., 808 So.2d. 833, 2000-2544 (La.App. 1st Cir. 2/15/02).
• Hall v. Zen.Noh Grain Corporation, 778 So.2d. 91, 00-1455 (La.App. 5th Cir. 12/27/00).
• Bless Home Health Agency v. Louisiana Dept. of Health & Hospitals, 770 So.2d. 780, 1999-0936 (La.App. 1st Cir. 5/22/00).
• State Machinery & Equipment Sales, Inc. v. Iberville Parish Council, 952 So.2d 77, 2005-2240 (La.App. 1st Cir. 2006).
• Allain v. Martco Partnership, 851 So.2d 974,  2002-1796 (La. 5/23/03).