Shane Sandefer is a partner in the Baton Rouge office of Kean Miller.  He practices in the real estate and environmental law groups and is a Registered Professional Engineer.  Shane represents local, regional, and national clients in a variety of real estate and environmental matters including, industrial and commercial real estate transactions, title insurance matters, general contract 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 contractual arrangements, 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.

Education

Shane received his J.D. and his Bachelor's Degree in Civil Law from the LSU Law Center in 2005 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. He received his M.S. in Civil Engineering concentrating on Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering from Louisiana State University in 1998, and his B.S. in Civil Engineering from LSU in 1995.

Admissions

• Admitted, Louisiana, 2005; All United States District Courts in Louisiana; Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
  

Memberships

• Baton Rouge, Louisiana State (Environmental Law Section) and American Bar Associations; Air and Waste Management Association; Louisiana Bankers Association
  

Community Service

• Board of Directors, A.C. Lewis YMCA of Baton Rouge
• Speaker Co-Chair, Air and Waste Management Association, Louisiana Section