Shane Sandefer is an associate attorney in the Baton Rouge office of Kean Miller.  He practices in the environmental law and real estate groups and is a Registered Professional Engineer. His practice involves most aspects of environmental regulatory law, including permitting, compliance, enforcement and transactional issues, as well as environmental litigation matters.  Additionally, he counsels industrial and commercial clients on such matters as environmental assessments, contractual arrangements, and wetlands issues. 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, as a Registered Professional Engineer, assisted various municipal and industrial clients with environmental permitting, solid and hazardous waste management and remediation, environmental sampling, geotechnical engineering design, geotechnical investigations, watershed modeling, and hydraulic design.

Shane assists in the representation of 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, and state and federal environmental advice.   

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
• Admitted to practice before all U.S. District Courts in Louisiana and the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal

Memberships

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

Community Service

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