Kean Miller is pleased to announce that Amanda Howard Lowe and Keith J. Grady have been selected as 2025 Leadership in Law honorees by New Orleans CityBusiness. Each year the publication honors local legal professionals who have excelled in their careers and had a meaningful impact on their community. Honorees will be celebrated at the New Orleans Museum of Art on Monday, October 6.

About Amanda Howard Lowe

Amanda is a partner in the New Orleans office of Kean Miller. As an experienced civil litigator, she resolves complex disputes involving all aspects of the energy industry, all types of commercial litigation, admiralty and maritime issues and general business claims. Amanda brings considerable and proven skill to a wide variety of energy and admiralty issues and litigation, including Jones Act and personal injury defense, oil and gas casualty and property damage claims, oil and gas exploration and offshore defense, drilling accidents, well blowouts, lost royalty claims, and more. A complement to her litigation practice, Amanda also routinely guides clients through a variety of general corporate and business law transactions, including drafting various maritime, oil and gas, and other commercial contracts.

About Keith J. Grady

Keith is a partner in the New Orleans office of Kean Miller. He develops, enforces, defends, and litigates clients’ intellectual property and patent rights, possessing more than 30 years of courtroom and private-practice experience. Keith has served as first chair in all phases of intellectual property litigation, appearing in hundreds of cases in courts nationwide to represent clients. He represents publicly traded companies and major manufacturers in patent litigation in a variety of technological industries, including chemical, pharmaceutical, nutritional supplement, software, medical device, and mechanical devices. Keith also regularly represents clients in litigation involving technology-related disputes, trademarks, trade secrets, unfair competition, internet domain names, and trade dress.

About Kean Miller

Kean Miller is one of the largest and best recognized law firms in the Gulf South region. For more than 42 years, the firm has been innovating and growing, revolutionizing the standards for excellence in client service, and earning numerous awards for market-leading practices and thoughtful and creative legal representation. Consistently named to the National Law Journal’s NLJ 500 and the Law360 Top 400 lists, Kean Miller is Mansfield Certified for the fifth consecutive year. The firm’s collaborative culture, people-first approach, and devotion to quality are foundational to the firm’s continued success, reflecting its reputation in the market. From the firm’s eight offices in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Houston, The Woodlands, Lafayette, Shreveport, and Lake Charles, and more than 225 attorneys, Kean Miller delivers sophisticated and meaningful counsel to Fortune 500 leaders, national businesses, and local companies.

For more information, contact Steve Boutwell at 225.389.3736 or steve.boutwell@keanmiller.com.