Jenna Laird Leger

Senior Counsel

  • Lafayette
"As a former landman and real estate advisor, I understand the business realities behind complex land and title issues. I bring a pragmatic industry perspective to energy transactions and mineral title work, helping clients find real-world solutions and move their projects forward with confidence."

Jenna Leger focuses her practice on energy, pipeline, and industrial transactions and related litigation. She advises clients on pipeline projects, energy transactions, mineral title, and land matters, drawing on more than a decade of experience supporting corporate oil and gas, real estate, and infrastructure projects.

Jenna’s experience includes Louisiana mineral title examination, preparation of drilling, division order, and surface title opinions; lease analysis; due diligence; rights-of-way; servitudes; acquisitions; and other complex energy transactions. She works closely with landmen, engineers, regulatory agencies, and business stakeholders to support upstream development, mineral acquisitions, pipeline projects, and carbon capture initiatives.

Before joining Kean Miller, Jenna served as a Senior Real Estate Advisor to a multinational energy company and worked as a land negotiator and landman. That firsthand industry experience gives her a practical understanding of how land, title, and commercial considerations intersect in the energy business. She negotiated and drafted oil, gas, and mineral leases, including out-of-unit surface leases and subsurface leases for a large Haynesville Shale operator and used LDNR/SONRIS records to evaluate well status, unitization, production history, and mineral servitude prescription issues.

Clients value Jenna’s ability to bring clarity to complicated disputes and practical advice that advances their business goals. She collaborates with clients and project teams to identify risks, solve problems, and keep transactions and projects moving forward.

  • University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, J.D., 2006
  • University of Arkansas at Little Rock, M.B.A., 2006
  • LSU, B.S., Finance, 2003

Bar Admissions

  • Louisiana