Kevin Ellis practices in the offshore energy and marine litigation group. Kevin has experience in a wide range of areas including complex litigation, commercial litigation, and professional liability litigation, including litigation involving attorney malpractice, accountant malpractice, architect and engineer malpractice, insurance agent malpractice, real estate malpractice, and ethical complaints against lawyers and judges.
Prior to private practice, Kevin served as a governmental extern for the Louisiana Department of Justice Civil Rights Litigation Division and as a judicial extern to the Honorable Shelley D. Dick of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. Prior to law school, Kevin was an oil and gas landman where he specialized in title research and abstracting on projects across several states.
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LSU Law Center, J.D./D.C.L., magna cum laude, 2019
- Recipient, Energy Law and Policy Graduate Certificate
- Academic Tutor, Professor Margaret Thomas
- Participant, LSU Law Transactional Competition
- Recipient, CALI Award (Criminal Law, International Tax Law, Mineral Rights, Intro to Environmental Law, Administrative and Environmental Law Policy Seminar, Energy Law and Regulation, and Natural Resources Law)
- LSU, B.A., International Studies, 2010
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana
Courts
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
- “Rising Star,” Louisiana Super Lawyers, 2026