Kiefer & Kiefer

Focus and practice areas

Personal injury is the center of the work at Kiefer & Kiefer, a New Orleans firm whose cases share one thread: someone got hurt, and the question becomes who is responsible and what the injury cost. That framing runs through the whole practice.

Vehicle accidents anchor the list, and the firm breaks them into cars, 18-wheelers, motorcycles and bicycles. Each of those brings its own facts. A truck case often involves a commercial carrier and its insurer. A motorcycle or bicycle case tends to turn on visibility and right of way. Grouping them under one heading, then treating them apart, matches how the claims actually differ.

Serious injury and the wider list

The firm also names serious injuries as part of its work. That label usually points to harm with lasting effects, such as damage to the brain or spine, where treatment continues long after the accident and future care becomes part of the claim. Cases like these often need medical experts to explain the injury and its cost over a lifetime. Handling them well takes patience as much as advocacy.

Medical malpractice is a named area. So is premises liability, which covers injuries that happen on property someone else controls. Slip and fall claims are a familiar part of that group. Wrongful death sits on the list too, which means the firm takes cases brought by families after a fatal injury. In my opinion the spread is coherent for an injury practice: it stays inside one field and covers the common ways people get badly hurt.

Two further areas widen the picture. The firm discusses Jones Act cases, a body of federal law for maritime workers hurt on the job, which fits a port city. It also handles hurricane damage insurance claims, where a policyholder and an insurer disagree about storm losses. Both areas make sense for a firm based on the Gulf Coast.

A firm built across three generations

The firm says it was established more than 60 years ago by the late Senator Nat G. Kiefer, Sr. The site does not publish an exact founding year, so the "more than 60 years" figure is the one the firm gives. It dates the practice to a named person and a specific decade.

The history has a family thread. Senator Kiefer's children and grandchildren carried the practice on, and the firm describes itself as a family firm across three generations. Megan C. Kiefer, a partner, is the founder's granddaughter. She says she runs the firm and guides clients through their legal matters, which puts a third-generation family member in a leadership role.

As a reviewer, I read a long family run as a practical fact about staffing. A firm that keeps one name for decades has to bring in lawyers who will carry it and clients who will return. The three-generation claim is easy to state and slow to earn, and this firm states it plainly.

An origin tied to one name

A founder who carried the title of senator gives the firm an unusual origin for a personal injury practice. The site presents that public background as part of its identity. It is a detail the firm chooses to lead with, and it ties the work to a specific person and a lasting name.

How the team is built

The team page lists 14 attorneys. Their roles fall under three titles: partner, of counsel, and attorney. That mix puts senior decision-makers and experienced advisers on the same roster as its working attorneys.

The named partners include Megan C. Kiefer, Nat G. Kiefer, Jr., Chris Short and Christopher J. Bruno. The of counsel group includes Kris P. Kiefer, Ford T. Hardy, Jr. and Danielle Smith Heath. Amanda Gammon Morse, Michael Russo, Megan Richardson, Christopher Bruno, Jr. and Katherine Gurley hold the attorney title. The Kiefer name appears more than once, in line with the family history.

The site publishes an email address for each listed attorney, so a prospective client can reach a specific lawyer directly. It does not list law schools or admission years for the team, and it gives a fuller biography only for Megan C. Kiefer. A reader gets names, roles and a way to make contact, and can ask about background at a first meeting.

What the titles cover

The range of titles matters for staffing. A partner tends to own the strategy on a case and answer for its outcome. An of counsel lawyer often brings long experience or a defined focus without the management load. A team of this size can put more than one lawyer on a serious file, and can cover the different practice areas the firm lists in house.

How these injury claims tend to move

Each practice area the firm names follows a general path. These are common patterns in how such matters proceed, offered as background for a reader weighing a claim.

A car or truck accident claim usually begins with medical care and a report to the insurer. The injured person, or the lawyer acting for them, collects records, bills and proof of lost income. Most of these claims settle through negotiation. A smaller number become lawsuits, and fewer still reach a trial before a judge or jury.

Medical malpractice claims in Louisiana take an extra step. Many run first through a medical review panel, where doctors read the records and give an opinion on whether the care met the standard. That panel opinion comes before a court case and shapes the path after it. The rule is specific to the state, which is why local experience counts.

Premises, death, and maritime claims

Premises liability and slip and fall claims often turn on notice. The question is whether the property owner knew, or should have known, about the hazard that caused the fall. Photographs, incident reports and witness statements tend to carry weight. Wrongful death claims add a threshold question about who may bring the case, which Louisiana law ties to family relationship.

The maritime and storm work follows its own rules. Jones Act claims give an injured seaman a federal route to recover for an employer's negligence. Hurricane insurance disputes turn on the policy wording and the cause of the loss. A lawyer who has handled these before knows where the arguments usually land.

Proof, deadlines and timing

Two things shape most of these claims whatever the type. One is the deadline: Louisiana law sets a limited window to file an injury suit, and missing it can end a case before it starts. The other is proof of loss, which means medical records, wage records and, in the hardest cases, expert testimony about future needs. A lawyer's early job is to preserve both the evidence and the client's right to sue.

Timing varies with the case. A straightforward accident claim can resolve in months once treatment ends and the numbers are clear. A disputed malpractice or serious injury case can take longer, because the medical questions are harder and the sums at stake are larger. A client is wise to ask, early on, how a firm reads the likely path.

Reach across the New Orleans area

Kiefer & Kiefer works from downtown New Orleans, in the city's central business district. The firm also names service to Chalmette, Harvey, Kenner, Mandeville, Metairie and Marrero, towns spread across the parishes around the city. For a practice built on accidents and storm claims, that metro reach fits the work, since the events it deals with happen across the whole area. A central office also sits near the courts and insurers these cases involve.

The firm keeps public profiles on Facebook, X and Instagram, and publishes those links in its site data. A person deciding whom to call can read the practice area pages, see the full attorney roster, and check the social feeds before making contact. The public record the firm offers includes a named founder, a family history across three generations, 14 attorneys with roles and email addresses, and a defined list of injury practice areas.