About Megan Kiefer

Megan C. Kiefer is a partner at Kiefer & Kiefer. She has handled over 3,000 accident and injury claims and collected over $100 million for her clients. She has tried judge and jury trials in federal and state courts and has obtained numerous multi-million dollar jury verdicts. Her practice covers car accidents, motorcycle accidents, trucking accidents, spinal injuries, traumatic brain injuries, wrongful death, 18-wheeler accidents, Uber and Lyft accidents, and burn injuries.

She graduated at the top of her class from Tulane Law School with Order of the Coif distinction and served as Senior Associate Editor and Board Member of the Tulane University Law Review. She is on the adjunct faculty at Tulane University Law School teaching Trial Advocacy, Negotiation, and Mediation. Megan has been consistently named a Superlawyer, recognized as Best Lawyer nationally, and named a Top Lawyer in New Orleans. She has received the New Orleans City Business Leadership in Law award twice and was inducted into the Litigation Counsel of America.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$3 millionSettlement

In a first-of-its-kind nationwide class action, Kiefer & Kiefer attorney Megan Kiefer secured a $3 million federal settlement for nearly 1,000 tenants of the Willows Apartments in New Orleans East who paid rent during years of deteriorating, hazardous conditions.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana (Judge Barry Ashe) · 2026Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$332,300Verdict

An Orleans Parish jury awarded $332,300 to the owners of Fat River Farm after an Orkin employee mistakenly fogged their Lower 9th Ward organic operation with a broad-spectrum pesticide in 2022, costing the farm its organic certification for three years and disrupting its ecosystem.

Orleans Parish Civil District Court, New Orleans (Judge Ellen Hazeur) · 2026Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Tulane University Law School
J.D., 2009
University of Georgia
Undergraduate, 2006

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Louisiana
State Bar of California

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$850 million (punitive, upheld on appeal); prior settlement reached 2001 · Gentilly Tank-Car Fire: $850 Million Punitive Verdict for 8,000 New Orleans Residents
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Lambert Zainey
Up to $1 billion (remediation fund) · Knauf Chinese Drywall MDL: Up to $1 Billion Settlement for 4,500 Contaminated Homes