Kean Miller Announces Three New Partners

Kean Miller is pleased to announce that Laura F. Dumas, Kincaid Jackson, and Laura S. Rahman have been elected to the partnership effective January 1, 2025. “We are proud to welcome these exceptional lawyers as partners in our firm. They have shown extraordinary commitment to the legal profession and the business community, and are trusted resources for our clients,” said Linda Perez Clark, Managing Partner.

Based in the firm’s office in The Woodlands, Texas, Laura resolves complex commercial and civil disputes across a variety of subject matters in both state and federal courts. She has successfully handled various trade secret, mass tort, shareholder derivative, real estate, business, and oil and gas claims – both on attack and defense, whether in large-scale, multi-district litigation actions in the courtroom, or in an alternative dispute resolution forum such as arbitration or mediation.

Laura earned her J.D., with honors, from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 2005. She earned her B.A., magna cum laude, from Union College in Schenectady, NY. She is admitted to practice in both California and Texas. In the community, Laura has served as President of the Board of Directors for the Houston Wild Hockey Club and was a Court-Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for Child Advocates of Montgomery County from 2014 until 2020.

Based in the Baton Rouge office, finding new ways to help business and individual clients identify legal solutions to business opportunities across a wide array of markets and industries is at the core of Kincaid’s commercial and industrial real estate transactional and corporate practice. Focused on his client’s bottom line and realizing the potential for continued ROI, Kincaid listens to his client’s distinct goals for every matter – making their objectives his steadfast purpose. Kincaid’s diverse experience brings significant value to his clients’ business activities.

Kincaid earned his J.D. from the LSU Law Center in 2001. He earned his B.A. in English from Southern Methodist University in 1998. Kincaid is the firm's representative to the Baton Rouge Area Foundation's Business Council and is a member of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce Quality of Place Committee.

Based in the firm’s Houston office, Laura practices with the firm’s occupational exposure and toxic tort group. She is a critical member of key client teams that defend major toxic tort and product liability claims with demands that reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Laura has earned her reputation for excellence in effectively developing and continuously analyzing, streamlining, managing, and supporting the copious amounts of information and details inherent in these disputes. A considerate defense strategist and highly effective claim manager and litigator, Laura is the ultimate taskmaster who will ensure dispute resolution remains on track and moving toward the right result.

Laura earned her J.D. from the LSU Law Center in 1995. She earned her B.A. from Louisiana State University in 1992. Laura is a member of the National Association of Women Lawyers, the State Bar Associations for Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. She is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America for 2025.

Kean Miller is one of the largest and best recognized law firms in the Gulf South region. For more than 40 years, the firm has been innovating and growing, revolutionizing the standards for excellence in client service, and earning numerous awards for its 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, an honor bestowed for a select group of law firms which demonstrate a genuine commitment to diversity in the legal profession. 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 Baton Rouge, Houston, The Woodlands, New Orleans, Lafayette, Shreveport, and Lake Charles, and 225 attorneys, Kean Miller delivers sophisticated and meaningful counsel to Fortune 500 leaders, national businesses, and local companies.