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Gregory M. Anding
Partner"As a litigator and trial lawyer for nearly three decades, I remain focused on working with my clients to balance the complexities of the law and the sometimes unpredictable outcomes associated with toxic torts and product liability claims with sound business judgment and effective advocacy both in and out of court."
Greg Anding is a smart litigator and persuasive trial advocate who defends Fortune 500 and other manufacturer, energy, petrochemical, and pipeline businesses involved in product liability claims, toxic tort, hearing loss, and expropriation matters. He currently serves as national defense counsel for two major businesses involved in hundreds of asbestos and benzene litigation claims valued into the hundreds of millions of dollars in demands.
Greg brings particular depth of experience and proven skill to resolving product liability, asbestos and benzene litigation. He has handled numerous large-scale, big-ticket product liability, asbestos and benzene cases, working with many of the industry’s top professionals and serving as defense liaison counsel across a myriad of cases.
Notably, Greg has taken two asbestos trials to verdict, several to jury selection and opening, and countless to the courthouse steps. His advocacy skill includes trials in other types of litigation as well, including products liability, hearing loss trials and several expropriation trials for pipeline companies. Greg is experienced in critiquing chemical plant process safety plans, and managing high-stakes litigation while finding creative, efficient solutions that allow his clients to succeed.
After nearly three decades of defending asbestos litigation and other toxic torts, Greg brings an arsenal of experts to his defense practice. He knows many of the national plaintiff and defense firms and was a driving force in helping the firm establish the technological infrastructure to manage its tremendous caseload in this area.
Greg’s advocacy style is fact-based and appeals to both judges and juries alike. Meticulously organized and ever-prepared, Greg’s people skills and ability to set others at ease make him both believable and persuasive when defending clients faced with plaintiffs who are extremely empathetic. He is valued by clients and colleagues alike as a formidable advocate that does not create superfluous legal spend.
- Asbestos and Occupational Exposure Litigation
- Served as national coordinating counsel for a supplier of asbestos cement pipe in litigation across the United States.
- Serves as national coordinating counsel for an international petrochemical company in connection with asbestos and benzene litigation.
- Serves as national coordinating counsel for a national paper manufacturer in connection with asbestos litigation.
- Representation of major petrochemical companies and paper production facilities in jury trials, case management, and the complete work-up of the defense of claims involving both living plaintiffs and wrongful death and survival claims brought by families of deceased contractors and employees who allegedly developed and died from mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases as a result of exposure to asbestos-containing products at numerous sites during their careers.
- Benzene Litigation
- Representation of major petrochemical companies in numerous personal injury suits brought by contractors and employees for claims allegedly related to exposure to benzene.
- Representation of major petrochemical companies in the successful exclusion of the plaintiff’s causation expert and corresponding successful motion for summary judgment, dismissing all the plaintiff’s personal injury claims for alleged exposure to benzene.
- Expropriation and Land Use
- Representation of a major energy company in the management of a high-profile 42-inch natural gas pipeline expropriation project from the Haynesville Shale in North Louisiana near Mansfield, Louisiana to Napoleonville, Louisiana involving the acquisition of 250+ miles of land through conventional agreement and expropriation litigation, as well as environmental, regulatory, and governmental relations issues.
- Representation of a global pipeline company in the successful expropriation of property for the transportation of ethylene to a major polyvinyl chloride facility.
- Representation of a major petrochemical company in several bench trials for the expropriation of property to construct common carrier pipelines spanning four parishes in south Louisiana.
- Prevailed in Louisiana Supreme Court landmark decisions establishing the appropriate method for the determination of just compensation in pipeline expropriation cases in Louisiana and route selection criteria.
- Hearing Loss Litigation
- Prevailed in a landmark decision by the Louisiana Supreme Court holding that gradual hearing loss tort claims against employers are barred because those claims are compensable under the Louisiana Workers Compensation Act (the Act) as an “occupational disease” under the Act’s post-1975 definition of that term, and as an “accident” under the Act’s pre-1990 definition of that term; notably, he also tried the case prior to the appeal.
- Product Liability and Class Action Litigation
- Representation of Fortune 500 company in numerous product liability claims for a variety of industrial and commercial products across the country in numerous state and federal courts.
- Representation of an international chemical manufacturer in a class certification hearing involving claims brought by crawfish farmers throughout Louisiana for lost crops and resulting profits allegedly caused by crawfish exposure to the client’s insecticide used to treat rice seed.
- Successfully removed several cases to federal court on the basis of a federal officer removal statute for an international rubber producer whose facility was controlled by the federal government during World War II as part of the war effort.
- James Clifford Arrant, 2015 WL 2082431; -So.3d -, 2013-2878 (La. 5/5/15): landmark Louisiana Supreme Court ruling that occupational noise-induced hearing loss claims are barred in tort on the basis of worker’s compensation exclusivity.
- Malcolm LeBlanc, 513 F.Supp.2d 641 (E.D. La 6/18/2007); 275 Fed.Appx. 319 (5th Cir. 4/22/2008) (vacated and remanded for reconsideration; 2009 WL 3837397 (E.D. La. 11/13/2009); 396 Fed.Appx. 94 (5th Cir. 9/23/2010)(affirmed): excluding the plaintiff’s causation expert and dismissing the plaintiff’s claim in a benzene personal injury suit.
- Acadian Gas Pipeline System v. Nunley, 77 So. 3d 457 (La. App. 2 Cir. 11/2/11); 80 So. 3d 487, 2011-2680 (La. 2/10/12) (writ denied), finding in favor of Acadian Gas Pipeline on Nunley’s route selection challenges.
- Exxon Mobil Pipeline Co. v. Union Pacific R. Co., 35 So. 3d 192, 2009-1629 (La. 3/16/10), wherein the Louisiana Supreme Court clearly set forth the principle that “necessary” in the context of expropriation refers to the necessity of the purpose for the expropriation, not the necessity for a specific location.
- Exxon Pipeline Company v. LeBlanc, 2000-C-2559 (La. 10/05/01), 796 So. 2d 665 and Exxon Pipeline Company v. Hill, 2000-C-2535 c/w 2000-C-2559 (La. 5/15/01), 788 So. 2d 1154, which established the appropriate method for the determination of just compensation in pipeline expropriation cases in Louisiana.
- LSU Law Center, J.D., 1995
- Member, Order of the Coif
- Member, Louisiana Law Review
- LSU, B.S., summa cum laude, 1992
- Louisiana
- Texas
- 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
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- Pro Hac admissions in California, New York, West Virginia, New Mexico, Florida, and Minnesota
- Member, Baton Rouge Bar Association
- Member, Louisiana State Bar Association
- Member, Texas State Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Defense Research Institute
- Member, Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel
- "Benzene Exposure in the Home: Is this the Next Wave of Litigation?," HarrisMartin's Benzene and Toxic Tort Litigation Conference, December 1, 2023
- "Damages 5X Higher Than Usual Awarded to Surviving Children of Mesothelioma Plaintiff," Louisiana Law Blog, February 20, 2023
- "Benzene in Sunscreens Could be the Next Big Toxic Tort," Law360, August 10, 2021
- "Baton Rouge law firm Kean Miller embraces Lean Six Sigma management approach," Contributor, Baton Rouge Business Report, November 29, 2017
- "Latest Personal Jurisdiction Ruling May Spark Increase in Louisiana Asbestos Litigation," Louisiana Law Blog, April 11, 2017
- "Louisiana Supreme Court Renders Landmark Decision in Hearing Loss Tort Claims," Louisiana Law Blog, May 6, 2015
- "Does This Piece Fit? A Look at the Importation of the Common Law Quitclaim Deed and After-Acquired Title Doctrine into Louisiana's Civil Code," 55 Louisiana Law Review 159
- AV Preeminent-rated, Martindale-Hubbell
- "Best Lawyers," The Best Lawyers in America, 2025
- Member, Catholic High School Men’s Club, 1989-Present
- Board of Directors, Country Club of Louisiana, 2022-Present
- Chairman, Country Club of Louisiana (Membership Committee, 2022-2024; Greens Committee, 2024-Present)
- Secretary, Board of Directors, Country Club of Louisiana, 2023 to 2024
- Vice President, Board of Directors, Country Club of Louisiana, 2024-Present
- Board of Directors, Men’s Golf Association, Country Club of Louisiana, 2021-Present
- Member, Capitol Sertoma Club, 1996-2016
- Treasurer and Ball Chairman, Capitol Sertoma Hall of Fashion Ball, 2007
