Katherine W. King

Katherine King is of counsel in the Baton Rouge office of Kean Miller. She joined the firm in 1989. Katherine has more than 25 years of experience before the Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) with a focus on the regulation of Louisiana’s electric, telecommunications and pipeline industries. She has provided project development and electric regulatory advice with respect to a number of generation projects. Katherine has been heavily involved in advising generator clients with respect to generation project structures that satisfy client needs while complying with both Federal energy regulatory law and LPSC requirements. She also advises major industrial companies with respect to power supply contracts, federal and state electric regulatory compliance, and self-generation and she represents these clients before the LPSC in electric regulatory proceedings. Katherine serves as counsel to the Louisiana Energy Users Group (LEUG), an intervention group whose members are major industrial companies, and represents electric generators and project developers in regulatory proceedings before the LPSC, and in individual contract negotiations and project development.

She is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Administrative / Regulatory Law, Communications Law, and Energy Law, 2007-2025), Chambers USA (Energy & Natural Resources: Utilities, 2005-2024), Louisiana Super Lawyers (2007-2009 and 2011-2014), and Baton Rouge Business Report's Influential Women in Business in 2005. Katherine was named a Baton Rouge Lawyer of the Year in Energy Law by Best Lawyers in 2019 and 2021.