Charles S. McCowan Jr.

Charles McCowan is a founding member of Kean Miller, LLC. He is retired.

Charles is an AV-rated lawyer and was selected by his peers for membership as a Fellow (Now Emeritus) in the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) and the International Society of Barristers. He has also been listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White, Inc.) for more than 10 years and was named the Baton Rouge Mass Tort Litigator of the Year in 2010.

Education

Charles earned his B.S. from Louisiana State University in 1964. He earned his J.D. in 1967 from the LSU Law Center where he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Delta Phi, and the Order of the Coif. He served as a Staff Writer for the Louisiana Law Review from 1965 to 1967. He also served as Captain, JAGC, United States Army from 1967 to 1971. Charles was inducted into the LSU Law School Hall of Fame in 1987.

Admissions
Admitted, Louisiana, 1967; United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana; United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit; United States Supreme Court, 1971

Memberships
Emeritus Fellow American College of Trial Lawyers (2014-2015 State Adjunct Committee Member)
Emeritus Fellow International Society of Barristers
Fellow Louisiana Bar Foundation (2014-2015 Grants Committee Member)
Louisiana State Bar Association (2014-2016 Client Assistance Fund Committee Member)

Articles, Publications and Presentations

The Cy Pres Doctrine: A Settling Concept, McCowan and Fayard, Louisiana Bar Journal, December 2010/January 2011.
Louisiana Complex Litigation, McCowan and Fayard, 80 Tulane Law Review 1905, June 2006.
1998-2006 Review of the Louisiana Class Action, Louisiana Judicial College, and Annual Summer Schools for Lawyers, Louisiana State Bar Association and Annual Class Action Mass Tort Symposiums.
Joint Defense Counsel: Retention and Responsibility, The Defense Research Institute, 36 For the Defense 20, 1994.
The Evolution of Environmental Law in Louisiana, 52 Louisiana Law Review 907.
Defending the State Environmental Enforcement Actions, 36 Louisiana Bar Journal 20.
Louisiana Environmental Enforcement Actions, 29 Louisiana Bar Journal 171.

Community Service
Board of Director’s Alzheimer’s Services of the Capital Area
Louisiana State Bar Client Assistance Fund, Disciplinary Hearing Committee Member

Reported Cases Available upon request.

Company Firm

Kean Miller LLP
Website

Firm Mailing

PO Box 3513
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
70821-3513
United States of America

Fellow Since

October 10, 2009

Practice Areas

  • Class Action-Defense

Chapter

  • Louisiana