Gayla Moncla is a partner in the Baton Rouge office of Kean Miller and practices in the areas of toxic tort and environmental litigation, premises liability, and commercial litigation. She has more than 25 years of experience in the chemical and petrochemical industries, defending workplace accidents, chemical exposure cases, products liability cases, as well as advising clients regarding workplace safety issues and OSHA regulations. Gayla also has experience in retail premises litigation having defended retail clients for over 25 years.
Gayla earned her B.S. from Louisiana State University in 1973. She earned her J.D. in 1989 from the LSU Law Center where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and a recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Torts and in Advanced Litigation Clinic. Gayla has served as an Adjunct Professor of Appellate Advocacy at the LSU Law Center. She presently serves on the Civil Procedure Committee of the Louisiana Law Institute.
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Environmental Law
- Asbestos & Mesothelioma
- Hearing Loss Defense
- Occupational Exposure and Toxic Tort Litigation
- Toxic Tort Litigation
- Louisiana
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- 5th Circuit
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- United States District Courts for the Western Districts of Louisiana
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- United States District Courts for the Eastern Districts of Louisiana
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- United States District Courts for the Middle Districts of Louisiana
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- English
- Partner
- Kean Miller LLP
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- Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University
- J.D. | Law
- Honors: Member of the Order of the Coif and a recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Torts and in Advanced Litigation Clinic.
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- Louisiana State University
- B.S.
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- Louisiana Law Institute
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- Activities: Code of Civil Procedure Committee
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- American Bar Association
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- Baton Rouge Bar Association
- Member
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- Activities: Lawyers in the Classroom Committee, Publications Committee
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- Louisiana State Bar
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- Louisiana Law Institute Code of Civil Procedure Committee
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- Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel
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- Abandonment: An Evolving Concept of Liberative Prescription
- Louisiana Law Review
