NEW ORLEANS – Kean Miller announced Zia C. Oatley has joined the firm as an associate attorney in the New Orleans office. Oatley will practice in the environmental litigation group.
Oatley earned her B.A., with distinction, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2002. She earned her Masters in Public Policy from Duke University, Sanford Institute of Public Policy and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Duke University School of Law in 2006. While at Duke, Oatley was executive editor of the Duke Law and Technology Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.
After law school, Oatley served as a law clerk to the Honorable Gregory W. Carman with the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York City from 2006-2008.
Kean Miller has more than 150 attorneys in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport and Lake Charles, and is one of the largest full-service law firms in Louisiana and the largest in the Capitol Region, reps said. The firm serves the legal needs of the people, businesses, and industries that drive the Bayou State, they said, with particular dedication to serving Fortune 500 companies with significant operations in the South, providing them with legal resources focused on growth.
