 Robert E. Kleinpeter
619 Jefferson Highway
Suite 2H
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806
Phone:
(225) 926-4130
Fax:
(225) 929-9817
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Robert E. Kleinpeter
Partner
Mr. Robert E. Bob Kleinpeter is a founder and the managing partner of Kleinpeter & Schwartzberg, L.L.C., a firm that serves Louisiana families statewide in trial litigation and appellate practice. Inspired by his uncle, a legendary Baton Rouge attorney, Bob grew up wanting to be a courtroom attorney from the time he was a boy. During high school he prepared himself for a career in law by excelling in academics, holding offices in a variety of service organizations such as Key Club, and setting swimming records in Amateur Athletic Union and Junior Olympic competition. After turning down swimming scholarship offers from several colleges, he coached AAU and club swim teams during his undergraduate years. Mr. Kleinpeter entered Louisiana State University's Honor's College and graduated three years later. He received his law degree from Louisiana State University's Law School in 1976 and passed the bar examination for the State of Louisiana at age twenty-three and immediately began the practice of law.
Within a few years he was litigating cases in city, state, and federal courts, sometimes appearing in front of as many as five judges in a single day, handling criminal, family, succession, commercial, personal injury, and other litigation. His legal practice is now focused on the prosecution of negligence and products liability cases involving injury and wrongful death, frequently in the area of toxic torts and catastrophic harm. He has been admitted as counsel pro hac vice in California, Oregon, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Mississippi and litigated suits to verdict in many states. The Louisiana Association for Justice (formerly Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association) chose Mr. Kleinpeter as its president for 2005-2006. As president, Mr. Kleinpeter helped guide the association through the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He assisted the legal community in its response to problems created by the hurricanes, providing testimony in favor of legislation which protected the public's rights, especially in the areas of insurance law and civil procedure.
Mr. Kleinpeter's cases have set legal precedent or clarified the law in many areas, including insurance, damages for harms recoverable, punitive damages, groundwater contamination, toxic torts, intentional acts, allocation of fault, maritime law, administrative law, the standard for granting a motion for a new trial, trial procedure, appellate procedure, prescription, and succession law. He regularly gives presentations to schools and organizations including, Paul M. Hebert Law School, Tulane University Law School, the Baton Rouge Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the Louisiana Association for Justice, TrialSmith, the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Mississippi Federal Bar Association, the Practicing Law Institute, the National Business Institute, and others. His presentations include subject areas in ethics, professionalism, law practice management, emerging and current perspectives in medical causation, Daubert motions, summary judgment motion practice, trial procedure, appellate procedure, and jury selection.
Mr. Kleinpeter has written a variety of articles for a broad range of legal publications including the Bureau of National Affairs, Toxic Law Reporter, Matthew Bender & Co.'s Environmental Practice Guide (Louisiana chapter), the Baton Rouge Bar Association's Around the Bar, the Louisiana Association for Justice's The Advocate, and others. Topics have included substantive law, procedural law, insurance exclusions, Daubert motions, summary judgment, medical causation, federal preemption, occupational diseases, pharmaceutical cases, medical monitoring, environmental damages, personal injury damages, and other areas of the law.
Mr. Kleinpeter was president of the Louisiana Association for Justice (LAJ), served on its Council of Directors and Board of Governors, was chairman of its Toxic Torts Section, and serves on the LAJ Executive Committee because the association is committed to preserving the civil justice system, protecting open access to courts, protecting individual rights, promoting individual and corporate responsibility, and preserving the highest of ethical and educational standards for the profession. Mr. Kleinpeter is on the Board of Governors, a member of Leader's Forum, a Sustaining Member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), and a Fellow in AAJ's National College of Advocacy because the association promotes a fair and effective justice system and supports the work of attorneys in their efforts to ensure that any person who is injured by the misconduct or negligence of others can obtain justice in America's courtrooms, even when taking on the most powerful interests.
He is a member of the Roscoe Pound Institute because the institute strengthens the practice of trial law through its programs, publications and research grants, which help judges, academics and others understand a balanced view of the U.S. civil justice system. He is a member of Public Justice (formerly Trial Lawyers for Public Justice) because Public Justice fights for justice through precedent-setting and socially significant individual and class action litigation designed to enhance consumer and victims' rights, environmental protection and safety, civil rights and civil liberties, workers' rights, America's civil justice system, and the protection of the poor and powerless.
Bob has been honored by his colleagues with an AV Peer Review Rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. The AV Rating is the highest one can achieve for legal qualifications and ability, and for standards of professional conduct, reliability, and diligence. He has been selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers 2007" and Super Lawyers 2008 in the area of products liability law. He is frequently interviewed by national and local print and electronic media as a source for current legal issues, for example, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Lawyer's Weekly, The National Law Journal, Times Picayune, the Advocate, and other sources.
- Managing Partner
- Appellate Practice
- Environmental Litigation
- Maritime/Offshore Personal Injury
- Motor Vehicle
- Negligence
- Personal Injury or Wrongful Death
- Product Liability
- Toxic Torts
- Trial Practice
- 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
- Louisiana, 1976
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Louisiana, 1982
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Louisiana, 1978
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1984
- Louisiana State University Law Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
1976
J.D.
- Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
1973
Major: Political Science
Minor: Psychology and Philosophy
- The Advocate Daubert "Observations" Are Just That, The Advocate, Louisiana Association for Justice
- Defendant Discovery of Non-Parties, Louisiana Association for Justice
- Billiot Overruled, Louisiana Association for Justice
- Doerr Closes Abuse of the Total Pollution Exclusion, Louisiana Association for Justice
- Know When Daubert Applies, Louisiana Association for Justice
- Summary Judgment and Expert Testimony, Louisiana Association for Justice
- Medical Causation and Reliability, Louisiana Association for Justice
- Medical Causation in the Fifth Circuit, Louisiana Association for Justice
- FIFRA Doesn't Mandate Preemption, Louisiana Association for Justice
- Occupational Diseases: No Remedy, No Indemnity, Louisiana Association for Justice
- Learned Intermediary, Louisiana Association for Justice
- Medical Monitoring in Louisiana, Louisiana Association for Justice
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, Louisiana Association for Justice
- Substantial Factor, Louisiana Association for Justice
- Summary Judgment and Expert Testimony, Louisiana Association for Justice
- Stigma Damage to Property, Louisiana Association for Justice
- Back to the Future, Louisiana Association for Justice, 2005
- The Bottom Line, Louisiana Association for Justice, 2006
- Corporations Rising, Louisiana Association for Justice, 2006
- Defending Judges, Louisiana Association for Justice, 2006
- A Short History of Expert Testimony in Federal Courts, Louisiana Association for Justice Daubert Book Chapters, 2008
- Daubert as Applied in Louisiana State Courts, Louisiana Association for Justice Daubert Book Chapters, 2008
- Protecting Expert Opinions, Louisiana Association for Justice Daubert Book Chapters, 2008
- Daubert and Motion Practice, Louisiana Association for Justice Daubert Book Chapters, 2008
- "Around The Bar", Environmental Privileges, Foxes in the Henhouse, Baton Rouge Bar, 2003
- Environmental Practice Guide, Chapter 60, Matthew Bender & Co., Louisiana
- Exemplary Damages in Louisiana, Toxic Law Reporter, Bureau of National
- McGehee v. Benton, 2007 WL 2685582, 2006-2335
(La.App. 1 Cir 2007)
- Gaunt v. Louisiana Citizens Property Ins.Corp., 512 F.Supp.2d 493, WL
(E.D.La. 2007)
- Coulon v. Witco Corp., 848 So.2d 135, 2003 WL 21230555, 03-208
- Wingfield v. State of Louisiana, et al., 835 So.2d 785
(La.App. 1 Cir. 2002)
- Poisso v. Formosa Plastics Group, 994 F.Supp. 743, 1998 WL69399
(M.D., La. 1998)
- Brown v. Hudosn, 700 So.2d 932, 1997 WL 600728,96 2087
(La.App. 1 Cir. 1997)
- Couvillion v. Shelter Mutual Ins. Co., 672 So.2d 277, 1996 WL 155285, 951186
(La.App. 1 Cir. 1996)
- Manuel v. Shell Oil Co., 664 So.2d 470, WL 609394, 94-590
(La.App.5 Cir. 1995)
- LeBlanc, Jr. v. Cajun Painting Inc.et al., 654 So.2d 800, 94 CA 1609
(La.App. 1 Cir. 1995)
- Egros v. Pempton, 606 So.2d 780, 92-C-0306
(1992)
- Doe v. Smith, 573 So.2d 238, 1990 WL 211384
(La.App. 1 Cir. 1990)
- Babin v. Burnside Terminal, Greater Baton Rouge Port Commission, et al., 577 So.2d 90
(La.App. 1 Cir. 1990)
- Robinson v. Pearah, 525 So.2d 107, 1998 WL 16003
(La.App. 1 Cir. 1988)
- Checki v. Webb, 785 F.2d 534
(C.A.5 (La.) 1986)
- Department of Corrections, Hunt Correctional Center v. Morgan, 469 So.2d
(La.App. 1 Cir. 1985)
- Lambert v. Mutual Life Inc. Co. of New York, 431 So.2d 23
(La.App. 1 Cir. 1983)
- Graham v. Stauffer Chemical Co., 585 F.Supp. 548
(E.D. La. 1984)
- Moazzami v. Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University, et al., 424 So.2d 1112 8 Ed. Law Rep. 906
(La.App. 1 Cir. 1982)
- Introduction to Toxic Tort, Louisiana Association for Justice,
2001
- Recent Trends in Toxic Torts, Louisiana Association for Justice,
2003
- Non-Case Factors Affecting Medical Causation, Louisiana Association for,
2003
- Medical Causation, Louisiana Association for Justice,
2004
- Prejudice Affecting Medical Causation, Louisiana Association for Justice,
2004
- Medical Causation in Louisiana: Law and Prejudice, Louisiana Association for Justice,
2004
- Proving Your Case to Judgment, Louisiana Association for Justice,
2001
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2004
- A Guide to Louisiana's New Rules of Professional Conduct,
2004
- Legal Ethics for Plaintiff Attorneys, Louisiana Association for Justice,
2004
- Litigating Against the State From the Plaintiff's Perspective, Baton Rouge Bar Association,
2004
- Managing Your Office to Stay Out of Trouble, Louisiana Association for Justice,
2005
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2006
- Recent Changes to the Louisiana Rules of Professional Conduct and the Rules for Lawyer Disciplinary Enforcement, TrialSmith Webinar,
2006
- Current Perspectives in Medical Causation, Louisiana Association for Justice,
2006
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2008
- Jury Selection: A Primer on Voir Dire, Baton Rouge Bar Association,
2007
- Jury Selection In Civil Cases, Baton Rouge Bar Association,
2007
- Ethics, Louisiana Association for Justice,
2007
- Litigation Funding, TrialSmith Webinar,
2007
- Super Lawyers,
2007
- Super Lawyers,
2008
- Fellow, American Association for Justice's National College of Advocacy
- Baton Rouge Bar Association
- Louisiana State Bar Association
- Louisiana Association for Justice (LAJ),
2005
-
2006
- President
- Louisiana Association for Justice (LAJ),
2004
-
2008
- Executive Committee
- Louisiana Association for Justice (LAJ),
1988
-
2007
- Board of Governors
- Louisiana Association for Justice (LAJ),
2002
-
2004
- Council of Directors
- Louisiana Association for Justice (LAJ), Toxic Tort Section,
2001
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2002
- Chair
- American Association for Justice (AAJ),
2005
-
2008
- Board of Governors
- American Association for Justice (AAJ),
2005
-
2008
- Leader's Forum
- American Association for Justice (AAJ),
2003
-
2008
- Sustaining Member
- Roscoe Pound Institute
- Public Justice
- March 16, 1953, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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