Overview
 

Meghan Grant advises and represents businesses in contractual, regulatory, and litigation matters, particularly in the areas of oil and gas, insurance coverage/recovery, construction, and complex commercial disputes. Before joining Flanagan Partners, her practice included surety, construction, commercial litigation, as well as insurance defense. She is admitted to practice in both Louisiana and Colorado.

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Ms. Grant graduated cum laude from Louisiana State University and magna cum laude from Tulane Law School, where she served as a Managing Editor of the Tulane Law Review and a Legal Research and Writing Senior Fellow.

 

Professional Experience

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• Advising and representing oil and gas operators in a wide variety of commercial and contractual disputes.

• Representing clients pursuing insurance coverage, including oil and gas operators seeking well-control, personal injury/liability, and related coverage and commercial policyholders seeking property damage and time element coverage.

• Advising and representing oil and gas operators in a wide variety of commercial and contractual disputes.

• Advising oil and gas operators on regulatory aspects of their health and safety programs.

• Drafting and negotiating operational agreements for oil and gas operators, such as easements, road-sharing agreements, pipeline crossings, surface use agreements, and similar contracts.

• Advising oil and gas operators in responding to casualties (including personal injury, pollution, and blowouts/well-control events) and conducting related training.

• Conducting internal investigations and audits.

• Drafting and negotiating commercial construction contracts.

 

Professional Affiliations

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• Member, Louisiana State Bar Association (2012 – Present)

• Member, Federal Bar Association – New Orleans Chapter (2012 – Present)

• Member, New Orleans Bar Association (2012 – Present)

• Member, Colorado State Bar Association (2013 – Present)

• Planning and Design Committee Volunteer, Friends of Lafitte Greenway (2019 – 2022)

• Board of Directors, Children’s Speech and Reading Center in Fort Collins, Colorado (2014 – 2016)

News & Recognition

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• Named to the Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch list (2021 – 2023)

• Named to the Super Lawyers Rising Stars list (2019 – 2022)

• Inside New Orleans Readers’ Favorite Elite Lawyers – Construction Law (2021)

• Co-presented "Practical Issues in Post-Catastrophe Business Interruption Coverage Claims," New Orleans Bar Association (2021)

• Co-presented on insurance claims handling for the Insurance Law Committee of the New Orleans Bar Association (2019)

• Recipient of the award for the highest grade in Successions, Donations, and Trusts at Tulane Law School