About Jeffrey J.
Jeffrey J. Gelpi took a steady path into the federal courthouse. He earned his J.D. from Tulane University School of Law in 2015 after completing a B.A. at Louisiana State University — University of New Orleans in 2012. Those years on campus were marked by practical legal training and a sequence of placements that shaped his early legal instincts.
His first post-graduate legal year was spent in the chambers of the Honorable Carl J. Barbier on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Serving as a law clerk in 2015, Gelpi handled research and drafted opinions under the supervision of a federal judge. Earlier, while still in law school, he served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Fredericka H. Wicker at the Louisiana Court of Appeal, Fifth Circuit, and as a judicial extern to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in 2013. Those experiences exposed him to both appellate and trial court processes.
Gelpi also gained experience in private practice during law school. In 2014 he worked as a research assistant at Tulane and spent summers as an associate at Carver Darden Koretzky Tessier Finn Blossman & Areaux, LLC and at Bland & Partners PLLC. He joined Kean Miller LLP as a lawyer in 2016. Prior to law school he spent a summer interning for Congressman Steve Scalise in 2011, an early look at public service and legislative work.
He is admitted to practice in Louisiana and in several federal venues. His admissions include the Fifth Circuit and the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana. Gelpi is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Federal Bar Association. Those memberships reflect the mix of state and federal matters that have figured in his career.
Colleagues describe his background as rooted in clerkships and courtroom exposure rather than in a single specialty. That background translated into practice at Kean Miller, where he handled litigation-related tasks and court appearances. He draws on federal-court experience amassed during the clerkship year and the subsequent years at the firm.
As of 2026, Gelpi continues to practice at Kean Miller LLP, handling matters in Louisiana state courts as well as the Fifth Circuit and the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana.
