About Vance A.
Vance A. Gibbs earned his law degree from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in 1982, after receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Louisiana State University in 1979. He completed his formal education in Baton Rouge and began building a practice grounded in litigation and courtroom work. The academic path he followed placed him squarely in the legal community of Louisiana early in his career.
He is a partner at Kean Miller LLP. Over decades in practice he has accepted admissions to multiple federal and appellate forums. Those admissions include the United States District Courts for the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of Louisiana, the United States Claims Court, the Fifth and Eighth Circuits, and practice before the state courts of Louisiana. That range of admissions has allowed him to appear in trial courts and on appeal when cases require it.
Gibbs’s professional affiliations reflect sustained engagement with the bar and with trial groups. He holds memberships in the American Bar Association, the Louisiana State Bar, the Baton Rouge Bar Association, the Fifth Federal Circuit Bar Association, and the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel. He is also a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Those memberships place him among practitioners who regularly handle contested matters, trials and appellate work.
Outside the courtroom he has taken on leadership roles in a number of civic and nonprofit organizations. He serves on the National Board of Directors for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America and participates on its New York Income Committee. He is president of the Board of Directors for the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America’s Louisiana/Mississippi Chapter. He chairs the Legal and Personnel Committee for O’Brien House and sits on the boards of the American Red Cross, Louisiana Capital Area Chapter, the Paula Manship YMCA, Capital Area Legal Services Corporation and the Garden District Civic Association. He has also held vice president and president posts on the Board of Directors of the Association for Retarded Citizens, Baton Rouge, Inc., and remains involved with the Capital Area United Way.
Those civic commitments run alongside his work at Kean Miller LLP. He continues to practice in state and federal courts, representing clients in matters that arise in the jurisdictions to which he is admitted. He currently concentrates his practice as a partner at Kean Miller LLP, representing clients in state and federal courts across the listed jurisdictions.
