Kevin P. Kleinpeter joins the Babcock Law Firm after three years of service to the local business and political community as Vice President of Governmental Affairs for the Baton Rouge Area Chamber of Commerce. He is a Baton Rouge native and a proud member of the Kleinpeter Dairy family that has lived and farmed in south Louisiana since the late seventeen hundreds.

Kleinpeter is a graduate of Catholic High School and earned his B.A. in Political Science at Louisiana State University. He received is J.D. from South Texas College of Law in downtown Houston, Texas in May of 2000.

Upon his return to Louisiana in 2003, Kleinpeter lobbied on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce on a wide variety of business issues at the State Capitol. His experience ranges from working with a broad coalition of business leaders to amend River Pilot Fees to successfully pushing for an innovative video game tax incentive to lure out of state businesses seeking economic development opportunities in Louisiana.

Kleinpeter regularly attended and testified on numerous business issues at City Hall during his three years with the Chamber of Commerce. He has worked with mayors, parish presidents, city councils, police juries, planning commissions, public works departments, trade associations, and various other task forces and commissions.

Kleinpeter spearheaded and managed a complex environmental suit, still pending, against federal agencies during his last two years with the Chamber of Commerce. This litigation was the impetus of preventing East Baton Rouge Parish and several surrounding parishes from mandated use of Reformulated Gasoline (RFG). At the time of the suits, studies proved RFG was more expensive with little or no benefits to the environment, health or human welfare.

Before joining the Babcock Team, Kleinpeter was a contract lobbyist representing innovative and historical commercial development projects and important land owner’s rights initiatives. He also joined a broad and diverse coalition of trade associations, private businesses and independent contractors that began debating the future of the telecommunications industry in the state.

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