About Chris Short

Chris Short is a partner at Kiefer & Kiefer who focuses on personal injury and insurance defense. His litigation experience includes criminal and domestic matters, oral argument in district courts across Louisiana, and judge and jury trials. Before joining Kiefer & Kiefer, Chris served as law clerk to the Honorable Judge Raymond Steib Jr. of the 24th JDC.

He also worked at Martzell, Bickford & Centola, where he handled high-profile personal injury cases including a death case stemming from Deepwater Horizon. Chris serves as a Board Member for the Pro Bono Project and has served as a committee member and sub-chair for the Justice for All Ball. Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tulane Law School, where he served as Senior Associate Editor of the Tulane Maritime Law Journal.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Kiefer & Kiefer Personal Injury Lawyers

These results are credited to Kiefer & Kiefer Personal Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$3 millionSettlement

In a first-of-its-kind nationwide class action, Kiefer & Kiefer attorney Megan Kiefer secured a $3 million federal settlement for nearly 1,000 tenants of the Willows Apartments in New Orleans East who paid rent during years of deteriorating, hazardous conditions.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana (Judge Barry Ashe) · 2026Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$332,300Verdict

An Orleans Parish jury awarded $332,300 to the owners of Fat River Farm after an Orkin employee mistakenly fogged their Lower 9th Ward organic operation with a broad-spectrum pesticide in 2022, costing the farm its organic certification for three years and disrupting its ecosystem.

Orleans Parish Civil District Court, New Orleans (Judge Ellen Hazeur) · 2026Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Tulane University Law School
J.D., Magna Cum Laude
California State University Maritime Academy
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Louisiana
State Bar of Florida

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$4.85 Billion Vioxx MDL Settlement for Heart-Attack and Stroke Victims
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$850 million · Gentilly Tank-Car Fire: $850 Million Punitive Verdict for 8,000 New Orleans Residents
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$129 Million Verdict for 6-Year-Old Killed in School Parking Lot After Run Club Crossed the Carpool Lane
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All 19 Seacor Power Claims Resolved After Liftboat Capsizes and Kills 13 Gulf Crew
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Womac Law Firm
$1.58 million · Jefferson Parish Jury Awards $1.58 Million After Distracted-Driving Rear-End Crash

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.