Chad Molnar

Chad, who initially came to Kanner & Whiteley as a Summer Associate in 2024, joined the firm as an Associate in 2025, focusing on environmental litigation. Bringing his deep experience in government and politics to the firm, he has been instrumental in creating partnerships with government entities as the firm explores plastics litigation and working to develop theories of litigation tailored to each client’s circumstances and objectives.

Chad graduated from Tulane University Law School with a Certificate in Environmental Law and was awarded the Clinical Legal Education Outstanding Clinical Student Award for his class. At Tulane, he worked as a Student Attorney at the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, where he litigated and won a bench trial for a Louisiana Open Meetings lawsuit in St. James Parish. As a Student Attorney, Chad also represented indigent clients in a case at the Port of New Orleans involving Clean Air Act permitting, the Public Trust doctrine, and federal railroad law.

In Summer 2023, Chad completed a legal program at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, where he studied European legal systems, products liability, and transatlantic antitrust law. He earned Certificates in Negotiation, Mediation and Arbitration from Tulane Law School’s Berlin program.

Prior to attending law school, Chad served as District Director for a member of Congress, and later as Chief of Staff to a Los Angeles City Councilmember—representing an environmentally sensitive coastal district in California that included Los Angeles International Airport, Santa Monica Bay, and the Santa Monica Mountains. As Chief of Staff, Chad worked closely with elected officials, government attorneys, and private stakeholders on technically complex environmental cases, including major project reviews and environmental lawsuits.

Chad sat for the Louisiana Bar Exam in July 2025.

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