Born and raised in Natchitoches, Louisiana, Matt Nowlin is a 2007 graduate of Texas A&M University at College Station, and a 2011 graduate from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Prior to founding Nowlin Law Firm, LLC (doing business as Keiser & Nowlin, Attorneys at Law) in 2024, Matt represented the State of Louisiana as in-house counsel to the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority – the single state entity responsible for developing, implementing, and enforcing a comprehensive coastal protection and restoration master plan, and was the lead state agency in coordinating recovery from the Deepwater Horizon explosion and contamination. As in-house counsel, Matt worked extensively with federal, state, and local agencies, political subdivisions, non-profits, and private companies on resolving a multitude of contractual, environmental, construction, governmental ethics, and disaster relief issues.
In 2013, after marrying his wife Allie, Matt moved to Alexandria, where he has developed a robust private practice with a focus on Federal, state, and local administrative and regulatory issues, municipal and governmental liability and defense, police liability, employment law (including Civil Service and workers’ compensation), property and casualty, and commercial litigation. Matt is admitted to all state and federal courts in Louisiana, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Matt is also a Certified Workers Compensation Professional, through the Louisiana Association of Self-Insured Employers.
Matt, his wife Allie, their two sons, Andrew (Drew) and Henry (Hank), and their beagle, Lily, live in the historic Garden District of Alexandria. In addition to the never-ending list of projects associated with maintaining and restoring a 100+ year-old home, Matt is an avid living historian, and travels across the country in support of Federal and state parks to educate the public about the personal aspects of the War Between the States, and how the war impacted the lives of not only the soldiers and sailors who caught on both sides of this period of American history, but and also their families back at home. It has been said that the most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history; Matt hopes to assist in the preservation of our understanding of our own history.
