McKenzi B. Marler joined the Lafayette office of Allen & Gooch as an associate in 2026. McKenzi attended Southern University Law Center, graduating magna cum laude with a Juris Doctor in May of 2025. While at Southern, she served as a Senior Editor of the Southern University Law Review and earned CALI Awards for Excellence in Obligations I, Obligations II, Security Devices, and Conflict of Laws.

Before law school, McKenzi attended Louisiana State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in History in May of 2022. While at LSU, she served as an Executive Board Member and Secretary of Sigma Phi Lambda and was a member of the LSU Mock Trial Team.

She is admitted to practice in Louisiana, before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana