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Kevin G. Kenneally

One International Place
Eleventh Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02110
Phone:  617.502.8220
Fax:  617.502.8270

Biography

Kevin Kenneally is the Office Leader in LeClairRyan's Boston office. He serves as national coordinating counsel for products liability and exposure claims for a major European production equipment manufacturer. Mr. Kenneally also serves as monitoring counsel for professional liability and health care claims for specialty program insurance underwritten in the London insurance market. He focuses his practice on representing corporations and insurers in commercial, subrogation, and insurance coverage disputes; long-term care and nursing home liability litigation; and G.L. ch. 93A bad faith litigation. Mr. Kenneally specializes in products liability and complex litigation including commercial and contract litigation, business torts, and banking litigation; professional liability defense; medical software disputes, medical device products liability and False Claims Act litigation; as well as subrogation and defense of plant explosion, fire loss, and burn injury cases. He represents businesses in federal and state courts in Massachusetts and has been admitted pro hac vice in jurisdictions throughout the United States. He has handled commercial arbitrations under AAA, ICDR, and NASD rules.

Mr. Kenneally is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America (practice areas: Mass Tort Litigation; Personal Injury Litigation). He is a Massachusetts Super Lawyer named by Law & Politics Magazine (2004-present) in the area of Business Litigation and is rated AV® Preeminent™ by the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings system. He has lectured and authored articles, including for Defense Research Institute's (DRI) For The Defense Magazine. Mr. Kenneally is an editor in chief of Traps for the Unwary, now in its 5th Edition, the attorney risk management publication of the Massachusetts Bar Association. He is currently editing the 6th edition of Traps scheduled to be published in October 2011. He serves as a Trustee of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, and is a Life Fellow and a Louis D. Brandeis Fellow of the Foundation.

Reported Cases

  • Danny Basore, Administrator v. Ayvazian, MD, UMass-Memorial Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 26 Mass. L. Rptr. 237; 2009 Mass. Super. LEXIS 272 (2009)
  • Danny Basore, Administrator of the Estate of Leslie T. Skirvin v. Ayvazian, UMass-Memorial Medical Center, Inc., MD, Yang, MD, Tseng, MD, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 25 Mass. L. Rptr. 57; 2008 Mass. Super. LEXIS 413 (2008)
  • United States of America, ex. rel. Poteet v. Lenke, M.D., 604 F.Supp.2d 313 (2009), 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 24342 (March 20, 2009)
  • Basore, Admn. v. Ayvasian, M.D., 25 Mass. L. Rep. 57 (2008); 2008 Mass. Super. LEXIS 413 (2008)
  • Adam Associates International, Inc. v. Wm. A. Berry & Son, Inc., 22 Mass. L. Rptr. 389; 2007 Mass. Super. LEXIS 241 (2007)
  • Gonzalez v. Katz, 2006 Mass. Super. LEXIS 358 (2006)
  • Carifio v. Benetton Sportsystem USA, Inc., 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12801 (D.Mass. 2005)
  • Romano, Admx. v. Watson, 17 Mass. L. Rptr. 461, 2004 Mass. Super. LEXIS 104 (2004)
  • PolyCarbon Industries v. Advantage Engineering, Inc., 260 F. Supp.2d 296 (D.Mass. 2003), 2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7454, 2003 WL 2013027
  • In Re Maiden Mills Industries, Inc.: Commerce and Industry Ins. Co. v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours, et al., 277 B.R. 449; 2002 Bankr. Ct. Dec. 152 (D.Mass. 2002)
  • Hochen v. Bobst Group, Inc., 290 F.3d 446 (1st Cir. 2002), U.S. App. LEXIS 9220, CCH Prod. Liab. Rep. P16,339
  • Hochen v. Bobst Group, Inc., 198 F.R.D. 11 (D.Mass. 2000), 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19020, 48 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 1132
  • Hochen v. Bobst Group, Inc., 193 F.R.D. 22 (D.Mass. 2000), U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7032, 54 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 930, CCH Prod. Liab. Rep. P15,824
  • Matter of Gunderson, 423 Mass 642, 670 N.E.2d 386, 1996 Mass. LEXIS 224 (1996)
  • Cavanaugh v. Athena Equipment & Supply Co., 2000 Mass. App. Div. LEXIS 94 (2000)

Legal Experience

  • LeClairRyan, Boston, Massachusetts, July 2007 – present
  • Donovan Hatem LLP, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001 – July 2007
  • Burns & Levinson, LLP, Boston, Massachusetts, 1987 – 2001

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Professional Memberships
  • American Bar Association
  • Massachusetts Bar Association
  • Arbitration Committee of the Boston Stock Exchange
  • Massachusetts Bar Foundation (MBF): Board of Trustees

Distinctions

  • Recognized as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer by Law & Politics magazine in the area of Business Litigation, 2008-2011.
  • Listed in the "Boston's Best Lawyers" supplement to the Boston Sunday Globe, 2008 and 2009.
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants, and Personal Injury Litigation, 2009-2012.

Related Industries

Education

  • J.D., cum laude, Suffolk University Law School, 1987,
  • B.A., Political Science, The College of the Holy Cross, 1984

Bar Admissions

  • Massachusetts

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
  • U.S. Court of Federal Claims