About
Galvin Kennedy, founding partner at Kennedy Hodges, LLP, became born within the Chicago, Illinois, place. His dad and mom divorced while he became young and he became inspired by means of watching his mom paintings to support her 4 children. When he was ten years old, his mother moved her own family to Houston, Texas.
After graduating from high school, Mr. Kennedy attended Northern Illinois University on a complete scholarship because the captain of the college s prestigious countrywide debate crew. During his time at the debate crew, he changed into provided dozens of nearby and country wide speaker awards. He graduated magna cum laude in 1992 with a B.A. in Political Science.
Mr. Kennedy then attended law college on the University of Houston Law Center. During that point, he earned the American Jurisprudence Award for accomplishing the very best grade in magnificence for Constitutional Law, Civil Trial Advocacy, Insurance Law, and Malpractice Law. In addition, he earned the Individual Best Speaker and Team Champion awards within the Hippard Mock Trial Tournament and Best Speaker award for the Blakely Moot Court Tournament. He changed into additionally Editor of the Houston Journal of International Law, and a member of the Order of the Barons and the National Order of the Barristers. He graduated cum laude in 1996 along with his J.D.
Upon graduating from law college, Mr. Kennedy worked as an companion legal professional for a medium-sized regulation office. During that point, he represented humans in employment subjects, deceptive change practice instances, securities fraud claims, faulty product cases and numerous non-public injury topics. He then started out his own regulation practice, the Kennedy Law Office, in 2000. One 12 months later, after representing more than three hundred customers, he founded Kennedy Hodges, LLP, along with his fine buddy from regulation school, David Hodges.
Mr. Kennedy has been Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by means of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization due to the fact that 2004--a certification executed through less than 3% of lawyers in Texas. He is also a member of the Million Dollar Advocate Forum, a prestigious group of lawyers who've obtained verdicts or settlements larger than $1 million. In addition, Mr. Kennedy was named a Texas Super Lawyer with the aid of Thomson Reuters for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 and is "AV" rated by way of Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings--an objective peer evaluation designed to price lawyers on ethics and expert potential. He turned into also listed within the Best Lawyers of Houston in 2005 and 2006 with the aid of H Texas Magazine and has been featured on NBC, CBS, FOX, Univision, Houston Chronicle, Telemundo, and news communicate radio shows.
Mr. Kennedy is licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of Texas and he's admitted to exercise before the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, america Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Mr. Kennedy honed his Spanish language talents while operating as an English trainer in Barcelona, Spain. He makes use of his Spanish language abilties to talk with a lot of his clients these days.
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Legal Issues
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
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Texas Board Of Legal Specialization
Languages
- Spanish
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Founding Partner
Kennedy Hodges, LLP
2001 - Owner
The Kennedy Law FIrm
2000 - Associate Lawyer
Greenberg, Peden, Siegmyer & Oshman, P.C.
1996
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