James J. Kenny

	jjk@kennynachwalter.com
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	James J. Kenny was born in Miami and received his B.A. degree from the University of Miami, and his J.D. from Duke University Law School. He began the practice of law at a Miami firm that represented plaintiffs and defendants in personal injury cases, and had a small but varied commercial litigation practice. He had approximately 25 jury trials and perhaps 5 or 6 non-jury trials during his first two years in practice. After litigating against the Dade County Attorneys office, he was offered a position as Assistant Dade County Attorney. During two years in that position, he had about 15 jury trials, all successful, in eminent domain cases for Dade County and other public bodies. He was then recruited as a partner to handle eminent domain cases by what became Kelly Black Black & Kenny, where he was drafted to help staff an antitrust case and after a successful 91 day jury trial in that case with Michael Nachwalter and Hugo L Black, Jr., he quickly developed a complex commercial litigation practice including antitrust cases. After 10 years as a partner, he left the Kelly Black firm with Michael Nachwalter and Tom Seymour - they formed Kenny Nachwalter & Seymour and have practiced together now for 36 years. Mr. Kenny has had about 75 jury and about 25 non-jury trials and has handled complex commercial cases in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California and Illinois, and has been counsel of record in approximately 70 reported cases. He is admitted in the United States District Courts in the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, the Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal for the Fifth, Seventh, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits and the Supreme Court of the United States. He has served on and chaired the Eminent Domain and Antitrust Advisory Committees of the Florida Bar. In 1988 he was elected to membership in the American Law Institute. He has been rated "AV" by Martindale-Hubbell every year since 1978 and has been included in Best Lawyers in America for Business Litigation including Antitrust and Commercial Litigation in every issue from 1987 through 2003-2004. Mr. Kenny's extensive experience in complex commercial litigation has included several important and successful cases as a Special Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust for the State of Florida, and a wide variety of cases including antitrust, business torts, contracts, partnerships, fiduciary duty, insurance coverage and bad faith, and other complex commercial cases. In 1988, responding to a crisis in the availability of lawyers professional liability insurance, the Florida Bar undertook the formation of it's own professional liability company. Mr. Kenny participated in that project and served as a Director of that company - Florida Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company - from 1989 until 2003 and has served as chair of the Reinsurance and Underwriting Committees and as a member of the Executive, Investment, Underwriting and Claims Committees. In 1996, he participated, along with representatives of bar related insurers in several other states, in the formation of Lawyers Reinsurance Company (Lawyers Re) and has served as a Director and a member of the Underwriting Committee of Lawyers Re. Over the last few years, while continuing to participate in the firm's commercial litigation, Mr. Kenny has acquired experience and developed skills in Arbitration and Mediation. He serves as an Arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, NASD Dispute Resolution and the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. He served on the AAA's Panel for Arbitration of Disputes arising from the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic Games, and currently serves on the AAA's Large and Complex Case Panel. Practice Areas: Antitrust Commercial Litigation Arbitration Mediation Bar & Court Admissions: Florida, 1962 U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, 1963 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1970 Supreme Court of the United States, 1972 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 1971 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1979 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 1982

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