Partner; Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice; head of the Atlanta Business Litigation Group (1996-2010)
Partner, Johnson & Montgomery (1988-1996)
Fishman, Freeman & Kendrick (1982-1988)
General Practice in Marietta, commercial transactions and litigation
Litigated and arbitrated business matters in State and Federal trial courts including GA, TX, AL, FL, SC, TN, NY, MA, IN and KY.
Appeared and argued before 5th, 11th and 2nd Circuit Courts of Appeal
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
State Bar of Georgia, Chairperson ADR Section (1998)
Co-founder of ADR Section of the State Bar, Chairperson (1997)
ADR TRAINING, EXPERIENCE & PHILOSOPHY:
Harvard Law School Program of Instruction in Mediation
Received training in the arbitration of international commercial disputes under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce
Worked with Ed Henning and others to organize the first annual Georgia ADR Institute, served as a panelist on the first two institutes and as Co-chair of the Institute. (1996)
Philosophy: to avoid "cookie cutter" approach to mediation and arbitration and to design a process for each dispute based on the problems and personalities involved.
RECENT SUCCESSFUL MEDIATIONS:
Two national class action cases (neither pending in Georgia) involving a total of over twenty law firms
License dispute between a large Japanese technology manufacturer and its primary US customer
Post dissolution corporate dispute between former business owners
Contact dispute between two aircraft manufacturers regarding the production of a highly specialized project for a foreign government
Dispute regarding failed software implementation between a major enterprise software vendor and a multi-national corporation
ESTIMATED NUMBER OF CASES HANDLED:
Several hundreds of business cases both as an advocate and as a neutral.
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE:
Shareholder Disputes
Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions
Partnership, accounting and dissolution
Professional Negligence in business matters
Securities
Consumer Class Actions
State and Federal business RICO claims
Commercial Insurance/Reinsurance
Claim between financial institutions
N.S. (Ken) Kendrick, III
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