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Patricia M. Kennedy is an "AV" rated partner in the law firm of Leesfield & Partners, P.A., with offices in Miami and Key West, Florida. Ms. Kennedy focuses her practice in plaintiff's personal injury, products liability, and wrongful death. She is a 1989 magna cum laude graduate of Nova Southeastern University Law School where she was a member of the Nova Law Review. She received her undergraduate degree from Barry University. Ms. Kennedy has been selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers which includes only 5 percent of the lawyers in Florida. Ms. Kennedy has also been named one of Florida’s top lawyers by Florida Trend magazine and is included among the publication’s Legal Elite. In 2008, the Legal Elite represent less than 2% of 61,500 active attorneys who are members of the Florida Bar practicing in the State of Florida. In 2009, SuperLawyers ranked Ms. Kennedy as one of the Top 50 Women lawyers in the State of Florida. Ms. Kennedy has a long history of pro bono service to the Miami legal community. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Ms. Kennedy was a former partner with Steel, Hector & Davis LLP in Miami where she practiced as a commercial litigator with extensive experience in contract, tort, products liability, and represented a Who's Who of national and Florida corporations. Ms. Kennedy is also a former National Account Manager for Xerox Corporation in South Florida.
PROFESSIONAL
Partner, Leesfield & Partners, P.A.
Trial Lawyers with offices in Miami, Key West and South Beach, Florida trial lawyer with emphasis on complex and catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death, medical malpractice, nursing home liability, product liability, negligence, inadequate premises security, toxic torts, insurance, commercial and business torts and other complex civil litigation in all state and federal courts.
Ms. Kennedy has been instrumental in the successful resolution of many cases, including the wrongful death of a 20 year old woman who was tragically killed in a boating accident in Orlando, the wrongful death of a Miami man who was killed when a dump truck with faulty brakes crushed his vehicle at a Turnpike toll booth; and the wrongful death of a six year old boy who was killed in a boating accident in Key West; numerous medical malpractice cases involving brain damaged infants due to oxygen deprivation during labor and/or delivery; the wrongful death of a Longshoreman crushed to death while loading a container ship in Port Everglades, the crash of a Cessna aircraft due to defective engine maintenance and causing permanent brain damage, resulting in an $8 million settlement in Puerto Rico federal court; many cruise ship related injury and death cases; the a national class action involving 50,000 class members in Tennessee state court asserting a breach of contract claim for unauthorized cost of insurance increases and interest rate reductions and resulting in a $33 million settlement; a WARN Act class action in an unsettled area of law against an aircraft maintenance company on behalf of workers laid off from SabreTech’s Miami repair station in the wake of the ValuJet crash in the Florida Everglades; and many other wrongful death and personal injury cases.
MEMBERSHIPS, HONORS and ACTIVITIES
- Martindale-Hubbell AV rating
- Florida SuperLawyers TM (Peer Selected)
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Florida Trend Legal
EliteTM
(Top Lawyers in Florida)
- The Florida Bar
- Dade County Bar Association
- Miami-Dade Justice Association
- Miami Beach Bar Association
- Florida Association for Women Lawyers (FAWL)
EDUCATION
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Juris Doctor
(magna cum laude), Nova Southeastern University, School of Law
- Nova Law Review
- Bachelor of Professional Studies , Barry University
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Additional Studies:
- Florida International University
- University of South Carolina
ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
- Florida
- United States District Court, Southern District of Florida
- United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
PAST EMPLOYMENT
- Partner, Steel Hector & Davis, LLP
- Associate, Steel Hector & Davis LLP
- Summer Associate, Steel Hector & Davis LLP
- Temporary In-house counsel, United Teachers of Dade
- Law Clerk, Amlong & Amlong, P.A.
- Law Clerk, Law Offices of Ellen L. Leesfield, P.A.
- National Account Manager, Xerox Corporation
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Volunteer Lawyers Program/Comprehensive Pro Bono Projects:
- Domestic Violence Task Force
- Child Advocacy Task Force
- Landlord-Tenant Task Force Miami Women's Chamber of Commerce
- Board of Directors Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Affiliate Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Chair, Development Committee
- Pro Se Litigation Task Force, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
- Women's Leadership Forum, National Democratic Party
- The Women's Fund
- National Organization for Women
PERSONAL DATA
- Born Charleston, South Carolina
- Residence: Pinecrest, Florida
