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About Kendyl

With a practice spanning from Texas to New York, Kendyl T. Hanks is an experienced trial litigator and appellate advocate who represents clients throughout the country in state and federal forums. Kendyl represents clients from entrepreneurs, investors, executives and partnerships to Fortune 500 companies and burgeoning multinational firms.  She has experience litigating and resolving high-stakes business disputes and test cases involving contract disputes, fraud claims, breaches of warranty, fiduciary duty, alter ego, bankruptcy confirmation and adversary proceedings, negligence and estoppel, real estate disputes, securities law, tribal sovereignty, tax disputes, joint and several liability and proportionate fault, governmental immunity and other issues of importance to her business clients.

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Experience

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

2013-present

Of Counsel

Susman Godfrey LLP

2012

Governor

ABA Board of Governors

2009-2012

Partner (2010-2011) Associate (2001-2009)

Haynes and Boone, LLP

2001-2011

Intern for Justice Greg Abbott

Supreme Court of Texas

2000

Summer Associate

Mithoff & Jacks

1999

Staff Assistant and Projects Manager,

Public Strategies Washington, Inc.

1997-1998

Admission

Verified New York

2007

Verified Texas

2001

Verified Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Verified New York -8th Judicial Court of Erie County -State - Supreme Court

Verified New York Eastern District Court

Verified New York Southern District Court

Verified Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Verified Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Verified Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals

Verified Texas Eastern District Court

Verified Texas Northern District Court

Verified Texas Southern District/Bankruptcy Court

Verified Texas Western District Court

Verified US Supreme Court

Education

Princeton University

B.A. with honors and distinction (Politics)

1997

Recognitions & Achievements

Associations
  • American Bar Association
  • Board of Governors,
    2009-2012
  • House of Delegates,
    2009-2012
  • American Bar Association, Section of Business Law
  • Co-Chair, Business and Corporate Litigation Committee, Appellate Litigation Subcommittee,
    2004-Present
  • American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, Executive Board,
    2009-2012
  • New York State Bar Association
  • Committee on Courts of Appellate Jurisdiction,
    2009-2011
  • Princeton Women’s Network of NYC, Co-Chair,
    2009-2012
  • American Bar Foundation, Fellow,
    2008-present
Honors / Awards
  • Lifetime Member, Cambridge Who's Who Registry of Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs
  • Selected, Top Women Lawyers in the New York Metro Area, The New York Times magazine, December
    2012
  • Selected, "Rising Star" in the practice of business litigation in the New York Metro Area, Super Lawyers magazine
    2011 / 2012
  • Selected, "Who's Who in American Law,"
    2011 / 2012
  • Member, Pro Bono College of the State Bar of Texas
    2004-2008 / 2012
  • Elected, Member of the American Law Institute, March
    2011
  • Recipient, "President's Award of Merit," Texas Young Lawyers Association
    2006-2007
  • Listed, D Magazine, "Best Lawyers in Dallas Under 40," May
    2006
  • Named, "Texas Rising Star" in the practice of appellate law, Texas Monthly
    2005 / 2006
  • Recipient, "Pro Bono Award," Travis County Women Lawyers Association
    2004
  • The College of the State Bar of Texas, Member
    2004-2008

Notable Work

Publications

Author, "Appellate Practice," American Bar Association Annual Review of Litigation,

2012


Co-Author, "Appellate Practice," American Bar Association Annual Review of Litigation,

2011


Co-Author, "Marketing from a Young Partner's Perspective," Marketing the Law Firm, Volume 26, Number 11, March

2011


Co-Author, "'Pay-for-Delay’ Settlements: Antitrust Violation or Proper Exercise of Pharmaceutical Patent Rights?" Business Law Today, February

2011


Co-Author, "Supreme Court Update: Decisions from ," Business Law Today, Volume 19, Number 1, September/October

2009 / 2009


Author, "Developing Your Practice," Canadian Bar Association, Young Lawyers Edition, April

2009


Author, "Developing Your Practice," Texas Young Lawyers Association, TYLA eNews, March 2,

2009


Author, "Developing Your Practice," American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, Volume 13, Number 3, December

2008


Author, "Obtaining and Challenging Supersedes Bonds: New Procedures and Problems," Texas Young Lawyers Association, TYLA eNews, September

2007


Author, "U.S. Supreme Court Update: Philip Morris v. Williams Further Defining the Constitutional Limits on Punitive Damages; and Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency The Supreme Court Faces an Inconvenient Truth?" Texas Young Lawyers Association, TYLA eNews, May

2007


Co-Author, "Annual Survey of Texas Appellate Practice and Procedure," SMU Law Review, Summer

2005


Author, "Apportionment of Liability Under Chapter 33," The Appellate Advocate, State Bar of Texas Appellate Section Report, Fall

2004


Co-Author, "Formation of the Judgment and Calculation of Interest," 14th Annual Conference on State and Federal Appeals, University of Texas School of Law, June 3-4,

2004


Co-Author, "Preserving Error Under Amended Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 51," ABA Council of Appellate Lawyers Newsletter, Spring

2004


Author, "Monthly Northern District Update," Dallas Federal Bar Association,

2003-2004


Co-Author, "Fifth Circuit Update," State Bar of Texas Appellate Advocate,

2002-Present

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