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About Jeffrey Kenney
Jeffrey T. Kenney, Esq. is a Partner at Cooper Elliott in Columbus, Ohio, with nearly 30 years of experience as a trial lawyer. He has successfully represented clients both in and outside of court in wrongful death, personal injury, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, and business litigation matters. He brings prior experience working with large insurance carriers.
Kenney has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America for both Commercial Litigation and Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, named to Super Lawyers for five consecutive years, and selected to the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 and Top 100. He is a member of both the Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forums, holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rating, has been named to Super Lawyers' Top 50 Columbus, and is a Supreme Court of Ohio Approved Mentor.
He is a member of the American Association for Justice, Ohio Association for Justice, Ohio State Bar Association, and the Columbus Bar Association. Outside the firm, he is a varsity baseball coach at Walnut Hills High School and a junior high football coach at Kings Local Schools.
He earned his Juris Doctor from Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law and his undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University. He is admitted to the State Bars of Ohio and Kentucky, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of Ohio, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Cooper Elliott
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A Franklin County jury awarded $27 million to the estate of Gregory Coleman Jr., a 37-year-old bartender beaten to death by security workers outside the Julep bar in Columbus's Short North, finding the bar's ownership 80 percent at fault for negligent hiring and supervision.
A New Jersey court entered a $20 million judgment for Keziah Lewis, half of it punitive, against ride maker KMG for the 2017 Ohio State Fair Fire Ball failure that left her with catastrophic injuries.
Cincinnati's Metro transit agency paid $10 million to the estate of Beverly Kinney, an 87-year-old struck and killed in a marked crosswalk by a bus driver with a suspended license, and agreed to overhaul its driver training.
Cooper Elliott won a $6.525 million judgment against the former Pi Kappa Alpha president whose chapter hazed Bowling Green State University student Stone Foltz to death in 2021.
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