About Symone Kimelman
Symone Kimelman is a first-generation attorney who graduated from the University of North Texas with a B.A. in English in 2015, then earned her J.D. from Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Minnesota in 2019. During law school she achieved a top 10 national ranking on the mock trial team and served on the executive board of the Latino Law Student Association. She simultaneously worked as a certified student prosecutor for two years at the Ramsey County Attorney's Office, handling Criminal Appeals and felony cases.
After law school, she worked as a Staff Attorney for a District Court Judge, where she gained a 'behind the bench' perspective on legal arguments and juror persuasion. She joined the Law Office of Kenneth Berger to represent injured clients and their families across South Carolina. She is licensed in South Carolina, Minnesota, and Texas.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Kenneth Berger
These results are credited to Kenneth Berger. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Kenneth Berger secured a $26 million settlement for the family of a three-year-old who suffered severe chemical burns at Caribbean Resort and Villas in Myrtle Beach after a pool employee falsified chlorine records for years.
A 21-year-old driver who was overserved at two Spartanburg bars struck and killed two cousins at over 70 mph, leading to a $7.36 million wrongful death settlement paid by the bars and the driver.
Travis Butler, 19, was driving to work in January 2016 when a drunk driver crossed the center line and hit him head-on, leaving him with seven broken bones, a liver laceration and seven surgeries. His dram shop suit against the driver and Hickory Tavern in Columbia settled for $3 million in January 2019. The driver had pleaded guilty to DUI resulting in great bodily injury.
Douglas Mincey, a retired engineer and author, was rear-ended on I-95 in Jasper County in March 2016 by a driver who had been drinking. He had a lower back injury that required several surgeries and concussive symptoms. His underinsured motorist carrier, USAA, agreed to pay $2 million on April 6, 2018, before the case reached the jury roster.
A Navy veteran who was sent home from the Charleston VA with back pain developed a spinal epidural abscess that went untreated for days, leaving him permanently paralyzed in both legs; the Law Office of Kenneth E. Berger recovered a $1 million federal settlement.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
