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About Paulina Kennedy
I am committed to understanding every client's unique story, circumstances, and legal position. I believe in prioritizing efficiency, staying organized, and examining my cases from all angles. Having worked on massive-scale litigation, I know how to streamline unclear or contrary facts and points of view into focused and persuasive arguments. I strive to effectively manage litigation at every level of development to ensure we are prepared for anything that lies ahead.
Paulina Kennedy represents firm clients who have been wronged by their employers. She supports litigation involving various substantive state and federal court employment law claims, ranging from wage and hour disputes to sexual harassment, discrimination, whistleblowing and retaliation, and Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) violations. Paulina never takes for granted that clients trust her to tell them the truth about their case and position and what to expect during the process. A caring and generous people person at heart, it is no surprise Paulina practices plaintiff-side employment law advocacy - defending the rights of individuals unfairly treated in the workplace.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Sommers Schwartz PC
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A class settlement with Michigan Pain Specialists resolved claims of 311 patients and survivors of the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak traced to contaminated steroid injections. It was reached in Livingston County Circuit Court in March 2016. The $10.5 million is a single class figure that the sources do not itemise by patient. Robert B. Sickels of Sommers Schwartz PC sat on the three-attorney plaintiffs' steering committee for Michigan.
After two federal jury verdicts found that Frankenmuth violated the Loesel family's equal-protection rights by passing a zoning ordinance designed to block a Walmart land sale, the city settled for $3.7 million in November 2014.
On April 25, 2014, a Saginaw County jury returned a $1,612,269 verdict for Debra Cameron and her husband, Hugh, against family physician James V. Bodrie, M.D. The jury found he failed to pursue a cardiac workup despite months of symptoms and a chest X-ray showing an enlarged heart, and that Ms. Cameron suffered a major heart attack days later. The award included $262,268.86 in medical expenses, with the rest for non-economic damages, and the vote was 6-2. Michigan's 2014 cap on non-economic damages in malpractice cases limits that portion to $440,200, so the most that could stand was about $702,469, and no appeal was filed.
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