About Kevin Hulick

Kevin C. Hulick is an Ohio trial lawyer who joined Spangenberg Shibley & Liber in 2018 after clerking for U.S. District Judge Benita Y. Pearson and working as an assistant attorney general with the Ohio Attorney General's office and as an associate at a commercial litigation firm. Since joining the firm, Kevin has been particularly active in class action and civil rights litigation. He has represented classes in numerous cases with multiple successful settlements, and has the rare distinction of having participated in a class action trial. In civil rights work, he has achieved multiple settlements for excessive force and successfully argued an appeal before the Sixth Circuit in a deadly force case. Kevin graduated summa cum laude from Youngstown State University in 2012 and earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2015, where he was a founding member of the law school soccer club and competed in moot court.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Spangenberg Shibley & Liber

These results are credited to Spangenberg Shibley & Liber. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A federal jury found CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart liable for creating an opioid public nuisance in northeast Ohio, leading to a $650 million abatement judgment, the first of its kind against pharmacy chains in U.S. history.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio (Judge Dan Polster), Cleveland · 2022Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Hours before opening arguments in the first federal opioid bellwether trial, Cuyahoga and Summit counties in Ohio secured a $260 million settlement from distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson, plus manufacturer Teva.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Cleveland (MDL 2804) · 2019Product LiabilityRead the full story →

A Hamilton County jury returned a verdict of nearly $28 million against Utilimap Corp. after the firm's inspectors skipped a rotted utility pole that collapsed and killed Duke Energy lineman Keith Jester in 2014.

Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, Ohio · 2017Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$550,000Verdict

A window washer for Euclid Cleaning Contractors fell thirty feet to his death while cleaning windows at a Cleveland-area high school when a cotton safety strap made in 1962 broke. His widow sued the employer for an intentional tort, and a Cuyahoga County jury returned a $550,000 verdict in 1994. The Eighth District affirmed in 1995.

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, Cleveland, Ohio · 1994Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Virginia School of Law
J.D., 2015
Youngstown State University
Undergraduate, 2012

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Ohio

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The Becker Law Firm
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$60.7 Million Settlement for Child Left with Brain Injury After Touching Downed FirstEnergy Power Line
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The Law Offices of Tim Misny
$50 million · Failure to Warn of Cancer Risk: Misny's Second Pharmaceutical Block Settles for $50 Million
Friedman Domiano & Smith
Friedman Domiano & Smith
$3.5 Million Verdict for Chemical Plant Worker Burned by Formic Acid
Michael Hill Trial Law
Michael Hill Trial Law
$26 Million Verdict for Blind Nursing Home Resident Who Aspirated, Then Waited 42 Minutes for Ambulance

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.