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Ken Brennan

Proven Verdicts
Partner & Attorney at TorHoerman Law
Chicago, IL29 years experience

About Ken Brennan

Ken Brennan is a Partner at TorHoerman Law, an accomplished trial lawyer with more than 25 years of experience litigating in state and federal courts throughout the United States. He focuses his practice on class actions and mass torts, personal injury, employment litigation, and insurance coverage on behalf of plaintiffs. After graduating with high honors from the University of Iowa College of Law, Ken began his career at a defense firm in St. Louis, where he represented individual consumers, small businesses, multinational corporations, and franchisors and franchisees before transitioning to mass tort plaintiff work. He has handled lead-counsel roles in radiation exposure and infant formula litigation and obtained appellate victories on failure-to-warn and personal jurisdiction issues.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$25 millionVerdict

A federal jury in St. Louis awarded $25 million to the parents of a two-year-old girl who drowned after climbing into a Bestway above-ground pool using an exterior nylon strap the manufacturer had built into the design.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri (Case No. 4:22-cv-00050) · 2025Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Iowa College of Law
J.D., with high honors, 1996
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Undergraduate, 1995

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois
State Bar of Missouri
American Association for Justice
American Bar Association
Federal Bar Association — Southern District of Illinois Chapter
Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
The Injury Board

Awards & recognition

Illinois Super Lawyers (2012, 2015-2021)
J.D. with high honors, University of Iowa
B.A. with high honors, University of Missouri-St. Louis

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$100 million · Willis Family Wrongful Death Settlement: $100 Million After Six Children Killed in I-94 Truck Crash
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