Raoul D. Kennedy handles civil litigation at both the trial and appellate level.  He has been lead counsel in more than 50 jury and 25 nonjury trials, as well as more than 50 appeals, involving a diverse range of subjects including: accounting malpractice; antitrust; breach of fiduciary duty; class actions; commercial litigation; consumer privacy; defamation; fraudulent transfers; insurance (coverage, regulatory and “bad faith”); legal malpractice; mass torts; malicious prosecution; patent infringement; personal injury; products liability; real estate; RICO; toxic torts; trade secrets; unfair competition; workplace discrimination; and wrongful discharge.

Recently, Mr. Kennedy’s litigation successes were profiled in The American Lawyer in an article which names the firm as a finalist for “Litigation Department of the Year.”  Mr. Kennedy has been repeatedly selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.  He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1987 and is currently listed in four separate areas of expertise: Appellate, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation and Insurance.  Mr. Kennedy has been profiled as one of the “Top 100” most influential lawyers in California by the Daily Journal.

In 2005 he was selected as the Trial Lawyer of the Year by the State Bar of California and inducted into the State Bar Litigation Section’s Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame.

Mr. Kennedy has long been active in continuing legal education and has lectured at more than 250 programs on behalf of a variety of sponsoring organizations, including the California Judges Association, the Practising Law Institute, the American Bar Association, California Continuing Education of the Bar and the Rutter Group.

Representative cases he has handled include:

• Mattel v. MGA (C.D. Cal). Highly publicized trial over ownership of the Bratz line of dolls.

• Skold v. Intel (Santa Clara County Sup. Ct.). Putative nationwide class action challenging the marketing of the Pentium® 4 microprocessor.

• Hill v. State Farm (Cal. Court of Appeal). Nationwide class action alleging that an insurer had $47 billion of unneeded surplus which should be dividended to its policyholders.

• Schachter v. Citigroup, Inc. (Los Angeles County Superior Ct.). Class action alleging that forfeiture provision in key employee retention program violates the California Labor Code now pending before the California Supreme Court.

• Marketel v. Priceline.com (N.D. Cal.). Action involving alleged theft of trade secrets and correction of patent inventorship.

• Loma Linda University v. Farmers Group, Inc. (E.D. Cal.). RICO, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud class action trial involving a long-term liability insurance program for more than 600 hospitals.

• Ducoeur v. 3M (San Diego Sup. Ct.). Products liability case alleging that silicone breast implants caused plaintiff’s scleroderma and cognitive deficits.