J. Michael Kennalley
Shareholder
J. Michael Kennalley is a senior member of the litigation
practice.
Mr. Kennalley has broad experience in litigation, with emphasis on complex
commercial cases. He has defended accountants, engineers and other professionals
as well as employers from a broad range of industries. He has litigated personal
injury, business interference, premises liability, inadequate security, auto
injury and insurance contract interpretation cases. He has defended city
and county governments in tort actions, and actively practices in both federal
and state courts. He served as an adjunct professor in the Legal Assistant
Program at Wichita State University from 1979 to 2004. Since then, he has
served as an adjunct professor in the Paralegal Program at Newman University,
teaching tort law.
For more than a quarter century, Mr. Kennalley has represented financial
institutions in a broad range of matters including business and commercial
litigation, lender liability defense, foreclosure and collection proceedings,
and bankruptcy litigation. He has litigated extensively in business and farm
reorganizations. His practice includes secured transactions and sale of goods
under the Uniform Commercial Code.
He represents health care providers in all aspects of their businesses and
facilitates real estate management and associated transactions on behalf
of business clients.
Mr. Kennalley earned his B.A. degree from Reed College in 1973, and his law
degree (cum laude) from Washburn University School
of Law in 1976. He served as Comments Editor for the Washburn Law Journal.
He is a member of the American Bar Association, Kansas Bar Association and
Wichita Bar Association. He is also a member of the Kansas Association of
Defense Counsel and Wichita Bankruptcy Committee.
