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Craig P. Kenny, ESQ — Las Vegas, NV — Craig P. Kenny & Associates

CRAIG P. KENNY, ESQ.

Craig P. Kenny is the fourth child of seven of two hardworking immigrants who came to America for a better life. His mother, Rose Elisabeth, was born and raised in Germany and his father, Edward Lawder Kenny, was born in Canada. His parents married in Germany in 1949 and came to Chicago, Illinois shortly thereafter. Craig was born on Easter Sunday in Chicago, and he was raised knowing that with hard work and perseverance you could do anything and be anything in this great country.


Unfortunately, the only reason Craig is an attorney is because his parents had two horrible experiences with attorneys. Both of Craig’s older brothers were tragically killed in personal injury accidents. When his older brother Michael was three years old, he was killed when he was struck by a truck while he was walking in a crosswalk with Craig’s older sister. The truck driver would later state that he never saw Craig’s brother. Craig’s other brother, Dale was killed fourteen years later.


Just fifteen and only a Sophomore in High School, Dale was killed instantly when the four-seater Cessna aircraft, in which he was a passenger, came down out of the sky and slammed into a house in a suburb of Chicago. Both times Craig’s parents retained attorneys – both times, they were treated with the attitude that the attorney was the “attorney”, and his parents were “stupid immigrants.” The attorney never returned their phone calls and they had absolutely no client service skills.


Craig has dedicated his life to help those who need help.


Craig graduated in 1984 with an Associate Arts Degree in Pre Law Studies from Richard J. Daley Community College (Chicago). He then transferred to UNLV and graduated in 1986 with a B.A. Degree in Communications. He then graduated in 1988 with a M.P.A. Degree from UNLV. He then graduated in 1991 with his J.D. from Tulane University (New Orleans).

After graduating from Tulane, Craig immediately returned to Las Vegas, passed the bar examination, and became a licensed attorney. In November of 1991, Craig accepted a position as a Deputy Nevada Attorney for Injured Workers. Craig exclusively represented injured workers in their administrative trials. In April 1992, Craig was recruited to work at Edward M. Bernstein and Associates as a personal injury attorney. Craig worked there for two years doing personal injury and workman’s compensation cases, before giving his one month notice that he intended on opening his own firm.


On May 22, 1995, Craig opened Craig P. Kenny & Associates. A Law Firm Committed to the Client. A Law Firm that would always be there for those who needed help.


Craig is currently a sustaining member and sits on the Board of Governors for the Nevada Justice Association. Additionally, he is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the American Bar Association and the Clark County Bar Association. Besides being licensed to practice in Nevada Craig is licensed to practice in the United States District Court, District Court of Nevada, the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Craig also is a member of the Southern Nevada Medical/Legal Screening Panel which screens medical malpractice cases.


Finally, Craig is a frequent lecturer in the areas of Workman’s Compensation, Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice. He also is an adjunct professor at UNLV. He is currently teaching Health Care Law.

Bradley L. Kenny, ESQ — Las Vegas, NV — Craig P. Kenny & Associates

BRADLEY L. KENNY, ESQ.

Bradley L. Kenny is Craig’s younger brother. Bradley was born and raised in Chicago’s south side. After graduating from St. Rita’s High School, he decided to go to college at Ronald Reagan’s alma mater Eureka College located in Eureka, Illinois. Eureka is a small town of about 5,000 people with less than 1,000 students attending the college. He attended college from 1985 to 1989 wherein he received a B.A. in economics.


One week before Bradley was to begin his first year in law school, he was in St. Germain, which is located near Lake Superior in upper Wisconsin. While diving in the water, he struck a rock and broke his neck. He was airlifted by helicopter on a flight-for-life to Milwaukee where he underwent spinal fusion surgery. The surgeon removed part of Bradley’s hip and fused it with the bones in his neck. Bradley was in a body cast for a few months following his ordeal. The law school deferred enrollment for one year. This whole experience has given Bradley a unique perspective on the trauma and suffering that injured people endure as a result of an accident.


Bradley attended Loyola Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1990 to 1993 wherein he received his degree. After law school, Bradley attended UNLV for postgraduate work in Economics. In 1993, Bradley passed the bar examination and became a member of the Nevada Bar. He had served as a member of the Board of Governors for the State Bar Association and was the President for the Clark County Bar Association in 2004. Bradley is also a member of the Nevada Justice Association.


Bradley is licensed to practice in the United States District Court of Nevada and United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is also a member of the Knights of Columbus.


In his spare time, Bradley enjoys traveling, horse racing and hanging out with his wife and son.

Lawrence E. Mittin, ESQ — Las Vegas, NV — Craig P. Kenny & Associates

LAWRENCE E. MITTIN, ESQ.

Lawrence E. Mittin was born and grew up in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Larry went to college at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1990 with a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in Economics. After completing his undergraduate degree, Larry went to the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. While at Boalt, Larry worked in Washington D.C. in the United States Justice Department’s Summer Honors Program.


Larry also spent a semester working as a judicial intern for U.S. District Court Judge Lowell Jensen of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. After graduating from Boalt in 1993, Larry moved to Las Vegas to work as a law clerk for Chief Judge Lloyd George of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. As a law clerk, Larry assisted in the drafting of orders and trial memorandum, and he participated in the conducting of hearings and trials. In 1994, Larry became a member of both the Nevada and California State Bars.


Upon completion of his year-long clerkship, Larry went to work as an insurance defense attorney in Las Vegas. Larry primarily defended automobile accidents and premise liability accidents. After a year and a half as an insurance defense attorney, Larry decided to start representing claimants in automobile accidents, wrongful death, and insurance bad faith cases. In September 1997 Larry joined our law offices and he practices primarily in the areas of automobile accidents, insurance bad faith, and premises liability.


Larry and his wife Jennifer are proud parents of daughter Samantha.

Leon R. Symanski, ESQ — Las Vegas, NV — Craig P. Kenny & Associates

LEON R. SYMANSKI, ESQ.

Leon R. Symanski grew up in Southern California then moved to Long Island, N.Y. at the age of 16. After graduation, Leon returned to Southern California where he attended Orange Coast Community College where he worked full-time, went to school full-time, and played basketball. Leon’s hard work and dedication paid off when he was recruited by the famed UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian. Leon accepted an athletic scholarship and went on to play basketball for UNLV from 1984 – 1987. During those three years, UNLV amassed an incredible record of 97 wins and 11 losses.


UNLV won PCAA championship, the PCAA tournament and went to the NCAA tournament all three years. Leon’s college basketball career peaked when his team reached the Final Four his senior year. His team had an overall record of 37-2, a record which still stands today for the most Division I wins for a season. Leon’s 1987 basketball team was fittingly inducted into the UNLV Sport’s Hall of Fame in October 1998.


Leon graduated from UNLV in 1987 with a degree in Business Management. After graduation, he traveled throughout Asia playing semi-professional basketball. Upon his return to the United States, Leon began a successful career in the Las Vegas hotel/casino industry where he worked for the next ten years. In 1989 Leon was admitted to the Public Administration Graduate College at UNLV and he graduated with his master’s degree in May 1994. Leon graduated with honors and was elected into the Pi Alpha Alpha National Honor Society for public administrators.


Leon had dreamed of having the opportunity to attend law school and becoming a licensed attorney. He was extremely honored when he found out that he was chosen to be a charter member of the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV in 1998. Leon graduated from law school in May 2001.


Leon practices primarily in the areas of personal injury and workers’ compensation. In August 2020, Leon became a certified Arbitrator. Leon is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the American Bar Association, the Nevada Justice Association, and the Clark County Bar Association. Leon is licensed to practice in the State Court of Nevada and the District Court of Nevada. In April 2008, Leon was inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi for recognition of outstanding academic achievements and service to the community.

Billie-Marie Morrison, ESQ — Las Vegas, NV — Craig P. Kenny & Associates

BILLIE-MARIE MORRISON, ESQ.

Billie-Marie is one of only a few attorneys formally recognized by the State Bar of Nevada, as an attorney “Specialized in the area of Workers’ Compensation.” This recognition and certification is not easy to come by as it takes many years of practice in the area of Workers’ Compensation, a specific number of cases managed and taken to the Appeals level, as well as the Nevada District and Supreme Courts. On top of that, it requires passing a very difficult written and oral examination.


Billie-Marie grew up in Massachusetts and moved to Nevada in 1989. She received her MBA from UNLV and was admitted to the William S. Boyd School of Law Charter Class in 1998. During law school, Billie-Marie interned at the United States District Court, District of Nevada for the Honorable Johnnie B. Rawlinson, followed by a second internship and then continued with Judge Rawlinson serving 2 clerkships when Judge Rawlinson was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. After her clerkships, Billie-Marie’s legal career was focused on complex litigation, focusing on mass torts, primarily in the area of products liability.


In 2007 Billie-Marie joined our law firm, and while continuing to practice products liability and personal injury, her passion to help people turned into an amazing career representing people injured on the job and now manages the firm’s workers’ compensation department.


Some of Billie-Marie’s many accomplishments include co-teaching a Workers’ Compensation class at William S. Boyd School of Law, teaching Administrative Law at the College of Southern Nevada for a number of years, served as a Board Member for the Nevada Justice Association, served as a Board member for the Southern Nevada Association for Women Attorneys, served as a Board member for the national Work Injury Law Group (WILG), and is continually rated Top 100 Work Comp lawyers in the country, amongst many other distinctions.

Billie-Marie continually teaches seminars, webinars, and continuing educations classes for attorneys in the areas of Workers’ Compensation, social media, and ethics. She was the editor for the American Justice Associates Workers’ Compensation Division Newsletter editor and continues to assist locally and nationally in advancing the rights and benefits for injured workers and their families. Billie-Marie has also authored countless legal journal articles, authored a chapter in a trial practice book as well as a legal practice manual. Billie-Marie is involved with Women Heart, a cause that strikes a personal chord with her, and has lobbied locally and nationally for women with heart disease. As a result of her volunteer efforts, she hosted the radio show “Double Take.”


Billie-Marie is licensed to practice law in the state of Nevada, as well as in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Jimmy Howard, ESQ — Las Vegas, NV — Craig P. Kenny & Associates

JIMMY HOWARD, ESQ.

Jimmy is a native Kentuckian. He graduated from the University of Kentucky and its’ Honors Program in 1989 with a major in English and a minor in Economics. In 1992, Jimmy graduated from the University of Kentucky Law School having received the American Jurisprudence Book Award for top student in Business Associations. Jimmy worked his way through law school in the Law Library where he did research projects for lawyers in rural areas that did not have access to a Law Library. He was also the Student Representative for Westlaw, teaching and assisting students in doing legal research in electronic databases.


After graduation, Jimmy immediately moved to Las Vegas and passed the bar in 1992. He practiced primarily in the areas of personal injury law, including automobile accidents, insurance defense, premises liability, products liability and medical malpractice for 15 years. In 2007, he opened The Howard Law Firm with his wife Tracey, where Allstate and Progressive insurance companies hired him to represent their insureds who were sued for causing injury to another person as the result of a car accident. He continued to represent Plaintiffs injured in car accidents during this time as well. He is a board member of the Lawyer Referral Service of the State Bar of Nevada. Jimmy also serves on the State Bar of Nevada Fee Dispute Committee to resolve disputes between clients and their attorneys.


Jimmy joined Craig P. Kenny & Associates in January, 2019 and is licensed to practice law in the State of Nevada and in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.


In his spare time, Jimmy likes to work out at the gym, go to the movies and cheer on the Las Vegas Golden Knights.

Paul Kirst, ESQ — Las Vegas, NV — Craig P. Kenny & Associates

PAUL KIRST, ESQ.

Paul was raised in North San Diego County where his mother was a registered nurse and his father owned and operated the family farm, Kirst & Sons. Paul learned his strong work ethic working on the organic farm where the family primarily grew almonds, kumquats, boysenberries, and vegetables.

After high school, Paul moved to Las Vegas where he earned his bachelor’s degree from UNLV in 1987 before moving back to San Diego to attend law school. After graduating from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1990, Paul returned to Las Vegas where he served as the law clerk for Clark County District Court Judge Nancy Becker (now a Senior Judge). He then entered private practice and over the years defended several large hotel/casinos in Las Vegas. Additionally, he has defended multiple wrongful death and severe injury lawsuits, including obtaining a successful jury verdict in a catastrophic spinal cord injury trial.


Immediately prior to joining Craig P. Kenny & Associates, Paul worked as in-house counsel for Allstate Insurance Company for eight years. For the last three of those eight years, he ran the office as its Lead Counsel and was responsible for managing 17 employees, including 10 attorneys and providing guidance and insight on the hundreds of files open at all times. Even while serving as Lead Counsel, Paul continued his trial work, participating in multiple jury trials every year. In his 30 years as a lawyer, Paul has tried numerous civil jury trials (he stopped counting after the first 30); multiple bench trials; and hundreds of arbitrations.


During his career, Paul has had an article published in the Nevada Lawyer, served on the Nevada State Bar Continuing Legal Education Committee and the Nevada State Bar Publication Committee. He has also served as a pro tempore short trial judge, an arbitrator in the court-annexed arbitration program in both Washoe and Clark counties, and as a pro-tem municipal court judge in Las Vegas Municipal Court.

Over the years Paul has enjoyed various hobbies ranging from fighting in taekwondo tournaments to rock climbing where he climbed both traditional and sport routes in such locations as Red Rock National Recreation Area, Joshua Tree National Forest, and the canyons and valleys near Moab, Utah. Two of his favorite climbing routes are Ancient Art Tower and Castleton Tower, both near Moab and both with several hundred feet of vertical climb and exposure. He currently enjoys a more leisurely pace, including sailing he and his wife, Wendy’s, 42’ sailboat, Bom Bom, which they keep in San Diego, CA. Paul has sailed in numerous Newport to Ensenada sailboat races as well as multiple Baha Ha-Ha regattas (San Diego to Cabo San Lucas). Paul and Wendy enjoy vacationing throughout Mexico, particularly enjoying Baja California, and spending time with their three grandchildren.

Hayley N. Price, ESQ — Las Vegas, NV — Craig P. Kenny & Associates

MELANIE SCHEIBLE, ESQ.

Melanie Scheible is an accomplished attorney and stateswoman with a deep commitment to the people of Nevada. 


She started her legal career as a Deputy District Attorney in Las Vegas. As a prosecutor, Melanie handled thousands of criminal cases throughout Clark County, including cases in every Justice Court in the county. She now brings that same passion for justice to criminal defense. Melanie knows facing a criminal case is stressful, confusing, and scary. That’s why she takes the time to meet with clients and their families at every step, working together to resolve cases in a fair and timely manner. Melanie is qualified to handle misdemeanors and felonies, including appeals and jury trials.


In addition to practicing law, Senator Scheible is a leader in the Nevada Legislature. She is the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a Majority Whip. Senator Scheible has been instrumental in reforming the Nevada Department of Corrections to bring justice to incarcerated people and their families. She has also been recognized as a champion for the LGBTQ people and is an active member of the community.


Melanie attended Columbia Law School as a Public Interest Fellow on a full-tuition scholarship. At Columbia, Melanie assisted in the pro-bono representation of a client on Arkansas’s death row. She also served as a pro bono mediator for the Department of Justice Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Before law school, Melanie attended Stanford University, earning her undergraduate degree in Public Policy and Honors in Ethics in Society.


Melanie is a devoted aunt and loves spending time with her nieces (no nephews yet!). She lives with a calico cat named Harriet. If you are ever on a video call with Melanie, she encourages your pets and children to make a guest appearance.

Michael A. McOsker, ESQ — Las Vegas, NV — Craig P. Kenny & Associates

IN MEMORIAM

On Sunday, Novmber 17th, we were very saddened by the passing of an incredible and highly respected attorney, great friend, loving father, and avid Boston sports fan.


Attorney Michael A. McOsker, may you rest in peace, we will all miss you terribly.


Michael A. McOsker, Esq.


January 8, 1957 – November 17, 2019

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