John J. Kenney

Director, Atlantic Legal Foundation

Phone: 212.689.8808
Email: jkenney@hnrklaw.com
John J. Kenney - Director, Atlantic Legal Foundation

John J. Kenney is a Partner of Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP in New York where he specializes in complex civil and criminal litigation, government investigations, and corporate governance and compliance law. He is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and served as an Assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York for nine years (1971-1980), the last three as the Executive Assistant US Attorney. He became a litigation partner at Simpson Thacher in 1981, prior to joining his current firm in 2007.

He has tried cases in 16 state and various federal courts, the great majority of which were jury trials, and argued appeals in the United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Fifth and Eighth Circuits and various state appellate courts.

Mr. Kenney is listed in Best Lawyers in America (Business Litigation, Corporate Governance, Compliance Law, and Criminal Defense/White Collar Crime) and Super Lawyers in New York. He is a published author on legal topics and Chairman of the Board of the Poetry Foundation, Chicago, Illinois and a past Trustee of Historic Deerfield, Inc., in Deerfield, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. from St. Michael’s College in 1966 and his J.D. from Fordham University Law School in 1969.

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