Jennifer Kenedy

Jennifer Kenedy serves as General Counsel of Locke Lord and is a Member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. Prior to taking on the role of General Counsel, Jennifer served as a Vice Chair of the Firm from 2018-2024, Deputy General Counsel from 2017-2024 and Managing Partner of the Chicago office from 2010-2018. A trial lawyer with more than 30 years’ experience, she concentrates her practice on commercial litigation, including trade secret misappropriation and other intellectual property litigation, contractual disputes, employer restrictive covenant counseling and litigation, catastrophic product liability, labor and employment and real estate litigation. Jennifer mediates, arbitrates and tries cases on behalf of clients nationwide. Her focus is on counseling clients to avoid the courtroom but, when court cannot be avoided, she brings substantial courtroom experience to significant matters for clients in the financial services, insurance, consumer product/retail, manufacturing, transportation, governmental/quasi-governmental, health care and food/beverage industries. REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE Jennifer’s experience includes: Financial Services, Insurance, and Health Care Litigation Bet the Company Battle Over AI-enabled Health Care Technology Created During The Pandemic In 2022, Jennifer led a 12-person trial team in a District of Delaware federal court action involving a dispute between a publicly-traded company and our client, AndorHealth an innovative start-up in the healthcare technology space, over rights to cutting-edge, artificial intelligence-based virtual health-care technology that took off as a result of the pandemic. The dispute arose after a sale of prior health-care technology business and subsequent separation and involves competing breach-of-contract, unfair-competition, tortious-interference, trade-secret and computer fraud and abuse claims, as well as counterclaims by our client for tortious interference and defamation. This bet-the-company case over our client’s rights to its cutting-edge AI-based virtual health-care technology involved 18 expert and rebuttal witnesses spanning subjects from damages to data privacy and security and criminal procedure under the laws of India, cloud computing, computer and document forensics, source-code analysis and competition.