Courtney Kenisky focuses her practice on the defense of complex product liability claims, representing clients in high stakes matters involving significant exposure and catastrophic loss. She routinely manages cases from inception through trial, developing and executing comprehensive defense strategies and coordinating the legal, factual and expert components necessary to defend complex product disputes.
Courtney takes an active role in developing and executing defense strategies, including investigating claims, evaluating liability and damages and preparing cases for trial. She works closely with corporate clients and witnesses, frequently preparing corporate representatives for depositions and trial testimony. She collaborates with liability experts to identify and conduct litigation testing, develop expert opinions and prepare expert reports. Her experience includes extensive written and oral advocacy, including drafting and arguing dispositive and expert-related motions in state and federal courts.
With significant trial experience, Courtney has served on trial teams that have secured several defense verdicts. In 2023, she served as third chair in a highly publicized Dallas County trial, where her team obtained a full defense verdict for its client. She also served as second chair at a subsequent and related trial that settled favorably for her client after 1.5 weeks of trial. More recently, she second-chaired a complex product liability case that resulted in a defense verdict.
Outside of her practice, Courtney enjoys spending time with her family, traveling and watching and playing sports. Of Hawaiian descent, she enjoys dancing the hula and looks forward to sharing this meaningful part of her heritage with her two daughters as they get older.