Richard M. Kenny
Richard Kenny has been registered in New York since 1991 and runs his own practice in Manhattan. The court system's directory shows him currently registered with no record of discipline.
He also reports something no one else we list does: an appointment, in January 2014, to the First Department Disciplinary Committee — the body that investigates and prosecutes lawyer misconduct in Manhattan and the Bronx.
The court record
New York's register works differently from the others we use, and the difference is worth understanding before you read the table.
New York vouches for one line of this. The court system's own disclaimer states that the Detail Report contains information provided by the attorney, except registration status, which is generated from the Office of Court Administration's database. It further states that an attorney's good standing and any information regarding disciplinary actions must be confirmed with the appropriate Appellate Division Department.
So: "currently registered" is the court's own fact. "No record of discipline" is displayed by the court system but comes with an instruction to verify it elsewhere — and we haven't. The rest of the table is what Kenny filed. We've marked the one court-generated row rather than presenting the page as uniform.
How this compares
Five states, five different registers, and they are not equivalent:
- Illinois prints discipline affirmatively as "None" and stands behind it.
- California publishes the bar number and a status history, but removes some administrative suspensions from display under its own policy.
- Texas gives its own disciplinary finding, and flags the rest of the profile as lawyer-supplied.
- Florida is authoritative but publishes only a 10-year window.
- New York vouches for registration status and directs you to the Appellate Division for anything about discipline or good standing.
A "bar verified" badge means we checked the register that exists. It does not mean every state's register tells you the same amount.
The disciplinary committee appointment
Kenny's own biography states that he was appointed in January 2014 to the First Department Disciplinary Committee, which he describes as performing "the vital function of protecting the rights of clients by maintaining the integrity of the legal profession."Reported
We haven't independently confirmed the appointment, so it's tagged as his claim. If accurate, it's a notable credential: the First Department committee investigates and prosecutes lawyer misconduct across Manhattan and the Bronx, and its members are appointed rather than applied for. It's also, given what this site does, a pleasing detail — a lawyer whose own record is clean sitting on the body that judges the ones that aren't.
Background
Kenny founded The Law Office of Richard M. Kenny in 2002, after gaining experience at what his bio describes as one of New York City's largest personal injury firms.Reported He holds a JD from St. John's University School of Law (1990) and a BA summa cum laude from SUNY Oneonta (1985) in literature and political science.Reported He was admitted in the Second Department in January 1991.Verified
He reports admissions to the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York (both 1992), an adjunct professorship at Long Island University (1995–98), and guest lecturing for New York Trial Lawyers since 1997.Reported His pro bono work includes the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund from 2001 and Hurricane Sandy relief from 2012.Reported The practice operates in Spanish.Reported
Practice
Personal injury, medical malpractice, and civil rights claims including police brutality and false arrest.Reported He reports a specialism representing firefighters injured in the line of duty, and that his practice is 100% litigation.Reported
Rideshare is not a stated speciality. His site doesn't list it. That's true of seven of the ten firms we've bar-checked — most lawyers appearing in rideshare searches are general injury practices, and only one of ours takes rideshare work exclusively. If the driver-status question matters to your claim, ask how often they handle it.
Results
Two matters are described in enough detail to be locatable, which is more than most:Reported
- In excess of $13,000,000 — described as one of the highest sustained verdicts in the history of the Second Department on a non-medical-malpractice negligence case: a young woman catastrophically injured in a single-car accident, proven over a three-week trial to have resulted from improper highway design.
- In excess of $11,000,000 — as co-counsel, in a case involving the deaths of three firefighters.
His own trial figures don't quite agree with each other. The bio says "over one hundred and fifty verdicts", then "over 200 trials", then "he has tried to verdict over a hundred cases". The banner says "5000+ Cases Prepared for Trial". These aren't reconcilable as written, and we're not going to pick one and print it as a statistic.
The likelier explanation is age rather than invention. The bio describes a "twenty-six-year career", which would place it around 2016 — his admission date makes it 35 years. The honours list runs to 2015. Parts of that page appear not to have been updated in roughly a decade, which is ordinary for law firm sites and a good reason not to treat them as data.
Recognition
He reports AV and Lead Counsel ratings, New York Super Lawyers (2004–2015), Top Attorneys in New York (2007–2015), the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Best Attorneys of America, and membership of the National Association of Distinguished Counsel.Reported
Some of those are peer-reviewed; others are subscription listings that any lawyer can join. We list them as his claims and leave the sorting to you. Worth noting the honours section is written in the first person — "voted by my peers" — which tells you who wrote it.
Reviews
5.0 average across 361 Google reviews.Verified We confirm the record exists and is consistent with the practice's location. We don't audit individual reviews and nobody outside Google can.
What we haven't checked
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