Taft Litigation partner John F. Kennedy has been named to the 2025 Lawdragon Global Leaders in Crisis Management Guide. The inaugural guide recognizes the top 500 lawyers and communications consultants through an extensive process that includes independent research, submissions, and feedback from clients and peers. Lawdragon identifies outstanding lawyers, legal professionals, and law practices for their significant impact in complex matters, with a focus on recent cases, investigations, and transactions.
Kennedy concentrates his practice on litigation involving commercial disputes, pension reform, theft of trade secrets, partnership disputes, trust and fiduciary duties, unfair business practices, restrictive employment covenants, unfair government regulation, sexual harassment, environmental litigation, energy litigation, construction litigation and land dispute, among others. He has significant experience in assisting clients with various business emergencies. For the last 30 years, Kennedy has been a member of the Federal Trial Bar and tried cases to judgment in both state and federal courts.