Rick Kuykendall- Mass Tort, Class Action, and Environmental Law Attorney

TEL: 410.951.8744

One South Street, Suite 2300
Baltimore, MD 21202

Email: rkuykendall@themurphyfirm.com

Links: http://www.billymurphylaw.com

Mr. Kuykendall began his law practice over twenty years ago in Birmingham, Alabama with one of the most successful union side, labor law firms in the United States -- Cooper, Mitch, Crawford and Kuykendall. After becoming the managing partner in 1983, Rick presided over the firm’s evolution into a successful and powerful plaintiff/public interest law firm with a nationwide practice. Despite the firm’s rapid growth and financial success, Rick never allowed the firm to deviate from its core mission of helping those who needed it the most, despite the odds.

Recent Victories
Rick’s practice, while currently focused on complex litigation all over the country, also involves active efforts in alternative dispute resolution. Since 1995 he has been lead counsel or co-counsel in cases which resulted in verdicts and/or settlements far in excess of two billion dollars (over 500 million dollars since 2003 alone). These cases range from individual personal injuries to national mass and class actions in the areas of environmental, consumer and pharmaceutical law. Rick has served as a court appointed special master in the Anniston, Alabama Monsanto litigation.

Before The Murphy Firm
Since his days on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant in the United States House of Representatives, Rick has maintained an active role in politics. He was appointed by the Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board to serve as a select committee member to oversee reforms of practice and procedure before the Board. Rick was appointed by the Governor of Alabama to his commission on environmental affairs, served as a trustee on the Kerry/Edwards Campaign and is currently a member of the Majority Trust of the Democratic Senatorial Committee. Rick has served multiple terms on the public affairs and elections committees of plaintiff side bar associations and plaintiff steering committees of MDLs.

Besides The Murphy Firm
A frequent speaker at national meetings, Rick is a member of Kuykendall and Associates LLC and lives in Fairhope, Alabama with his daughter, Amalee. His son Frederick is an honors student at the University of Alabama who just completed an internship with the majority leader of the United States Senate, Harry Reid (D-NV). Rick’s long time interests in his community and the environment have led to his active participation in the Water Keepers Alliance. After having helped co-found the Pensacola Water Keepers, he served on its first board of directors before eventually joining the board of directors of the Mobile Bay Water Keepers.