Ronna Kinsella is an Associate with Glassman, Wyatt, Tuttle & Cox, where she has been practicing since June of 2010. Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Kinsella worked for a local Memphis firm for more than four years practicing primarily in the areas of products liability and commercial litigation.  She has also previously worked with two other area firms handling cases in the areas of bankruptcy, family law, personal injury, and medical malpractice. Ms. Kinsella currently enjoys a diverse practice, assisting individual and corporate clients in the areas of personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, professional malpractice, trucking defense, business litigation, premises liability, and appellate work. She has successfully represented clients at both the state and appellate level throughout Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee in both state and federal courts. She has been recognized as a 2014 “Rising Star” by Mid-South Super Lawyers magazine.

Some of Ms. Kinsella’s achievements include the following representative cases:

• Comstock v. UPS Ground Freight, Inc., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 104887 (E.D. Ark. July 26, 2013) – Obtained dismissal with prejudice of a personal injury/wrongful death lawsuit brought against corporate client and driver arising from a rear impact accident in Arkansas when it was discovered that the plaintiff and her counsel had intentionally misrepresented facts, withheld information supportive of the defendants’ position, destroyed evidence, and failed to abide by the court’s order related to discovery production.

• Comstock v. UPS Ground Freight, Inc., 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 24554 (8^th Ark. Dec. 30, 2014) – On appeal before the Eighth Circuit, successfully argued for the affirmation of the trial court’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s personal injury/wrongful death lawsuit with prejudice.

• Farmers Ins. Exch. v. Shempert, 2014 Tenn. App. LEXIS 46 (Tenn. Ct. App. Feb. 3, 2014) – In a declaratory judgment action filed by an insurance company to determine the applicability of uninsured motorist coverage, successfully argued on appeal that the declaratory judgment action was barred under the doctrine of prior suit pending where the coverage issue was already raised in a previously filed lawsuit between the parties, resulting in a dismissal with prejudice.

• PNC Multifamily Capital Institutional Fund XXVI Ltd. P’ship v. Bluff City Cmty. Dev. Corp., 387 S.W.3d 525 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2012) – Successfully defended against a complex legal malpractice lawsuit and various other claims brought against two corporate entities, ultimately resulting in a confidential settlement.

Practice Areas:

• Transportation Litigation
• Personal Injury and Wrongful Death (Plaintiff and Defense)
• Appellate Practice
• Products Liability (Plaintiff and Defense)
• Commercial and Business Litigation (Plaintiff and Defense)
• Professional Malpractice Defense
• Legal Malpractice Defense
• Premises Liability (Plaintiff and Defense)

Education:

• Samford University, cum laude (B.A. History, Honors Program 2002)
• University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law (J.D., 2005)

Court Admissions:

• Tennessee Supreme Court (2005)
• Mississippi Supreme Court (2005)
• Arkansas Supreme Court (2015)
• United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (2005)
• United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit (2013)
• United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit (2013)
• United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi (2005)
• United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee (2006)
• United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (2008)
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee (2009)
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas (2011)

Memberships/Board Appointments:

• Tennessee Bar Association
• Tennessee Lawyers’ Association for Women
• Memphis Bar Association
  • Young Lawyers Division
• Mississippi Bar Association
• DeSoto County Young Lawyers’ Association
• Defense Research Institute (DRI)
  • Trucking Law Section
  • Trial Tactics Section
  • Products Liability Section
  • Women in the Law Section
  • Vice Chair of Professional Liability Publications Committee (2016)
  • Chair of Professional Liability Publications Committee (2017)
  • Membership Chair for the Commercial Litigation Committee’s Pretrial Practice & Procedure Special Litigation Group (2017)
• Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association

Honors and Professional Achievements:

• Super Lawyer Rising Star – 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 (Transportation Litigation, Business Litigation, Professional Liability Defense, General Litigation, and Personal Injury Plaintiff)
• Order of the Barristers (2005)
• CALI Award for Corporate Finance, University of Richmond School of Law
• Former Member of the Moot Court Board, University of Richmond School of Law (2003-2005)
  • Intra-Scholastic Chair of the Moot Court Board (2004)
  • Second Place Overall Oralist Award Chicago Bar Association Moot Court Competition(2003)
• Former Member, Trial Advocacy Board/Virginia Trial Lawyers’ Association, Treasurer (2005)
• Former Law Clerk for the Henrico Commonwealth Attorneys’ Office (VA) (2005)

Publications

• Contributed to the 8^th chapter, entitled Pretrial, of The Defense Research Institute’s (DRI) book “The Trial Compendium”

Community Involvement

In addition to her practice, Ms. Kinsella has served as a volunteer for local Wills for Heroes and free legal clinics in the area and presented a CLE to recently admitted attorneys on Ethics in Discovery. In her spare time, she assists with her family’s business in Collierville, Tennessee and is the proud “mom” of three rescue dogs.

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