When you turn to the
lawyers of Hunegs, LeNeave & Kvas, you get the benefit
of legal counsel from a group of dedicated proven
professionals. The HLK team boasts some of the nation’s
most respected attorneys, consistently ranked among the
leaders in the country by their peers. You’ll find HLK
lawyers listed in prestigious journals and listings like
Best Lawyers In America and Super Lawyers. Even more
importantly, you’ll find them in conference rooms and
courtrooms, fighting for the rights and interests of
injured people and their families.
Richard G.
HUNEGS
Richard Hunegs has been
listed in each edition of the book Best Lawyers in America by
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith of the Harvard Law
School. No other local (FELA)
attorney has received such a distinction. He is a Fellow
in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a member in
the International Society of Barristers and American
Board of Trial Advocates. Additional honors include
membership in the Million Dollar Round Table for
attorneys who have won client awards of one million
dollars. Richard is a member of the National Panel of
Arbitrators and The American Arbitration Association.
Richard has received the
highest possible peer review rating (AV) in the industry
standard Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. An AV rating
indicates that a lawyer’s peers rank him at the highest
level of professional excellence in both legal ability
and ethical standards.
Richard G. Hunegs’ peer rating
Cortney S.
LeNEAVE
Cortney S. LeNeave started his law
career in 1984 as a law clerk for
the senior partners in the DeParcq
Law Firm, one of the country’s first
and foremost law firms representing
injured Railroad workers under the
Federal Employer’s Liability Act.
Cortney dedicated himself to reading
and learning the FELA from the
country’s finest lawyers. He has
written trial briefs and other legal
memoranda while learning the law
from its very foundation and
continues to study and read relevant
laws that affect his clients
everyday. Early in his career,
Cortney was a clerk for the Hennepin
County District Court Trial Judges.
He then worked several years at the
Meagher and Geer law firm where he
felt privileged to be among some of
the finest trial lawyers in the
State. Cortney is now a senior
partner in the firm in which he
began his legal career and proud to
carry forward the hard work and
dedication of his predecessors,
William DeParcq, Robert Stone and
Richard Hunegs.
Since 1995, Cortney has dedicated
his legal career to helping
individuals and families who have
endured
serious physical injury or lost
family members in
railroad or automobile accidents. He
takes this
responsibility and trust seriously
as evidenced by his
trial successes and settlements
achieved on behalf of his clients.
He has achieved some of the largest
settlements in the region. Cortney
recognizes and communicates the
significant impact that
life-changing and career-ending
injuries have on families and
individuals. Cortney is recognized
by clients and peers as dedicated,
hard working and committed to making
a difference for the people he
represents. Cortney is a member of
the Academy of Rail Labor Board of
Directors, the Multi-Million Dollar
Advocates (reserved for the select
group of lawyers who have achieved
settlements and verdicts in excess
of 2.0 million on behalf of their
clients). Cortney is honored to be
appointed by the United
Transportation Union as a Designated
Legal Counsel to represent the train
and engine service employees who put
their lives on the line everyday to
move this country’s freight. Cortney
tirelessly fights for the rights and
dignity of those injured on the job
or otherwise. He is recognized as
having the highest rating possible
in Ethics and Legal Ability by
Martindale-Hubbell, perennially
listed as a Super Lawyer, and is
among Who’s Who in the legal
community.
Most importantly, Cortney is a
family man who is very proud of his
wife Kristen and their children,
Sarah, Sam and Kathryn.
Cortney S. LeNeave’s peer
rating
Randal W.
LeNEAVE
Randal W. LeNeave has had the
privilege of representing people who have been injured
by the wrongful conduct of others - whether those
injuries were caused by defective products that kill or
maim, substandard medical care, reckless transportation
and conveyance of passengers, consumer fraud, and other
wrongs in the workplace, or other countless instances of
foreseeable harm inflicted by wrongdoers for well over
20 years. Randy is a Civil
Trial Specialist, certified by the Minnesota State Bar
Association, is perennially recognized as a Super Lawyer
by Minnesota Law & Politics, has been selected as a
Leading American Attorney in personal injury law by the
American Research Corporation and a member of the
Million Dollar Advocates Forum, an organization
recognizing lawyers who have obtained verdicts and
settlements of a million dollars, or more. Randy has
obtained several jury verdicts in excess of $1 million
as well as numerous seven-figure settlements for his
clients.
Randy began his legal career in the early 1980s as a law
clerk for the firm then known as the DeParcq firm, a
pioneer and powerhouse in the representation of railroad
workers under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA).
Today, Randy's clients include railroad workers covered
under the FELA, members of the Minnesota Vikings and
other professional athletes
in workers' compensation claims. He also represents
people who have been seriously injured or who's family
members have been killed as a result of the wrongful
conduct of others, individuals or corporations.
In addition to the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Randy
is a member of The Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys, and
is privileged to serve as Designated
Legal Counsel for the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers & Trainmen, National Conference of Firemen &
Oilers and the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen. Randy
currently serves on the Board of Governors for the
Minnesota Association for Justice.
He possesses an A/V rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the
highest possible rating for legal ability and ethics.
It gives us great satisfaction to help those that need
it most to regain their dignity and self-esteem by
becoming productive and contributing members of society
again after facing life-altering challenges.
Randal W. LeNeave’s peer
rating
William
KVAS
William Kvas is a nationally recognized trial lawyer who has devoted his legal career to
assisting injured individuals, appearing as counsel
in over thirty states. Many attorneys throughout the
country have referred cases to him because of his
experience and reputation. Over 2,000 railroaders
have asked him for assistance with injury claims. He
pioneered occupational disease litigation for
railroad workers, trying several of the first cases
for noise induced hearing loss in the 1980s. In
1998, he obtained the largest verdict for carpal
tunnel syndrome to be upheld on appeal for a
railroad worker. In 2002, he obtained verdict of
over one million dollars for an Amtrak engineer. The
verdict followed a hard fought battle where he
proved that Amtrak had falsified documents to cover
up the cause of the accident. In 2005, Kvas obtained
a verdict of $700,000 for a CSX engineer who
suffered smoke inhalation while operating a
locomotive and a verdict of over $300,000 for a
fireman and oiler whose case set precedent on the
railroad’s liability for off property injuries. Most
recently, he scored two big victories over CSX – a
verdict of $628,000 in Syracuse for a maintenance of
way mechanic and $750,000 in Huntington, West
Virginia for an engineer who was exposed to a
chemical leaking from a tank car.
Kvas lectures frequently at
Continuing Legal Education courses, teaching trial
strategy and courtroom skills to other lawyers. Kvas
graduated from the Carlson School of Management and
received a Juris Doctor degree from the University
of Minnesota Law School. He is member of the
Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the
Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys. He is presently a
member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Kvas
possesses an A/V rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the
highest possible ranking for both legal ability and
ethics. He was elected by fellow attorneys to the
list of “Best Lawyers in America,” the definitive
guide to legal excellence in the United States.
Hunegs, LeNeave, & Kvas,
P.A., is designated counsel for several major
railroad unions.
William Kvas’ peer rating
Richard L.
CARLSON
Richard L. Carlson, a graduate of the William
Mitchell College of Law, is a member of the Hennepin
County and Minnesota State Bar Associations and the
Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association. Richard practices
in the areas of motion and appellate practice in actions
involving personal injury, wrongful death, insurance
coverage, and the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. He
has participated in appeals before the Fourth Circuit
and Eighth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, as well
as appeals before state appellate courts in Indiana,
Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, and Wisconsin.
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