The Attorneys of Hunegs, LeNeave & Kvas
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.
Cortney S.
LeNEAVE
Cortney S. LeNeave is a nationally recognized trial lawyer with extensive experience in state and federal Courts across the country. His successes include cases involving severe spinal injuries, wrongful death, product liability, FELA – railroad-related injury cases, interstate trucking collisions, toxic exposures, airplane crashes and train disasters. Cortney has been named a “Leading American Attorney” in Who’s Who in American Law and selected as a “Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics journal. Cortney is designated legal counsel for the United Transportation Union. He is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, the most prestigious group of trial lawyers in America.
Randal W.
LeNEAVE
Randal W. LeNeave has over 20 years experience in civil trial matters involving serious personal injury and wrongful death. He has been certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the Minnesota State Bar Association, is perennially recognized as a Super Lawyer by Minnesota Law & Justice and selected as a Leading American Attorney in personal injury law by the American Research Corporation. Randy has had the privilege of representing individuals and families in serious personal injury and wrongful death matters resulting from negligence, defective products and medical negligence. Clients include railroad workers covered under the FELA, and professional athletes in workers’ compensation claims. Randy is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, The Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys, and is Designated Legal Counsel for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trailmen, National Conference of Firemen & Oilers and the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen. Randy also is a member of the NFLPA Workers’ Compensation Panel of Attorneys and serves on the Board of Governors for the Minnesota Association for Justice. LeNeave possesses an A/V rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest possible rating for ability and ethics.
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.
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.
E. Curtis
ROEDER
E. Curtis Roeder is a 1988 graduate of William Mitchell College of Law. He is a member of the Hennepin County Bar Association, Minnesota Bar Association and the American Association of Justice. Curt has tried more than 50 cases in seven states, in both federal and state courts. His work includes more than a dozen appeals, also in both federal and state courts.
