Kennedy Dickson

Kennedy Dickson

Associate

Cleveland

T 216.363.4456

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Overview

Kennedy is an Associate in Benesch’s Litigation Practice Group. She focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation and white collar matters.

Before joining Benesch, Kennedy clerked for the Honorable J. Philip Calabrese of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. This experience provided her with invaluable insight into the federal judiciary as she observed and helped facilitate all aspects of the legal process from the perspective of the court. The clerkship also exposed her to a wide variety of issues, including federal jurisdiction, civil rights, employment disputes, intellectual property, multidistrict products-liability litigation, and criminal pretrial motion practice and sentencing.

During law school, she served as Executive Symposium Editor for the Case Western Reserve Law Review and represented clients as a certified legal intern in the First Amendment Clinic. She also worked as a teaching assistant to Professors Jennifer Cupar, Jonathan Adler, and Katharine Van Tassel.

Beyond litigation, Kennedy is an award-winning writer with articles published in the Case Western Reserve Law Review and the Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Policy.

What I Do

Appellate Litigation
Litigation

Credentials

Education

Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 2023, J.D.
  • magna cum laude
  • Case Western Reserve Law Review: Executive Symposium Editor, Volume 73; Associate Editor, Volume 72
  • Recipient of the Patricia Burgess Public Law Prize for outstanding academic performance in the field of public law; the Federal Bar Association Award for the highest grade in Constitutional Law; the Harry A. and Sarah Blachman Award for the best paper on improving the government; and the Clinic Legal Education Association Outstanding Student Award for excellence in clinic fieldwork
  • CALI Award (highest grade): Constitutional Law; Criminal Procedure I; Contracts; Food, Drug, and Biotech Law; Healthcare Finance and Regulation; Public Law Research Seminar
  • Order of the Coif; Order of the Scribes
University of Mississippi Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, 2019, B.S. Forensic Chemistry, Minor, Biology
  • magna cum laude
  • Thesis: Cannabinoid Conundrum: A Study of Anti-Epileptic Efficacy and Drug Policy
  • Recipient of the National Collegiate Honors Council Portz Scholar Award for the best undergraduate thesis project nationwide

Clerkships and Bar Admissions

Ohio
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio