TESTIMONIALS

As in-house counsel to a company of 100 employees with offices in four cities and three countries, part of my job is outside counsel cost management. I constantly question if I have the right outside lawyer doing the right job for our company. With only one significant litigation arising every three or four years, the question of whether to use a big litigation defense firm or a boutique defense litigator is very important to us – because litigation fees can easily run in excess of six digits. For us, Jack Kuykendall was a fabulous solution. When I call Jack’s phone number, I get Jack on the phone, not a paralegal and not a first year associate.

While I can handle talking to a different paralegal every time I call an outside firm about a trademark application, it is vastly different when the core of the company is exposed to a multi-million dollar petition. We do not want a massive team responding to our case, all with less than complete knowledge of the case. Rather, when the big chips are on the line, we want to know that the lawyer handling our case has been with the case from our first Answer and Counterclaim through to the Texas Supreme Court.

Our experience with Jack was nothing short of miraculous. As defendant, we were in litigation against a 175,000 employee corporation plaintiff seeking $3.1 million in damages. After four years, we were awarded at trial our attorney fees and small compensation in support of our fraud counterclaim, while the plaintiff was awarded less than $10,000 on his claims against us. Naturally, we had long ago offered significantly more than $10,000 to the plaintiff in an attempt to shut down the legal fees! We are now awaiting the decision from the Texas Court of Appeals regarding the Plaintiff’s appeal of our attorney fee award.

When it comes to litigation, the lawyer arguing the case at trial should be the lawyer who answered the first petition. Otherwise, knowledge will be lost in an inefficient manner. In our case Jack handled the first petition, all discovery, trial, the appeal, and Jack will be there to argue our case before the Texas Supreme Court, if required.

Chris Compton

Counsel

SCA Promotions, Inc

We had the opportunity to use the legal services of Jack Kuykendall for a Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Investigation of our company. We are a wholesale plastic distribution company and have been in business for 30 plus years. We employ approx 75 employees in the state of Texas. After contacting Jack that we were being investigated by the Department of Labor, he immediately stepped in and communicated with the investigator and made clear to us what was needed and how to expedite the handling of this entire procedure. Before we contacted him, our estimation of cost for this investigation was approximately $45,000. The total cost to our company ended up at $4,200. With Jack’s expertise in handling the situation and knowing the law and all the particulars in this type of case he saved our company from overpaying at least $40,000. In addition to saving us from a large overpayment, he helped us correct our company procedures and put into place policies that help us to stay compliant with the Department of Labor in the future. When I have any questions on how to handle any specific instances that arise, I always contact Jack to get legal advise. He saved our company a considerable amount of money and I would not hesitate to recommend his services.

Patricia Gono

Controller/Owner

Regal Plastics, Inc

Jack Kuykendall has been a friend for ten years. I’ve personally appreciated his integrity and practicality. When my Company needed legal services, Jack was an obvious choice for our work. Not only did he serve us with the character qualities for which I’d known him, he did our work with speed, tenacity, discipline, and accuracy. One of the things I appreciated most was Jack’s availability and responsiveness. I heartily recommend Jack M. Kuykendall Attorney At Law.

Bill Strohecker

Chief Operating Officer

Peerless Manufacturing Company

I practiced law for more than 40 years, the last 11 as a counsel for Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), before retiring as DART's deputy general counsel. My duties included the employment of outside counsel to assist the in-house staff with various litigation matters. I first met Jack Kuykendall in 1991 when he was retained to represent DART in a pending eminent domain case. I was completely pleased with Jack's skilled, professional handling of all aspects of the case. However, I was even more impressed with the fact that, unlike some other outside counsel, Jack was totally fair and honest with DART in his staffing of the case and fees charged. But of greater importance still, was the absolute integrity Jack manifested in his professional relations with the staff and especially those on the other side of the case. As a result of all of these factors, I was pleased to associate Jack to handle several other litigation matters over the next 10 years.

I do therefore, whole-heartedly and unequivocally recommend Jack to anyone seeking a dedicated, skilled, courageous, professional and impeccably ethical attorney.

Paul Jones - DART

It has always intrigued me to see whom a great photographer chooses to shoot the pictures for his own wedding, or which specialist the doctor chooses for her own surgery. Just so, attorneys are very particular when selecting a peer to handle personal cases. Several years ago, I needed to engage a litigator to try a significant case for me. As an attorney, I had access to the records and histories of all the other attorneys in the Metroplex. I selected Jack Kuykendall. He handled the matter very professionally, with the highest of ethics and, through God’s grace, achieved an excellent result. I would be very happy to recommend him to anyone who values Christian ethics and needs a litigator.

James K. Hopps, Esq.

Jack Kuykendall has assisted me with commercial loan workout litigation since 1986. He has been on the approved attorneys list for Compass Bank since their entry into the Dallas/Ft. Worth market in 1990. His legal advice is always logical and concise. He is extremely sensitive to legal fees, which is an area of concern for our bank’s cost centers. Jack always keeps me updated on the status of every file, which is so critical for the administrative requirements in loan workout. I never have to follow up on a file to see if some litigation element is being completed. His efforts have helped Compass Bank achieve substantial recoveries in all phases of loan workout.

William R. Rosenberg

Compass Bank

Vice President