Kenny spent seven years as a trial and litigation attorney with a large national firm practicing in the areas of commercial litigation, tort litigation, and insurance litigation. Kenny joined Sanders Warren Russell & Scheer in 2012 and continues to primarily focus on defending, negotiating, and trying claims and lawsuits in the areas of products liability, transportation liability, premises liability, and medical and professional malpractice. His practice also includes general commercial law, contract law, and construction law. He has successfully represented clients in industries including trucking and transportation, hospitality, manufacturing, medical, and insurance. He has successfully represented clients in trials and has achieved favorable settlements for his clients in hundreds of cases.
J.D., University of Arkansas, cum laude, 2005
Missouri, 2005
Arkansas, 2015
U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri, 2005
The Missouri Bar
Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association
Drury University, Adjunct Faculty, 2006
Springfield Area Baseball Association, Vice-President, 2012-2016
Big Brothers Big Sisters (2005-2016)
Lutheran Family & Children’s Services (Advisory Board, 2016-present)
Missouri Lawyers Weekly Largest Verdicts & Settlements for 2015 – recognized for obtaining the Largest Defense Verdict in Missouri in 2015
“Pass the Discretion Please¬–the Supreme Court Defers to State Legislatures in Interpreting What is Left of the Eighth Amendment’s Proportionality Principle,” Arkansas Law Review, 2005
Venue: U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri
Randy Scheer, Jacob Sappington, Kenneth Sprenger, and Kayla Campbell successfully defended this $140 million construction defect case for a leading manufacturer of pultruded FRP products. After a three-week jury trial, the SWRS team obtained a complete defense verdict and judgment was entered in favor of his client.
Venue: Missouri Court of Appeals (Southern District)
Kenneth Sprenger represented a local manufacturing company in this case. Plaintiff, an employee of an independent contractor of our client, slipped on a ladder while fixing a hydraulic leak at the firm’s client’s plant. After recovering workers’ compensation benefits from his employer, plaintiff sued our client – the plant owner – in tort. On behalf of the defendant-plant, we argued throughout the lawsuit, including at trial and in post-trial motions, that plaintiff was a statutory employee of the defendant-plant and was therefore barred under the Missouri Workers’ Compensation Law from asserting his tort claims. Although the trial court rejected this defense and entered a money judgment in plaintiff’s favor, we appealed the judgment and secured a reversal of the judgment from the the Court of Appeals for the Southern District of Missouri, which held that the statutory employment doctrine barred plaintiff’s claims.