This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Jennifer L. Lawrence of The Lawrence Firm (https://www.lawrencefirm.com/).
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Episode Details:
Top 25 Women Kentucky Super Lawyers honoree Jennifer L. Lawrence of The Lawrence Firm, PSC, shares how she secured justice for the parents of Kyle Smith, a young boy who suffered head trauma that was not thoroughly assessed by a physician and resulted in permanent injuries. In March 2002, 9-year-old Kyle Smith hit his head on a coffee table and later began vomiting, prompting Kyle's parents, Kristi Longbottom and Jesse Smith, to take him to the hospital, where Dr. Gary S. Huber of Qualified Emergency Specialists, Inc. sutured Kyle's laceration and discharged him, stating that the boy just needed to "sleep it off." Kyle was unresponsive the next morning, and an emergency CT scan revealed a large epidural hematoma in the brain that required immediate surgery. Kyle spent over three weeks in the Rehabilitation Care Unit re-learning how to swallow, eat, communicate and walk. A permanent brain injury has affected his mobility. Despite the defense's claims that Dr. Huber advised Kyle's parents to follow the hospital's head injury pamphlet, which stated that patients should be awakened every two hours, a Clermont County, Ohio jury found Dr. Huber negligent. In September 2010, Kyle was awarded $2,112,899 in damages as part of a $2.41 million verdict.
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Guest Bio:
Jennifer L. Lawrence
Jennifer L. Lawrence is a partner of The Lawrence Firm, PSC, in Covington, Kentucky. Ms. Lawrence practices law with a particular focus on product liability, mass torts and medical malpractice. She represents a wide variety of clients throughout the United States including the State of Ohio and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Ms. Lawrence has concentrated her practice representing clients and their families injured as a result of defective medical devices, dangerous drugs and medical and hospital negligence. It is part of Ms. Lawrence’s mission to help families gain closure through the discovery of not only an explanation of what happened but why it happened. Ms. Lawrence hopes that through helping families one at a time that ultimately the quality of production of medical devices and drugs and the quality of care within the healthcare system will improve within our country.
Ms. Lawrence graduated with a B.A. from The Ohio State University and earned her law degree from Salmon P. Chase College of Law. She graduated within the top of her class and earned the highest grades in several classes. While in law school, she was an active participant of Moot Court. She is admitted to practice in Kentucky and Ohio, as well as before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky. Ms. Lawrence is a member of the Cincinnati Bar Association, the Northern Kentucky Bar Association, the Kentucky Justice Association, serving as a District Vice President and a member of the Ohio Association for Justice. She is also a member of the American Association for Justice and has served as a Co-Chair of the da Vinci Robotic Surgical Litigation Group and previously as a board member of the Birth Trauma Litigation Group. Ms. Lawrence has been a member of the Salmon P. Chase American Inn of Court. Ms. Lawrence previously served by appointment on the Ohio CLE Commission and on the Kentucky Supreme Court Committee on the Admission To The Bar. She has also served as a board member for the Children's Law Center, the Kenton County Library Foundation Board and has served on boards for various other organizations.
Ms. Lawrence has successfully concluded to verdict trials in both the State of Ohio and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. She has successfully argued before the Ohio Supreme Court, and Appellate courts in Ohio and Kentucky. Ms. Lawrence has been recognized for her accomplishments as an attorney by Super Lawyers and has been named as one of the Top 25 Super Lawyers and Top 50 Super Lawyers in Kentucky for 2021. She has previously spoken on products liability and medical malpractice for a variety of professional organizations including The Ohio Association of Justice, Kentucky Justice Association, American Association of Justice and the Northern Kentucky Bar Association and has co-authored an article on medical malpractice published in the Northern Kentucky Law Review. With her law practice Ms. Lawrence is involved in a wide variety of professional and volunteer activities. She has served as an adjunct professor at Chase College of Law and serves as a volunteer at moot court competitions, local non-profit organizations and serves as a volunteer for her children's activities and school. Ms. Lawrence practices law with her husband and law partner, Rob Lewis.
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