TERENCE H. KENNEY
Terence (“Terry”) Kenney is a veteran trial lawyer who has been with Wild, Carey & Fife for over 20 years.
Born in Virginia and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Terry graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1978 and then obtained his law degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1982. He is admitted to practice in both North Carolina (now as inactive member) and California.
Terry has tried significant jury and non-jury cases as the sole or lead attorney, including a contribution action against a client’s other (nonparticipating) insurer in which he recovered a judgment of over $1 million for the participating insurer client, thereby reimbursing it for all of the defense and indemnity costs which it had incurred in an underlying construction accident case. Terry has handled binding AAA arbitrations with good results and he has excellent appellate and summary judgment motion skills.
Terry has also partnered with Don Wild in trying at least half a dozen catastrophic injury or death cases which resulted in outright defense verdicts or favorable verdicts.
Terry’s practice areas include construction, personal injury, professional liability, and insurance coverage litigation.
Contact: terencekenney@wcandf.com
JENNIFER A. STEWART
Jennifer Stewart is a senior litigation associate specializing in construction defect and workplace accident defense who has been with Wild, Carey & Fife since 2000.
Jennifer was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and graduated with honors in Economics from U.C. Santa Cruz in 1983 and from Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco in 1986.
Jennifer has extensive civil litigation experience, including successful summary judgment motions, appeals, and trials. She is married, has two teenage kids, and enjoys gardening. She is a member of the San Francisco Bar Association.
WILLIAM M. HENLEY
Born in 1954 in Kansas City, Missouri, Mr. Henley spent his first 18 years in that town, the son of two schoolteachers. In 1972 he headed off to the University of Missouri at Columbia, where he earned a B.A. in Philosophy in 1976. He graduated from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California in Berkeley in 1980. Bill is admitted to practice in the State of California, several U.S. District Courts, and the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Bill’s earliest years of practice were devoted primarily to family law matters. He next moved on to the area of consumer protection litigation. During this phase of his career he was responsible for the landmark opinions in Reese v. Payless Drug Stores Northwest, Inc. (1995) 43 Cal. App. 4th 1317 (writ of review granted then dismissed), and Stop Youth Addiction, Inc. v. Lucky Stores, Inc. (1998) 17 Cal. 4th 553. Since 2003 Bill has concentrated on the litigation of insurance defense and coverage matters, where he has won defense judgments in jury trial and complex arbitration settings.
Bill became an associate attorney with Wild, Carey & Fife in 2004.
JAMES J. PATRICK
James J. Patrick is a seasoned trial attorney, who has handled hundreds of business litigation, employment law and personal injury cases, and has served as appellate counsel in approximately one dozen cases.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, and predominantly raised in the New York area, he attended Oberlin College in Ohio, where he played soccer and baseball and from where he graduated with a double major in Economics and Government (B.A., 1979). Later, Jim attended the Santa Clara University School of Law, from where he received his law degree in 1986. He is admitted to practice in the State of California, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District U.S. District Courts, and the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Jim’s diverse twenty-year career includes serving as an associate attorney for leading civil litigation firms, Program Director for paralegal schools, teaching courses in Civil Litigation and Pleadings and Motions at Santa Clara University and San Francisco State University, and serving as a General Counsel for Oakland Unified School District.
Jim has substantial experience in business litigation, employment law, personal injury, and insurance bad faith litigation. He is also an accomplished appellate practitioner, including the published opinion in Cody F. v. Falletti (2001) 92 Cal. App. 4th 1232, a premises liability case.
Contact: jamespatrick@wcandf.com
REBEKAH R. SHAPIRO
Rebekah R. Shapiro was born in Portland, Oregon and grew up in Pacifica, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Thomas Aquinas College in Ventura County, California, in 2005. Rebekah earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2008. During law school, she met the Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center's Pro Bono Challenge with work for international, national, and local legal aid organizations. Her work leading a team of students working with the National Veterans Legal Services Program was covered by the Law School's alumni journal and local print and television media.
Rebekah has expertise in professional liability, personal injury, premises liability, collections, powers of attorney for health care, and insurance coverage law. She has worked at Wild, Carey and Fife since before being admitted to the California Bar in 2009 and is also a member of the State Bar Litigation Section's Jury Instructions Committee and the San Mateo County Bar Association.