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West Legal Directory Profile - Firmsite
 Kevin A. Crass
Little Rock, Arkansas
Partner
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(501) 370-1592
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(501) 376-2147
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crass@fec.net
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- Business and Class Action Litigation
- Products Liability
- Patent and Trademark Litigation
Kevin A. Crass is a partner at Friday, Eldredge & Clark where he serves as head of the firm's Class Action and Business Litigation practice group. His practice primarily focuses on business litigation in federal and state courts including the defense of claims involving, among others, class actions, securities fraud, ERISA, business torts, trade secrets, patent/tradmeark, products liability, toxic torts and breach of contract. He currently serves on the Federal Practice Committee for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, having been appointed by the Judges in that District. He also represents clients before alternative dispute resolution bodies such as the National Association of Securities Dealers and the American Arbitration Association. From 1997-2007, he served as personal counsel to the then Governor of Arkansas.
- 1984
- Arkansas, 1984
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Arkansas
- U.S. District Court Western District of Arkansas
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1988
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, Little Rock, AR ,
1984
J.D.
- Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, AR,
1981
B.A., Bachelor of Arts
Honors: With Honors
- Stephens Inc.
- Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company
- Governor Mike Huckabee, Arkansas
- Ernst & Young, LLP
- Cargill, Inc.
- Tyson Foods, Inc.
- Best Lawyers in America, 2006-2010
- Bet the Company LiCommercial Litigation and Personal Injury Litigation
- Listed in Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers 2003 -2010
- Mid South Super Lawyer- Top 50 in Arkansas 2009-2010
- Benchmark Litigation-Local Litigation Star 2009
- Federal Practice Committee for United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas 2009-2010
- American. Arkansas and Pulaski County Bar Associations
- Member
- Arkansas Bar Foundation
- Fellow
- Arkansas Supreme Court Special Justice (1997 and 2004)
- International Association of Defense Counsel
- Defense Research Institute
- Member and State Liaison to Business Littigation Committee
- Henry Woods Inn of Court
- Master of the Bench
- Boys and Girls Club of Central Arkansas
- Board Member and President (2005-2006)
- President's Advisory Committee on the Arts to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (appointed by President Bush)
- Arkansans for Drug Free Youth
- Former Board Member and President
- Second Presbyterian Church-Little Rock
- Member , Elder and Deacon
- Presbyterian Village
- Board Member and President (2006)
- Little Rock Club
- President (2005) and Board Member
- Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce
- Board of Directors
- Arkansas War Memorial Stadium Commission (appointed by Governor Huckabee)
- University of Arkansas For Medical Sciences Development Board
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock Athletic Foundation Board
- April 11, 1959, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
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