Kimberly D. Young has been practicing law with Friday, Eldredge & Clark since 2003 in the firm’s Litigation Section. She concentrates her practice in the fields of gas and electrical utility defense; products liability, including medical device and pharmaceutical litigation; multi-district litigation; and construction litigation. Kim also devotes a portion of her practice to appellate work and has appeared as appellate counsel before the Arkansas Court of Appeals, Supreme Court of Arkansas, and the United States Court of Appeals of the Eighth Circuit. Her appellate practice includes serving as appellate counsel on trial teams both within FEC and trial teams from other firms.

• University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, J.D., High Honors, 2003
  
  • Bowen Scholar
  • Associate Notes Editor, Law Review
• Lyon College, B.A., summa cum laude, 2000
  
  • Alpha Chi member
  • Charles H. Coffin Medal Recipient, 2000

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America
  • Appellate Practice
  • Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
  • Qui Tam Law

• James Lynch v. Ark. Machine Works, Inc., et al., 5:23-CV-5015, 2023 WL 8789753 (W.D. Ark. Dec. 19, 2023) (granting summary judgment in favor of defendant machine shop in wrongful death and strict liability claim involving metal plates incorporated by a third party into body armor vests).
  
• Bank of the Ozarks v Ford Motor Co., 2020 Ark. App. 231. (affirming summary judgment in favor of the defense in a wrongful death and strict liability claim involving a Ford Explorer).
  
• Singleton, et al. v. Arkansas Housing Authorities Property & Casualty et al., 934 F.3d 830 (8th Cir. 2019) (affirming summary judgment in favor of defendant housing authority and smoke alarm manufacturer for claims of negligence and strict liability). 
  
• Member of regional case management team for multi-district litigation involving pelvic mesh surgical implants, handling the defense’s discovery and briefing process for over 100 individual plaintiffs (2016-2020).
  
• Z.C. v. Wal-Mart, Inc., 574 Fed. Appx. 52 (2nd Cir. 2014) (affirming summary judgment in favor of defendant manufacturer of high-powered air rifle on products liability claims).
  
• Havner v. Northeast Ark. Elec. Coop., 2017 Ark. App. 111 (Feb. 2017) (affirming summary judgment in favor of electric company, holding it owed no duty to maintain cables owned by a third party and attached to electric company’s utility poles).
  
• Marcotte v. United Parcel Service, Inc., United States District Court, E.D. Ark. (defense jury verdict in premises liability claim alleging permanent disability).
  
• Johnson v. First Electric Cooperative Corp., Saline County Circuit Court (defense jury verdict in wrongful death claim arising out of billboard employee’s contact with an energized overhead electrical line).
  

• CenterPoint Energy
• The Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health
• Entergy Arkansas, Inc.
• Ethicon, Inc.
• Evanston Insurance Company
• Federated Rural Electric Ins. Co.
• Johnson & Johnson
• Markel Insurance
• Summit Utilities

• Arkansas Association of Defense Council
• American Bar Association
• Arkansas Bar Association
• Arkansas Children's Hospital, Medical-Legal Partnership
• Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Board Member
• DRI
• Junior League of Little Rock, Sustainer
• Trial Attorneys of America
• Pulaski County Bar Association

• Arkansas
• United States District Courts of Arkansas
• United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit