Caleb A. Kennedy
Associate / Chicago

P: 312-881-5948

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Caleb represents clients in complex and high-value civil litigation across a range of subject matters and industries, including mass torts, class actions, intellectual property, and pharmaceutical litigation. He has experience in all stages of litigation, including fact and expert discovery, motion practice, company and expert witness preparation, depositions, trial work, and briefing appeals.

Caleb maintains an active pro bono practice, which includes serving as counsel for a putative class action brought on behalf of Detroit homeowners whose due-process rights were violated in connection with their residential property tax notices, resulting in over-assessments, delinquencies, and foreclosures. He previously completed a fellowship at the Illinois State Board of Education and currently serves on the board of the Princeton Alumni Corps Chicago Area Committee, which facilitates fellowships for recent college graduates working in public service organizations across the city.

Caleb joined Goldman Ismail after completing a federal district court clerkship in the Northern District of Ohio. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University with his bachelor’s degree and obtained his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served on the board of the Michigan Technology Law Review. Caleb previously worked at a top law firm in New York, where he focused on complex civil litigation, patent, antitrust, and white-collar criminal defense matters.

  • Camera Optics Litigation

    Representing a Fortune 10 consumer electronics company in a case involving breach-of-contract, patent, and trade-secret claims relating to technology for the design of wide-angle camera lenses and related software. The case is currently pending in the District of Delaware with a 2026 trial date.

    Roundup Products Liability Litigation

    Member of trial and expert witness teams in nationwide product liability litigation.

    • Member of trial team in 2022 in St. Louis County. Case resulted in a full defense verdict.
    • Member of trial team in 2023 in the State of Hawai’i. Case stayed following voir dire pending appeal of defendant’s successful motion for partial summary judgment.
    • Member of trial team in 2024 in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. Case resulted in a full defense verdict.
    • Member of trial team in 2024 in the City of St. Louis. Case settled during trial.
    In Re: Testosterone Replacement Therapy Products Liability Litigation

    Represented AbbVie and Actavis in multi-district litigation stemming from AbbVie’s and Actavis’s testosterone replacement therapies, AndroGel and Androderm.

    • Member of trial team for Actavis in Davis v. Actavis Inc. et al., a products-liability case where the plaintiff claimed Androderm caused his ischemic stroke. The case settled just before voir dire.
    • Drafted successful appellate motion for discretionary review on the issue of specific jurisdiction in Bollock v. Abbvie, Inc. et al., in Washington State Court. The case settled shortly after that.
    Gadolinium Retention Contrast Dye Litigation

    Represented Bayer in nationwide litigation regarding Bayer’s Magnevist contrast dye. Plaintiffs claim they developed a variety of injuries as a result of retaining gadolinium in their bodies after using Bayer’s gadolinium-based contrast agent Magnevist and other contrast agents during MRI procedures. Drafted dispositive motions and appellate briefs in federal and state court that helped secure court-ordered and voluntary dismissals.

    Products Liability Environmental Litigation

    Represented chemical manufacturer in thousands of environmental and products liability claims in state and federal courts nationwide brought by individuals, municipalities, and states alleging groundwater contamination and personal injury as individual claims, consolidated proceedings, and class actions.

    Howard v. City of Detroit, et al.

    Counsel for putative class action brought pro bono on behalf of Detroit homeowners whose due-process rights were violated in connection with their residential property tax notices, resulting in over-assessments, delinquencies, and foreclosures. The case is proceeding in the Eastern District of Michigan.

    • Associate, Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP
    • Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
    • University of Michigan Law School (J.D.)
      • Managing Notes Editor, Michigan Technology Law Review
    • Princeton University (A.B., Politics, cum laude)
    • Honorable Jack Zouhary, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
    • Selected by Super Lawyers as an Illinois Rising Star (2024-2025)
    • State of Illinois
    • State of New York