The Story
Aiken's Trial Lawyer, Still in the Fight
Ken Connor has lived and practiced in Aiken, South Carolina, for years, and for a long stretch of them his name was on the door at Connor & Connor, LLC, the firm he founded and ran with his son. From offices in Aiken and Augusta, the firm took on nursing homes across Georgia, the Carolinas, and beyond for families whose mothers and fathers were neglected, injured, or killed by the people paid to care for them.
Those cases are hard. They are expensive to work up, and they are fought by corporate defense firms with unlimited budgets. Ken has built his career taking them to trial. He has been licensed in fourteen states and has tried cases from Florida to California, and his clients have been awarded verdicts exceeding $200 million in the aggregate.
When his law partner and son decided to focus on other matters and pursue something new, Connor & Connor began to wind down its practice. That left Ken with a choice he did not much care for. He had no interest in stepping away from the courtroom. What he wanted was to keep trying cases without carrying a firm on his back.
How Ken and Cameron Jehl Met
Ken and Memphis attorney Cameron Jehl had already been through the fire together. Their trial team tried a nursing home case in Memphis on behalf of the family of an 81-year-old woman who developed pressure wounds at Allenbrooke Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The wounds became infected and cost her a leg before she died. In August 2016, after roughly five weeks of trial, a Shelby County jury returned a verdict of more than $30 million, including $28 million in punitive damages.
When two lawyers have sat at the same counsel table through a five-week trial, each knows exactly what the other is made of. That case is why Ken is here.
With Connor & Connor winding down, Cameron Jehl made the offer: come work with us as an of counsel attorney. No management, no payroll, no firm to run. Just cases, and specifically the ones headed for a courtroom. Ken accepted, and he has been working cases for Jehl Law Group clients ever since.
Most nursing home cases never see a jury. The ones that do are the cases the defense could not buy cheaply, and those are the cases that change how a facility operates. Ken Connor has spent a lifetime on that side of the line. He is still on it.