Kevin Baskette is a shareholder based in our Memphis office and is a member of the Board of Directors. Kevin practices in Mississippi and Tennessee and is a Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31 Mediator. As an accomplished trial and appellate lawyer, Keven focuses his practice on healthcare liability, construction law, transportation law, products liability defense, and personal injury litigation.

Having successfully litigated numerous civil matters to verdict at all trial levels of Mississippi and Tennessee., Kevin serves as the Chair of the firm’s General Civil Litigation Practice Group.  In addition, Kevin serves a vital role in the firm’s training and mentoring initiatives for new lawyers in the Memphis office. Outside of the firm, he is frequently asked to lead seminars on trial practice and insurance law.

AFFILIATIONS

• Mississippi Bar Association
• Tennessee Bar Association
• Memphis Bar Association
• Tennessee Association of Construction Counsel
• AIA, Memphis

PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

• Best Lawyers® 2020 Personal Injury Litigation Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Memphis
• Named to The Best Lawyers in America®, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants; Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants and Construction Litigation
• Named to 2023 Mid-South Super Lawyers Top 50 Lawyers in Memphis
• Fellow – Memphis Bar Foundation
• Named in Mid-South Super Lawyers
• Member – American Board of Trial Advocates
• IADC Trial Academy Graduate
• Memphis Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, 2006 and 2007 Board member
• Leo Bearman, Sr. American Inn of Court

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Prevailed in the Tennessee Court of Appeals in a healthcare liability matter.  Following a three-week medical malpractice jury trial that resulted in a hung jury followed by a non-suit by the patient’s conservator, the conservator re-filed the action against only the hospital on the basis of alleged apparent agency.  Immediately prior to the re-filing of the suit, the conservator entered into an agreement not to sue the treating physician in exchange for waiving discretionary costs.  The hospital moved for summary judgment on the grounds that the agreement with the alleged agent physician extinguished the right to recover from the alleged principal hospital.  The trial court rejected the conservator’s argument that the agreement was invalid because it was not approved by a court, as, by statute, such approval is not necessary for the claim of a disabled person.  The trial court granted summary judgment and the conservator appealed.  The Court of Appeals affirmed in all respects.
• Obtained a jury verdict in a health care liability case filed in Shelby County Circuit Court.  The clients were a surgeon and his group.  The surgeon performed a gallbladder removal surgery where the plaintiff patient sustained complications requiring repair surgeries.  After deliberations, the jury answered the Court’s first question that the defendant surgeon did not deviate from the applicable standard of care resulting in a defense verdict.

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

• Community Legal Center
• Memphis Area Legal Services
• Charter member of the Shelby County Mayor’s Young Professional Council

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