With more than 30 years as a trial lawyer, Lynn Bradshaw has dedicated her career to representing individuals in serious personal injury, worker exposure, and environmental justice litigation.

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After graduating from Columbia Law School, and working at Mayor, Day & Caldwell in Houston, she joined Cook & Wallace, a boutique plaintiff’s litigation in downtown Houston. Some of the highlights of her work included Ford Bronco II vehicle rollover cases, Firestone, and General Tire tread separation cases, as well as other automotive defect cases on a nationwide basis. She also prosecuted serious worker injury cases involving exposure to asbestos and silica. Ms. Bradshaw became a partner in the firm of Cook, Doyle and Bradshaw, having the honor and pleasure to work with Russell Cook, an incredible mentor and one of the best plaintiff’s trial lawyers she could have trained with in the early years of her career.

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She then joined Kaeske Law Firm almost two decades ago, and now handles significant injury cases for the firm with Mike Kaeske, who she considers a formidable trial lawyer and a master at presenting a case to a jury.  Their work includes products liability, premise liability, worker exposure, traumatic brain injury cases, tractor-trailer accidents, and environmental litigation.

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Recently, she worked with Mike and a team of lawyers who successfully prosecuted cases against the world’s largest confined animal feeding operation (CAFO). An excellent team led by Mike Kaeske tried five cases to winning verdicts in federal court in Raleigh in a large, high-profile environmental injustice case. https://newfoodeconomy.org/north-carolina-jury-fines-smithfield-foods-nuisance-lawsuit-hog-farm-manure/. They secured not just winning verdicts, but a recent opinion by the Fourth Circuit affirming the verdicts (an opinion so salient it stands as one of the high points of her legal career). In his concurring opinion, Judge Wilkinson wrote: 

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“At the end of all this wreckage lies an uncomfortable truth: these nuisance conditions were unlikely to have persisted for long—or even to have arisen at all—had the neighbors of Kinlaw Farms been wealthier or more politically powerful….All this and more this nuisance lawsuit has laid bare.” 

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Having grown up on a wheat and cattle farm in Kansas, Lynn was committed to these cases because of the inequities created between the neighbors and the corporate hog producer, but also because of treatment of the animals.  As Judge Wilkinson wrote:

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“How did it come to this? What was missing from Kinlaw Farms – and from Murphy-Brown—was the recognition that treating animals better will benefit humans. What was neglected is that animal welfare and human welfare, far from advancing at cross-purposes, are actually integrally connected. The decades-long transition to concentrated animal feeding operations (“CAFOs’) lays bare this connection, and the consequences of its breach, with startling clarity.”

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Having completed her role in this years long litigation, she is now working to lay bare the next uncomfortable truth.

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Currently, Lynn is working on issues relating to our criminal justice system. On a pro bono basis, she is assisting a friend who has been appointed as appellate counsel on a death penalty case, learning what she can from one of the finest appellate lawyers in Texas who has tirelessly represented individuals on death row for much of her career.

 

As a historian, Lynn is also writing an historical nonfiction book about the death penalty in the early Utah territorial period, looking specifically at firing squads and the issues raised by Wilkerson v. Utah, 99 U.S. 130 (1878), the first death penalty case decided the Supreme Court.

 

Lynn is also very actively involved in issues impacting the legal profession related to equity, diversity, and inclusion. She is an invited member of the Texas State Bar Taskforce assigned to investigate and address systemic problems within our practice related to these issues.
 

EDUCATION

 

The University of Texas at Austin – M.A., Art History (Modern Era)

Thesis: Patterson v. Bonaparte. Emphasis on Women and Gender Studies.

 

Columbia Law School - J.D

 

U.T. El Paso - B.B.A. in Accounting with honors

Top Ten Senior, Student Association President; Outstanding Junior Accounting Major.

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BAR ADMISSIONS

 

Texas and Utah

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COURT ADMISSIONS

 

Southern District of Texas

Western District of Texas

Eastern District of Texas

Northern District of Texas

District of Utah

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AFFILIATIONS

Texas Bar Association

Travis County Women’s Bar Association

Austin Bar Association

State Bar of Texas Women in Profession Committee

State Bar of Texas Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion