April 16, 2019
“In it for the long run” best sums up Ken Oliver’s career as an Attorney and Equity Partner of the firm. Ken holds the distinction as the longest, continuously tenured employee at the firm, having started over thirty-four years ago. Ken started with the firm immediately out of law school when he was hired by Betsy Gallagher and Gene Kubicki.
Ken obtained his Juris Doctor at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law, and was a member of the law school’s first class to graduate after full accreditation. While in law school, Ken was able to clerk at a law firm with fellow Equity Partner, Earleen Cote, starting a more than thirty year long friendship. When Ken started at Kubicki Draper, he was the 18th attorney in the firm, when it only had one office in Miami. In 1991, as Kubicki Draper continued to grow, Ken was given the opportunity to help the firm expand by opening the Fort Lauderdale office. Eleven years later, Ken went on to open the Fort Myers/Naples office, where he continues to be the Managing Partner.
Ken has been a part of the firm expanding over the years from one office with less than twenty attorneys, to a firm with thirteen offices and approaching 150 attorneys. While Ken enjoys practicing in the areas of bodily injury liability, premises liability, professional negligence, catastrophic/high exposure losses, and bad faith prevention matters, he also enjoys training claims professionals and having the flexibility to help mentor and train the firm’s next generation of trial attorneys.
When he is not practicing law or helping run the firm as an Equity Partner, Ken enjoys spending time with his wife, Josie, his two daughters, and the grandchildren he and Josie share.
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Ken obtained his Juris Doctor at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law, and was a member of the law school’s first class to graduate after full accreditation. While in law school, Ken was able to clerk at a law firm with fellow Equity Partner, Earleen Cote, starting a more than thirty year long friendship. When Ken started at Kubicki Draper, he was the 18th attorney in the firm, when it only had one office in Miami. In 1991, as Kubicki Draper continued to grow, Ken was given the opportunity to help the firm expand by opening the Fort Lauderdale office. Eleven years later, Ken went on to open the Fort Myers/Naples office, where he continues to be the Managing Partner.
Ken has been a part of the firm expanding over the years from one office with less than twenty attorneys, to a firm with thirteen offices and approaching 150 attorneys. While Ken enjoys practicing in the areas of bodily injury liability, premises liability, professional negligence, catastrophic/high exposure losses, and bad faith prevention matters, he also enjoys training claims professionals and having the flexibility to help mentor and train the firm’s next generation of trial attorneys.
When he is not practicing law or helping run the firm as an Equity Partner, Ken enjoys spending time with his wife, Josie, his two daughters, and the grandchildren he and Josie share.
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