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Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year 2011 - Best Lawyers - Randall L. Kinnard Best Lawyers in America Mid-South Super Lawyers Top 100 Attorneys in America Top 100 Attorneys in Tennessee AV-Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell Randall L. Kinnard and Daniel L. Clayton are Board Certified Civil Trial and Medical Malpractice Attorneys 2010 - obtained 22.6 million dollar verdict in Chattanooga, Tennessee Kinnard Clayton & Beveridge is listed in Best Lawyers Best Law Firms in America. Founding Partner, Randall Kinnard was named 2011 Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year for 2011 by Best Lawyers. In August 2010, the President of the Inner Circle of Advocates announced the selection of Randall Kinnard as a new member of the Inner Circle of Advocates: "Randy Kinnard, of Nashville, Tennessee has been inducted into the Inner Circle of Advocates, a group of the best 100 trial attorneys in the country, because of his extraordinary career and remarkable successes in the courtroom. He is a person who is universally respected among his peers and one of the great trial lawyer in the United States." Daniel Clayton and Mark Beveridge are also listed in Best Lawyers in America. All three attorneys are listed as Mid-South Super Lawyers. Daniel Clayton was named in the Nashville Post Top 101 Lawyers (January 2011 Edition). Randall Kinnard and Daniel Clayton are past presidents of the Tennessee Association for Justice. Our firm has obtained on behalf of our clients multiple verdicts in excess of a million dollars. More about Randall Kinnard. Before entering law school, he attended West Point and served in Vietnam. His combat experience with the 173rd Airborne Brigade has served him well in the practice of law." (August 4, 2003, LWUSA 518). A combat Airborne Ranger, he was awarded the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, Purple Heart, Bronze Star for Valor and Air Medal for 28 assaults in combat during his two tours in Vietnam. He also served with the 82nd Airborne Division and 101st Airborne Division. Mr. Kinnard is certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and by the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education & Specialization. He is also a Certified Medical Malpractice Specialist. He has won many record-setting verdicts for his clients in over 30 years of practice. Randall Kinnard was voted the lawyer they would most want to represent them in a medical malpractice case by Middle Tennessee lawyers, said Business Nashville, which quoted one lawyer as saying, "It's pretty well recognized that he is the premier plaintiff's medical malpractice attorney in Nashville." But, as Kinnard says, "It's not all about doing the best you can for your client as a lawyer. It's also about being a counselor and a friend to your client." When he teaches other lawyers about how to be a good lawyer, he emphasizes two things: (1) competence and (2) respecting your client. This means "being there" for your client, he says.