Biography

Don Kendall has practiced law in Northwest Arkansas for 41 years. His family of of 15, including his grandchildren, can trace their roots 8 generations back to the local community.

His practice began in 1970 after his return from Fort Benning, Ga. in active duty with the armed forces. In 1975 Don put together a business deal to acquire Benton County Abstract Co. one of the oldest if not the oldest business in Benton County and served as it's president for almost 30 years until it was sold.

In 1984 Don became heavily involved in the Savings and Loan crisis which was reported at that time to be the most costly problem to confront the American tax payer since World War 2. He supervised, was involved in, and actually tried one case involving the jurisdictions of Hiwaii, California, Colorado, U.S. Virgin Islands and Tennessee.

One of the cases that Don discovered during his investigation resulted in a settlment to Don' client of over 8 million dollars.These cases culminated in Don's being lead counsel in a complex financial fraud case which resulted in a verdict in Federal Court in Tenn in excess of 1.7 million.

In 1992 Don left a larger firm and once again opened his own practice in Rogers. In 1995 Don was the attorney for the plaintiff in one of the largest personal injury cases in NW Arkansas history. A Rogers National Guardman was returning home to Rogers when a 18 wheeler dynamite truck pulled into the Guardsmen's car, propelled it down the highway and over and into on coming traffic. The truck then fled with the driver later pleading guilty to felony hit-and-run.

The guardsman received permanent brain damage. The trucking company and it's parent settled the case 5 days before trial in Federal Court for 5.5 million dollars. A false log auditing procedure was developed as allegations of violations of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations were involved. In 1998 the Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed an award of $208,804 in one of Dons cases wherein the trial judge said ..."this was a truly difficult case. It's difficulty is underscored by the unchallenged testimony that they were searching through attorneys for years before they got Mr. Kendall, before they got someone who was willing to take this case on because it was certainly complex and certainly fraught with possibilities of losing."

Biography

Pine Drewyor was born in Lansing Michigan in 1974. He, two of his four older siblings and his parents moved to Huntsville Arkansas in 1980 onto a pig and horse farm. He attended Governor's School in the summer of 1991 prior to graduating valedictorian from Huntsville High School in 1992.

Pine attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville starting in August 1992. He was a Chancellor's Scholar, Governor's Scholar and Walton Fellow. He graduated in 1996 with a B.S.B.A in International Finance with a minor in Chemical Engineering and Accounting. He then attended the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1997 until graduation in 2000.

After graduation from law school, Pine began his legal career in Fayetteville handling family and criminal cases with a small Fayetteville firm. One year later, when Jill Grimsley, his girlfriend at the time now wife of almost ten (10) years, finished her legal education from Tulane Law Firm, he and she moved to Tulsa Oklahoma. Pine began with the Tulsa County District Attorney's Office in 2001 working there for one (1) year. In his time at the prosecutor's office, he had a caseload of over 400 active casefiles with multiple cases taken to jury and non-jury (bench) trial.

Pine then began work in private practice in 2002 with the firm of Latham, Stall, Wagner, Steele and Lehman. His practice consisted primarily of insurance defense, including being outside counsel for Wal-Mart, medical malpractice defense, and trucking and automobile insurance defense. His practice also involved working on banking and business litigation. In private practice with Latham Wagner, Pine had both first and second chair experience on numerous cases taken to jury and bench trials. Of Pine's extensive case work, many were resolved prior to trial via alternate dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration.

In late 2007, the Drewyor family moved back to Northwest Arkansas, settling in Bentonville Arkansas, Jill's hometown. Pine opened his own firm in December 2007. He changed the main focus from the defense side of cases to the plaintiff's side upon opening his office in Arkansas. He handled cases ranging from construction and heavy machinery injuries and fatalities to business disputes to family and criminal cases. He chose to leverage his extensive insurance defense background to assist plaintiffs in their personal injury cases as the lion's share of his practice today.

Pine joined his firm with that of Don Kendall in October 2009. Kendall Drewyor Law Firm has continued to handle cases from Pine and Don's practice areas, along with employment cases, from the time of the joining of the firms up to the present.

Pine and Jill Grimsley Drewyor have been married for almost ten (10) years. Jill is a partner at the Rogers office of Mitchell Williams law firm. They have two young girls, Margot and Trixie Lu, two dogs (PBGV's) and one polydactyl cat (6 toed Hemingway cat).

Pine is a member of the Bentonville Noon Rotary Club, on the Board of Directors and is the upcoming President-Elect. He is also a member of the Benton County, Arkansas and Oklahoma Bar Associations, Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association, Oklahoma Association for Justice and the American Association for Justice.

Biography

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