Kevin O'Connell is a founding partner of the firm and has practiced civil litigation and workers' compensation for the past thirty years in the Washington metropolitan area. Admitted to the local and federal courts, and administrative agencies and commissions in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, Kevin has consistently achieved an "AV" peer rating in Martindale-Hubbell. His practice focuses on advising and defending insurers, employers and self-insured employers in workers' compensation, employment and civil liability claims, including personal injury, negligence, false arrest, auto accident and other claims, as well as protection and pursuit of employers' subrogation rights in civil litigation, all including both jury and non-jury trials and appeals. His practice also includes advising and representing insurance companies and insureds in disputes concerning insurance coverage and employment law.

A former member of the Corporation Counsel's Office (now Office of the Attorney General) of the District of Columbia, and in private practice in the above areas since 1981, Kevin is a member of the Maryland, District of Columbia and Virginia state bars, as well as the federal and appellate bars in these jurisdictions, as well as the United States Supreme Court, the D.C. Defense Lawyers Association and the Defense Research Institute. He is a former three-term president of the Association of Compensation Insurance Attorneys, recently served as Co-Chair of the Workers' Compensation section of the Montgomery County Bar Association, and is an instructor with the Lorman and National Business Institute Workers' Compensation Educational seminars. He received his B.A. from Villanova University and his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.

Kevin was born September 28, 1950 in Washington, D.C. and is a life-long resident of the Washington, D.C. area. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their two children, Bethany and Brendon, in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C.