KENNETH SCOTT SWORD, ESQ.
Dallas, TX *****
469-***-****) *********@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Objective: Seeking Employment as Attorney-at-Law. Ready to Work Immediately. Personable, outgoing legal professional with extensive track record of success in Personal Injury, Family, Contract, and Criminal Law. Easily develops a repour with employees, clients, adjusters, opposing counsel and court personnel, especially judges and juries.
Awards
Named Best Customer Service Specialist in San Diego County, CA while working for Safeway Grocery Company for 8 straight quarters.
Impeccable Negotiation Skills. Insurance Companies use my settlement negotiation phone calls as the archetype of how to negotiate with personal injury attorneys during settlement negotiations in their Training Seminars.
Education
1998. BA Modern European History from the University of California at San Diego;
2001. Juris Doctorate from Baylor University. Licensed all Texas State Courts and Federal Court Northern District of Texas. I passed the Texas State Bar on the first attempt.
Skills
Proven track record of success from three to seven figure claims/cases, generating almost $4,000,000.00 in revenue annually prelitigation and litigated claims/cases.
Punctual and Reliable with Very Good Writing Skills.
Well versed in E-filing, Zoom, Needles, and In-Person hearings/trials;
Experience ranges from client sign-up to conclusion of all issues, claims or lawsuits.
Settled claims, and litigation from $500.00 Personal Injury claims to One Hundred and Fifty Million Dollar Personal Injury/Assault Default Judgments. I also, represented a Defendant in Breach of Contract/Fraud case where Final Judgment to Plaintiff was zero in damages, zero in attorney fees, zero in Court Costs. I have also settled six figure Med-Mal claims. Ability to handle large and small issues, claims, litigation.
Attorney-at-Law Work History
2024-2025. November-Current. Worked out of my Home Office in north Dallas handling Family Law including SAPCRs, and Personal Injury Suits/Claims.
2024. August-October. I worked for a fellow Baylor attorney, Mr. Israel Perez with his case load in personal injury litigation default prove-ups and a racial discrimination case out of Hidalgo County, Texas. Default awards have been from $12,000,000.00-$150,000,000.00.
2024. January-April. I worked for a Personal Injury Firm negotiating and settling personal injury pre-litigation cases and representing clients in-person minor prove-ups. I settled over a million dollars in personal injury settlements in four months with the Firm. These settlements ranged from $5,000.00-85,000.00 per settlement.
2022-2023. Law Office of Domingo Garcia. All Plaintiff Personal Injury claims. I won all of our clients’ jury trials where I sat 1st Chair. Dozens of settlements.
2006-2022. Owner/Senior Attorney for Kenneth Scott Sword & Associates & The Law Office of Kenneth Scott Sword, north Dallas, Texas. Handled a myriad of issues, claims, cases including Personal Injury, Forceable Detainer, Family, Breach of Contract and Criminal cases.
2002-2006. Associate Attorney with Juan Hernandez & Associates P.C., Dallas, Texas.