John McKenzie

John is a trial lawyer who helps clients facing business, malpractice, fiduciary, and government disputes.  He represents plaintiffs and defendants.  He handles everything from original complaints to appeals before the highest state and federal courts in the country.  He is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Texas.  He is not licensed to practice law in Virginia.

John’s core practice focuses on financial injuries.  These injuries usually arise in the context of business or professional relationships that have broken down.  Accountants, financial advisors, current or former business partners, brokers, banks, or trustees are often named parties in John’s cases. 

Sometimes the plaintiffs in John’s cases allege class-wide injuries, and John therefore also has class action experience.  He likewise has experience in cases where minority owners of a business have brought claims derivatively on behalf of the business.

The defendants in John’s cases are often insured.  The scope of insurance coverage available to contribute to a defense, judgment, or settlement is thus another issue that John has litigated.

In addition to his core practice, John maintains an interest in bankruptcy, consumer, trademark, copyright, privacy, securities, employment, and constitutional law. 

John has represented clients in a variety of high-profile matters.  As a young lawyer, John played a supporting role in matters arising from the SEC receivership of Allen Stanford, the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling platform, and 2011 redistricting and voting rights litigation involving the state of Texas in Perez v. Perry and Texas v. United States.  More recently, John was part of the team representing plaintiffs in Khan v. BDO Seidman, LLP in Illinois and the Georgia Supreme Court case Coe v. Proskauer Rose, LLP.

The guiding principle of John’s practice is persistence.  Cases are often won or lost at the margins.  The party that asks one more question, finds one more case, or chases one more lost cause is often the party who wins.

John lives in the Washington, D.C. area.  He has three children, two cats, and one dog.  In his spare time, he loves studying history, and tries to get to the museums in D.C. as often as he can.