Kevin Dunlap represents a wide variety of clients, including manufacturing, construction, chemical and engineering companies, as well as public utilities, retailers, landfills and professional service firms. He regularly advises clients on issues that include class actions, environmental disputes, unfair trade practices, mass torts, toxic torts, products liability, personal injury, death, property damage, insurance coverage, shareholder disputes, and general commercial disputes.
In addition, he has handled employment contract disputes and trade secret and trademark litigation. He has also handled litigation involving multiple fatalities and catastrophic injuries, including paraplegics and quadriplegics with extensive life care planning issues.
Kevin has acted as lead counsel in numerous trials and hearings in South Carolina and North Carolina state and federal courts and has argued before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the South Carolina Supreme Court, and the South Carolina Court of Appeals. He has handled multiple matters with extensive publicity involving hundreds of news articles.
Along with other Parker Poe colleagues, he currently serves as national coordinating counsel for two defendant chemical manufacturing companies in multidistrict litigation (MDL) involving over 10,000 separate water provider and personal injury lawsuits and multiple putative class actions. The MDL action is pending in federal district court in Charleston, South Carolina, and involves aqueous film forming foam PFAS claims under state law in jurisdictions throughout the United States.
Kevin served as lead counsel in a two-week trial involving daily press coverage, which resulted in a defense verdict in an environmental dispute under theories of negligence, nuisance, and trespass claims.
Kevin was twice selected as Best Lawyers’ Environmental Litigation Lawyer of the Year for the Greenville, SC region. While at Vanderbilt University, Kevin was the recipient of the Stanley D. Rose Award for writing and was the associate editor of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.