Kenesha Starling Duncan represents public and private corporations, partnerships, and small companies in a broad range of complex business and commercial matters. Kenesha’s experience includes complex contract disputes, oil and gas litigation, complex bankruptcy litigation, employment litigation, general commercial litigation, and guiding clients through various methods of alternative dispute resolution. Kenesha handles issues related to breach of contract and fiduciary duty; preferential and fraudulent transfers; confirmation proceedings; claims of discrimination, retaliation, and harassment; and violations of the FLSA, Title VII, ADA, ADEA, FMLA, and state law.
Kenesha graduated summa cum laude from South Texas College of Law-Houston, where she served as Editor-In-Chief of the South Texas Law Review, was a member of the Order of the Lytae, and was the recipient of several honors and awards including for outstanding advocate and the Dickerson-Moore Humanitarian Award.
Perspectives
Credentials
Education
- J.D., Law, South Texas College of Law Houston, 2020, summa cum laude
- M.B.A., Business Management, University of Houston-Clear Lake, 2005
- B.A., Business Administration, Texas Southern University, 2003, cum laude
Admissions
- Texas
- District of Columbia
- New York
- Oklahoma
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Texas
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Texas
Government & Military Service
- Judicial Intern, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Honorable Judge Marvin Isgur (July 2021-August 2021)
- Financial Analyst, Contracting Officer's Representative, Law Clerk, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas (August 2003-April 2021)
- Judicial Intern, 333rd District Court, Houston, Texas, Honorable Judge Daryl Moore, September (2019-January 2020)
Clerkships
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, The Honorable Charles R. Eskridge III
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, The Honorable Jennifer Walker Elrod
Activities
- Kenesha L. Starling Scholarship for Minority and Second Career Students