Kendra N. Stark is Co-Chair of the firm’s Correctional Healthcare Practice Group. She focuses her practice on the defense of healthcare companies and providers in high exposure and complex litigation, with substantial experience defending Section 1983 deliberate indifference cases against correctional medical and mental healthcare providers.
Kendra’s practice also includes the defense of licensed professionals in professional liability litigation, including real estate agents and brokers, veterinarians, attorneys, insurance agents and brokers, and directors and officers. She also regularly represents clients in connection with professional licensing board investigations and inquiries, including with the Real Estate Commission, Board of Nursing, Medical Board, and Veterinary Medical Board. Kendra also has significant experience representing trucking and transportation companies in catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases, defending complex commercial and business actions, and handling bid protests at the Government Accountability Office.
- Author, The Legal Implications of Hunger Strikes, CorrectCare, Fall 2023 issue (September 2023)
- Author, A ‘Deliberate Indifference’ Circ. Split For Prison Medical Cases, Law360 (August 2023)
- Co-Presenter, Proactive Practices to Reduce Litigation Risk, National Commission on Correctional Healthcare Conference, July 2025
- Co-Presenter, Defensive Documentation, National Commission on Correctional Healthcare, Spring Conference, April 2024
- Speaker, Correctional Medical Litigation and Best Practices for Defense, Spring 2023 NCCHC Conference on Correctional Healthcare
Admissions
- North Carolina
- U.S. District Court, Eastern, Western and Middle District of North Carolina
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
Memberships
- State Bar of North Carolina
- Wake County Bar Association
- 10th Judicial District Bar Association
- North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys
- Defense Research Institute
Community Involvement
- Board Member, Tenth Judicial District Bar/Wake County Bar Association
- Chair, Public Service Committee, Wake County Bar Association
- NC Chair, Southeastern Women Litigators Conference
- Member, ABA Bar Leadership Institute Advisory Group
Education
- J.D., Wake Forest University School of Law, 2017
- B.A., magna cum laude, Government: Politics & Public Policy, Liberty University, 2013
Honors
- Super Lawyers® North Carolina Rising Stars distinction in Professional Liability: Defense, Construction Litigation: Business, General Litigation, Personal Injury – Medical Malpractice: Defense (2022-2025)
- Business North Carolina Magazine’s Legal Elite, 2024-2025
- North Carolina Business Legal Elite Young Gun, 2023
- Wake County Bar Association and Tenth Judicial District President’s Award of Excellence recipient, 2021
- Wake County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Charles Hunt Award recipient, 2019
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