One of four Bradley Arant Boult Cummings lawyers to have clerked at the United States Supreme Court, Kevin is chair of the firm’s Appellate Litigation Group. Before joining the firm, Kevin served for three and a half years as the State of Alabama's Solicitor General, in which capacity he directed the State's appellate litigation in the U.S. Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals, and the Alabama Supreme Court. Kevin has an active U.S. Supreme Court practice, having personally argued four cases in the Court, filed amicus curiae briefs in dozens of others, and authored numerous petitions for certiorari and briefs in opposition to certiorari. Kevin has also argued more than 20 cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits, as well as in the Alabama Supreme Court and the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.
In 2011, Chief Justice John G. Roberts appointed Kevin to the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules, which studies and advises the Judicial Conference of the United States concerning amendments and improvements to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. Kevin is one of only three private practitioners on the 10-person committee.
In 2007,
The American Lawyer magazine named Kevin one of its "Fab Fifty"—the top 50 litigators (of any kind) in the entire country under the age of 45—and in 2010, Law360.com named Kevin one of the nation’s top 10 appellate lawyers under the age of 40. Kevin is also listed in Best Lawyers in America in the field of Appellate Law.
One of four Bradley Arant Boult Cummings lawyers to have clerked at the United States Supreme Court, Kevin is chair of the firm’s Appellate Litigation Group. Before joining the firm, Kevin served for three and a half years as the State of Alabama's Solicitor General, in which capacity he directed the State's appellate litigation in the U.S. Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals, and the Alabama Supreme Court. Kevin has an active U.S. Supreme Court practice, having personally argued four cases in the Court, filed amicus curiae briefs in dozens of others, and authored numerous petitions for certiorari and briefs in opposition to certiorari. Kevin has also argued more than 20 cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits, as well as in the Alabama Supreme Court and the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.
In 2011, Chief Justice John G. Roberts appointed Kevin to the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules, which studies and advises the Judicial Conference of the United States concerning amendments and improvements to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. Kevin is one of only three private practitioners on the 10-person committee.
In 2007, The American Lawyer magazine named Kevin one of its "Fab Fifty"—the top 50 litigators (of any kind) in the entire country under the age of 45—and in 2010, Law360.com named Kevin one of the nation’s top 10 appellate lawyers under the age of 40. Kevin is also listed in Best Lawyers in America in the field of Appellate Law.
Kevin served as a law clerk to Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court (2000-2001) and, before that, to Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1997-98). Kevin received a B.A. from Samford University (1994); he graduated summa cum laude, first in his class, and with a 4.00 GPA. Kevin received his J.D. from Harvard Law School (1997); he graduated magna cum laude and was an Articles Editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Kevin is the author of "Setting Incorporationism Straight: A Reinterpretation of the Slaughter-House Cases," published in the Yale Law Journal.
Kevin is a member of the American Law Institute and has commented on legal issues for Fox News Channel, C-SPAN, National Public Radio, Time Magazine, USA Today, The National Law Journal, Forbes Magazine, and ABA Journal.