Linda Kenney Baden, ESQ
Linda Kenney Baden is considered one of the leading female litigators of our time who tries both high-profile civil and criminal defense cases. She is co-Executive Producer and co-Host of Justice Served TV.
Linda is a graduate of Rutgers School of Law. Following graduation from law school, she served a judicial clerkship with the Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division, Judge John F. Lynch and then entered private practice with the law firm of Meyner and Landis.
Ms. Kenney Baden was later Assistant Prosecutor for the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office where she served as a trial team leader and the lead attorney assigned to the Sex Crimes Investigative Unit, advisor to the Evidence Unit what would now be called CSU. During her tenure with the Prosecutor’s Office, she prepared and tried numerous criminal cases including those involving murder and the death penalty. She now concentrates on criminal defense matters especially those that involve forensic issues and litigation, including 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil rights cases such as her representation of a member of the NJ Turnpike Four that lead to cameras being installed in State Police vehicles, plaintiff employment discrimination and gender harassment. Her practice also envelopes cutting edge social issues. She litigated the first case in New Jersey concerning the LGBTQ rights of a decorated police officer harassed because of gender reassignment, and has numerous reported opinions involving civil rights, discrimination, sexual harassment and whistleblowers before the federal courts and the New Jersey Supreme Court. Ms. Kenney Baden is currently on the faculty for the Trial Advocacy Workshop at Harvard Law School.
Linda has been involved in a number of high-profile cases including the hung jury of Phillip Spector and was portrayed by Screen Actors Guild winner Helen Mirren in an HBO movie written by David Mamet. She was a host for five years for the Law and Crime Network, LawandCrime.com. She has appeared as a legal guest commentator in numerous other media/television outlets. Some of her high-profile clients have included Jayson Williams, Phil Spector, Michael Skakel, John Paul House, Aaron Hernandez, Casey Anthony, socialite Gigi Jordan, and achieved a settlement making an NCAA college basketball coach the highest paid employee in the State of NY. She has represented Oscar and award-winning actors. Linda is active in wrongful conviction work. Ms. Kenney Baden has been two term Co-Chair of the Wrongful Conviction Committee of the Criminal Justice Section of New York State Bar Association. She is most proud of her pro bono work in cases like John Paul House in Tennessee who had spent 22 years on death row before she obtained a dismissal prior to his retrial after a SCOTUS reversal.
The late Johnnie Cochran, in his book “A Lawyer’s Life,” wrote that Ms. Kenney Baden was a “brilliant New Jersey attorney.” In an opinion issued by the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Ms. Kenney Baden’s work was characterized as “exceptional, fine and outstanding.” Additionally, a New Jersey Court in in a high-profile civil case, praised Ms. Kenney Baden and her co-counsel as “extremely capable” for their “persistent, extraordinary efforts and the results which they obtained”. These are excerpts of judicial opinions from specific legal disputes. They are not an endorsement of her abilities. She has an AV Preeminent Attorney rating MARTINDALE-HUBBELL® (Linda Kenney). No aspect of this advertisement has been submitted to or approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
She can be followed at her law firm website www.LindaKenneyBadenLaw.com, at her personal website www.LindaKenneyBaden.com, or on Twitter @KenneyBaden and @JusticeTV.com.
