Company/Organization: Slate Kennedy LLC
www.slatekennedy.com

Susan E. Kennedy
skennedy@slatekennedy.com

Pamela B. Slate
pslate@slatekennedy.com

Address:
One Commerce Street

Suite 850
Montgomery, Al 36104

Phone: 334-262-3300 Fax: 334-262-3301

Profile:   Susan E. Kennedy

Job Description: Founding Partner

Length of service: Practicing Law since 1993; Founded Slate Kennedy 2001

Education: B.A., Economics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (1989); J.D. Cumberland School of Law at Samford University (1993)

Family: Husband - Randal W. Kennedy; Daughter - Grace Kennedy

Personal Business Philosophy: There is no substitute for hard work.

Favorite Quote: "If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities. We must weave a social fabric in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place." Margaret Mead

Advice to women in business: Perseverance

Best advice ever received: Don't sweat the little stuff .

Secret to surviving in business: Producing a consistently excellent work product

Your strongest inspiration: My mother and being a mother

What being in business as taught you: No risk, no reward.

Secret to dealing with employees: Take the blame for everything, then move forward together.

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Profile:  Pamela B. Slate

Length of service: Practicing Law since 1993; Founded Slate Kennedy 2001; Elected President of AFDW 2002

Favorite Awards & Honors: Academic: Writing Editor, Cumberland Law Review; Honor Court; Cumberland National Trial Team.

Professional: First (and, more importantly, not the last) female attorney hired at a 40-year-old firm; Appointed Lead Counsel to represent health benefit payers (insurance companies and self-funded employers) in the first national class action in which health benefit payers received reimbursement from a brand name drug company that had illegally blocked generic competition; Appointed by Attorney General Bill Pryor as Deputy Attorney General for the State of Alabama to defend the Department of Revenue in class actions seeking over $1 billion from our General and Education Trust Funds.

Civic: President, Alabama Federation of Democratic Women; Board Member, Magic City Harvest (prepared and perishable food rescue organization)

Education: Dual Degrees: B.S., Mathematics, Birmingham-Southern College, and B.S., Mechanical Engineering, UAB (1990); J.D. Cumberland School of Law at Samford University (1993)

Personal Business Philosophy: Nothing takes the place of integrity and hard work.

Favorite Quote: "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

Advice to women in business: Carrying a chip on your shoulder takes a lot more energy than rolling up your sleeves and getting to work. There is power in being underestimated.

Best advice ever received: Having a reputation as an honest, responsible hard worker is worth more than any amount of money. (My Mother) When you feel like giving up, suck it up and keep going! (My Father)

Secret to surviving in business: Temper passion with common sense.

What being in business as taught you: That delegation is a good thing.

Secret to dealing with employees: Never ask your employees to do anything you wouldn't do, and share your success with those who help you succeed.