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WILLIAM KVAS is a nationally recognized trial lawyer who has devoted his legal career to assisting injured individuals, appearing as counsel in over thirty states. Many attorneys throughout the country have referred cases to him because of his experience and reputation. Over 2,000 railroaders have asked him for assistance with injury claims. He pioneered occupational disease litigation for railroad workers, trying several of the first cases for noise induced hearing loss in the 1980s. In 1998, he obtained the largest verdict for carpal tunnel syndrome to be upheld on appeal for a railroad worker. His most recent verdict of over one million dollars for an Amtrak engineer was the result of hard fought battle where he proved that Amtrak had falsified documents to cover up the cause of the accident. He lectures frequently at Continuing Legal Education courses, teaching trial strategy and courtroom skills to other lawyers.

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Kvas graduated from the Carlson School of Management and received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Minnesota Law School. He is member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys. He is presently the head of the Derailment Litigation Group for the Association of the Trial Lawyers of America and a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Kvas possesses an A/V rating from Martindale-Hubble, the highest possible ranking for both legal ability and ethics. He was elected by fellow attorneys to the list of "Best Lawyers in America", the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States.

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