Kendra E. Bray
Kendra E. Bray
Our Team Kendra E. Bray

Kendra Bray is a partner at Walsworth and leads the firm’s general liability practice group. She focuses her practice primarily on general liability, insurance bad faith defense, and asbestos litigation where she successfully defends a variety of clients, including insurance companies, product manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, contractors, and premises owners. Kendra litigates these complex matters handling the discovery, taking and defending depositions of witnesses, drafting motions for summary judgment, negotiating dismissals and settlements, and drafting and arguing pre-trial motions.

Kendra takes a proactive approach to litigation, seeking the most effective and balanced approach to obtain resolution for her clients. She regularly collaborates with her clients to investigate the claims and identify key defenses throughout the litigation process.

Kendra works closely with her firm team members to regularly provide updates to clients on the current landscape of asbestos litigation and developments in the law. These updates include statistics on recent asbestos litigation as well as in-depth analysis on significant cases and the implications of the results. It is important to Kendra that her clients remain informed on the areas of law that concerns them, and that she stays current with the changing legal landscape to better represent her clients. Ensuring that Walsworth’s clients are well-informed, Kendra is an active member of Los Angeles asbestos defense bar’s discovery committee, which was formed at the request of the presiding judges to assist in updating standard discovery and other discovery matters as they arise.

Kendra has been recognized as a Rising Star by the Southern California Super Lawyers from 2020-2024. In 2023 and 2024, she also received the accolades of Up-and-Coming 100: Southern California Rising Stars, Up-and-Coming 25: Orange County Rising Stars, and, Up-and-Coming 50: Women Southern California Rising Stars.

  • Grob v. Kaiser Gypsum Co., Inc. – Secured a dismissal in a wrongful death matter after filing a demurrer based on a statute of limitations defense. Plaintiffs alleged that decedent’s lung cancer was caused by para-occupational exposure to asbestos from her husband’s work who had previously had his own asbestos-related suit.
  • Obtained summary judgment in a personal injury asbestos-related matter filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. The grant of summary judgment, a rare win in asbestos cases where there is affirmative identification of the client, came after a successful argument against plaintiffs’ assertion that the client’s product contained asbestos during the relevant time period was wholly speculative. The court sustained Walsworth’s objections to plaintiff’s key percipient witness, and corporate representative testimony, and granted summary judgment.
  • Successfully obtained dismissals in asbestos matters on behalf of a number of clients, including contractors, manufacturers and suppliers.
  • Successfully convinced plaintiffs’ counsel that equipment manufacturers’ products were not present at the injured plaintiff’s place of employment.
  • Negotiated settlement for tenant that was nearly 50% of the demand in a subrogation matter. An insurance company filed a subrogation claim for extensive fire damages in a rental property against the client after the landlord had already accepted client’s full payment for damages.

  • Quoted, “These Firms Go Above And Beyond To Retain Female Attys,” Law360, 8/22/2023.

  • Southern California Rising Stars List, Super Lawyers, 2020-2024.
  • Up-and-Coming 100: Southern California Rising Stars; Up-and-Coming 25: Orange County Rising Stars, and, Up-and-Coming 50: Women Southern California Rising Stars, Super Lawyers, 2023-2024.

When outside the office, Kendra enjoys…

01. Cooking
02. Deep Sea Fishing
03. Exploring Local Restaurants