Areas
of Concentration: Torts, Local Government Law,
Administrative Law, Legal Research and Writing
Kellen McClendon is a 1966 graduate of Westminster
College and a 1974 graduate of Duquesne University
School of Law. From 1967 to 1971, he was an Intelligence
Officer in the United States Air Force. He received
the Bronze Star for service in Vietnam.
From 1974 to 1979, Professor McClendon was an
Assistant Attorney General assigned to the Western
Regional Office of the Pennsylvania Department
of Justice. From 1979 to 1982, he was a sole practitioner.
From 1982 to 1989, he was an Assistant City Solicitor
with the Law Department of the city of Pittsburgh.
He has practiced before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth
Court of Pennsylvania, the Court of Common Pleas
of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court
for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
He is also the author of Do Hospitals Relieve
the Government of Some of Its Burden?,
67 Temple Law Review 517 (1994); What
the National Health Care Debate Tells Us
About Whether Hospitals are Entitled to Exemption
from Real Estate Taxes,
6 Widener Journal of Public Law 41 (1996);
The Convergence of Thinking, Talking and
Writing: A Theory for Improving Writing,
38 Duquesne Law Review 21 (1999); and Fundamental
Principles of Tort Law, (Chapter 9) in Forensic
Science and Law: Investigative Applications in
Criminal, Civil, and Family Justice 165-229 (Cyril
H. Wecht & John T. Rago eds., 2006). |
Kellen
McClendon