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Steve Kardell
Of Counsel
CLOUSE DUNN KHOSHBIN LLP
214.220.3888
214.220.3833 (fax)
steve@cdklawyers.com
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE
Complex Employment Law Litigation
Corporate Ethics Litigation, Representing Both Plaintiffs and Defendants
Creation, Evaluation and Auditing of Corporate Compliance Programs
Corporate Ethics Investigations
EDUCATION
University of Texas (B.A. 1973)
University of Houston (J.D. 1977)
PUBLICATIONS
"Beyond Whistleblowing: the Available Tools at Hand For Employees as Shareholder Activists in Corporate Governance"
"Navigating the Employment Issues Created by Sarbanes/Oxley and Advocating a New Cause of Action for the Era of Corporate Ethics";
“The Post-Enron Corporate Compliance Program: History, Theory, Evolution and Deficiencies"
PERSONAL:
Kardell is a seventh-generation Texan, with an interest in the history of Texas law. One great, great grandfather was the first businessman/defendant sued in the Republic of Texas courts. See Thompson v. Cartwright, 1 Tex. 87 (1846) 1846 Tex. LEXIS 19 (Note re Texas courts as pro-plaintiff--he lost). Another was General Houston's personal attorney. |
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Rebecca Aguilar v. KDFW Fox 4
Click here for John Council’s article in Texas Lawyer re Ms. Aguilar’s case.
Click here to hear Rebecca’s radio interview on KRLD’s Ernie and Jay Show.
Click here to read Steve Blow’s Dallas Morning News post about Rebecca’s case.
Click here to read KXAS Channel 5’s post on Rebecca’s case.
Mr. Kardell specializes in litigating complex employment issues, board of directors liability for employment practices, executive malfeasance and corporate ethics terminations, and has been quoted on executive termination cases in Forbes, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times and other national publications. He has represented executives and employees in the first cases brought in the state and federal courts in Texas dealing with non-retaliation rights under a corporate code of ethics. He has also developed international corporate ethics programs for such major multinational corporations as Electronic Data Systems, and also served as an advisor to the New York Stock Exchange on corporate codes of conduct and corporate ethics litigation. He also developed and presently teaches the first corporate compliance class at the law school level.
Before joining Clouse Dunn Khoshbin LLP, Kardell was an international partner in the Dallas office of Baker & McKenzie, where he headed that firm's labor and employment practice in the Southwest. He was a founding Member, SMU Dedman School of Law Multistate Labor and Employment Law Seminar, 1985-2004 and a former Chair of the Labor and Employment Section of the State Bar. He is also Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law.
He is presently an Adjunct Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law. (Courses: Corporate Compliance; Law Technology), and is formerly Co-Editor in Chief of the Texas Association of Business Employment Law Handbook (James Publications), as well as a former law clerk in the Eastern District of Texas.
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