About Kevin M.
Kevin M. Hanratty has threaded a mix of corporate, political and private-practice work into a steady legal career. He moved from science into law, then into courtrooms and boardrooms. The arc is deliberate and plain in its course.
He began his academic life at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, earning a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with a minor in Biochemistry in 1997. That technical training preceded his decision to study law. He obtained his Juris Doctor from Whittier Law School in 2001.
After law school he entered the corporate world. In 2003 he joined Archon Corporation as corporate counsel. That role placed him inside company operations and exposed him to contract work, regulatory matters and internal compliance issues. The corporate experience gave him familiarity with transactional and business-sided legal problems.
In 2009 he took on a different kind of legal work, serving as a lawyer for the Sue Lowden campaign for the U.S. Senate. Campaign legal work presented practical and fast-moving challenges that differ from corporate practice. He handled the legal tasks that come with running a statewide political effort.
In 2010 he became a partner at Hanratty Law Group. His private-practice resume incorporates his prior corporate and campaign experiences. He has been a member of the Nevada Justice Association since 2008, a professional affiliation that connects him to a broader statewide bench of civil practitioners and trial lawyers. That membership has been a constant even as his career moved between sectors.
Hanratty is admitted to practice in Nevada and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He maintains his practice at Hanratty Law Group and handles matters in Nevada and before the Ninth Circuit.
