Haque, Kashif

Kevin Hannon, of The Hannon Law Firm, LLC, in Denver, Colorado, serves as Of Counsel to Gray, Ritter & Graham, P.C. He is licensed to practice in Colorado, the District of Columbia, Missouri and Wisconsin. His practice areas include environmental and toxic torts.

Mr. Hannon has successfully tried and settled cases involving above and underground storage tanks, smelter, manufacturing and agricultural operations, causing air, soil, water and noise pollution from heavy metals, pesticides, petroleum products, biological waste and other substances. Mr. Hannon serves as lead counsel in several environmental class actions across the country. Mr. Hannon has served for over fifteen years as lead counsel of the Firm's series of individual and class action cases in Missouri for personal injury, medical monitoring, and property damage from lead emissions from a lead smelter and lead contamination from mining waste. Mr. Hannon has also served as counsel on other cases involving damage caused by exposure to other toxic chemicals.

In 1993, Mr. Hannon received the "Trial Lawyer of the Year" Award from the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation in Washington, D.C., for his work in Escamilla v. Asarco. In 1996, he was awarded the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association "Outstanding Young Trial Lawyer" Award.

He is listed in Best Lawyers in America® in Environmental law. Mr. Hannon has been annually selected to Colorado Super Lawyers [among the top 5 percent of lawyers in Colorado] since 2009, in the categories of Environmental Litigation, Class Action/Mass Torts and Personal Injury Plaintiff. He has an AV Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, which is the highest given.

Mr. Hannon is a frequent author and lecturer on litigation, including on environmental law and toxic torts.

Mr. Hannon received his law degree from Georgetown University in 1986. He earned a master's degree in Environmental Management in 1980.

During law school, Mr. Hannon served as Science Advisor for Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, a national public interest law firm. He provided technical and legal review for products liability, medical malpractice, and hazardous waste, pesticide, and other chemical exposure cases and Clean Water Act citizen acts. Among others, he worked on Anderson v. Cryovac, the case that forms the basis for the movie A Civil Action. Before beginning his law career, Mr. Hannon worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in both air quality and toxic substances programs.