Dar'shun N. Kendrick was born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in South DeKalb where she attended and graduated from Towers High school in 2000. For her undergraduate studies, she attended the liberal arts college of Oglethorpe University where she graduated cum laude with her Bachelors of Arts in political science and communications in 2004. She attended the University of Georgia School of Law where she received her juris doctorate in May of 2007. While in law school, she was on a Member and Editor of the International and Comparative Law Journal and started the law school's first ever Business Law Society which prepares law students to practice transactional business law as opposed to business litigation. In August of 2011, she received her Master’s in Business Administration from Kennesaw State University.
After law school and passing the Georgia bar, she was employed at a litigation firm in downtown Atlanta, Georgia serving as counsel for large corporations like American Express, the City of Atlanta, Dell, Avis Rent-A-Car Systems, Clarke Atlanta and other large entities. Her practice is exclusively business law, with a focus on transactional law including document drafting, document reviewing and negotiating services.
Dar'shun is admitted to practice law in the state and superior courts of Georgia, the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Middle District of Georgia. She is a Member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Young Lawyers Division (YLD) of the State Bar, the Business Law Committee of the YLD of the State Bar, the DeKalb and Rockdale Chamber of Commerce.
Dar'shun was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in November of 2010 to represent over 50,000 residents in East DeKalb and Rockdale counties in the Georgia General Assembly. She currently serves on the Children and Youth, Special Rules and Interstate Cooperation committees.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Past Speaking Engagements
June 28, 2010
- PRESENTATION on “Choosing the Right Business Entity” for 15 law students at John Marshall Law School (Atlanta, GA)
November of 2010
- PRESENTATION on “Choosing the Right Business Entity” for 25-30 business owners/students for the Micromax Entrepreneurship Program
November 2011
- PRESENTATION on “Choosing the Right Business Entity” for 5-10 business owners for Small Business Development Center (“SBDC”- DeKalb Co. branch)
February 17, 2011
- PRESENTATION on “Choosing the Right Business Entity” for 15-20 business owners/students for the Micromax Entrepreneurship Program
Thursday, May 19th @ 7:30-12 PM
- GUEST PANELIST/MODERATOR/ORGANIZER of “94th District Small Business Forum” for over200business owners at District Forum (Lithonia, GA)
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Saturday, August 6th @ 3:00 PM
- CLASS on “Top 10 Business Contract Traps” to around 100 business owners at Partnership for Community Action Small Business Forum
Saturday, August 19th @ 1:00 PM
- SPEECH on “Overcoming adversities and the Entrepreneurial Spirit” to around 50 business owners at New Hope Enterprises Graduation
Thursday, September 22nd @ 8:30 AM
- PRESENTATION on “Top 10 Business Contract Traps and What Every Business
Owner Should Know” to18business owners at a Rockdale-Conyers Chamber ofCommerce Leads Group
Tuesday, October 18th @ 6-8:00 PM
- CLASS on “Top 10 Business Contract Traps” to around 15-20 business owners for Small Business Development Center (DeKalb Co. branch)
Thursday, October 20th @ 12 PM
- SEMINAR on “Ten Business Tips for Success” to around 50 business owners for DeKalb County Office of Purchasing and Licensing, Contracting Compliance Division, Brown Bag Seminar
Thursday, October 27, 2011 8-9:30 AM
- PRESENTATION to Conyers-Rockdale County Chamber of Commerce Leads Group to 30 business owners on “Top 10 Tips for Business Success” that included both legal and business advice
Thursday, November 17, 2011 4-5:30 PM
- PANELIST for Global Entrepreneurship Week for local non-profit organization targeted towards middle school and high school students to 30 students, business leaders and parents
Monday, November 21st, 2011 6-8 PM
· PANELIST for Solo Practitioners Division of Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys to 35 solo practitioners
Wednesday, December 7th at 9 am
- SEMINAR on “Ten Business Contract Traps” to around 50 business owners for Small Business Development Center Women’s Luncheon
Tuesday, January 10th at 9:30 AM
- PRESENTER of 50 business owners for “Business Owners Day at the Capitol” among 180 Members of the Georgia General Assembly
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 3:30-5:30 PM
- PRESENTER at the “Stepping Up to Business” Conference by the Small
Business Finance Institute (Loudermilk Center in Atlanta) to about 25-30 business owners about “10 Business Contract Traps & Terms”
OTHER ACTIVITIES
“Give and Take” (GnT) Network
Founder of the “Give and Take” Network which is a network of 100 business owners that meet quarterly to network, are connected through an email listserve, and are afforded opportunities to network and promote their business through the KLP network.
E-Newsletter
Editor of the monthly e-newsletter (15th of each month) that details client success stories, what’s going on within Kendrick Law Practice as well as initiatives and involvement in the community, helpful articles, promotions and deals. We have almost 1,000 subscribers.
BlogTalkRadio
BlogTalkRadio has online seminars every other month dealing with legal OR business issues; our live listeners have varied between 2-3 ppl. but these seminars are archived for listening later and have attracted over 1,500 archived listeners over the course of the seminars.
Twitter
Legal Tweet Meets every Thursday from 8-9 PM. Georgia based businesses can ask us their LEGAL or BUSINESS Question during this time.
Social Media
- Twitter- Over 1100 followers
- Facebook- Over 750 friends
- LinkedIn- Over 1500 connections
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