George W. Kuney

George Kuney’s expertise relates to business transactions and litigation with an emphasis on business organizations, mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, and reorganizations. He consults or works as an expert witness with law firms and clients nationwide in his areas of expertise in a limited number of matters annually, generally related to business law, bankruptcy, contracts, corporate law and structure, legal drafting and writing, commercial law, chapter 11, and insolvency. Mr. Kuney has served as an American Arbitration Association arbitrator in disputes involving these subjects.

Prior to joining the University of Tennessee faculty in 2000, Mr. Kuney was a partner in the San Diego office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP, where he concentrated his practice on insolvency and reorganization matters nationwide. Before that, he received his legal training from the Morrison & Foerster and Howard Rice (now Arnold & Porter) firms in his hometown of San Francisco, California. Mr. Kuney holds an AV Peer Rating, Martindale-Hubbell’s highest peer rating for ethical standards and legal ability. He is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of California, the federal courts of Arizona, and the US Supreme Court.

Mr. Kuney is one of two original co-athors of CEB's single volume treatise “California Law of Contracts,” as well as: • Co-author, Mastering Appellate Advocacy and Process, 2nd Ed. (2024, Carolina Academic Press, with Donna C. Looper). • Co-author, Mastering Legal Analysis and Drafting, 2nd Ed. (2024, Carolina Academic Press, with Donna C. Looper). • Co-Author, A Transactional Matter (UT BE Press Repository 2023, with Donna C. Looper and Brian K. Krumm). Teachers manuals available to instructors upon request to gkuney@utk.edu. • Co-Author, A Civil Matter (UT BE Press Repository 2023, with Donna C. Looper) Teachers manuals available to instructors upon request to gkuney@utk.edu. • Co-author, Bankruptcy in Practice, 5th Ed. (2022, with Michael Bernstein). • Co-author, Legal Drafting: Processes, Techniques, and Exercises, 4th Ed. (West 2021, with Donna C. Looper) • Co-author, Legal Drafting in a Nutshell, 5th Ed. (2021, West, with Donna C. Looper). • Author, The Elements of Contract Drafting with Questions and Clauses for Consideration 5th ed. (text and teachers manual, West 2020)