Christine Kennedy-Jensen

Christine Kennedy-Jensen is a partner at Monaghan Leahy, LLP in Portland, Maine whose practice focuses on trial work involving personal injury, tort, insurance coverage, family law, and civil disputes. She represents clients in personal injury and insurance matters and also handles complex divorce and custody cases involving significant financial or family issues. Her firm-listed practice areas include Divorce & Family Law, Litigation & Trial Work, and Mediation & Arbitration.

Kennedy-Jensen graduated with honors from Mount Holyoke College in 1996 and from the University of Maine School of Law in 1999. Her academic background supports a practice built around detailed factual analysis and courtroom advocacy. This background supports Kennedy-Jensen’s legal analysis and problem solving in trial practice and civil disputes, including work that requires close attention to detailed facts, governing rules, and practical consequences.

Kennedy-Jensen’s experience includes automobile and premises claims, product and asbestos matters, professional malpractice, construction defects, condominium and contract disputes, boundary issues, and insurance coverage questions. Kennedy-Jensen also handles family cases involving complex financial questions and child custody, requiring attention to both legal rights and practical consequences for clients. Through these matters, Kennedy-Jensen helps clients assess legal options, manage risk, and move through transactions, disputes, administrative processes, or litigation as the situation requires.

Christine Kennedy-Jensen has developed a trial practice that spans tort, insurance, property, contract, and family disputes. Her mediation and arbitration work adds a dispute-resolution dimension to her courtroom practice. In serving individuals, families, and businesses, Kennedy-Jensen brings practical judgment and subject-matter knowledge to the issues presented. Kennedy-Jensen helps individuals and businesses address injury claims, insurance issues, family disputes, and other contested matters with advice grounded in the specific facts and legal framework of each matter.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Monaghan Leahy, LLP
• Member, Maine State Bar Association
• Member, Maine Trial Lawyers Association
• Member, DRI
• Member, Cumberland County Bar Association
• Member, Women’s Section of the Maine State Bar Association
• Member, Family Law Section of the Maine State Bar Association

Licensed State

• Maine

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