Mr. Kerr is a shareholder and concentrates his practice in employment and personal injury trials. He was born in 1956 in Clairton, Pennsylvania, and grew up in the Pittsburgh area.
 
    Mr. Kerr attended Washington & Jefferson College and was graduated in 1977 with a degree in English literature, summa cum laude.
 
    Upon graduation from W&J, he was commissioned as an officer in the Army Military Police Corps. From 1977 to 1981, he commanded an Army MP unit in Germany.
 
    In 1981, Mr. Kerr attended the Ohio State University College of Law on an Army full scholarship.  He was a member of the Ohio State University Law Journal and a finalist in the moot court competition.  During his last year he ran the Cleveland Revco Marathon. 

    After passing the bar in 1984, Mr. Kerr served as an Army JAG prosecutor in Monterey, California, from 1984 to 1987. He was then selected by the Army to study for an L.L.M. degree at the Army JAG School at the University of Virginia, where he wrote his thesis on the Federal Rules of Evidence and won both the Best Thesis and Trial Advocacy awards.
 
    After receiving his LLM in 1988, Mr. Kerr was assigned to the Pentagon where he defended the Army in complex federal, torts, contracts, and employment cases. He also served as criminal defense counsel for the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, where he defended, among other clients, an Army officer court-martialed for spying for the Soviet Union.
 
    In 1990, after fulfilling all of his Army educational commitments, Mr. Kerr moved back home to Western Pennsylvania. He transferred to the Army Reserve where he commanded a Pittsburgh-based research and development unit.  In 2005, he retired at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
 
    Mr. Kerr represents clients in employment discrimination and personal injury matters.  In 2005, he was inducted by his fellow lawyers into the Westmoreland County Bar Association's Trial Academy.  
 
    Mr. Kerr is a fitness and outdoors buff. He likes to read and discuss classic literature and the history of the English language.

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