Kemmy Law Firm: Three Years as Missionaries in Zambia, Then a Family Firm Across Three States

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AT A GLANCE

I. Three Years in Zambia Between Insurance Defense and Plaintiffs’ Work

Tom Kemmy’s career took an unusual detour on the way to founding his own firm. He started practicing law in 1986 at a premier San Antonio insurance defense firm, learning the defense side of litigation firsthand. After three and a half years, he and his wife Ginger, along with their four children, moved to Mongu, Zambia for three years to serve as lay missionaries, working alongside farmers and villagers in a remote region. Upon returning to San Antonio, Kemmy opened a one-lawyer office and has spent the decades since representing injured people and small business owners against larger corporations and hospitals, drawing on the defense-side knowledge from his early career.

II. A Firm That Grew Through the Family

Over the past decade, the firm has expanded to include five of Tom’s sons and a daughter-in-law, each practicing as trial lawyers under the Kemmy name. Several of the sons previously worked as prosecutors representing the State of Texas in serious criminal matters before joining the family’s plaintiffs’ injury practice. The firm now maintains offices in San Antonio, Odessa, Texas, and Hobbs, New Mexico, representing clients across Texas, New Mexico, and beyond.

III. Practice Areas

• Personal injury (car accidents, brain injuries, catastrophic injury)
• Medical malpractice and negligence
• Oil field and work-related injuries
• Trucking accidents
• Oil, gas, mineral, and royalty disputes
• Business torts

IV. Case Outcomes

The firm describes having obtained “significant verdicts and settlements” and “millions of dollars recovered in settlements and verdicts” across more than 50 combined years of trial experience, but does not publish an itemized list of specific case results with dollar figures on its main pages; that gap is disclosed here rather than filled in.

V. The Client Voice

A client review describes working directly with Tom, his son Nick, and staff member Melissa throughout a case, writing that “not at any time were we in the dark, not knowing what was going on,” and that the family “fought for us as if they were fighting for their own family,” offering both case updates and emotional support “during the case as well as the years after the case.” No pattern of negative or unresolved reviews was located for this firm as of this research date.

VI. Community and Local Presence

Tom Kemmy was selected by his peers to receive the Pat Maloney, Sr. Courage Award from the San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association, an award named for the legendary San Antonio trial lawyer who mentored Kemmy earlier in his career. Beyond that recognition, the firm’s Zambia missionary background is documented as part of Tom Kemmy’s personal history rather than an ongoing firm program; no separate, current civic or pro bono initiative is documented on the firm’s public materials.

VII. Credentials and Recognition

Thomas Kemmy is board certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, a genuine peer- and exam-based credential. He has been named a Texas Super Lawyer in multiple years between 2010 and 2024 and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), an invitation-only trial-lawyer organization. He was also recognized as a Top Lawyer by San Antonio magazine Scene in multiple years. The Pat Maloney, Sr. Courage Award, discussed above, is a peer-nominated recognition from the San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association rather than a self-conferred marketing credential.

VIII. The Texas Legal Backdrop

Texas personal injury claims are generally subject to a two-year statute of limitations under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 16.003. Medical malpractice claims carry their own notice and expert-report requirements under Chapter 74 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. Texas follows a modified comparative negligence rule (Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 33.001) under which a plaintiff found more than 50% responsible for their own injury generally cannot recover. None of this is legal advice; consult a licensed Texas attorney about your specific situation.

IX. The Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Kemmy Law Firm’s structural strength is genuinely unusual: a board-certified founder with a documented insurance-defense background and a three-year missionary detour, who built a multi-generational family firm now spanning three states. For a client who values the “hire a team of lawyers, not just one” pitch and wants a firm with real depth across personal injury, oil field, and business-tort matters, that family-firm structure is a real, checkable asset, not just marketing language.

The honest limitation is one worth naming directly for any multi-office, multi-generational firm: a client should confirm which specific attorney, and from which office, will actually be handling their matter day to day, since a firm with locations in three states and multiple family attorneys does not guarantee any one client works directly with Tom Kemmy himself. This is a reasonable question to ask of any firm with multiple attorneys and offices, not a knock specific to this one.

X. Methodology & Sources

This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys in August 2026 without the participation, sponsorship, or payment of Kemmy Law Firm, P.C. Primary source: the firm’s website kemmylawfirm.com (home, about, attorney bios, San Antonio location page). Verification sources: Avvo’s attorney profile for Thomas G. Kemmy (bar history, career background); the Association of America’s Top Lawyers profile for Thomas Kemmy; Super Lawyers attorney profile. Statutes cited in Section VIII were verified against the Texas Constitution and Statutes database (statutes.capitol.texas.gov).

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