Bradley Kucera joined Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann after clerking for the Honorable Christine L. Stetson, Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Bradley received his J.D. from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, where he graduated magna cum laude and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Bradley served as Forum Editor-in-Chief of the SMU Law Review Association and spent much of his time working with the SMU First Amendment Clinic, including as a student chief and twice as the Dallas Bar Foundation’s Stephen H. Philbin II Media Law Fellow. A “double pony,” he also holds a B.A., cum laude, from SMU, with majors in History (with departmental distinction) and Human Rights and a minor in African/American Studies.

Bradley is an enigma. On one hand, like so many others, he loves watching college football and hiking in the mountains. On the other hand, not even he knows the full extent of his interests. As an undergraduate, he won an on-campus Halloween film festival for his short film about a pumpkin-wielding killer, and he won an essay contest for his paper about the ethics of using nanobots for in vitro fertilization. Bradley also performed, in front of SMU’s iconic Dallas Hall, a rap album about environmental justice that he wrote with his friend. Since college, he has helped his former professor run a nonprofit that funds and manages a school for orphans in war-torn, rural Cameroon. Recently, he’s been revisiting some of the classic works of political philosophy and, as always, contemplating deep time. Whatever he takes on next, it’s sure to be a surprise.

DFW is home, so Bradley is glad to be back near family and excited to join an elite, homegrown firm. He lives with his longtime girlfriend and their two cats, Banjo and Bruno.