Well-known Sacramento employment attorney joining Kennaday Leavitt

Kennaday Leavitt is getting a new name on the door: Veteran employment attorney Jeffery Owensby is joining the firm as an equity partner.

Owensby, 59, officially joins the health care and employment practice on Oct 1. He is leaving Rediger, McHugh & Owensby, where he worked for eight years but was not an equity partner.

Kelli Kennaday and Curtis Leavitt hope Owensby's addition will mark a capstone to a turbulent couple of years. The two lawyers left Wilke Fluery in early 2014 along with attorney…