Cases I Handle
Admission, Education, Awards
Kelly is a native of Easton, and a graduate of Easton Area High School. She received her undergraduate degree from Penn State University, where she graduated with High Distinctions. Kelly then attended Temple University School of Law and graduated Cum Laude. During law school, she was chosen for Temple’s law review, the Temple Law Quarterly, and was a published staff writer as well as an editor.
Kelly’s practice is limited to personal injury, and she has handled a gamut of personal injury cases over the course of her career in the Lehigh Valley and surrounding counties. She has handled very serious injury and death cases involving motor vehicle and trucking accidents, medical malpractice, dog bites, premises claims, and mass torts, as well as nursing home malpractice cases. She was co-counsel most recently in the Charles Cullen serial murder cases and the DePUY ASR defective hip implant litigation. These cases have resulted in many verdicts and settlement, and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements, including verdicts of $95 million, $4.36 million, and $1.5 million, and a multiple plaintiff settlement of $20 million.
"I have a great passion to do everything I can to help people who have been victimized."
Kelly has been elected by her peers statewide to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list every year since 2009. In 2007, she was named to Who’s Who of American Women. She has also been named as a top 100 Trial Lawyer by the American Trial Lawyer’s Association, beginning in 2009. The National Trial Lawyers have also selected her as a premier trial attorney. In 2015, her peers in the Lehigh Valley elected her as a “Select Lawyer,” recognizing Kelly as a premier Lehigh Valley attorney in the areas of personal injury and motor vehicle law.
Kelly is admitted to practice law in the Courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She has been a member of the Northampton County Bar Association since 1987. She is also an active member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Lehigh County Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, and the Donald E. Wieand Barristers’ Inn.
Overview
Admissions
Pennsylvania, 1986
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1986
U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 2008
Education
Temple University School of Law, J.D., 1986
- Law Review: Temple’s Law Review, Writer, and Editor
Pennsylvania State University, B.S., 1983
- Honors: High Distinctions
Professional Affiliations
Pennsylvania Bar Association, Member
Northampton Bar Association, Member
Pennsylvania Association for Justice
Donald E. Wieand Barristers’ Inns of Court
Awards And Honors
Verdicts &
Settlements
In her Own Words
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