When a client hires Kelly, her number one goal is to add value to their business. She understands retaining an attorney should be an investment in a relationship, and she spends considerable non-billable time learning about clients’ businesses, operational challenges, labor and employment issues, and goals. Her job is to partner with clients to navigate current challenges and encourage future growth.

Throughout her fifteen-plus years of defending corporate clients in complex labor and employment litigation, Kelly has handled class and multi-plaintiff employment discrimination cases, harassment and retaliation lawsuits, wage and hour class and collective actions, and trade secret and restrictive covenant matters. She also first-chaired a number of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and breach-of-contract claims to successful verdicts for clients. Kelly also enjoys proactively advising clients on compliance with the patchwork of federal, state, and local employment laws, conducts investigations and internal audits, develops employment policies and best practices, and negotiates employment issues that arise during transactions.

Kelly understands the cases she handles for clients involve systemic practices that can have significant impacts on a company’s bottom line, and spends much of her time learning about companies’ needs and obtaining results that advance their strategic business goals.