Edward J. Kelly is a trial attorney and
investigator with more than 28 years’ experience in complex dispute resolution.
He began his legal career with Kelly, Rode & Kelly LLP in 1991 and served
as a partner between 1996-1999. He then took on roles as in-house counsel with
companies such as Harris Corporation, Nike and Levi Strauss & Co., and
primarily worked in Asia between 2000-2014. He returned to the firm in 2014 and
now handles a broad range of civil litigation matters in the state and federal
courts of New York. He is also admitted to practice in California.
He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the
Scranton Preparatory School. He received his undergraduate degree from Duke
University in 1988, where he also was a member of the wrestling team. He earned
his Juris Doctorate degree from Boston University Law School in 1991 and was
admitted to the New York Bar in March of 1992. Later, in 2000-01, he obtained a
Master of Laws (LLM) degree and pursued post-graduate training in international
law and intellectual property at Golden Gate University School of Law and the
University of San Diego School of Law, respectively. He completed an intensive
course in open source intelligence collection and analysis while at St.
Catharine's College at Cambridge University in London and in 2004 completed the
leadership course at the Centre for Creative Leadership in San Diego. Ed has
consulted for clients in the fields of medical and professional negligence, law
enforcement, software and pharmaceutical law and has tried cases involving
commercial disputes, negligence/professional malpractice, fraud, construction
site accidents, intellectual
property infringement and human trafficking.
In 2016, he was elected to serve as a Member of the Board of
the Trial Lawyers Section of the Nassau-Suffolk County Bar Association and is a
member of the Thai-American Bar Association. Mr. Kelly has been a guest
lecturer at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business,
Boston University School of Law and Santa Clara University School of Law and
has lectured widely on matters of trial practice and international law to the
California and New York State Bar Associations, the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police, Interpol, the International Anti- Counterfeiting Coalition (where he
delivered the Keynote Address in Dallas in 2006), the International Law
Enforcement Academy (ILEA), the International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers
Association.
While working in Asia, he learned to speak Thai, and took on
a leadership role in the fight against human trafficking in SE Asia through a
non-profit foundation he organized in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He is active in the
Thai-American community and provides pro bono consulting to an anti-trafficking
organization called Garden Of Hope in New York. For work in the field of
anti-human trafficking, he received the prestigious Victor Garo Award for
Public Service from the Boston University School of Law in October 2009. He was
recently nominated to receive the T. Donald Rinfret Distinguished Alumnus Award
on the occasion of Scranton Prep's 75th Anniversary.
He and his wife Sasithorn "May" Kelly have a four
year old son, Shane.
Working with this lawyer made the litigation experience very comfortable. I felt supported and prepared for Court. He had full knowledge of the case and was thoroughly prepared to argue before the jur...
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