Michael Louis Kelly

Kirtland & Packard LLP

Redondo Beach, CA

47+ Years Experience

Licensed in 2 States

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About Michael

One of the most prestigious and accomplished trial lawyers in the United States, Michael Louis Kelly brings a unique depth and breadth of experience to Kirtland & Packard LLP. Mr. Kelly joined Kirtland & Packard LLP directly out of law school in 1978 and has made the firm his home since. He started out his career trying medical negligence, and aviation injury cases. He took these cases to trial locally in California and in aviation matters, also in states across the United States. Mr. Kelly supervised, and in many cases traveled to participate in aviation litigation in far-away countries such as Pakistan, Australia, Guam, Germany, Canada, Mexico and Great Britain. He has worked with technical experts in just about every discipline imaginable in the multitude of cases he has litigated. A senior partner at the firm, Mr. Kelly has won hundreds of millions of dollars for his clients while representing them in cases involving: Wrongful death, Class action litigation, Mass torts, Auto defects, Personal injury. Mr. Kelly is AV Preeminent rated, which means he has earned the highest possible evaluation of his ethics and legal ability from the legal community, and retains an AVVO rating of “Superb” in five different personal injury and employment law categories. Mr. Kelly is an avid outdoorsman, who is an accomplished mountaineer, backpacker, hiker, skier, snowboarder and mountain bike rider. He is also an accomplished pilot, holding the highest civilian Federal Aviation Administration rating: Air Transport Pilot. Mr. Kelly has donated his time as a pilot and aircraft to animal rescue charities for over 15 years, transporting dogs from the kill shelters of Los Angeles to new homes in places as far North as Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and Nashville, Tennessee. He has been ranked in the top 1% of all litigators in the United States for his representation of consumers in personal injury cases, wrongful death cases, mass tort cases, which include his representation of persons harmed by defective drugs and defective medical devices. And class action and fraud claims against businesses and corporations and in representing persons injured or killed by defective automobiles or other vehicles. He also represents employees that have been discriminated against or wrongfully terminated for any number of reasons, including in whistleblower type cases. He has obtained a record jury verdict for an individual employee fired from his job of 69.2 million dollars. If you’ve suffered a spinal cord injury due to someone else’s negligence it’s very important to hire a lawyer experienced in spinal cord injuries for your case. Spinal cord injuries are injuries that may affect how you live the rest of your life. These injuries make it necessary to deal with so much more than the actual medical treatment of the original injury. You must deal with future surgeries, rehabilitation, physical therapy and maybe most importantly obtaining the best care and treatment for your future medical and personal needs. With the remarkable progress science and medicine is making in the field of spinal cord rehabilitation, providing the money and means to take advantage of future medical and scientific developments may mean the difference between the functioning life or being stuck with something less. You can be sure that insurance companies and medical providers are not always ready to pay for the best option for you. Our firm has handled many cases involving spinal cord injuries and has obtained hard-fought multi-million dollar results for our clients. As you know California is one of the states which requires operators and passengers of a motor vehicle to wear a seatbelt. What if you were involved in an accident and not wearing your seatbelt? In California you can still recover for injuries caused by someone else even though you were not wearing the seatbelt. Your damages may be discounted or reduced because of this but it will not act as a bar to your recovery. The determination of whether your damages should be discounted and, if so, by how much will require the skill of a lawyer experienced in this type of case and claim. Our firm has handled many cases involving this exact discounting issue and has obtained hard-fought multi-million dollar results for our clients.