Bio

As head of Carrington Coleman’s Professional Liability group, Kelli helps navigate cases for major law firms, healthcare institutions, and corporations, and the professionals who run them.

Her ability to clarify a professional’s and corporation’s legal duties—to plaintiff’s attorneys, judges, and juries—often brings these cases to quick and successful conclusions. She applies the same informed expertise to shareholder disputes, derivative claims, and officer and director suits, making her a “go-to” attorney for high stakes business litigation.

Being an amazingly quick study, she has yet to meet a legal problem she couldn’t eventually master. Her meticulous dissection of cases against her clients can leave the other side wondering what hit them. Kelli has obtained major victories for her clients, including overturning an $88 million verdict in a “shareholder oppression” case; obtaining dismissal of the claims against her client who served as outside counsel and on the board of directors for a privately-traded company that ultimately filed bankruptcy; obtaining summary judgment in bankruptcy court on a legal malpractice claim against a large international law; obtaining summary judgment for a publicly-traded oil and gas company in a pollution case filed by a land-owner seeking over $38 million in alleged clean up costs under the federal Oil Pollution Act; and securing a take-nothing award in an arbitration seeking over $5 million under a purchase-price "earnout" provision.

Kelli graduated summa cum laude with a business degree from McMurry University and then graduated magna cum laude from SMU Dedman School of Law, where she was a Hatton W. Sumner Scholar and the Editor of the SMU Law Review Air Law Symposium. She has been named a “Super Lawyer” in the Texas Monthly magazine every year since 2012 (before that she was a “”Rising Star”), and has been recognized as one of D Magazine’s Best Lawyers in Dallas since 2014.

Kelli serves on the Texas Board of Disciplinary Appeals (a 12-person board appointed by the Texas Supreme Court), and is a past Co-Chair of the DBA Legal Ethics Committee and Attorneys Serving the Community. She is also a frequent author and speaker on issues involving ethics and legal malpractice, as well as how to avoid and litigate business disputes.

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