Lannie Todd Kelly

Todd Kelly is first, and foremost, a child of God. He is a devoted husband to his wife, Robbye, and father of four amazing children, Joshua, Meghan, Matthew, and Selby.

Professionally, Todd is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is an “AV” rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Todd is licensed in Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia, New Mexico and Pennsylvania. He grew up in Arlington, Texas, and received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Texas in 1987, while attending on an ROTC Scholarship. He then earned his J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law in 1995 as a member of the Woolsack Honor Society, while serving as a U.S. Marine, where he returned to practice as a judge advocate.

Todd left the Marine Corps for private practice in 1998, as a Major in the judge advocate general’s (JA) corps. He represented seriously injured people in Virginia and Pennsylvania before returning to represent similar victims in his native Texas in 2002.

Todd has been featured on 20/20, The Rachel Maddow Show, and has been interviewed on legal topics by numerous national and local news programs. In 2009, Todd spoke to committees of the United States Congress related to the Fairness in Arbitration Act, in an effort to eliminate mandatory, binding, pre-dispute arbitration provisions that we still find in many of our consumer products and other contracts. Todd was consulted by the Senator who sponsored an amendment to the Senate Appropriations bill during that year which led to the abolition of forced arbitration for victims of sexual assault by most military contractors.

In 2013, Todd was inducted into the Texas Lawyer Hall of Fame following a $16,900,000 verdict on behalf of a mentally handicapped woman who was raped by a caregiver. He has been named a Texas Super Lawyer in 2011, 2012 and every year since 2014.

Todd has dedicated his life to making America safer. He now continues that work by protecting those truly injured people who will never get the justice that our system promises to them without holding greedy, powerful companies responsible for the damage they cause. As a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, as a member of the Executive Committee of the Texas Trial Lawyers’ Association, and as president of the Capital Area Trial Lawyer’s Association, he is a staunch defender of our 7th Amendment Right to Trial by Jury in all cases with a value exceeding $20.00.

Todd believes that if we fail to protect the 7th Amendment to the United States Constitution, we will eventually lose the rights guaranteed by them all because it is the right to hold the powerful accountable, protected by the 7th Amendment, that protects the individual freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution.