kelly and her firm handled a DUI for me and a more, let's just unflattering case several years later, for me (forgive me! i was drunk! and now sober!) and both were handled with professionalism and, most importantly, good outcomes, relative to the facts of the case. believe me, when you are facin...g serious time, as i was, you want to know that your attorney(s) are fighting for you AND are responsive to you. kelly is both. she and her firm are expensive, and i got what i paid for. kelly is a brainiac. she's a certified criminal law appellate specialist - a rare achievement and qualification- and she fits into a very unique niche in criminal law. her primary role at her firm (one of, if not THE best criminal defense firm in los angeles) is research and writer, so when you hire her you get something that perhaps no other criminal defense lawyer can offer - an expert legal research and writer that is as good as it gets, as good as civil law expert writers, and you get bad ass attorneys appearing in front of the judge for you too. generally, she won't be making appearances at court unless it's a big motion or an appeal, but that's great because she has mark werksman (the senior partner and a top top tier lawyer) or nina daly (a very solid and experienced criminal defense attorney) making the appearances on her cases while she's back at the office grinding away on research and motions. that was how my big felony case was handled. there were times where i would be on the phone with kelly before a hearing while one of her colleagues from her firm was making an appearance on my case at the same time. criminal law, for the most part, is a run-and-gun type of legal practice, but if you have a case that needs the type of "papering" that is typically only found at high dollar civil firms (think morrison forrester or quinn emanuel) for your criminal defense or quasi-criminal defense, you can't go wrong with kelly and her firm. she's done death penalty appeal defenses, sex cases, federal firearms, pharma cases (medical medicare fraud, and pretty much every major crime you can think of) the biggest compliment you can give an attorney is that other attorneys hire her. i used to be an attorney, and i hired her (and she ain't cheap!), and so have attorneys from huge powerhouse law firms. by the way: i only did 120 days in custody on a really really serious felony case.