Kelly is a partner in the Mobile litigation group and resides in the firm's Pascagoula office. His practice focuses on general litigation, personal injury defense, premises liability, automobile litigation, construction litigation, commercial disputes and education/school law. He is the Board attorney for the Pascagoula School District. He is also among a select group of lawyers listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers for Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Kelly was with Lyons, Pipes & Cook in Mobile before the firm joined Phelps Dunbar.

• University of Mississippi, J.D., 1992; Associate Editor, Mississippi Law Journal; Editor, Journal of Space Law
• University of Georgia, B.S., 1989

• Member: The Mississippi Bar, Young Lawyers Division (President, 2004-05); Alabama State Bar; Jackson County Bar Association (President, 2000-01); Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association; Defense Research Institute; Russell-Blass-Walker Chapter of the American Inns of Court (President 2009-2010); Council of School Board Attorneys; Pascagoula Kiwanis Club (President, 2001-02); Pascagoula Rotary Club; Gulf Coast Business Council
• Admitted: State and Federal Courts in Mississippi and Alabama as well as being admitted before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. Supreme Court