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Bob Kelley is a trial lawyer with the law office of Sheldon J. Schlesinger, P.A. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For over twenty years his practice has consisted exclusively of representing individuals, families and consumers whose lives have been devastated by corporate misconduct, reckless drivers, dangerous products, and careless doctors and hospitals. Mr. Kelley does not represent insurance companies or corporate or medical conglomerates, nor will he do so. Mr. Kelley has tried more than one hundred jury trials across the United States, ranging in length from several days to over six months. He is rated by Martindale-Hubble as an "AV" lawyer, reflecting Mr. Kelley's adherence to professional standards of conduct and ethics, and his extensive legal ability and experience.

Mr. Kelley received his Juris Doctorate degree, cum laude, from Nova University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1981. While in law school he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Nova Law Review, and Editor-in-Chief of the law school newspaper, The Nova Perspective. He obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics and Astronomy, with a minor in mathematics, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1977.

  Mr. Kelley has been a member of The Florida Bar since 1981. He is a past President of  the Broward County Trial Lawyers Association, and is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Broward County Bar Association, and the Trial Bar of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Mr. Kelley served on the board of directors of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers from 1994 through 1998. He was an EAGLE Advocate, and has served on the AFTL sovereign immunity task force and membership committee. Mr. Kelley has lectured at seminars and meetings on trial practice for the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, the Broward County Trial Lawyers Association, Nova Southeastern University, and AIEG, the Attorneys Information Exchange Group. He has also spent weeks in the Florida State Capitol lobbying on behalf of issues to help individuals preserve their rights in Court, and for governmental claims bills filed on behalf of his clients.

Mr. Kelley is admitted to practice in all Courts of the State of Florida, as well as the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, the United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He has published articles in the Florida Bar Journal, the Journal of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, the Nova Law Review, and the International Information Bulletin on Variable Stars. He is also a licensed United States Coast Guard Captain.

Mr. Kelley has served as a member of the Florida Bar Rules of Evidence Committee (1981-83), as  member of the Florida Bar Fee Arbitration Committee (1995- ), and as a member of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Professionalism Committee (1998 - ).He has served as  a member of the Allocations Committee of the United Way of Broward County, and on the board of directors of the Broward County YMCA. 

Mr. Kelley has appeared on CBS 60 Minutes and other television news programs fighting for the rights of the people and his clients.  

Mr. Kelley can be reached at 954-467-8800 or via e-mail at BobKelley@KelleyLaw.net.

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