A Member at Stoll Keenon Ogden’s Evansville office, Kelly serves as chair of the firm’s Family Law practice and is Co-Chair of the Arbitration & Mediation practice group. She joined SKO in 2017 as part of the firm’s merger with Bamberger, Foreman, Oswald & Hahn, and has extensive legal experience. She is a Certified Family Law Specialist, as certified by the Indiana Family Law Certification Board, and is a registered Family Law Mediator. She has focused on high asset and business interest divorces, but these days she is transitioning her practice to mediation.
Kelly helps lessen the difficulties of divorce for families through “collaborative practice,” a growing legal specialty that’s focused on helping parties avoid litigation. She provides options to minimize conflicts, consulting as needed with financial planners and other 3rd-party resources.
Mediation is a large part of Kelly’s practice, and she works both with represented parties and parties who have not yet or may not retain counsel, to determine what issues they can resolve by agreement and help them reduce those agreements to writing.
Kelly also assists clients through four other practice groups at the firm, including Business Litigation, Arbitration & Mediation, Trusts & Estates, and Tort, Trial & Insurance.
Whether she’s handling a case as a mediator or representing an individual client, Kelly leverages her creative problem-solving skills to arrive at an agreeable resolution, in a manner that’s compassionate, efficient, and cost-effective.
Southern Illinois University, 1988, J.D.
University of Illinois, 1985, B.A. and B.S.
Indiana
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana
American Bar Association
Indiana State Bar Association
Evansville Bar Association, Past Board Member; Family Law Section, Past Chair
Gibson County Bar Association
Warrick County Bar Association
Guardian ad Litem Family Oversight Committee, Judicial Conference Committee Member
Indiana Family Law Task Force, Member
Indiana Bar Character and Fitness, Board Member
Brooks Inns of Court, member and Past President
Indiana Family Law Specialist Certification Board, Board Member
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, International and Indiana Chapter Member, Past Chapter President, Current Chapter board member
Indiana Chapter Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Immediate Past President, 2019
Volunteer Lawyer Program, Participant
Christian Life Center Board of Directors, Past Member
Pro Bono Mediation Task Force, Past Member
Legal Aid Society of Evansville Board of Directors, Past President
Best Lawyers in America®: Family Law, 2019-present; Commercial Litigation, 2024; 2023 Family Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Evansville
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