Kathleen Kelly is a litigator and trial attorney who focuses her practice in mass tort litigation involving pharmaceuticals and medical devices, as well as products liability, food-borne illness and environmental litigation.
She has been national coordinating counsel for several medical device and pharmaceutical companies.
A selection of Ms. Kelly’s representative cases include:
- Actively serving as national counsel for a generic drug manufacturer in multi-district litigation arising out of the use of the drug metoclopramide.
- Actively serving as national coordinating counsel and providing risk management services for a medical device manufacturer in litigation arising out of a recall of surgically implanted spinal fixation devices.
- Served as national coordinating counsel for a medical device company in mass tort litigation arising out of the use of a pain pump to deliver medication to the shoulder following arthroscopic surgery.
- Served as national coordinating counsel for a leading pharmaceutical company in litigation arising out of a professionally labeled OTC product.
- Represented national retailer in E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak and local retailer in Campylobacter litigation.
Ms. Kelly joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in June 2010. Previously she was of counsel to the Boston office of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP.
She is a member of the Defense Research Institute and the Massachusetts Bar Association.