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 Dennis J. Kelly

Dennis J. Kelly

Partner

Office Phone: 617.345.3436
Location: Boston, MA
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Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court

Experience:

Mr. Kelly practices in the areas of complex civil litigation and white-collar criminal defense and regulatory investigations. He has tried numerous jury and nonjury cases, civil and criminal, in federal and state courts. He also has successfully handled appeals in both jurisdictions. Mr. Kelly has been recognized as among the best in his fields by the publications Best Lawyers in America and Massachusetts Super Lawyers.

His areas of expertise in civil litigation include aviation, commercial and business litigation, complex bankruptcy litigation, directors' and officers' liability, intellectual property and securities and tax litigation. His clients have included Charles Schwab & Co. in customer suits and SEC enforcement matters, the Chapter 7 trustee of the Bank of New England Corporation in federal civil litigations arising out of the biggest bank failure in New England, American Airlines and subsidiaries in aviation tort litigations, the Boston Celtics, its players and staff, as well as health care executives with pharma and medical device companies.

Mr. Kelly's areas of expertise in criminal defense include antitrust, bank, securities and tax fraud, health care fraud including pharmaceutical and medical device cases, and RICO, environmental, and international fraud and technology transfer cases. He also has special expertise handling parallel civil/administrative and criminal proceedings. He represents companies and individuals in federal and state grand jury and regulatory investigations and prosecutions.

From 1982 to 1988, he was Assistant United States Attorney, Major Frauds Unit, the Criminal Division, United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. In this position he successfully prosecuted and tried international high-technology transfer crimes and RICO, bank, securities and tax fraud cases.

Mr. Kelly has handled securities and other arbitrations as advocate and arbitrator.

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Mr. Kelly is a Trial Advisor in Harvard Law School's Trial Advocacy Workshop. He has lectured at Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. He has authored: "Enforcement of U.S. Export Control Laws," Producing and Exporting Technology, MCLE (2005); New England Law School Journal article on "The Economic Espionage Act of 1996" (2000); "Confronting A Government Investigation," Winning Before Indictment, MCLE (1996).

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