About Kelly Elder

Kelly Elder's practice focuses on representing people injured by professional negligence, such as medical malpractice, or by defective drugs and adverse reactions to vaccines. After graduating from George Washington University Law School in 2019 with honors, Kelly began her legal career at the United States Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C., where she clerked for the Honorable Marian Blank Horn. In 2021, she joined Martin & Jones out of a strong desire to fight for individuals who have been wrongfully injured or harmed. While in law school, she was recognized as a Thurgood Marshall Scholar and was selected to represent clients as a student-attorney in the George Washington Law Vaccine Injury Litigation Clinic.

She served as Executive Articles Editor of the quarterly journal of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and was a member of the Moot Court and Mock Trial Boards. Prior to law school, Kelly graduated summa cum laude from North Carolina State University with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Philosophy. She was a Dean's List student and a member of the University Honors Program. Kelly is a Greensboro native.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Martin & Jones

These results are credited to Martin & Jones. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

Hoyt Tessener of Martin and Jones, joined by co-counsel Kent Emison, secured a $31 million settlement for a boy left paraplegic when a two-point rear lap belt in a 1999 Ford Escort jackknifed him during a crash, while other occupants of the same car came away with comparatively minor injuries.

Nash County Superior Court, North Carolina · 2015Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$7.52 millionSettlement

E. Spencer Parris and G. Christopher Olson of Martin and Jones secured a $7.52 million settlement for Dwayne Allen Dail, who spent 18 years in a North Carolina prison before DNA evidence identified the actual perpetrator and cleared his name.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina · 2013Civil RightsRead the full story →

Forest Horne secured a $7.5 million jury verdict for a retired CSX railroad worker whose decades of on-the-job asbestos exposure caused malignant mesothelioma, a verdict the North Carolina Court of Appeals unanimously upheld in 2006.

North Carolina (trial court); NC Court of Appeals 2006 · 2005Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

George Washington University Law School
J.D., 2019
North Carolina State University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of North Carolina
State Bar of South Carolina
State Bar of District of Columbia

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Brent Adams & Associates
Brent Adams & Associates
$3.41 million · Johnston County Jury Awards $3.41 Million to Family of 23-Year-Old Killed by Sucker Punch at Selma Bar

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.