Daniel J. Kelly

Daniel J. Kelly is a Partner in the San Francisco office of Tucker Ellis. His practice focuses on toxic tort, products liability, commercial litigation, and creditor’s rights, including bankruptcy.

Mr. Kelly’s product liability experience includes actions involving appliances, medical devices, manufactured homes, electrical equipment, hoists, and wastewater pumps. His toxic tort experience includes Proposition 65 litigation and asbestos product liability actions involving automobile friction materials, floor tile, wire and cable, military aircraft and naval ships and submarines and premises actions defending cement plants, paper mills, and fruit processing facilities.

In asbestos litigation, Mr. Kelly has also represented a leading global supplier of process automation and control systems for the chemical, food & beverage, hydrocarbon processing, metals, materials & mining, pulp & paper, and water & wastewater industries. This has included the analysis of corporate history and litigation of successor liability issues and the defense of a wide range of heritage brands of actuators, controls, and valves (gate, globe, and plug) in a variety of industrial and commercial settings.

Mr. Kelly also has experience handling business disputes including breach of contract issues and unfair competition matters, including class actions and creditor claims and litigation in bankruptcy cases.

Daniel lives in Mill Valley with his wife and four children, who are growing faster than the Zinfandel vines he cultivates in his back yard.

Civic & Professional Involvement

State Bar of California
Bar Association of San Francisco
United States Naval Institute
Defense Research Institute
Martindale-Hubbell AV Rated
Kiddo! Mill Valley Community Schools Foundation Board Member

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