Stiles, Kelli Jones

Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Lawyer Overview

Kelli Stiles focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on product liability and toxic tort litigation. She also has represented businesses during investigations by governmental authorities. She has experience in all aspects of discovery and motion practice, including taking and defending depositions of fact and expert witnesses, drafting Daubert motions, and coordinating expert reports. Kelli has been an active member of two trial teams that have obtained jury verdicts in favor of their clients.

Representative matters include a case in which it was alleged that a chemical workplace exposure resulted in birth defects in an employee's offspring, several cases involving smoking and health claims, and a case involving the alleged misreporting of an infectious disease. In 2009, Kelli was a member of the trial team that represented commercial real estate brokerage Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services in federal court in Chicago in a case involving commission disputes with a former sales agent. The jury found for Marcus & Millichap on all counts. In 2005, Kelli was a member of the trial team in Rose v. American Tobacco Co., et al. in state court in Manhattan, in which the jury returned a verdict in favor of R.J. Reynolds.

Kelli has represented such clients as Cardinal Health, Dell, Laboratory Corporation of America, Rohm and Haas Company, and Time Warner. She is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and the Columbus Bar Association.

Kelli was named an "Ohio Rising Star" by Law & Politics magazine in 2010.

Areas of Practice

• Trial Practice
• Product Liability & Tort Litigation

Representative Cases

• Jury awards Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services nearly one million dollars from former sales agent , (2009)
• Time Warner resolves securities litigation involving AOL’s revenues
• W.W. Williams Company settles antitrust action alleging price-fixing and illegal boycotts

West Practice Categories

Alcoholic Beverages, Apparel, Asbestos, Bankruptcy Litigation, Chemicals & Cosmetics, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, Firearms, Food & Agricultural Products, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Machinery & Tools, Medical Products & Devices, Military & Veterans Appeals, Motor Vehicle Defects, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, Pharmaceutical Products, Products Liability Law, Recreational Products, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, Tobacco, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court

Bar Admissions

• Ohio

Education

• Ohio State University

Address

P.O. Box 165017
325 John H. McConnell Boulevard
Suite 600
Columbus, OH 43216-5017

Phones

1.614.281.3618 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.614.461.4198 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com