Source: https://sanfordheisler.com/team/steven-j-kelly/
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 04:35:51+00:00

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Steve has a unique ability to fight zealously for his clients’ vision of justice. Steve draws from his personal life experiences, a distinguished legal education, and years of legal practice to offer his clients a rare combination of compassion and tenacity. I always have confidence that when I send someone Steve's way that they will find a legal advocate like none other. Bridgette Harwood, Co-Director of Network for Victim Recovery of D.C.
Steven J. Kelly is a Partner at Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP, a national firm with offices in Washington, DC, New York, California, Tennessee, and Maryland. He is located in the firm’s Washington and Baltimore offices. Mr. Kelly received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2003.
Mr. Kelly is one of a handful of lawyers in the country capable of truly fighting for a victim’s rights in both criminal and civil cases. Recent advances in law provide victims of violence with a number of critical rights in criminal cases. By protecting victim safety, privacy and the victim’s right to meaningfully participate in the criminal process, we prevent our clients from being re-victimized from the criminal process and strengthen the victim’s ability to bring civil claims against perpetrators and responsible third parties.
Steve currently represents seven female scientists in their landmark Title IX class action lawsuit against Dartmouth College in New Hampshire federal court. Brought on behalf of current and former female graduate students and undergraduates in Dartmouth’s Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences (“PBS”), the lawsuit alleges that Dartmouth willfully ignored more than a decade of widespread sexual harassment and gender discrimination by tenured professors in the department.
Mr. Kelly has been fighting for crime victims since 1988 when his older sister was raped and murdered. While in high school, he developed a curriculum on preventing violence and treating the victim with dignity and respect that is still taught in Maryland schools. As a teenager, Mr. Kelly fought for an amendment to Maryland’s constitution for crime victim rights. After college, Kelly led a non-profit devoted to matching crime victims with a lawyer. While at Georgetown University Law Center, Mr. Kelly helped fight for what became the Crime Victim Rights Act of 2004. He has been recognized for his advocacy by the National Crime Victim Law Institute, the Governors of Florida and Maryland, the American Bar Association, the Maryland Crime Victim Resource Center and American University, and others.
Mr. Kelly represents victims of criminal and sexual violence in criminal and civil proceedings on cases involving: sexual violence in schools, colleges, universities and graduate schools; child sexual abuse; criminal and sexual assaults at hotels, banks, ATMs, retail stores, apartment buildings; drunk and impaired driving, voyeurism and other civil cases arising from criminal acts.
Prior to joining Sanford Heisler Sharp, Mr. Kelly was a partner at the regional law firm of Silverman, Thompson, Slutkin & White, where he founded a crime victim practice group. Prior to that, Mr. Kelly litigated anti-trust and complex commercial ligation cases for Miles & Stockbridge and DLA Piper.
Mr. Kelly has litigated numerous landmark cases for crime victims, including Paroline vs. U.S., U.S. Supreme Court; Prout, et al. v. St. Paul’s School, D. N.H., Doe v. Cabrera, D.D.C., Smolinski v. Gleason, Conn. S.C.; Doe v. Bardell, D. Md.; Jane Doe, et al. v. Kesher Israel, et al., D.C. Superior Court; Doe v. Penn Parking, et al., D.C. Superior Court; Doe v. Cardin School, Baltimore City Circuit Court; Ceaser v. Morgan State University, Baltimore City Circuit Court.

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