Stephen P. Kelly Member Email: skelly@knell-kelly.com Practice Areas: Trial Practice; Workers Compensation; Employment Law; Automobile Negligence; Appellate Practice; State Government Law; Federal Government Law. Admitted: 1990, Illinois; U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois Law School: John Marshall Law School, J.D., 1990 College: St. Ambrose University, B.A., 1987 Member: Chicago, Peoria County, Sangamon County, Illinois State and American Bar Associations; Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel; Sangamon Claims Association; Greater Peoria Claims Association; Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Illinois Workers' Compensation Claims Association. Biography: Lecturer: Central Illinois Employers Association; Illinois Nursing Home Association; Nursing Home Risk Management Association; Illinois Groceries Association. Assistant Professor: Illinois Central College; Lorman Education Services. Lecture Topics: Americans with Disability Act; Illinois Workers' Compensation Act; Fraud Cases in the Workers' Compensation Act. Workers' Compensation Fraud Prosecution: Participated in the first successful indictment and conviction in Sangamon County of a petitioner in a fraud case in front of the Illinois Industrial Commission. The case resulted in a Class II felony against the petitioner. Reported Cases: E.R. Carpenter v. Illinois Industrial Commission, (4th District, April 1992 unpublished); Lascody Trucking v. Illinois Industrial Commission, (3rd District, June 1992 unpublished); Woodrum v. Bunn-O-Matic, (4th District, January 24, 2003, 783 N.E. 2d 1072); Morton CUSD v. Illinois Industrial Commission, (3rd District, August 2003 unpublished); Health Staff v. Illinois Industrial Commission, (4th District). Born: Peoria, Illinois, July 21, 1964 ISLN: 905947035 |