Kelly W. Weil is a Senior Associate at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP's Santa Monica office where she litigates exclusively on behalf of consumers and injured individuals. Throughout her career, Kelly has helped litigate and successfully resolve a wide range of cases through settlement and trial. Kelly’s background includes complex pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, environmental and toxic tort litigation, medical malpractice, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death actions.
A Santa Monica native, Kelly received her Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Los Angeles where she majored in Political Theory and interned for the office of Los Angeles Major Antonio Villaraigosa. She received her J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles where she served as a judicial extern to the Hon. Philip S. Gutierrez, United States District Court for the Central District of California, and as a clinical extern with the Loyola Project for the Innocent (a student clinic which has successfully aided in exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals). Kelly worked full time throughout law school as a law clerk for a prestigious Los Angeles civil litigation firm advocating on behalf of plaintiffs, where she continued her work as a practicing attorney for another six years.
Since 2015, Kelly has been involved with the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice where she serves as a volunteer attorney and sits on the Leadership Council. As a volunteer attorney, Kelly has been successful in obtaining numerous Domestic Violence Restraining Orders on behalf of victims of domestic abuse (both physical and financial).
Kelly is a member of the Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles, Consumer Attorneys of California, Los Angeles County Bar Association, American Bar Association, and American Association for Justice.
When Kelly is not working, she enjoys cooking, doing yoga, and spending time at the beach with her husband, daughter, and extended family. While she has remained geographically close to her roots, Kelly also loves to travel and has studied abroad in Sweden, Italy, and Costa Rica.
