Shakira Kelley

I started my law firm about a year and a half ago after over 15 years of working for other people in leadership roles where I had teams underneath me. I decided that instead of doing the same work for everyone else with their name on the wall, I would try to do this on my own. In reality, I kind of did it to take a step back, but it just turned into something much bigger, and it's been great. When you've been doing this long enough in the same field, you establish a professional network, and regardless of whether you want it or not, you have clients and referrals. People come to you, so I thought, let me just go do that with my own name on the wall. I'm a trial attorney, and all of my cases are litigation cases. I find myself in a deposition or in a hearing at least once or twice a week, where I have an appearance around the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I can be anywhere at any point. Right now, I'm in a growth stage where I'm hiring and getting people in place, like fractional HR, an assistant, a paralegal, and trying to get some lawyers on board to create a cohesive physical space. My practice focuses on property claims for homeowners, residential and commercial property. I started in Florida, went to law school at University of Florida, and practiced about a decade out there before moving to Texas during COVID. I'm licensed in both Texas and Florida with federal bar licenses in every federal court within both states.