My guest today is Todd Kelly
Todd is a board-certified personal injury trial lawyer in Austin, Texas, who was named to the Texas Lawyer Hall of Fame in 2013, and has been named a Texas Super Lawyer for over a decade. He is AV* rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Todd is a a member of many boards and organizations, and teaches other attorneys in trial skills and advocacy as a frequent lecturer around the country. He is a former Major in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served as both a combat engineer officer and a judge advocate, after graduating from the Dickinson School of Law in Pennsylvania as a member of the Woolsack Honor Society.
Todd is married to Robbye Kelly, and has four children: Joshua, Meghan, Matthew, and Selby. He is active as Celebration Church, in Georgetown, serving weekly and a recent graduate of Celebration Leadership Institute’s Biblical studies diploma program. For more visit https://www.getpowerwithin.com/
*AV Preeminent®: The highest peer rating standard. This is given to attorneys who are ranked at the highest level of professional excellence for their legal expertise, communication skills, and ethical standards by their peers.
The image of the lawyers is not generally seen as a paragon of ethics or virtue. What generally comes to mind is the ambulance chaser and the lying lawyer. As a practicing lawyer, from your perspective, how do you think people see lawyers today?
You came to the conclusion, Justice is just an illusion. Do you still think so?
Your book, The Power Within. Who did you write this book for?
You lost everything. Your family. Your firm. Your reputation, and your biggest case. You went in the closet to kill yourself. Have you finally answered the So - is it worth dying for?
You are now married to Robbye and have a baby girl. Of your former wife, Marysue, you said, “she offered to sit with me but I did not want that. I didn‘t want anything except to replay the trial that I should have won. Why did she hang on? I didn’t want to be cruel to her but I didn’t want this marriage.” You admit you made many mistakes. On this side of your healing, what advice would you give to lawyers regarding family?
Your wrote a reverse Psalm 23. Would you read that for us? Towards the end of the book you quote Psalm 23 as it is written in the Bible and you identify first and foremost, a child of a loving and forgiving God. What changed?
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