Chief Employee Benefits Counsel for BCBSA since 2004, after years as a partner with: McDermott, Will & Emery; Kirkland & Ellis; Bell, Boyd & Lloyd; and Ogletree Deakins. Charter Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel (two terms on its Board of Governors), Member and former Chair of ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits, and American Bar Foundation Life Fellow. Frequent author and speaker, taught law school for nine years. Twenty-three-year member and former Chair of the Chamber of Commerce Employee Benefits Committee. Mr. Kelly has testified more than two dozen times before Congress and government agencies.