JB Kelly

Practice Areas

JB Kelly is of counsel in the Litigation Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Mr. Kelly’s practice leverages his more than 30-year career in the public sector working with state attorneys general (AG) as he handles a variety of complex, often multistate matters, involving critical public policy and strategic issues.

Career

Mr. Kelly served as general counsel to North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper from 2001 to 2012, overseeing major litigation involving the State of North Carolina. He was a member of the negotiation teams in high-profile, multistate settlements involving mortgage foreclosure, Ameriquest and tobacco, among others.

Mr. Kelly is admitted to practice in the State of North Carolina and the District of Columbia. His court admissions include the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina and the District of Columbia, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Publications

Mr. Kelly graduated with a B.A. from University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill in 1980. He received a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1984, where he served as research editor of the North Carolina Law Review.