Kelly S. Crawford, Co-Chair of the Firm, has been named a Fellow of the prestigious American Bar Foundation.  The American Bar Foundation is a global honorary organization of attorneys, judges, law faculty and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of their communities.  Through empirical research projects, the Foundation seeks to advance the understanding and improvement of law on the most pressing issues facing the legal system in the United States and the world, including protection of rights, accessing justice, making and implementing law, and learning and practicing law. 

Members are nominated by their peers and elected by the Foundation's Board.  Membership is limited to one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction.  Kelly joins Co-Managing Partner Michael R. O'Donnell, Of Counsel Justice Stewart G. Pollock and Of Counsel Samuel P. Moulthrop, who are also Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.