Kelly Kimberly

Kelly Kimberly is a Partner and Head of the Houston office. She advises clients on communications strategies related to high-stakes crisis and litigation situations and reputation management. She also co-heads the firm's Cybersecurity and Data Privacy practice.​

Kelly has advised clients across multiple industries including energy, waste, food, pharmaceuticals, financial, healthcare, tech, chemicals and mining. She supports legal counsel with communications strategies for multiple cybersecurity matters as well as issues such as trade secrets, employee misconduct and whistleblowers. Matters have also included government enforcement, regulatory actions and class action lawsuits related to environmental and safety issues.

Notable recent assignments include advising a national healthcare system on a high-profile case related to claims of negligence and misconduct and resulting in civil litigation and a jury trial; a tech company CEO on communications surrounding his voluntary settlement with the SEC; class action lawsuits against industrial and medical services companies on alleged environmental violations and resulting government investigations; issues management and media support for a privately-held specialty tax services company under investigation by attorneys general and investigative journalists; and a leading college on DEI and faculty misconduct issues.

Earlier in her career, Kelly was founder and Principal of Kimberly Public Affairs. The agency provided strategic communications planning, crisis and issues management and ESG consulting. She previously served in several leadership roles at Enron, including SVP of Public Relations and Marketing Communication for Enron International. She established and served as Senior Vice President of the Company's Corporate Social Responsibility function.

Kelly holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Kearney and an M.A. in Communication from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.