Kendell Renee Kelly is a Lifestyle LawyerTM and strategist specializing in the intellectual property, business, sports and entertainment industries.
On the road to creating that area of practice, Kendell was accepted into a dual-degree program on a NASA scholarship and went away to college a menacing 700 miles from home at the age of 16. After completing the W.I.S.E. (Women In Science & Engineering) program, she went on to law school at Georgetown University.
Kendell went on to create the practice that she's always dreamed of and has since coined it as “Lifestyle Law.” Her practice consists of a
mix of intellectual property, entertainment, Internet, and business law. She's an adviser to a roster of clients that include importers, entertainers, restaurateurs, clothing designers, and business owners among others. She handles a wide variety of business issues including website domain names, litigation disputes, copyright protection, business formation and dissolution to name a few. “I counsel clients on how to better protect and grow their brands using technology and the law. Occasionally, I get to help them determine what companies they should start or acquire. My practice is unconventional, and that’s the reason I had to create a new term to describe it.”
Currently, Kendell's practice focuses on counseling private and corporate clients in set-up, protection, strategic planning, monetization and liquidation of intellectual property assets. As an entrepreneur and business owner, Kendell treats clients as if their business and legal needs were her own.
In addition to her legal practice, Kendell is star of the reality show, “Money.Power.Respect” on WEtv. Her behind scenes to front-of-camera transition has only just begun, but Kendell is already a sought after public speaker and social media darling that as been featured in such outlets as Fox Good Day DC, US News & Word Report, Crain's Chicago Business Report, Uptown Magazine, Metro Mix, along with a host of other publications and websites.