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Law Practice

Dec. 27, 2023

Kelly, Trotter & Franzen to mark 30th anniversary

“We’ve made it very clear to the junior partners that this firm has a bright future, and they are going to be the future of the firm,” said one of the founding partners, John C. Kelly.

On Jan. 1, the Long Beach civil defense firm Kelly, Trotter & Franzen will mark its 30th anniversary.

Colleagues and close friends Richard D. Carroll, John C. Kelly, and Michael J. Trotter founded a medical malpractice defense firm in 1994 on a handshake. They didn’t tell any clients of their former law firm, then known as Baker, Silberberg & Keener, that they were leaving to start a new firm, but clients soon found them anyway. <...

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