Kelly O’Reilly joined the Office of the County Counsel in 2024 and works on the Health and Hospitals team. Before joining the Office of the County Counsel, Kelly practiced litigation at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Office practice areas
- Health and Hospitals Team
Education
- Yale Law School, J.D., 2020
- Student Attorney, San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project
- Co-Director, Palliative Care Medical Legal Partnership
- Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 2017
- Dissertation: “‘Of the Poor, by the Poor, or for the Poor’: Community Health Centers and the War on Poverty”
- Columbia University, B.A., summa cum laude, 2012
- Oxbridge Scholar at Cambridge University
Prior experience
- Associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP (2020-2021, 2022-2024)
- Law Clerk to the Honorable Pierre N. Leval, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2021-2022)
