Kelly R. Houk
Senior Attorney
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Kelly Houk is a senior attorney in the litigation group in Dykema’s Bloomfield Hills office. She specializes in personal injury and contract matters. Her clients manufacture pharmaceuticals, medical devices, automobiles, elevators, escalators, furnaces, and firearms. It is her privilege to defend surgery centers and doctors in medical malpractice actions. She is adept at defending a variety of products and premises in asbestos litigation as well as companies and employee-drivers in auto-negligence cases.
Kelly also has experience with insurance and commercial matters, including matters involving significant amounts of secured debt. She has tried bankruptcy, breach of contract, and trade secret misappropriation matters. In 2014, she was part of a trial team that obtained a successful jury verdict in a trade secret misappropriation case pending in the Eastern District of Michigan.
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- University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2013, Frank Murphy Honor Society, Dean's Honor Society
- Albion College, B.A., cum laude, 2010
- American University, Washington Semester Program, Justice Program Spring Semester, 2009
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Bar Admissions
- Michigan
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Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
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Named to Best Lawyers' "Ones to Watch" list for Commercial Litigation; Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants; Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, 2021-2024
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Recognized by The Legal 500 United States as a Key Lawyer for Automotive Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action, 2023 and 2024
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State Bar of Michigan
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