Kelli G. Hawley

Kelli G. Hawley is the managing partner of construction litigation with Braden, Hinchcliffe & Hawley, practicing in the firm’s Los Angeles Office. Ms. Hawley concentrates her practice in construction defect law, with additional coverage of Real Estate Disclosure, Business Law, and Subrogation. Ms. Hawley has practiced law since 1985, gaining both jury and bench trial experience. Because she has represented plaintiffs as well as defendants in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernadino, Santa Barbara, Fresno and San Diego counties, she provides a broad range of expertise to her clients. As an undergraduate at the University of Redlands, Ms. Hawley interned with the Honorable Patrick J. Morris, Presiding Judge, San Bernardino County Superior Court. While obtaining her legal education from the University of San Diego School of Law, Ms. Hawley worked as an intern for an environmental law clinic. Upon graduation, she clerked for construction defect mediator Merville Thompson, Esq. Ms. Hawley is admitted to practice in California and before the U.S. District Court for both the Southern and Central Districts of California.

• Managing Partner

• Braden, Hinchcliffe & Hawley, LLP, Founding partner
• Merville Thompson, Esq., Clerk
• Honorable Patrick J. Morris, Intern

• California, 1985
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court Central District of California