Jodi
K. McKelvin attended law school at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford
University in Birmingham where she was on the Dean’s List each semester.
Additional honors while in law school included selection as an Associate Editor
of the Cumberland Law Review and Cordell Hull Research & Writing
Teaching Fellow.
After
graduating, she started her legal career with Straus & Boies, LLP.
Her work there focused on antitrust and class action litigation. She joined
Shelby Roden, LLC in 2002, where she has focused on the litigation of
plaintiffs’ personal injury, wrongful death and toxic exposure cases.
Shelby Roden LLC attorneys were heavily involved in multi-district litigation over
injuries and deaths caused by dietary supplement products that contained
ephedra, as well as toxic exposure cases against Monsanto Chemical Company for
injuries caused by its pollution of the Anniston, Alabama area with polychlorinated biphenyls.
In
addition to litigation, she has devoted a significant part of her practice to a
new and developing field: Elder Law. Elder Law involves multiple areas of the
law that affect adults as they age, including the need for estate planning,
probate and long term care planning. She is currently serving as the secretary
of the Elder Law section of the Alabama State Bar and is a member of the Elder
Law Services Committee of the Birmingham Bar Association.
She
lives in Vestavia with her husband, Michael, and two children, Carson and
Wyatt.
