Tom Kielty is the founder and owner of the Law Offices of Thomas W. Kielty located in Hermosa Beach, CA. His practice focus is on personal injury. Tom represents the injured against the big insurance companies, governments, and corporations. Tom is a scrapper and he’s very bright. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska and attended private Catholic elementary schools in Omaha and Dearborn Michigan. Tom’s father was a Lieutenant JG, who retired from the Navy and worked as an electrical engineer. His family moved to Orange County in 1974. Tom worked as a cab driver to fund his education. He was a music performance student at the University of Michigan but got his BA in economics from UCLA in 1984. He taught math at Luther Burbank Jr. High from 1984 to 1986. His passion for justice inspired him to get his law degree from UCLA in 1990. While he was a law student and cab driver, both his kids were born. Tom started his law career in the hard scrabble world of criminal defense in Sacramento and Los Angeles. His approach to lawyering has always been to do whatever needs to be done. In criminal defense, this approach leads to jury votes, acquittals and hung juries. In personal injury work, this approach and extensive jury trial experience leads to large settlements and large jury verdicts. Tom and his staff pride themselves as being very client oriented. They answer the phone (really) and return calls promptly. Tom’s vast jury trial experience provides him with insights and discernment into case evaluation that most other personal injury attorneys don’t have because they lack the years of jury trial experience. Having 6 years as a cab driver and 2 years as a public-school teacher under his belt, Tom can understand and relate to the “Average Joe” It is this valuable unteachable insight into everyday people that has made Tom into an extraordinary jury trial lawyer.