Kelly L. Odorisi
Trust & Estate Attorney · Certified Life Coach · Speaker
Kelly focuses her practice in estate and elder law planning and the representation of corporate fiduciaries in the formal and informal settlement of complex trusts throughout New York State. She is a former partner at Underberg & Kessler LLP, where she chaired the Trust and Estates Practice Group, and was the principal of the Law Office of Kelly Odorisi, P.C. for more than four years.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Kelly spent almost seven years as Director of Public Information at the University of Illinois Chicago Law School, where she led the development of publications, media relations, and a new graphic identity for the school. That communications foundation shapes the clarity she brings to every client relationship.
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Super Lawyer — Upstate New York
Selected by Super Lawyers for outstanding achievement in Trusts & Estates law
Martindale Hubbell AV Rating
The highest peer review rating for legal ability and professional ethical standards
Forty Under 40 — Rochester Business Journal
Recognized for professional achievement and community impact in the Rochester region
The Daily Record — Power 20
Named among Western New York's power players in the legal industry for Trusts & Estates
Kelly built her legal career helping individuals and families navigate some of the most consequential decisions they would ever face — the transfer of wealth, the administration of estates, the planning that protects what matters most. As a partner at Underberg & Kessler LLP and, later, as the principal of her own firm, she developed a practice grounded in precision, discretion, and the ability to bring calm to situations that felt anything but.
Before law, she spent nearly seven years shaping how an institution spoke to the world — developing publications, managing media, and building a graphic identity that endured for more than two decades. The thread connecting both careers is the same: helping people find clarity when the path forward isn't obvious.
Over the course of her career, Kelly watched capable, accomplished women struggle in silence through transitions that had nothing to do with competence and everything to do with identity. Divorce. Career disruption. Loss. The quiet unraveling that happens when the life you built stops fitting. She became a certified life coach to offer something she saw was missing: a structured, honest relationship designed specifically for women who have always been the ones holding everything together.
The Reinvention Project is the program she wished had existed — for herself and for every woman she has watched navigate alone what should never have to be navigated alone.
J.D. — University of Illinois Chicago Law School
Earned while working full-time as Director of Public Information · Staff editor, The John Marshall Law Review · Federal judicial internship, Hon. Blanche M. Manning, U.S. District Court, N.D. Illinois
B.S. Business / Marketing — Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana · Member, Sigma Kappa sorority
Certified Life Coach — The Life Coach School
Trained and certified to support clients through major personal and professional transitions
Kelly has served in a range of civic and professional roles, including vice president of the Board of Advisors of the American Cancer Society, chair of its Canvas for a Cure fundraiser, and member of the Steering Committee for the revitalization of Hope Lodge. She served on the board of Step by Step of Rochester, Inc. and is a former president and board member of the Estate Planning Council of Rochester. She has been a board member of the Greater Rochester Area for Women Attorneys and a member of the Trusts and Estates Executive Council of the Monroe County Bar Association. She also co-authored the CLE program Candid Talk: Women at the Bar, presented across the country to encourage women to remain in the practice of law, and has been a frequent speaker at Bar Association programs and privately held events on estate planning, elder law, and the administration of estates.
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