Overview
Kadeejah Kelly-Previl counsels clients in product liability, mass torts and commercial litigation cases in both federal and state court.
Her experience includes pre-litigation counseling, discovery, depositions, motion practice, settlement negotiation and trial preparation.
Prior Experience
Prior to joining Faegre Drinker, Kadeejah was a litigator at an Am Law 100 firm in New York where she represented contractors, developers and corporations in high-exposure cases including New York labor law. Kadeejah’s practice also involved the counseling and defense of clients involved in premises liability, professional malpractice, product liability and negligence matters. Her litigation experience including drafting and responding to pleadings, written discovery, depositions, dispositive motions and trial preparation.
Immediately following law school, Kadeejah clerked for the Connecticut Superior Court.
Kadeejah was a student attorney at the University of Connecticut School of Law’s Asylum & Human Rights Clinic. She handled all aspects of representation for an asylum applicant, which included drafting the initial I-589 form, hearing preparation, researching the human rights conditions in the applicant’s home country, interviewing expert witnesses, preparing supporting documentation and briefs in support of the applicant, and representing the applicant at his hearing before the asylum officer. The applicant was ultimately granted asylum.
During law school, Kadeejah served on the local and regional boards of the Black Law Students Association.
Related Legal Services
Credentials
Bar Admissions
New York
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department
Clerkships
Connecticut Superior Court, 2019-2020
Education
University of Connecticut School of Law
J.D. CT Insurance Law Journal (notes & comments editor) (2019)
State University of New York at Buffalo
B.A. in English, with high honors (2016)
Insights & Events
Leadership & Community
Pro Bono
- International Refugee Assistance Project — DACA Screening Clinic
- Veterans Naturalization Assistance Project
- Catholic Charities of New Jersey — Pro Se Asylum Clinic
- Fertility Insurance Startup — Advising the founders of a fertility insurance startup on a broad spectrum of legal matters integral to the formation and growth of their business. Kadeejah’s representation includes guidance on insurance regulatory issues, corporate structuring, employment agreements and pre-litigation counseling.
- Civil Rights — Assisted in the representation of two incarcerated individuals who alleged that the Department of Corrections’ religious meal policies unlawfully burdened their religious exercise, in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).
Professional Associations
- Personal Care Products Council — Impact & Inclusion Committee
- Haitian American Lawyers Association of New York — Secretary, 2024-25
- New York State Bar
- Connecticut State Bar
- American Bar Association
Honors
- Faegre Drinker — Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2024
- National Black Lawyers — “Top 40 Under 40,” 2022
- University of Connecticut School of Law — Senior Women Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, 2019
- George W. Crawford Black Bar Association — Scholarship Recipient, 2019
No aspect of these recognitions has been approved by the highest court of any state.