Maron Marvel is pleased to announce that partner Kelly Near has been named a Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow for 2026.

The LCLD Fellows Program is an intensive, yearlong professional development course that connects mid-career attorneys of diverse backgrounds with leading general counsel and managing partners. It is designed to give high-potential lawyers leadership training and tools to propel their careers further. LCLD Fellows have distinguished themselves within their organizations by being deeply engaged, indispensable to key clients and teams, invested in attorney mentoring and professional development, and on a trajectory toward leadership positions.

Kelly defends clients in South Carolina one of the country’s most dangerous jurisdictions in which to have litigation. She handles a wide variety of civil litigation matters involving toxic tort, premises liability, construction law, construction defect, and personal injury.

The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity is an organization of more than 400 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners—the leadership of the profession—who have pledged themselves to creating a truly diverse U.S. legal profession. https://www.lcld.com/