Kelsey L. Baughman

Kelsey’s legal experience includes effective trial experience and impressive achievements in white-collar and other complex matters (civil and criminal) in federal court, state court, and administrative hearings, including representation in commercial, employment, and firearms matters. She has experience conducting internal investigations for corporate clients and assisting corporate and individual clients with criminal investigations and related matters by various agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Prior to joining Calfee as an Associate Attorney in 2024, Kelsey served as an Associate Attorney with a boutique litigation law firm. She also gained valuable experience in the insurance industry before pursuing her legal career.

Kelsey earned her Juris Doctorate degree, summa cum laude, from Cleveland State University College of Law, where she served as a Managing Editor of Cleveland State Law Review and a legal writing research assistant.

Kelsey earned her B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.

Education

J.D., summa cum laude, Cleveland State University College of Law, 2021

• Managing Editor, Cleveland State Law Review
• CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Civil Litigation Clinic, Legislation and Regulatory State, and Legal Profession

B.S., Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 2014

Experience

• Calfee served as lead litigation counsel for our client, an insurance company, in a class action lawsuit brought by a global law firm and seven additional plaintiffs’ class action law firms against Calfee’s client. The case included a putative class of more than 12,000 companies that challenged the client's contracting and billing practices. At issue in the case is the legal interpretation of the parties’ administrative-services-only (ASO) contracts, and evolving U.S. healthcare practices and trends. Within weeks of Calfee filing a dispositive motion to dismiss the case, the eight plaintiffs’ firms voluntarily dismissed the case.
• Calfee serves as lead litigation counsel in a multimillion-dollar class action lawsuit brought by an international law firm against Calfee’s clients, an insurance company. The case challenges the practices of the client and its affiliated entity in connection with the client's contracting and billing practices. The Named Plaintiffs, several political subdivisions who are customers of the client company in administrative-services-only contracts, allege that the client's contracting and billing practices to a class of hundreds of state governmental entities constitute breaches of the client's contracts with Plaintiffs and constitute common law fraud. The client denies the allegations and avers that it acted consistently with the parties’ administrative services only (ASO) contracts, and with evolving U.S. industry practices and trends. To our knowledge, the issues raised in this class action are matters of first impression in American jurisprudence.

Professional & Community

• Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC) Ladder Down Cleveland, Class of 2023 Graduate