Asleep at the Wheel

<b>Pierce Kelley</b> is an attorney who currently works with the Three Rivers Legal Services Program in Gainesville Florida which represents low income individuals in civil matters in a seventeen county area of North Florida. During his thirty two years of practicing law he has been both a criminal defense lawyer and a civil litigator. He began his career as an Assistant Public Defender in Pinellas/Pasco counties Florida. For several years he was the managing attorney of a five county area in rural West Virginia while with the West Virginia Legal Services Plan Inc. which provided legal services to the rural poor. In 1985 he was an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Miami.<p>Since 1986 Mr. Kelley has been a civil litigator as both a lawyer for plaintiffs and a defense lawyer in personal injury premises liability and general negligence matters. He has handled many wrongful death cases and cases involving claims of 'bad faith' on the part of insurance companies. <p>Mr. Kelley is rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell which is the highest rating that can be given to an attorney by that organization. He has tried well over a hundred cases before juries and he has successfully handled appeals before the Supreme Courts of the states of Florida and West Virginia. <p>Mr. Kelley has taught at various colleges and universities for over twenty five years as an Adjunct Professor. Most recently he taught Civil Litigation to paralegal students at St. Petersburg College in St. Petersburg Florida for ten years. Asleep at the Wheel is Mr. Kelley's sixth published novel.