Bob Kelley got his guiding principle from his dad: A person’s best comes in helping others and serving a greater good.

That’s what made him want to be a lawyer. That’s how he wound up taking on corporate giants on behalf of the people they wronged, with victories including the largest jury award for an individual in a tobacco case up to that time and the biggest wrongful death and personal injury judgment in General Motors history in the horrific burning death of a 13-year-old boy.