The Firm
Donnelly Kelly Blackwell & Galligan, LLC is a progressive law firm with traditional values representing a wide range of clients from multi-billion dollar corporations to small businesses, providing both business and personal legal counsel. The Firm focuses on litigation of commercial, general liability, and professional liability matters; commercial real estate; corporate transactions; and trusts and estates planning and administration.
We are committed to providing outstanding and personalized legal services to our clients with clear and open communication. We take pride in our ability to represent our clients with agility and deliver the highest quality legal solutions with efficiency, often offering alternative fee arrangements that other firms are unable to offer.
Collectively, our partners have over 150 years of experience in diverse practice areas. This allows us to take a more innovative and multi-disciplinary approach as we help our clients achieve their objectives and solve their problems. Many firm clients have been working with our attorneys for several decades and come to us for their full range of business and personal needs.
Our lawyers have the skills to negotiate strategic issues and litigate complicated disputes; the experience to apply the complexities and nuances of corporate, financial and commercial real estate law; the insights to assist high net worth families with estate and trust planning solutions; and the judgment necessary to consummate business transactions or litigate employment disagreements.
The attorneys of Donnelly Kelly Blackwell & Galligan, LLC have deep roots in the New Jersey and New York legal communities and are dedicated to community service.
Four partners from Donnelly Kelly Blackwell & Galligan, LLC (formerly Donnelly Minter & Kelly, LLC) have been recognized in the 2026 edition of the Best Lawyers in America®, and one partner has been recognized in the 2026 edition of the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch. For more information on selection methodology, visit the Best Lawyers® website.
Donnelly Kelly Blackwell & Galligan, LLC (formerly Donnelly Minter & Kelly, LLC) has been named a Tier 1 firm in the New Jersey Metro area for Commercial Litigation, Trusts and Estates, and Litigation – Trusts & Estates Law in the 2026 edition of Best Law Firms®. For more information on selection methodology, visit the Best Law Firms® website.