Kelty, Thomas W.

Mr. Kelty has appeared and actively represented clients in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 11th
Circuit U. S. Courts of Appeals, the United States District Court for the Northern, Central and
Southern Districts of Illinois; circuit courts in approximately 60 counties in Illinois; each of the
five Appellate Court Districts in Illinois, and before the Illinois Supreme Court.

He has likewise represented clients in regulatory matters before the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, U.S. Treasury Department, the United States Tax Court of Appeals, the
Illinois Commerce Commission, the Illinois Securities Department, the Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency, the Illinois Department of Public Health, the Illinois Department of
Commerce and Community Affairs, the Illinois Office of Real Estate and Banks, and numerous
others.

Other relevant background experiences include:

General counsel to the Illinois Municipal League Risk Management Association (1980-
1991) and the Gas Utilities Alliance (Risk Management Association) (1978-1989).

Vice Chair of Self-Insurers and Risk Managers Committee of Tort and Insurance Practice
Section, American Bar Association (1986-1990) - a Committee comprised of general
counsel to private and public (municipal) insurers engaged in self-insurance enterprises
throughout the United States.

Illinois Municipal League Home Rule Attorneys Committee - Counsel to this Committee
of 65 attorneys representing 106 Illinois municipalities over 25,000 population, including
Chicago and Springfield, charged with the monitoring and analysis of legislation,
ordinances and litigation implementing and testing the parameters of the constitutionally
created home rule powers contained in the 1970 Illinois Constitution. The work included
participation in litigation, oral argument and filing of numerous briefs in home rule test
cases brought throughout the State of Illinois, including numerous cases argued before the
Illinois Supreme Court. Involved the analysis of constitutional home rule provisions in
other States for a comparative analysis of their constitutional home rule provisions.

Illinois Bell/Illinois municipalities franchise negotiations - lead counsel to a group of 456
Illinois municipalities in the successful negotiation in 1984 and the renegotiation in 1988
of a comprehensive utility franchise agreement allowing the continued contractual
franchise fee arrangement between Illinois Bell Telephone Company and these
municipalities comprising a population of over 7,000,000 persons. The renegotiation was
necessitated by the divestiture of the Bell operating companies nationally by federal court
order.

Illinois Municipal Tort Immunity - lead counsel in 1986 in the negotiation and lobbying
of the first major revisions of the Illinois Tort Immunity Act in over 20 years.
Negotiations were conducted directly with the Speaker of the Illinois House of
Representatives, Representative Michael Madigan, on behalf of over 1,300 cities and
villages and over 2,000 townships, school districts, and park districts.

Sangamac (Illinois) Ambulance District - legal counsel in the creation of the first
constitutional intergovernmental cooperation multi-municipality public service
ambulance district in the State of Illinois coordinating the efforts of five municipalities
located in multi-counties serving a population in excess of 100,000 people.

Illinois Air Rights Law - successfully negotiated the first public lease of air rights in the
State of Illinois combining the creation and construction of a 300-car multi-level parking
ramp with the construction of a major chain 300-room hotel in air rights above the
parking ramp under the terms of a 99-year lease arrangement.

American Legal Publishing Company - Illinois and Missouri counsel to this major
publisher of municipal ordinance codes. Review, analyze and edit ordinance
recodifications prepared by American Legal Publishing. Requires current working
knowledge of applicable case law and statutory provisions.