About Kelly A
Kelly A Rochotte earned a B.S. in English and Literature from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2008, followed by an M.A. in English, Literary Studies from the University of Toledo in 2012. She returned to the University of Toledo College of Law and received her J.D. in 2022. Her education spans the humanities and law, and it informs how she approaches legal research and written advocacy.
Rochotte began working in law firms in support roles before becoming an attorney. In 2015 she worked as a litigation paralegal at Shindler Neff, LLP, handling matters in family, civil, and criminal law. She later served as a litigation paralegal at N.P. Weiss Law in 2020, focusing on real estate and civil litigation matters. Those years in paralegal positions gave her hands-on experience in case preparation, discovery and courtroom filings.
She transitioned to practicing as a lawyer in 2023. That year she held attorney positions at N.P. Weiss Law and at Vargas Law Co., LPA, where her listed practice areas included civil litigation, real estate and family law. In 2024 she joined Bolek Besser Glesius LLC as a lawyer. Her path from paralegal to counsel reflects steady movement through the litigation and transactional sides of practice.
Rochotte is licensed to practice in Ohio. She maintains memberships in professional groups, including the Federal Bar Association and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. Within the Cleveland bar she participates on the Ethics and Professionalism Committee. Those memberships place her among peers who work on topics that affect courtroom procedure and professional standards.
Her work draws on both courtroom experience and document-centered practice. In civil litigation matters she handles pleadings, discovery strategies and trial filings. Real estate work has included transactional review and dispute-related filings. Family law matters on her résumé include custody and support filings, along with the procedural work that accompanies contested proceedings. Colleagues describe her as careful in drafting and methodical in preparing case files.
Clients and other lawyers encounter an attorney who followed a conventional route into practice: undergraduate study in literature, graduate work in English, then law school, paralegal years that reinforced procedural skills, and finally full-time attorney roles. That sequence has shaped her approach to legal writing and courtroom procedure. She currently practices at Bolek Besser Glesius LLC, handling civil litigation, real estate and family law matters as part of her regular practice.
