Keith is a member in the firm practicing in the Litigation Section, and also serves as Co-Chair of the Entry-Level Hiring Committee in the Boston office. His practice focuses on complex commercial and business litigation and dispute resolution. It also includes class action litigation, health care-related litigation, professional malpractice, white collar criminal defense, and probate litigation. He has represented corporations and individuals in litigation and pre-litigation matters.
Keith's trial experience includes civil bench trials and jury trials in federal and state courts, as well as arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association. He has appeared in state and federal courts in Alabama, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New York.
Keith was part of the team that successfully defended a pharmacy benefits management company and a large national retailer against claims seeking preliminary injunctive relief brought by over 40 independent and chain store pharmacies in the Connecticut Superior Court Complex Litigation Docket. Following the three-day injunction hearing, Keith then led the successful defense to the plaintiffs' unfair trade practice and tort claims through three years of discovery, obtaining summary judgment on nearly all of the plaintiffs' claims on the eve of the jury trial, leading to a very favorable settlement of the few remaining claims.
Keith was part of the trial team that defended a large actuarial firm in a month-long professional malpractice jury trial in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. He was also part of the criminal defense team for a Boston-based money manager indicted in the District of Connecticut following the federal investigation of the Connecticut Treasurer's office. Keith also obtained a favorable judgment in the Massachusetts Superior Court transferring several million dollars of real estate into a trust for his clients' benefit, and during a two-week jury trial in the Massachusetts Superior Court successfully defended another client who had been sued for breach of contract and engaging in unfair business practices.
Keith was also part of the trial team that represented one of the world's leading owners, developers, investment managers, and operators of first-class real estate in one of the largest bankruptcy proceedings ever brought in the District of Massachusetts. The client was a secured creditor with claims against the owner of a premier office tower in Boston. After a bench trial, the debtor/owner agreed to pay $679 million, allowing the client to realize a substantial return on its cash investment in less than 10 months. Earlier in his career, Keith successfully defended a municipal police department and police commission against race discrimination claims and obtained judgment in his clients' favor following a one-week bench trial in the District of Connecticut. He also successfully re-opened, and ultimately had vacated, a mid-six-figure judgment that had been entered against his client in Connecticut Superior Court while the client was represented by different counsel.
Keith served for two years as a law clerk to The Honorable Christopher F. Droney in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. He received his B.A. from Georgetown University (1991), and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center (1995), where he was the Articles Editor and member of the Editorial Board for the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics.
Since 2006, Keith has served on the Board of Directors for the Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps, a non-profit agency and leader in child welfare and juvenile justice issues in Massachusetts. Every year, the Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps helps hundreds of children, youths, and their families deal successfully with behavioral and emotional issues at nearly a dozen facilities throughout Massachusetts.
Keith is admitted to practice in Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts. He is also admitted to the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
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