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Michael B. Keating
Partner
Boston
Michael Keating is Chairman of the firm's Litigation Department and has been the firm's leading trial lawyer for over thirty years. Michael has been consistently listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, and Massachusetts SuperLawyers and was recognized by The National Law Journal, all reflecting his reputation as one of the leading trial attorneys in Massachusetts. He has represented major corporate clients in matters as diverse as alleged marketing fraud, toxic torts, trademark and trade secret litigation, and a private RICO action. He also has substantial experience in the commercial arbitration and mediation of disputes both as counsel and as an arbitrator/mediator.
Michael is an Instructor of Civil Trial Practice at Northeastern Law School and serves as Chairman of the Massachusetts Court Management Advisory Board by appointment of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, to advise the Supreme Judicial Court and the trial courts on court administration.
Bars and Court Admissions
Massachusetts
Representative Experience
The following is a brief summary of Michael's experience and accomplishments:
Persuaded, on behalf of several life insurers, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to invalidate the Insurance Commissioner's regulations on gender-based premiums
Represents the former President of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company in overturning his discharge for cause
Appointed on two occasions by the Supreme Judicial Court as Special Counsel to the Commission on Judicial Conduct and represented the Commission in disciplinary proceedings through presentation to the Supreme Judicial Court
Represents a mutual insurer in the defense of four national class actions alleging life insurance marketing fraud
Represented W.R. Grace & Company in a six-month trial of a toxic tort groundwater case brought by residents of the City of Woburn
Represented Federal Express in trademark litigation and The San Francisco Chronicle in a private RICO action
professional / civic involvement
Chair, Court Management Advisory Board, appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court to advise on all matters of court administration
Law clerk to Associate Justice Francis J. Quirico of the Massachusetts Superior Court and to Judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. of the United States District Court for Massachusetts
American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow, Committee on the Teaching of Trial and Appellate Advocacy, Former Chairman
U.S. District Court's Panel of Criminal Defense Counsel, Member
Boston Bar Association, President, 2001 - 2002
Williams College, Trustee, 1996 - present
Brooks School, Trustee Emeritus
Foley Hoag Foundation, Trustee
The Boston Foundation, Trustee
The Boston Children's Museum, Trustee
Crime and Justice Foundation, Past President
Massachusetts Council on Crime and Corrections, Past President
Administration of Justice Section, Boston Bar Association, Co-Chair, 1997
Task Force on Sentencing Policy, Boston Bar Association, Chairperson, 1991
Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Trustee
publications
Michael B. Keating with Katherine J. Fick, chapter on Civility, BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL LITIGATION IN FEDERAL COURTS (2005).
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