About
John E. Keefe, Jr. is the present day and 120th president of the New Jersey State Bar Association. His primary goals as leader of the state bar are to construct on variety and inclusion inside the legal career, release a mentoring application for brand new legal professionals and stage the malpractice playing field.
A Certified Civil Trial Lawyer, he has devoted a great deal of his time to civil trial practice at some point of the State and Federal Courts of New Jersey specializing in negligence and product legal responsibility in addition to complex mass tort and sophistication action litigation. He based Keefe Law Office in 1996 and leads our plaintiffs’ personal damage, mass tort litigation and complicated litigation branch. John has tried numerous matters to verdict and prosecuted hundreds of instances on behalf of victims of catastrophic loss.
Significant Representations
• Appointed through the Superior Court as plaintiffs liaison counsel in an historic patron fraud national magnificence action, Talalai v. Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. (Docket No.: MID-L-8830-00-MT ) the settlement of that's worth among $1,000,000,000and $three,000,000,000 to customers.
• Lead counsel on behalf of plaintiffs in considered one of the largest pollution instances in New Jersey, Janes v. Ciba Geigy Corporation (Docket No.: MID-L- 1669-01-MT).
• Served as neighborhood suggest within the securities magnificence motion litigation, In Re Sears, Roebuck & Co. Securities Litigation (Docket No. 02-C-07527) which resulted in a $215,000,000 cash agreement.
• Resolved a complicated wrongful dying case on behalf of a younger widow and small children in opposition to New Jersey Transit Corporation for Wrongful Death Caused by using Electrocution and Severe Burns for $10,000,000.00
• Served as liaison counsel in In Re Royal Dutch/Shell Transport Securities Litigation – (Civil Action No.: 04-374 (JWB)) earlier than Judge Joel Pisano and the Hormone Replacement Therapy Litigation (Docket No.: ATL-2093-04 MT) before Judge Carol E. Higbee.
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- Mass Tort Litigation
- Complex Litigation
- Consumer Fraud
- Class Actions
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New Jersey Supreme Court
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Graduation year: 1990
Graduation year: 1983
