John Edwin Keefe Jr
Managing Partner, Keefe Law Firm
John E. Keefe, Jr. is the current and 120th president of the New Jersey State Bar Association. His primary goals as leader of the state bar are to build on diversity and inclusion in the legal profession, launch a mentoring program for new lawyers and level the malpractice playing field.
A Certified Civil Trial Attorney, he has devoted much of his time to civil trial practice throughout the State and Federal Courts of New Jersey specializing in negligence and product liability as well as complex mass tort and class action litigation. He founded Keefe Law Firm in 1996 and leads our plaintiffs’ personal injury, mass tort litigation and complex litigation department. John has tried numerous matters to verdict and prosecuted hundreds of cases on behalf of victims of catastrophic loss.
Significant Representations
• Appointed by the Superior Court as plaintiffs liaison counsel in an historic consumer fraud national class action, Talalai v. Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. (Docket No.: MID-L-8830-00-MT ) the settlement of which is valued at between $1,000,000,000and $3,000,000,000 to consumers.
• Lead counsel on behalf of plaintiffs in one of the largest pollution cases in New Jersey, Janes v. Ciba Geigy Corporation (Docket No.: MID-L- 1669-01-MT).
• Served as local counsel in the securities class action litigation, In Re Sears, Roebuck & Co. Securities Litigation (Docket No. 02-C-07527) which resulted in a $215,000,000 cash settlement.
• Resolved a complex wrongful death case on behalf of a young widow and small children against New Jersey Transit Corporation for Wrongful Death Caused by 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)) before Judge Joel Pisano and the Hormone Replacement Therapy Litigation (Docket No.: ATL-2093-04 MT) before Judge Carol E. Higbee.
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Mass Tort Litigation
- Complex Litigation
- Consumer Fraud
- Class Actions
- Free Consultation
- District of Columbia
- District of Columbia Bar
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- Florida
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- New Jersey
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- Seton Hall University School of Law
- J.D. (1990)
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- Gettysburg College
- B.A. (1987) | English Literature
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- Fellows of the American Bar Association, New Jersey Chapter
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- Monmouth County Bar Association
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- Middlesex County Bar Association
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- American Association for Justice
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- Million Dollar Advocates Forum
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- New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, Government Advisory Committee Executive Order
- Transition Team Member
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- New Jersey State Bar Association
- Civil Trial Section Executive Committee
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- New Jersey State Bar Association
- President
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- New Jersey State Bar Association # 034081990
- Treasurer, Secretary
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- New Jersey State Bar Association
- Civil Trial Section Chair
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- Commitment to Professionalism Critical for All Attorneys
- New Jersey Lawyer No. 315/December 2018
- NJSBA Mentor Match Needs You
- New Jersey Lawyer No. 314
- Tree of Life Synagogue, Words Matter
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- Doing Good Together, for the NJSBA and Profession
- New Jersey Lawyer No. 313
- Leading Lawyers Forward, Together
- New Jersey Lawyer No. 312
- NJSBA Best Practices, Civil Trial Bench Bar Conference, New Jersey
- New Jersey Association for Justice
- Class Action Update, NJAJ Boardwalk Seminar, Atlantic City
- New Jersey Association for Justice
- Everything You Need to Know About Successfully Managing Track I & Track II Cases Under the New Mandatory Expedited Handling Program, NJSBA Annual Meeting
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- Certified Civil Trial Attorney
- New Jersey Supreme Court
