Brian Keeley is a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment Relations Department.  He provides advice, counseling, and litigation services in the areas of employment, employee benefits, structured annuity contracts, and ERISA litigation.  His practice includes the representation of employers of all sizes in dispute resolution and litigation of claims of discrimination, wrongful discharge, and wage and hour issues. In addition, Mr. Keeley works with life, health, and disability insurers and welfare benefit plans in litigation under ERISA over benefits and fiduciary liability claims, and in non-ERISA litigation over benefits and bad faith claims.

Mr. Keeley has experience in the unique problems that arise in the crossover between employment and intellectual property law.  He represents clients in disputes that often erupt over trade secrets and non-competition and confidentiality agreements when a high-level employee moves from one business to a competitor.

As part of a team that serves as national coordinating counsel for a major structured settlement annuity issuer, Mr. Keeley has experience in litigation over structured annuity contracts and helps coordinate litigation across the country.  Transfers of rights to receive payments as a result of a structured settlement must go through a court approval process, and Mr. Keeley assists annuity owners and issuers who must ensure that such transfers comply with applicable laws.

In 2000, Mr. Keeley began his practice in the Silicon Valley where he represented a wide range of businesses and individuals in employment, business, real estate, and other commercial matters.

Mr. Keeley graduated from the University of California, Davis School of Law, where he was a member of the UC Davis Law Review and an editor of the UC Davis Journal of Juvenile Law and Policy.  He received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Colorado College.