Track Record

During his thirty years specializing in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, Mr. Keenan has secured 117 verdicts and settlements over $1,000,000 including five over $10,000,000 and one over $100,000,000. Mr. Keenan has dedicated his practice to child injury and wrongful death cases arising from medical negligence, products liability, and premises liability, with the goal of making our society safer for children.


Leadership

From 1997 – 1998, Mr. Keenan served as President of The Inner Circle of Advocates, an exclusive organization of 100 members, all having the distinction of winning multiple seven figure verdicts. He was the youngest member ever inducted, achieving this honor at the age of thirty-four, and later served as the youngest President of the organization.

Mr. Keenan was elected President of the American Board of Trial Advocates in 1992 and received that organization’s 1992 Masters in Trial award. During his tenure, Mr. Keenan led a delegation of lawyers to Czechoslovakia and was later invited to Russia to produce the first civil jury trials in the history of those two emerging democracies.


Media

Mr. Keenan has appeared on virtually every national media television news show, including 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes II, 20/20, Prime Time, 48 Hours, Bill O’Reilly, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and Larry King Live. He has also been featured in Lawyers Weekly, The National Law Journal, New York Times, Atlanta Journal Constitution and many other publications.


Awards and Distinctions

Mr. Keenan was voted by the National Law Journal as one of the three best medical negligence lawyers in the United States. On several occasions, he has been named by Georgia Trend Magazine as one of the 100 most powerful and influential Georgians. He was given the Chief Justice award for civility and professionalism, the highest award possible for a lawyer in Georgia. He now serves on the Advisory Committee for the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada. The College trains the majority of new judges in the United States. In 1990 and again in 1992, he was named Trial Lawyer of the Year.


Pro Bono

In 2006 the Keenan’s Kid’s Foundation celebrated its 13th anniversary as a 501(c)(3) corporation. The Foundation (KKF) has three objectives; charity, community awareness and child advocacy.

Under the charity objective KKF has gathered over 220,000 items of clothes and distributed them to children at risk, produced over 332,000 baloney and cheese sandwiches and distributed to homeless children. The community awareness projects deal with children’s safety issues. For seven years the Foundation has released during the holiday season the ten most dangerous toys. KKF has recently launched a comprehensive playground safety project featured on the TODAY SHOW, a school safety project and has distributed in excess of 8,000 gun trigger locks. Finally, under the child advocacy objective , many pro bono children’s issues are represented. One child was the cover of Time Magazine and others have been featured on 60 Minutes and other national media.


Recent Developments

The Keenan Law Firm has recently filed lawsuits dealing with several aspects of school safety and daycare safety. Also the law firm has continues to concentrate its efforts on birth injuries and the new area of gastric surgery complications involving children. The firm continues its litigation with the unsafe practices of the tissue cadeaver industry. These concentrated litigation cases are intended to raise public awareness and ultimately lead to reform of unsafe practices in the US. The firm also has pending cases in Europe and Mexico and South America. In 2006 the book "365 Ways To Keep Kids Safe" authored by Mr. Keenan was published by www.BalloonPress.com and in bookstores April.

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