Mr Michael McKeeman > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > San Francisco, United States > Lawyer Profile
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105-2930
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Mr Michael McKeeman
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Work Department
Litigation Department; Real Estate Department; Construction Practice Group; Government Contracts Practice Group; Commercial Litigation Practice Group; Commercial Class Action Defense Practice Group; Product Liability Practice Group; White Collar, Internal Investigations, and False Claims Team
Position
Mr. McKeeman is a partner in Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s San Francisco office. He is co-chair of the national Construction Practice Group, and he leads the firm’s San Francisco Litigation Group. Mr. McKeeman specializes in transactional and litigation matters throughout Northern and Southern California involving construction law, real estate, and complex commercial matters. He is a member of the California Association of General Contractor’s Legal Advisory Committee. Mr. McKeeman has significant experience in representing public and private owners, contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers, and design professionals in construction disputes. Mr. McKeeman’s knowledge of the construction industry is bolstered by several years of field experience in which he participated in the construction of large commercial and multi-dwelling residential structures. He also aids contractors, subcontractors, and material suppliers in contract drafting, contract negotiation, contract interpretation, differing site conditions, bid protests, extra work, changes, payment disputes, design defects, construction defects, warranty claims, and delay and other impact claims. His practice includes both private and public construction projects. Mr. McKeeman has worked on a wide-variety of projects including commercial structures, hospitals, high-rise office buildings, condominiums, apartments, single-family residences, jails, justice centers, earthwork projects, amusement parks, parking structures, golf courses, and educational facilities. When disputes arise, Mr. McKeeman assists clients with claim preparation, arbitration, mediation, debt collection, and preparing and pursuing mechanics’ lien and stop notice remedies. He also advises clients about alternative dispute resolution procedures that offer viable alternatives to expensive and prolonged litigation. Mr. McKeeman assists clients with real estate transactions. These transactions include real property acquisition, development, and disposition, compliance with building regulations and codes, commercial leasing, eminent domain actions, license agreements, CEQA and real property exchanges. Mr. McKeeman’s clients include both private and public entities. Mr. McKeeman also represents clients in complex, multi-party civil litigation matters involving complex commercial disputes, unfair business practices, trade secret disputes, products liability, premises liability, and personal injury.
Memberships
American Bar Association; San Francisco County Bar Association
Education
J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law (1994), magna cum laude, Merit Scholar; B.S., University of California, Berkeley (1991), with honors, Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Berkeley Alumni Scholar; Certified Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
Seyfarth Shaw LLP houses a team of ‘excellent advisors’, handling the full range of contentious construction matters. Michael McKeeman and Alison Ashford jointly co-chair the team from San Francisco and New York respectively, representing owners and contractors in various disputes, and stakeholders in major infrastructure projects. Founding partner Bennett Greenberg is based in Washington DC and provides long-term counsel on contractual matters and disputes for major construction corporations. Seattle-based Meghan Douris and Ashley Sherwood specialize in heavy civil infrastructure cases and represent clients in private and public construction disputes respectively. Large-scale infrastructure claims are another key area of expertise for the team. Also operating from Seattle, Ryan Dumm focuses on residential and rehabilitation construction projects, while senior associate Michael Wagner acts for owners and developers in design and risk management-related disputes from Washington DC. Jason Smith in Washington DC is a key name for complex construction disputes.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious