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Keeley recently defended major health care providers, among others, in large-scale data breach class actions alleging various common law and statutory claims. She has defended major insurance companies in large-scale class actions across the country.

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Prior to joining BakerHostetler, Keeley worked as a law clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

J.D., University of Wyoming College of Law, 2019, 

B.S., Health Sciences in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Wyoming, 2013

B.A., Religious Studies, University of Wyoming, 2013

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<li>Represents an Arizona hospital that successfully defeated remand based on the “Mandatory Home State Exception” to CAFA jurisdiction following briefing and a hearing on same. She and her team successfully briefed and argued that the mailing addresses of the putative class, which was comprised of hospital patients in a major military and “snowbird” city, could not be used as a proxy for Arizona state citizenship.</li>
<li>On a team that obtained dismissal in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 12(b)(6) of a nationwide putative class action lawsuit that alleged claims stemming from an attack on several business email accounts.</li>
<li>Obtained complete dismissal of claims against an insurance company in a putative class action wherein plaintiff alleged that the insurance company&#8217;s settlement offers constituted “amounts not in dispute,” even though he had rejected the offers. Upon successfully removing the case to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, the team filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that settlement offers cannot be deemed “undisputed amounts” and that the plaintiff’s theory ran counter to Illinois laws, the Federal Rule of Evidence 408 and principles contract.</li>
<li>On a team that achieved complete dismissal in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on standing grounds, resulting in complete dismissal of putative data-breach class action arising out of ransomware attack.</li>
<li>Obtained complete dismissal of claims in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona under 12(b)(6) in putative class action arising out of alleged phishing incident.</li>
<li>Represents various health care entities in data and privacy putative class actions and individual actions across the country.</li>
<li>Advised and defended global automotive manufacturer in Colorado courts, resulting in favorable settlements and dispositive motion rulings.</li>
<li>Defended healthcare entities in cases involving HIPAA and state-law privacy allegations, obtaining numerous favorable settlements and voluntary dismissals.</li>
<li>Provides labor and employment advice to various organizations, including educational and healthcare entities regarding all aspects of employer-employee relationship.</li>
<li>Represents a nationwide insurance company on an ongoing basis across multiple jurisdictions, focusing on automobile and property coverage disputes and bad faith litigation.</li>
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