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memberships

NAMWOLF (National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms)

Metropolitan Black Bar Association

education

B.A., State University of New York at New Paltz

J.D., Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

LL.M., Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law

admission

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

New York

United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

United States District Court, District of New Jersey

Keisha A. Parker

p 385.777.1866 d 610.480.6086


Keisha Parker has extensive experience in handling all stages of complex civil litigation in product liability, construction litigation, and educational institution and school liability matters in federal and state courts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. She has handled product liability matters on behalf of manufacturers and distributors of medical devices and various powered industrial machinery, such as drill presses, interior high-speed doors, and commercial food processing equipment. She has also defended automobile manufacturers in high consequence design defect, crashworthiness, and warranty matters. Additionally, Ms. Parker handled complex construction litigation defending owners, developers, general contractors, commercial construction management firms, trade contractors, and municipalities in New York State Labor Law claims.


Ms. Parker received her law degree from Villanova University School of Law and her LL.M. in Trial Advocacy from Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law. Ms. Parker is also a 2012 graduate of the ABA TIPS/ABOTA National Trial Academy.


Ms. Parker has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers in Personal Injury – Products: Defense. She was also selected as a recipient of the inaugural SUNY New Paltz 40 Under Forty awards.


relevant experience


Representation of product manufacturers and distributors.

Representation of national retailer in product liability litigation.

Representation of K-12, colleges and universities in educational institution and school liability matters.

Representation of owners, developers, general contractors, commercial construction management firms, trade contractors, and municipalities in complex construction litigation.

Representation of public utility company in wrongful death, personal injury, and property damage lawsuits.

Representation of municipality when a reservation of rights is asserted.

representative matters

Obtained dismissal of client, in the earliest stages of litigation, arising from an explosion causing catastrophic personal injuries and death, when factual investigation and pre-complaint discovery disproved plaintiff’s theories in Pennsylvania state court.

Obtained favorable settlement on behalf of product manufacturer in a design defect case where plaintiff alleged substantial economic loss arising from a fire at his auto body repair shop in Pennsylvania state court.

Obtained dismissal of plaintiff’s product liability and negligence claims based on the economic loss doctrine, and subsequently obtained summary judgment for product manufacturer on plaintiff’s remaining breach of warranty claims based on the statute of limitations in Pennsylvania state court.

Obtained dismissal of product manufacturer in a design defect, multiple death case, after discovery showed that there were substantial aftermarket modifications to the subject product in New Jersey state court.

Obtained summary judgment for product manufacturer in a design defect property damage matter, after showing plaintiff spoliated the subject product in New Jersey state court.

Obtained zero-dollar settlement on behalf of sports club in a product liability and negligence matter after obtaining dismissal of the product liability and breach of warranty claims in New York state court.

Obtained discontinuance of claims against a product manufacturer of an alleged defective product causing amputation and catastrophic injury after investigation showed defendant did not manufacture the subject product in New York state court.

Obtained dismissal of Plaintiff’s Labor Law 240 in New York state court.