Keith J. Harrison is a partner in the firm's Washington, D.C. office, and leader of the Crowell & Moring Trial Practice Team. Having tried more than 45 jury trials to verdict, Keith uses his extensive trial experience to develop winning strategies for his clients. Keith's commercial litigation practice focuses on a broad segment of cases that range from intellectual property matters to employment defense to criminal investigations. He has won jury verdicts in numerous patent, employment, breach of contract and white collar criminal trials. Keith also has a record of winning cases at the pretrial stage in a wide range of cases involving patents, bioinformatic license arrangements, antitrust and unfair competition claims, class actions against managed care plans, trade secrets, government healthcare contract disputes, Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, ERISA, Medicaid procurement, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and the civil RICO Act. Mr. Harrison also represents individuals and companies testifying before Congress.

Keith served as lead trial counsel in MorphoSys v. Cambridge Antibody Technology, where he successfully tried a three-week biotech patent infringement jury trial about phage display antibody library technology. Recently, Keith was lead trial counsel in Celera Genomics v. Wyeth, Inc., a jury trial concerning Celera Genomic's historic decoding of the human genome and the licensing of its genetic database, which settled after Keith's opening statement. Another of Keith's reported intellectual property cases is Ellis v. Hurson, the leading case in the District of Columbia on trade secrets and noncompetition agreements. In addition, Keith successfully represented jWIN Electronics in patent infringement litigation regarding V-Chips or parental control technology in DVD players in the Eastern District of Texas. Keith's clients include Cambridge Antibody Technology, Compugen, Celera Genomics and jWIN Electronics,

Keith also serves as employment litigation counsel to one of Washington metropolitan area's largest employers, MedStar Health, Inc. and its subsidiary hospitals, including Washington Hospital Center, Georgetown University Hospital, National Rehabilitation Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital. Other businesses that look to Keith for employment representation include Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States and the intellectual property law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner.

Keith is a past member of the Board of Governors for The Federal Circuit Bar Association. He is also a member of the American Bar Association ("ABA") Sections of Litigation and Intellectual Property Law. Keith is admitted to the District of Columbia and New York Bars. He is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia; the United States Courts of Appeals for the Federal, District of Columbia, Fifth, Sixth and Eleventh Circuits; as well as the United States Court of Federal Claims.

Keith is a contributor, author and co-author of several articles on the procedural and substantive aspects of commercial litigation, healthcare law, employment litigation and intellectual property matters. He has also lectured on these topics and was most recently featured as a faculty member on the ABA's closed circuit television seminar programs. Keith is a faculty member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy where he trains lawyers in the art of trial advocacy. In 2007, he was selected as a Washington, D.C. "Super Lawyer" in the field of intellectual property litigation by Super Lawyers.

After law school, Keith served as an Assistant District Attorney for the County of New York (Manhattan), where he prosecuted over 200 felony cases, including homicide, assault, rape, robbery, arson, embezzlement, counterfeiting and grand larceny. As an Assistant District Attorney, Keith was lead counsel in numerous jury trials, each returning a verdict in his favor. In 1988, he entered private practice in Washington, D.C.

Education
College of William and Mary, B.A., 1981
University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1984

Affiliations
Admitted to practice: District of Columbia, New York