Virginia Keeny

Ms. Keeny has been practicing in Los Angeles, specializing in employment law, for over 20 years. Ms. Keeny is the past Chair of the California Employment Lawyers Association, an association of nearly 1000 attorneys representing employees in discrimination, retaliation and other actions. She is also President of the Board of the City Project, a non-profit dedicated to environmental and social justice.  She has been named as a "Southern California Super Lawyer" seven times by Los Angeles Magazine, most recently in 2010.  She received the ACLU’s Pro Bono Advocacy Award in 2006 for her leadership in providing legal services to under-served communities in Southern California.

Ms. Keeny received her B.A. from Harvard College and her J.D. from Stanford Law School. Prior to becoming a partner at Hadsell Stormer Keeny Richardson & Renick, Ms. Keeny was a senior trial attorney with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Los Angeles and a Public Interest Fellow with the law firm of Litt & Stormer.  She started her legal career as law clerk to the Honorable William A. Norris, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Ms. Keeny has served as lead or co-counsel on numerous significant employment and consumer fraud cases, including Mosleh v. City of El Segundo, a racial and sexual harassment case against the City of El Segundo, which resulted in a settlement of $1.3 million; Wysinger v. Automobile Club of Southern California, a disability discrimination and retaliation case which resulted in a judgment of over $2  million; Pinney v. Great Western Bank, a federal class action alleging fraud in the sale of mutual funds, which ultimately settled for over $16 million; Cundiff v. Verizon, et al., a class action alleging fraudulent billing practices by the phone company which resulted in a settlement which included cash refunds of over $20 million to customers; and Wang v. Chinese Daily News, a wage and hour class action on behalf of approximately 200 workers, which resulted in a jury verdict of over $5 million in back wages and penalties.