Impact at CLIPI
After serving in the Peace Corps and graduating from University of Michigan Law School, Keeley was a CLIPI fellow from 1980‑81. At CLIPI, he worked on the Century Freeway litigation and on the El Segundo dunes administrative proceedings that successfully stopped a proposal to develop a golf course in the sand dunes adjacent to LAX that were the critical habitat of the endangered butterfly species.
Following CLIPI, Keeley joined Riordan & McKinzie and headed their Real Estate Department. He then became Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles in 1993 where he oversaw the City’s budget and key City departments, including airport, harbor, and water and power. Keeley currently practices real‑estate law in Palm Desert.
