Firm Overview

Keller and Heckman LLP, founded in 1962, has a broad practice in the areas of regulatory law, litigation, and business transactions, serving both domestic and international clients. Our firm is a pioneer in the use of interdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving. Since 1971, we have had an in-house scientific staff that works closely with the firm's attorneys on matters of technical complexity. Many of our attorneys also have government experience and expertise in multiple areas of the law.

Keller and Heckman represents a wide spectrum of companies and trade associations servicing a range of industries, including food and food additives, plastics, pesticides, industrial and specialty chemicals, drugs and medical devices, transportation, and telecommunications. The firm's practice covers the diverse regulatory areas that affect these industries, as well as business counseling and litigation issues. Our attorneys and scientists emphasize creative service to clients involved in the development of new products, services, and markets.

Our attorneys and staff serve clients from offices in Washington, D.C., Brussels, San Francisco, and Shanghai. We are also a member of Mackrell International, a network of 55 independent law firms throughout the world. By our membership in Mackrell International, we are able to assist our clients in satisfying their legal requirements in more than 32 countries across the globe (www.mackrell.net).

Why Choose KH?

Keller and Heckman LLP helps the world's most vital businesses achieve their objectives. We represent the food, drug, nutritional, and medical device companies that enhance health, the telecommunications and shipping companies that connect the globe, and the energy companies that fuel them all. Our clients include the chemical and plastics companies that make life safer and more convenient and the cosmetics, toy, and home product companies that simply make it more fun.

Keller and Heckman serves our clients by combining science and technical expertise with legal talent. On staff to assist attorneys are scientists from the fields of chemistry, toxicology, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, and industrial hygiene. This collaboration of law and science yields a thorough understanding of the issues clients face and the solutions that legal reasoning alone cannot offer. With over four decades of providing focused legal counsel to business, offices in Washington, D.C., Brussels, San Francisco, and Shanghai to provide global legal support, and opportunities to help write the regulations that affect government policies that industries must follow, Keller and Heckman makes it possible for clients to move their business forward.