ALUMNI PROFILE
ALUMNI PROFILE:
Keith M. Fleischman ‘84 There are as many career trajectories as there are California Western alumni. However, few have traced as much legal territory or earned as much recognition and success in the litigation and trial of nationally consequential cases as Keith Fleischman, founding partner of Fleischman Bonner & Rocco, LLP.
From leading and prosecuting cases in the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, the U.S. Justice Department, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, to leading a national plaintiffs’ firm and founding a thriving Manhattan-based litigation boutique, Keith has carved out an amazingly prolific career and made a major impact in the class action and securities fraud arenas. Keith says California Western played an important role in preparing him for success. The law school “was full of good and great professors who genuinely enjoyed the law. Their curiosity and motivation to push students to deeper exploration honed my own legal curiosity,” he says, adding that the program was truly rigorous and competitive. “There was always the prospect that you could be on the wrong side of the curve so you worked hard.” “The good news,” he says with a touch of nostalgia, “was that San Diego was awesome and El Indio stayed open late.”
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