Mickey Keane
Michael (“Mickey”) J. Keane, Jr. joined Garfunkel Wild, P.C. in 2012. Mickey primarily handles clients’ pre-dispute, litigation, and alternative dispute resolution needs, representing businesses, medical practices, and individuals in high-stakes matters throughout the tristate area. He has appeared before federal and state judges, juries, arbitral panels, administrative agencies, and regulatory bodies, and has argued appeals before both the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the New York Appellate Division.
Mickey’s practice spans a broad spectrum of complex commercial and regulatory disputes, including partnership and LLC breakups, commercial transactions, antitrust matters, managed-care and reimbursement issues, data breaches, fraud, wage-and-hour claims, employment discrimination, and labor-law matters.
He has significant experience defending RICO litigation and advising clients on strategies involving insurance-carrier examinations of claims under the No-Fault and Workers’ Compensation laws, including challenges to insurers’ expanding use of EUOs, audits, and fraud-based denials. Mickey regularly counsels clients on navigating the complex interplay between RICO allegations, reimbursement disputes, and insurer-driven investigative tactics.
Mickey also represents clients in technology and cybersecurity-related disputes, including matters involving evolving contractual and regulatory frameworks that create new categories of litigation risk. His work increasingly includes advising on potential litigation issues emerging from the broadened use of artificial intelligence, assisting clients in responding to data breaches, coordinating with insurers and regulators, assessing and securing insurance coverage, and managing the litigation and operational fallout that often follow cybersecurity incidents.
His work covers all phases of dispute resolution—from pre-suit strategy and discovery to dispositive motion practice, arbitration, and trial. Across all areas of his practice, Mickey prides himself on developing efficient, creative, and cost-effective strategies that help commercial entities and individuals resolve significant business disputes and achieve positive, durable results.