Denise Keyser > Ballard Spahr LLP > New Jersey, United States > Lawyer Profile
Ballard Spahr LLP Offices
700 EAST GATE DRIVE
SUITE 330 MOUNT LAUREL
NJ 08054-0015
NEW JERSEY
United States
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Denise Keyser
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Partner and Practice Leader of the firm’s Labor and Employment Group
Career
Denise M. Keyser is the Practice Leader of the firm’s Labor and Employment Group. She has more than 30 years of experience representing national, regional, and locally based businesses in labor and employment matters, including traditional labor law (such as collective bargaining and arbitrations), OSHA, ERISA, wage and hour, employment-at-will, wrongful discharge, discrimination, management training, executive compensation, and affirmative action.
Denise has served as chief spokesperson and lead negotiator in collective bargaining negotiations for employers in a wide variety of industries, including health care, education, chemical manufacturing, food production, distribution, and public safety. She has long represented several prominent Southern New Jersey hospital systems.
Admissions
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Education
University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D. 1983)
State University of New York at Stony Brook (B.A.1980, with high honors)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
Ballard Spahr LLP is highly regarded for its labor and employment services in the public sector, with its client roster featuring states, authorities, universities and hospitals. The group is frequently called upon by public sector clients to handle unfair labor practice cases, labor negotiations, arbitrations and union organization campaigns. Denise Keyser heads up the practice from the New Jersey office and has ample experience acting as lead negotiator in collective bargaining negotiations. Brian Pedrow‘s practice consists of private and public sector labor negotiations and unfair labor practice charges. Shannon Farmer is active in collective bargaining negotiations and interest arbitrations. Both Pedrow and Farmer are based in the Philadelphia office.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Philadelphia Elite > Commercial disputes
- Philadelphia Elite > Commercial disputes
- Philadelphia Elite > Corporate and M&A
- Philadelphia Elite > Corporate and M&A
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Philadelphia Elite > Intellectual Property
- Philadelphia Elite > Corporate and M&A
- Finance > Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Philadelphia Elite > Commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Philadelphia Elite > Corporate and M&A
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Real estate > Real estate
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense