Rich Keshian has extensive experience in civil litigation, concentrating in product liability and business litigation. He is a certified mediator and arbitrator. Mr. Keshian has represented numerous clients in the furniture industry and other manufacturing industries regarding product liability issues. Mr. Keshian is also an adjunct professor at Wake Forest School of Law. During law school, Mr. Keshian was an Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review.

Mr. Keshian has consistently been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Litigation, Product Liability and Eminent Domain. He was also named a 2013 Greensboro, North Carolina Region "Lawyer of the Year" in the area of Product Liability Litigation – Defendants by The Best Lawyers in America®. Mr. Keshian has also repeatedly been named a North Carolina "Super Lawyer" in Business Litigation by SuperLawyers magazine. Mr. Keshian received the 2008 Pro Bono Impact Award from Business Leader Media. He has also consistently been voted by North Carolina attorneys as a member of “Legal Elite,” one of the best litigation attorneys in North Carolina in North Carolina Business magazine. He is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell*.

* CV, BV, and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedure's standards and policies.

Professional & Community Activities

American Bar Association, Tort Insurance Practice Section, Property Insurance Section, Chairman of Publications  

Association of Defense Trial Attorneys, Member

The Defense Research Institute, Member

Home Owners Annotations Publication, Regional Editor 

North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, Member 

North Carolina Bar Association, Administration of Justice Study Committee, Member

Tort Insurance Practice Section Annual Survey, Property Law Survey, Editor and Author

Vanderbilt Law Review Editorial Board, Member

Wake Forest Law School Moot Court Board Judge

Winston-Salem Davis Cup Organizing Committee, Member

Education

  • Vanderbilt University, J.D. (1982)
  • Duke University, B.A. (1979)
    with honors

Bar Admissions

  • North Carolina (1983)

Admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court

Who We Are

What fully engaged means to me:

Working with and caring for clients as if their legal and business challenges were my own.

1001 West Fourth Street
Winston-Salem, NC, 27101-2400
USA
t +1 336.607.7322
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Richard J. Keshian

Experience Highlights

Richard Blake White, as Administrator of the Estate of Richard Dylan White, a minor; and Richard Blake White, individual v. Barbara Shermer Brown, Apria Group, Inc., Apria Healthcare, Inc., Pulmonetic Systems, Inc. and Datex-Ohmeda, Inc.
Represented Pulmonetic in a product liability action arising out of the death of a minor child, who had been in an automobile accident in 1999 that more
Claims of negligence and unfair and deceptive trade practices against leading heavy truck and engine manufacturer
Represents leading heavy truck and engine manufacturer against French and German companies involving contract, warranty, negligence, negligent more
Dan River, Inc. v. ALS Enterprises, Inc.
Represented Dan River Inc. in declaratory judgment action against ALS arising out of alleged false advertising claims.  After extensive discovery, more
Breach of warranty claims against heavy truck and engine manufacturer
Represents one of the leading heavy truck and engine manufacturer against allegations of negligence and breach of warranty and product defect claims more