Keith James Larson

Keith J. Larson is a shareholder and member of the Executive Committee of Morgan Pottinger McGarvey in Louisville, Ky., where he chairs the firm’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group. He represents secured and unsecured creditors, equity interest-holders, bankruptcy trustees, debtors and acquirers of troubled businesses in a wide variety of bankruptcy and workout matters. Mr. Larson has briefed and argued cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Circuits, as well as in state appellate courts, including issues of first impression. He also has experience litigating adversary proceedings in bankruptcy court. While attending law school, Mr. Larson served as the deputy congressional campaign manager and communications director for John Sarbanes for Congress 2006 and later as a legal extern for U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski. Upon graduation, he clerked for Hon. Sean D. Wallace in Maryland. Mr. Larson writes and lectures on issues in consumer and business bankruptcy and is an associate editor of the ABI Journal. In 2017, he was recognized by Louisville Business First as on of “20 People to Know in the Law.” He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, sits on the board of directors of the Louisville Forum, President, and is a member of the Kentucky Bar Association. Mr. Larson received his B.A. in government with high honors in 2003 from The College of William and Mary and his J.D. in 2008 from the University of Maryland School of Law, where he was awarded a Certificate of Concentration in Health Law.