Bruce Keller has been an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey since 2015. Now Special Counsel to the U. S. Attorney, he handles investigations, cases and appeals throughout the Office, focusing on public corruption. He has briefed some of the Office’s most complicated appeals, including:

The mail and other fraud convictions in “Bridgegate,” which the Third Circuit unanimously affirmed;
The racketeering-related convictions of former Bergen County Democratic chair Joseph Ferriero;
The tax evasion convictions of former Ocean County Republican chair George Gilmore;
U.S. v. Grant, which he argued en banc, defending the constitutionality of a prison sentence imposed on a juvenile who, among other things, helped dismember his victim.

Before that, while leading the intellectual property litigation practice at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, his cases included :

ABC, CBS and NBC against Aereo (involving copyrights to their over-the-air broadcasts);
Sony Pictures (matters ranging from the mega-hit motion picture Spider-Man to the made-for-television movie “Who is Clark Rockefeller?");
Howard Stern and CBS Radio (the on-air handling of cremated remains);
the NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB (multiple right of publicity and other matters); and
clothing retailer The Gap (involving the famous Gap® trademark).

Mr. Keller an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Law: Unfair Competition, also has co-authored two treatises, including PLI’s Copyright Law: A Practitioner’s the Guide (with Jeffrey Cunard). Along with Mr. Cunard, he has taught at Harvard Law School, was a Fellow at its Berkman Center for Internet and Society and, in addition to being honored with the Center’s highest award, since has received the Excellence in Appellate Practice award from the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Silver Shingle Award from Boston University School of Law.

Mr. Keller received a B.S. from Cornell University in 1976 and his J.D. from Boston University in 1979. He is admitted to the bar in New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey.