Anton Keating--Background and Experience

Background | Education | Legal Experience |
Professional Memberships and Associations | Professional Activities

Background

Born in London, England, August 30, 1943

Emigrated to Canada, 1957

Emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, 1962

Education

National College of District Attorneys , Houston, Texas, 1972

Admitted to the Maryland Bar Association, 1969

Juris Doctor Degree, University of Maryland Law School, 1969

A.B. Degree, Boston University, 1966

A.N. Myer High School, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 1962

Emanuel School, Wandsworth, London, England

Legal Experience

Private Practice 1988-Present

Practice has evolved to include the representation of both civil and domestic matters.

Areas of expertise include criminal, health care, divorce, family and child custody and defense of physical and sexual child abuse charges.

Focus on litigation of disputes in Federal Court and District Court within the State.

Associate of Burke, Gerber, Wilen & Francomano 1985-1988

As a litigation specialist, represented individuals being investigated for criminal activities, particularly health-care providers, such as physicians, dentists, pharmacies, opticians and home-health care providers.

Representation included both pre and post-indictment advocacy as well as hearings before professional disciplinary groups such as The Board of Dental Examiners, The Board of Physician Quality Assurance and the Board of Pharmacists.

Firm dissolved, July 1988.

Private Practice 1981-1985

As a solo practitioner, concentrated on criminal investigations and the trial of cases.

Represented individuals in domestic, real estate and other civil matters.

Chief Counsel Attorney General Office State of Maryland 1979 -1981

Appointed an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Maryland by the Honorable Stephen H.Sachs.

Served as Chief Counsel of the newly-established Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

Responsible for the investigation and prosecution of health-care providers in the State Medicaid System.

Coordinated the activities of twenty-five investigators, accountants, auditors and prosecutors in the Unit.

Actively participated in the prosecution of physicians, dentists, nursing home owners, pharmacies and other providers guilty of fraud and/or other state violations.

As the first Chief Counsel of the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, initiated the use of computer programs to establish indicia of fraud, abuse and overutilization of the Medicaid Program.

Campaign for State’s Attorney for Baltimore City 1978-1979

Ran for State’s Attorney for Baltimore City against incumbent William Swisher and Attorney Dwight Petit.

Assistant Public Defender for Baltimore City 1973 - 1978

Appointed as an Assistant Public Defender for the City of Baltimore. Assigned to represent individuals accused of stranger-to-stranger crimes of violence in the Circuit Court.

Defended individuals in capital cases and in over fifty jury trials.

Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City 1969 - 1973

Hired by Charles E. Moylan, Jr., then State's Attorney of Baltimore. Appointed as an Assistant State's Attorney and assigned to the Circuit Court Division.

Named Chief Prosecutor in 1970, responsible for all cases prosecuted in one of the seven Criminal Courts.

In 1972, conducted a six-month Grand Jury investigation of the Baltimore City Jail.

Between 1969 to 1973, personally prosecuted over seventy capital offenses including over sixty murder cases and forty jury trials.

Professional Memberships and Associations

Admitted to practice in the following courts:

The Supreme Court of the United States of America, November 25, 1974.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, December 12, 1985

The United States District Court for the District of Maryland, April 6, 1973

The Court of Appeals of Maryland, December 19, 1969

Circuit Court for Baltimore City, December 19, 1969

Professional Association Memberships (Past and Present):

Maryland State Bar Association

Baltimore City Bar Association

American Bar Association

National District Attorneys' Association

Maryland State Attorneys' Association

Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys' Association

Maryland Trial Lawyers' Association

Professional Activities

Since 1972, Mr. Keating has lectured and performed demonstrations at both the University of Maryland Law School and the University of Baltimore Law School as a guest speaker on evidence, criminal law and trial tactics.

He has participated as an instructor in training seminars for the State's Attorney's Office of Baltimore City, the Office of the Public Defender and the Office of the Attorney General.

From 1979 - 1989, Mr. Keating was on the faculty of the Trial Advocacy Program of the Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, Inc.