Justin Keating

Justin has been a shareholder at Beins, Axelrod & Keating, P.C., since 2007. He graduated from the State University of New York College at Fredonia (BA. 1997) and George Washington University School of Law (2000). He is admitted to practice in New York, the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland.

Justin practices primarily in traditional labor law, collective bargaining, and employee benefits. He has litigated pre-trial through jury trial in several federal courts and administrative agencies under labor statutes, ERISA, and FLSA. He represents unions large and small, has arbitrated well over 100 collective bargaining agreement grievance arbitrations, regularly serves as chief negotiator or negotiating committee counsel in contract negotiations in the private and public sectors, and represents and advises unions in organizing campaigns and related litigation. He also assists union clients with legislative efforts at the state and local level. In the non-union legal world, he has represented plaintiffs in wage cases and consumer rights cases and assistend non-profit organizations with their legal needs.

With recent growth of public sector collective bargaining in Virginia, Justin has been counsel for unions around the Commonwealth in their efforts to build a better workplace for police officers, teachers, and other local government employees.

Justin has been a guest speaker at many bar association conferences and is a founding member and current Board member of the Virginia chapter of the Labor-Employment Relations Association.

From 2013 to 2016, Mr. Keating served as an elected member of the School Board for the City of Alexandria, Virginia. He has coached many youth basketball, baseball, and soccer teams in Alexandria where he lives with his wife Katie Finn and their two teenage sons.