Keith McPherson completed his undergraduate education at Centenary College of Louisiana, a private liberal arts college in Shreveport on academic and athletic soccer scholarships. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology in 1986 while playing NCAA Division I soccer all four years earning All-TAAC Conference player selection.
From 1986 to 1988 he attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha where he earned his Master of Arts in Psychology. While earning his degree he worked as a Psychology Intern at the Meyer’s Children’s Rehabilitation Institute, an adjunct facility of the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Following graduate school, Keith next attended the University of Arkansas School of Law in Little Rock and earned his Juris Doctor in 1991. After his first year of law school, in 1989, he was hired as a law clerk by Richard Watts at the Laser Law Firm. He practiced for 25 years as a civil litigation trial attorney for the Laser Firm, attaining full equity partner status before re-joining previous law partners Richard Watts and David Donovan in 2016 at Watts, Donovan & Tilley. During his first 30 years of litigation practice, Keith represented individual and corporate insured defendants on behalf of their insurance companies in many types of suits, including auto, trucking, premises, medical malpractice, and workers’ compensation. Keith left the defense practice in June of 2021 when he was given an opportunity to join Rainwater, Holt & Sexton in their litigation department, allowing him to bring his extensive defense litigation experience over to the Plaintiff’s side to help injured individuals and families receive the representation and recoveries they deserve.
Keith is licensed to practice before the Arkansas Supreme Court and Arkansas Court of Appeals, all federal district courts in Arkansas, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. He has tried over 100 bench and jury trials across the state of Arkansas. In 2018 he earned an AV Preeminent Rating, the highest possible rating, from Martindale-Hubbell, as selected and voted on by his peers. Keith was also selected for Super Lawyers of the mid-South in 2014, the American Board of Trial Advocates in 2022, and The National Trial Lawyers, Top 110 Civil Plaintiff in 2023.
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