Kimberley Keyes Associate

Kimberley Keyes is an associate in the Domestic Relations, Litigation, Media and Intellectual Property Practice Groups.  Her diverse practice includes representing clients in all aspects of divorce, modification and contempt actions, litigating civil and criminal cases, and conducting prepublication review for media clients.

She also helps to staff the firm’s hotline for the New England Press Association.  A journalist-turned lawyer, Kim was the 2004-2005 McCormick-Tribune Legal Fellow at The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Arlington, Virginia, where she submitted amicus briefs and formal comments to courts and legislatures advocating for the interests of the news media. 

After graduating from Boston University’s College of Communication with a degree in journalism, Kim spent six years working as an award-winning reporter and editor with MPG Newspapers in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Mariner Community Newspapers in Marshfield, Massachusetts.  She also hosted a cable TV access program on the South Shore. 

In law school, Kim served as a volunteer defender in the Quincy District Court, and as articles editor of the Suffolk University Law Review. Her note, inspired by her previous career as a journalist and entitled “Freedom Without Responsibility: Do Massachusetts Media Defendants Need the Neutral Reportage Privilege?” was cited by the Massachusetts Appeals Court in Reilly v. The Associated Press, 797 N.E.2d 1204 (2003). She also has published articles in News Media & The Law and The Federal Lawyer magazines, and has co-authored (with Joseph D. Steinfield and Jeffrey J. Pyle) an annual update of access law for the Practising Law Institute’s Communications Law program in New York. In 2006, she presented seminars on Massachusetts access law for MCLE and Lorman Education Services, among others.  

Before joining Prince Lobel, Kim served as a law clerk to the Honorable Francis X. Spina of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and to the Honorable Charlotte A. Perretta of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts
• United States Supreme Court
• United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Education

• Suffolk University Law School, magna cum laude, 2001
• Boston University, B.S., 1992

Noteworthy

• 2006-2007: Recognized as a "Massachusetts Rising Star" as published in Boston magazine

Memberships

• Boston Bar Association
• Women’s Bar Association