Kevin M. O’Keefe

Kevin concentrates his practice in municipal law, which includes zoning, administrative actions, drafting and enforcing legislation, interpretation and application of state and federal laws and regulations, and trials and appeals.

Kevin has appeared in and argued trial and appellate cases in state and federal courts in Missouri and the United States Supreme Court (Quinn v. Millsap, 1989). He has presented seminars as a lecturer for the University of Wisconsin’s national zoning seminars; University of Missouri, Governmental Affairs Program; University of Missouri-St. Louis graduate program in Public Administration; St. Louis University graduate program in Public Administration; Missouri Municipal League; St. Louis County Municipal League, Missouri City Management Association, and the American Planning Association. He has also lectured at legal seminars for the Missouri Bar Association, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, International Municipal Lawyers Association, and the Missouri Municipal Attorneys Association, and he authored a chapter for a Missouri Bar continuing legal education publication.

Kevin’s service as municipal attorney includes consultation with executive and legislative officials on the full range of local government activity; drafting legislation and regulations; consultation and litigation concerning employment matters; review and enforcement supervision in administrative matters; coordination with consultants in other disciplines to write and implement technical codes; and responsibility for all types of local government litigation, particularly matters involving damage claims, contracts, civil rights, land use issues and judicial review of administrative actions.

• City Attorney, City of Black Jack, Missouri

• City Attorney, City of Clayton, Missouri

• City Attorney, City of Frontenac, Missouri

• City Attorney, City of Hazelwood, Missouri

• City Attorney, City of O’Fallon, Missouri

• City Attorney, City of Town & Country, Missouri

Kevin has previously served as the general counsel to the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners and the Maryland Heights Fire Protection District, and as special counsel for specific assignments for Kansas City, Springfield, Chesterfield, St. Charles and numerous other communities across the State of Missouri.