Stephanie L. Burns joined Keane & Beane, P.C. in 1997 after graduating from Pace University School of Law.  She practices in the firm's commercial litigation, construction, land use and zoning, employment and municipal law practice areas.  Ms. Burns regularly defends public and private sector employers in federal civil rights actions, which include discrimination and retaliation claims.  She also represents clients in federal and state courts in matters involving land use, municipal, construction, landlord/tenant and commercial disputes. 

Ms. Burns is a member of the Diversity Committee of the Westchester County Bar Association and chairs its subcommittee that is responsible for a high school student intern program.   Ms. Burns is also a Delegate to the House of Delegates of the New York State Bar Association.

Pace University School of Law - Environmental Law Certificate 1997.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York.

New York State Bar Association (Commercial and Federal Litigation Section and Municipal Law Section), Westchester County Bar Association (Diversity Committee, Delegate to the NYSBA House of Delegates) and Westchester Women's Bar Association.

Panelist: "New York Family and Medical Leave Act," August 1999.
Panelist: "Workshop on the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA)", June 2003.

Warm v. State of New York, 308 A.D.2d 534, 764 N.Y.S.2d 483 (2d Dep't 2003) (property owners within a corporate park not liable for damage resulting from discharge of drainage from corporate park onto nearby property).

Marden v. The Town of Bedford, 159 F.3d 1347, 1998 U.S. App. Lexis 18804 (2d Cir. 1998) (applying the Supreme Court's analysis of the Fair Labor Standards Act's "salary basis test" for overtime compensation in the Second Circuit).