Hofstra University – B.B.A. 1989
Fordham University School of Law – J.D. 1994
Edward J. Phillips joined Keane & Beane, P.C. in 2000 following a two-year clerkship with United States District Judge William H. Pauley III in the Southern District of New York. Mr. Phillips also practiced law at a midtown Manhattan firm where he concentrated on commercial litigation and the defense of complex civil rights actions involving municipal entities and public officials. Since joining Keane & Beane, P.C., Mr. Phillips has continued to represent employers and public officials in employment discrimination and other labor matters, such as the defense of claims brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act. His practice also includes litigation arising out of zoning and land use matters, the New York State Freedom of Information and Open Meetings Laws, and other areas of municipal law.
Mr. Phillips is admitted to practice law in federal and state courts in New York and Connecticut.
New York State Bar Association; Westchester County Bar Association; White Plains Bar Association; Federal Bar Council.
"The Life of a Civil Suit, From Conception to Conclusion," Pace Center for Continuing Legal Education (March 2010).
"Everything You Wish You Knew Then, And Need To Know Now About Email and Other Communications," Westchester Putnam School Boards Association (February 2010).
Riverkeeper, Inc. v. Planning Bd. of Town of Southeast, 9 N.Y.3d 219, 851 N.Y.S.2d 76 (2007) (holding that planning board took requisite “hard look” at concerns resulting from project and regulatory changes and reasonably determined that further environmental review under SEQRA was unnecessary);
Patrolmen's Benevolent Ass'n of City of New York, Inc. v. New York State Public Environment Relations Bd., 6 N.Y.3d 563, 815 N.Y.S.2d 1 (2006) (holding that the Rockland County Police Act gave local officials exclusive authority over -police disciplinary matters that precluded collective bargaining on subject of police discipline under the Taylor Law);
Matter of Santomero v. Board of Educ. Of Bedford Cent. Sch. Dist., (Sup. Ct. West. Cty. Index No. 25405-2008) (holding that draft disciplinary charges preferred against a former school superintendent, and emails constituting intra-agency records, not subject to disclosure under N.Y. Freedom of Information Law);
Jae v. Board of Educ. of Pelham Union Free School Dist., 22 A.D.3d 581, 802 N.Y.S.2d 228 (2d Dep't), leave to appeal denied, 6 N.Y.3d 714, 816 N.Y.S.2d 749 (2006) (ruling in favor of school board on issues involving executive sessions and advisory committees under the N.Y. Open Meetings Law)
