Bar Admissions:
Texas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
United States District Court, Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas
United States District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Oklahoma
United States Courts of Appeal for the Fifth Circuit
United States Courts of Appeal for the Tenth Circuit
Education:
Baylor Law School – J.D., Cum Laude – 2001
University of Texas at Austin – B.S. – 1996
Keith joined Bruster PLLC in 2024.
Keith served as class counsel for the class action in Arnold v. Life Partners, Inc., securing over $1.087 billion of class members’ assets in a securities fraud case. This settlement is one of the largest in U.S. history for the sale of unregistered securities. Keith was also class counsel in Coffey v. Freeport-McMoRan, obtaining a $125 million settlement in a community-wide environmental contamination case for the people of Blackwell, Oklahoma. Keith represented a family in a 2021 wrongful death trucking case where he helped secure a $51 million pretrial settlement and a $730 million verdict, one of the top ten jury verdicts in the country for 2021.
Keith was the head of the Nix Patterson & Roach’s occupational health litigation practice (2001-11), prosecuting asbestos claims against hundreds of defendants on behalf of more than 8,000 individual plaintiffs. Keith later maintained his own practice from 2012-2022. Keith has additionally maintained a full docket and has tried numerous cases to successful verdicts for his clients, including breach of contract, wrongful death, 18 -wheeler collisions, and other personal injury cases.
Keith graduated cum laude from Baylor Law School in 2001. A member of Phi Delta Phi Fraternity, he was a Regional Finalist in the ATLA Mock Trial Team for Baylor Law School. While in law school, he served as Notes and Comments Editor and Executive Editor for Baylor Law Review, and his law review article, “Is Your UIM Policy in Texas ‘Worth Less?’: Henson v. Texas Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co.,” 53 Baylor Law Review 229, 2001, was published in the Baylor Law Review in 2001. Keith was also a member of the Baylor Harvey M. Richey Moot Court Society, and the author of the society’s Bench Brief in 2000. He served as the Vice- President of the Student Bar Association, was honored on the Dean’s List multiple times and was a multiple scholarship recipient. Keith has served as an adjunct trial advocacy professor for Baylor Law School.
Prior to law school, Keith served as a member of Congressman Jim Turner’s legislative staff in the Washington, DC office, where he was the Congressman’s assistant on the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee.
Honors & Memberships:
Baylor Young Lawyer of the Year in 2009
Top 100 Lawyer by the National Trial Lawyers in 2023
Thomson Reuters “Rising Star” 2009-2012 list by Super Lawyers
Member, Northeast Texas Bar Association
Member, Honorable T. John Ward American Inn of Court
Results:
$1.087 Billion
– Class Action Settlement
– Life Partners, Inc Securities class action
$730 Million
– Verdict
– Trucking Fatality
$119 Million
– Class Action Settlement
– Freeport-McMoRan Mining Contamination
$51 Million
– Settlement
– Trucking Fatality
The following is a list of published decisions in which Mr. Langston was lead counsel:
Coffey v. Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, 581 F.3d 1240 (10th Cir. 2009)
Coffey v. Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., 623 F. Supp. 2d 1257 (W.D. Okla. 2009)
Arnold v. Life Partners, Inc., 416 S.W.3d 577 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2013)
Life Partners, Inc. v. Arnold, 464 S.W.3d 660 (Tex. 2015)
Matter of Life Partners, Inc., 708 Fed. Appx. 831 (5th Cir. 2017)