An honors graduate of Princeton University and Georgetown University Law Center, and with many years of experience in large law firm private practice and as a full-time law professor, Keith Fisher joined the St. Thomas University law faculty in August 2025. Previously, he was the Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Institute for Ethics and Professionalism at the National Judicial College.

Professor Fisher is a nationally known expert in several areas, ranging from legal and judicial ethics to domestic and international financial services regulation, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, and anti-trafficking. He has served as a member of the A.B.A. Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and as Chair of the Professional Responsibility Committee of the A.B.A. Business Law Section. He is currently the Executive Editor for Legal Opinions and Professional Responsibility for Business Law Today and author of the two-volume Lexis-Nexis/Matthew Bender Banking Law Manual, updated semiannually. His published scholarship has appeared in a wide variety of law reviews and anthologies, and some of his articles have won prizes or honoraria or been cited in judicial opinions.

Professor Keith was the principal drafter of the A.B.A.’s amicus curiae briefs (at both the certiorari and merits stages) to the U.S. Supreme Court in Caperton v. Massey Coal Co. (dealing with the due process ramifications of a judge’s refusal to recuse). He has assisted the Conference of Chief Justices Professionalism Committee, which focuses on all aspects of bar admissions and regulation of the legal profession, including the regulation of foreign lawyers.

Professor Keith has considerable experience in large law firm practice where, in addition to financial regulatory matters, he worked on Supreme Court and other appellate briefs and oral arguments with E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr. and (now Chief Justice) John Roberts. From 2015 to 2021, he served as Principal Consultant and Senior Counsel for Domestic and International Court Initiatives at the National Center for State Courts, where, among other capacities, he served as counsel to the amicus committee of the Conference of Chief Justices.

Professor Keith’s work in Judicial Ethics includes innovative and tailored in-person and virtual ethics trainings for judges at all levels, both across the United States around the world. Speaking engagements in recent years include the International Conference on Court Excellence in Singapore, the Department of Justice’s Professional Responsibility Training Session for U.S. Immigration Judges, an American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce Symposium on Improving the Greek Court System, the Magistrature de Quebec’s Colloque soulignant les 40 ans du Conseil de la magistrature, the U.N.’s Global Judicial Integrity Network, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s conference on judicial ethics and social media, and the Judicial Education Institute of Trinidad and Tobago. He has also done anti-corruption training for judges and prosecutors in Suriname and Sri Lanka and has served on the Board of Editors for UNESCO publications on judicial bioethics.

Professor Keith also has a degree in music theory and composition and studied as a child at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. In recent years he has concertized at the Athens Conservatory (where Maria Callas studied) and at the Palacio da Ajuda in Lisbon. In his spare time, he reviews recordings of jazz and classical music for Fanfare magazine. Keith had a leading role in the Franco-Swiss docudrama Cleveland vs. Wall Street, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. He enjoys racquet sports, is an avid chess and bridge player, and has a love of learning about foreign languages and cultures. He speaks French, Italian, German, Spanish, Greek, and a smattering of Portuguese and Japanese.