7307 Summerhill Road Texarkana, Texas 75503
phone: 903 793 5316, fax: 903 642 0066
kukeevs@keever.cc

BIO

After 30 years as a physician, 22 of them practicing orthopedic surgery in Texarkana, Texas, Jim Keever returned to his alma mater to enter Law School. Graduating from the University of Kansas in December 2001, Jim spent most of 2002 taking and passing the Kansas and Texas Bar exams. He added the Arkansas Bar in 2005.

Since 2003 Jim has devoted his professional activities to the direct or indirect representation of parties injured by health care providers, whether physician or organization. Using a combination of his medical training and legal skills, Jim can streamline the process of evaluating the merits of a medical malpractice case, and can approach his representation with a unique insight into the mindset of the defendants.

Although he does accept self-referrals, Jim is happy to work with other attorneys, whether as a “curbside” consultant, a paid consultant to the litigation, co-counsel, or as lead counsel on referral. He retains his Texas medical license, although no longer seeing patients, and is willing to serve as an expert witness in those jurisdictions that recognize active practice is not necessary for such activities.

Jim continues to be licensed to practice law in both Arkansas and Texas, but by far the majority of his practice is in Arkansas. In December, 2009, Jim’s client in Hempstead County, Arkansas, received the largest jury award ever in that state against an individual doctor, $5,223,000.00.

E D U C A T I O N

University of Kansas School of Law

Juris Doctor, December 2001

• G.P.A. 3.64/4.0 Class rank: 17/170 (Spring 2002)
• Order of the Coif, 2002
• CALI award for excellent achievement in the study of Business Associations I
• CALI award for excellent achievement in the study of Individual Income Tax
• Independent Study Project: Survey of Medicare Fraud and Abuse
• Independent Study Project: The Federal Arbitration Act as Applied to the Securities Industry
• MPRE passed August 2001, weighted score of 139/150
• Admitted to Kansas Bar, May, 2002
• Admitted to Texas Bar, November,2002
• Admitted to Arkansas Bar, October, 2005

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

• Residency in Orthopedic Surgery 1973-1997

University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City, Kansas

• Straight Medicine Internship 1960-1970

University of Kansas School of Medicine Kansas City, Kansas

• Medical Doctor degree Alpha Omega Alpha honor fraternity 1965-1969

University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas

• B.A. in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 1961-1965 M.D. (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery)

P U B L I C A T I O N S   A N D   P R E S E N T A T I O N S

• With Yochim JM and Hiesterman DR , Induction of a pseudo-luteal phase in Adult Rats by a Single Injection of HCG During the Estrous Cycle., Endocrinology 77:3, 508-19, Sep, 1965.
• With Greenwald GS, Effect of Oestrogen and Progesterone on Pituitary Gonadotropic Content of the Cyclic Hamster., Acta Endocrinol (Copenh) 56:2, 244-54, Oct., 1967.
• With Greenwald, GS and Grady K, Ovarian Morphologyh and Pituitary FSH and LH Concentration in the Pregnant andLlactating Hamster., Endocrinology 80: 5, 851-6, May, 1967.
• With Giles JB, DeLee JC, Heckman JD, Supracondylar-intercondylar Factures of the Femur Treated with a Supracondylar Plate and Lag Screw, J bone Joint Surg Am 64: 6, 864-70, Jul, 1982
• With Rockwood C, Early Mobilization of the Severely Injured Patient, Presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, 1978

M I L I T A R Y   E X P E R I E N C E

Commissioned Officer with the United States Public Health Service 

United States Coast Guard 1970-1973

General Medical Officer

• U.S.C.G. Training/Supply Center Alameda, California 1970-1971

Flight Surgeon Candidate

• United States Army Aviation Center, Fort Rucker Alabama 1971
• Honor Graduate

Flight Surgeon

• United States Coast Guard Air Station, Opa Locka, Florida 1971-1972

Senior Medical Officer

• United States Coast Guard Base New York

Advisor

• United States Coast Guard Commander, Eastern Seaboard

Flight Surgeon

• United States Coast Guard Air Station, Brooklyn 1972-1973

P R O F E S S I O N A L   A C T I V I T I E S

Partner

• Southern Medical Clinic, Texarkana, Arkansas 1977-1983

Individual practice

• James E. Keever, M.D., P.A., Texarkana, Texas 1983-86

C.E.O.

• Orthopedic Specialists of Texarkana, P.A., Texarkana, Texas
• Expanded general orthopedic group from two to four physicians 1986-1997

C.E.O.

• Orthopedic Specialists of Texarkana, P.L.L.C., Texarkana, Texas
• Expanded general orthopedic group from four to six physicians
• Developed free-standing M.R.I. Center 1997-1999

C.E.O.

• James Keever, LLC
• a consulting company in health law issues including Independent Medical Examinations 2002-present

Hospital leadership activities

• Chief, Surgery Section St. Michael Hospital, Texarkana, Arkansas 1979-1980
• Chief, Surgery Section, Medical Arts Hospital, Texarkana, Texas 1987-1989
• Chief of Staff, Medical Arts Hospital, Texarkana, Texas 1990-1995
• Director of Orthopedics, Health South Rehabilitation Hospital, Texarkana, Texas 1995-1999

B U S I N E S S   A C T I V I T I E S

Board of Directors, Exceller School of Golf, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona 1993-1995 Keever Properties Development and management of commercial real estate properties Texarkana, Texas 1985-1998 Member, Keever Management Group, LLC Formation of entity for area development of McAlisters Deli franchise units in Austin, Texas 2003