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THE HOWARD AND GEORGEANNA JONES
FOUNDATION FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE 
Officers and Directors

Robert J. Kheel
Wilkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
787 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019


Robert J. Kheel is a partner in the Litigation Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. Mr. Kheel specializes in complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on labor and sports law. He represents clients on matters including employment discrimination and raiding cases, NLRB proceedings, arbitration and accountant’s liability litigation, and Major League Baseball related transactions and issues.

Mr. Kheel is a member of the New York State, District of Columbia, and American Bar Associations and the Association of the City of New York. He is a Trustee of Howard and Georgeanna Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine.

Mr. Kheel has authored New York Amended Attachment Statute “A Prejudgment Remedy in Need of Further Revision,” Brooklyn Law Review, Winter 1978, and has co-authored “The Port Authority 1962 Covenants A Bar to Mass Transportation,” Rutgers Law Review, Fall 1973.
Mr. Kheel has been a Lecturer at Law at Columbia Law School on the Law of Sports since 1991.

Practice Focus
Litigation

Education
1969, University of Michigan Law School, J.D.
1966, London School of Economics and Political Science, M.S.
1965, Cornell University, B.A.

Bar Admissions
District of Columbia, 1983
Florida, 1970
New York, 1969

Courts
United States Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, 1975
United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 1990
United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, 1984
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1971
United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 1971


Eastern Virginia Medical School