PLYMOUTH, Mass. (Court TV) — John O’Keefe’s family has bolstered its legal team in their wrongful death lawsuit against Karen Read by adding California-based attorney Bibi Fell, a move that could significantly impact the civil case’s outcome.
Karen Read appears in court for a hearing in a civil lawsuit filed against her by the O’Keefe family on Sept. 22, 2025. (Court TV)
Fell, who founded the Fell Law Firm and focuses on catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, brings substantial experience to the O’Keefe team. She secured the second-largest personal injury verdict in California in 2018, worth over $100 million, and obtained a $5 million settlement after a child was hit while riding a bike.
The civil lawsuit, filed by O’Keefe’s mother, father, brother and niece, names Read along with two bars the couple and their friends visited before O’Keefe’s death in January 2022. The suit alleges the same events that criminal prosecutors alleged: that Read was drunk, drove her SUV, hit O’Keefe and left him to die in the snow outside a fellow officer’s home in Canton, Massachusetts…