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April 11, 2022 / 2022 Top 25 Women in Business

Keisha Palmer, Top 25 Women in Business 2022 Honoree

By Susan Shalhoub
Keisha Palmer Employer: Robinson+Cole Title: Partner Check out all of the WIB honorees here!
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Keisha S. Palmer advises a broad range of governmental agencies on the issuance of tax-exempt and taxable bonds and other debt. Her practice includes assisting public and private entities in understanding the complexities inherent in transactions involving tax-advantaged obligations.

She has held numerous leadership positions of several professional associations and organizations. Palmer has been recognized for her dedication to mentoring lawyers and participating in pipeline programs to create pathways for increased diversity within the legal community.

Palmer is Robinson+Cole’s hiring committee chair, partner-in-charge of its Hartford office and a valued member of its diversity, equity and inclusion committee.

Q: What’s been your biggest professional accomplishment so far?

Making partner in a large law firm is the ultimate goal for private practitioners — that has been my biggest professional accomplishment so far, augmented by the leadership roles I’ve taken on within my firm at what is still the relatively early part of my career.

Q: What’s the next big goal you want to accomplish professionally?

Outside of expanding my practice, continuing my work to find innovative ways to help women and attorneys of color find their definition of success in private practice is a goal for me. The lack of mentors and advocates who can help clear the path — all while they juggle families with busy practices — can be insurmountable obstacles.

Q: What’s one of the biggest professional challenges you’ve overcome?

My biggest professional challenge is inextricably linked to my biggest accomplishment — making partner. The private practice of law is infamously unfriendly to women and people of color, figuring out how to solve the puzzle of success in a predominantly white male industry while remaining authentic was not an easy feat.

Q: What legacy do you want to leave after your career is over?

My legacy should reflect that I opened the doors to the practice of law as a serious career consideration for people who look and sound like me — young people of color and immigrants to the United States — and also that I positively influenced the lives I’ve touched throughout my career.

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