The family of John O’Keefe has added a wrongful death specialist lawyer from California to represent them in their civil suit against Karen Read, who was acquitted earlier this year of his murder.

Bibianne Fell, who goes by Bibi, is a San Diego-based attorney who, according to her website, “primarily practices in the areas of catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death.” She has practiced law in California since December of 2004, according to the motion for admittance, and is in good standing of the state’s bar.

The O’Keefe family’s Massachusetts-based attorney Marc Diller submitted the request to allow the out-of-state attorney to join as co-counsel on Wednesday. Plymouth Superior Court Judge Daniel J. O’Shea on Thursday allowed the request, having found that “the petitioner has sat

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