Loren Kieve
Location:
San Francisco, California
Phone:
415-692-0463
866-384-2318 (Conference)
415-425-2655 (Cell)
866-384-2318 (Conference)
415-425-2655 (Cell)
Fax:
435-304-0060
E-mail:
Loren Kieve has a demonstrated record of success in resolving challenging, high stakes disputes. He has represented and advised major U.S. and foreign companies and individuals in a broad variety of trials, appeals and settlements, including securities, insurance coverage, construction, environmental, derivative, financial services, commodities trading, antitrust, contract, RICO, insurance sales practices, products liability, defamation, personal injury, employment, discrimination, real estate, mine disaster, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other commercial cases. His cases regularly involve complex foreign parties and issues, major government contract matters, including civil and criminal false claims act cases, and formal and informal administrative proceedings and other inquiries.
He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in nationwide class actions, and arbitrated both international and domestic cases.
For the ninth year in a row, San Francisco Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine have named him as one of the top "Super Lawyers" in the Bay Area. He has been given the highest peer-review "AV® Preeminent" rating in both legal ability and ethical standards by Martindale Hubbell for 25 years. He is also rated a "10" (the highest available rating) by Avvo. When he practiced in Washington, The Washingtonian magazine listed him among the city's leading lawyers.
Areas of Practice
- Bad Faith Insurance
- Business & Commercial Law
- Insurance Law
- Litigation & Appeals
- Products Liability Law
Bar Admissions
- California
- District of Columbia
- New York
- Virginia
- New Mexico
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Education
- University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- J.D. - 1972
- Honors: Teaching Assistant in Constitutional Law
- Honors: National Moot Court Competition (Best Brief and Best Oral Argument)
- Law Review: New Mexico Law Review, Editor
- Law Journal: Natural Resources Journal, Editor
- Oxford University
- M.A. - 1975
- Oxford University
- B.A. - 1971
- Honors: With Honours
- Major: Jurisprudence
- Stanford University - 1968
Published Works
- ABA Civil Trial Practice Standards, 1998
- ABA Guidelines for Litigation Conduct, 1998
- Primary Editor, ABA Discovery Practice Standards, 1999
- ABA Litigation Section Comments on the Final Report of the Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeal, 1999
- Ethical Issues: 40 Solutions for Litigators, (Contributing Author), ABA Section of Litigation, 2005
- ABA Policy on Expert Witness Reports , 2006
- ABA Policy on Inadvertent Disclosure of Privileged Material, 2006
- Primary Editor, ABA Standards for Final Pretrial Submissions and Orders, 2008
- Expert Witnesses, (Contributing Author), ABA Section of Litigation, 2010
Classes/Seminars
- Trial Practice Faculty Member, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Boulder, Colorado, 1982, 1983, 1984
- Lecturer, Product Liability Issues, University of Rochester Graduate School of Business, 1985
- Panelist: "Cutting the Litigation Process Short: Is There New Life for Summary Judgment?", ABA Annual Meeting, 1998 - Present
- Program Moderator: "What to Do When the Grand Jury Calls: Criminal Enforcement of Environmental Laws", ABA Litigation Section Annual Meeting, 1989
- Panel Member: "The Federal Courts Study Committee's Recommendations - An Overview.", ABA Litigation Section Annual Meeting, 1990
- Panel Member: "Civil Case Management" (Other Members Included Federal Judges Feldman and Parker), Workshop for Judges of the Fifth Circuit, 1990
- Panel Member: "Fast Track Litigation: Can Judges, Practitioners and Legislators Agree on Realistic Reform?", ABA Annual Meeting, 1990
- Panel member: ""Moving Cases on Crowded Dockets: How Judges and Lawyers Can Work Together", Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference, 1991
- Featured Luncheon Speaker ("Discovery in Arbitration"), American Arbitration Association, Annual Meeting , 1992
- Program Moderator: "Discovery, Competitiveness and the Threat of Malpractice.", American Inns of Court, Annual Meeting, 1992
- Program Chair: "New Directions in U.S. Federal Civil Litigation.", ABA Litigation Section Program, London, 1995
- Mock Closing Argument: "A National Closing Argument Shoot-Out" , ABA Annual Meeting, 1996
- A Master Class in Arbitration. Program Chair and Moderator, ABA Annual Meeting , 2003
- Protection of Architectural Intellectual Property, Union Internationale des Avocats, Paris, 2007
- Liabilities of Ancillary Parties (Accountants, Banks, Lawyers, etc.) for Securities and Financial Misstatement Violations, COMBAR, Berlin, 2008
- Will the Cost of E-Discovery End Litigation as We Know It Today? , ABA Litigation Section Annual Institute on E-Discovery, Chicago , 2009
- Legal Issues Arising out of the Global Financial Crisis, COMBAR, Chicago, 2009
- "E-Discovery Is Broken; How Do We Fix It?", Corporate E-Discovery Forum, Chicago, 2009
- "Whatever Happened to Rule 11: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?", LegalTech, New York, 2010
- Panel Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 2010
- Panel Member, Civil Litigation Conference, Duke Law School, 2010
- Program Moderator, "Litigation in the Internet Age", ABA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2010
- Program Participant, "The New Federal Rules for Expert Discovery Go Into Effect - Are You Ready?", PLI-Navigant Webinar, 2010
- Program Participant, "Impact of Electronic Revolution on Litigation", Annual Meeting , Association of American Law Schools, 2011
Honors and Awards
- American Bar Foundation, Sustaining Life Fellow
- ABA Litigation Section, Award of Excellence, 2006
- Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in the East.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- American Bar Association, Member, Coordinating Committee on Civil Justice Reform, 1990 - 1993
- American Bar Association, Task Force on Gun Violence, Founding Member, 1993 - 1994
- American Bar Association, Member, Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Improvements, 2008 - 2011
- American Bar Association, Segment Value Membership Initiative, Member, 2008
- American Bar Association, California State Bar Delegate to the House of Delegates, 2009 - 2011
- American Bar Association, Governmental Affairs, Liaison, Standing Committee, 2009 - 2010
- American Bar Association, Task Force on Federal Pleading Standards, Member, 2010 - Present
- ABA, Litigation Section, Vice-Chair, Environmental Law Committee, 1988 - 1989
- ABA, Litigation Section, Co-Chair, Federal Procedure Committee, 1989 - 1992
- ABA, Litigation Section, Member, Special Review Committee on the Federal Civil Rules, 1990 - 1992
- ABA, Litigation Section, Task Force on District Court Advisory Groups under the Civil Justice Reform Act, D.C. Circuit Member, 1990 - 1991
- ABA, Litigation Section, Task Force on the Justice System, Co-Chair, 1994 - 1995
- ABA, Litigation Section, Federal Initiatives Task Force, Chair, 1995 - 1996
- ABA, Litigation Section, Nominating Committee, 1996-97, 1998-99, 2005-2006
- ABA, Litigation Section, Council Member, 1996 - 1999
- ABA, Litigation Section, Member, Civil Practice Standards Task Force, 1996 - 1998
- ABA, Litigation Section, Discovery Practice Standards Task Force , 1997 - 1999
- ABA, Litigation Section, Federal Practice Task Force, 1998 - 2002
- ABA, Litigation Section, Liaison, Federal Judicial Conference, 1996 - 1999
- ABA, Litigation Section, Liaison, Civil Rules Advisory Committee of the Federal Judicial Conference, 2000 - 2001
- ABA, Litigation Section, Life Fellow, 2004
- ABA, Litigation Section, Award of Excellence, 2006
- ABA, Litigation Section, Federal Practice Task Force, 2002 - 2011
- ABA, Litigation Section, Co-Chair, 2002 - 2009
- ABA, Litigation Section, Co-chair, Working Group on U.S.-Canada Cross-Border Class Action Protocols, 2008 - 2011
- ABA, Litigation Section, Representative to the Civil Rules Advisory Committee on restyling the Fed. R. Civ. P., 2002 - 2005
- ABA, Litigation Section, Co-Chair, Special Committee on the Future of Civil Litigation, 2009 - 2010
- ABA, Litigation Section, Co-chair, Task Force on Attorney-Client Privilege, 2010 - 2011
- California State Bar, California State Bar Delegate to the House of Delegates, 2009 - Present
- California State Bar, Member, Board of Governors, District Four (San Francisco and Marin Counties), 2010 - Present
- California State Bar, Member, Governance in the Public Interest Task Force, 2010 - 2011
- District of Columbia Federal Court Advisory Committee under the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 , Member
- District of Columbia Federal Court Advisory Committee under the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990, Chair, Trial Practice Subcommittee, 1992 - 1994
- District of Columbia Circuit Judicial Conference, 1998
- COMBAR, the Commercial Bar Association, London, U.K., Honorary Member, 1999 - Present
- American Constitution Society (Northern California Chapter), Founding Member, 2004 - Present
- Union Internationale des Avocats, Member, 2007 - Present
- Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development (IAIA), Trustee, Chair, 1997 - 2001
- Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development (IAIA), Trustee, Chair , 2007 - 2011
- Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development (IAIA), Executive Committee Member, 1997 - 2011
- Stanford Associates, Member, 2006 - Present
- Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development (, U.S. Presidential Appointment with Senate Confirmation, 1994 - Present
- National Advisory Board, Member, Chair, Development Subcommittee
- Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), Member, 2001 - Present
- Center for International Security and Cooperation, Sustaining Contributor, 2004 - Present
- Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, 2004 - Present
- Stanford Associates, 40th Reunion, Co-chair
- Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the Bay Area, San Francisco, California, Member, Director, 2004 - Present
- Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the Bay Area, San Francisco, California, Co-Chair, 2005 - 2007
- Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the Bay Area, San Francisco, California, 2003 - Present
- National Board of Trustees, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Member and Audit Committee Member, 2007 - Present
- Flint Industries, Inc., Director and Executive Committee Member and Co-Manager
- The Flintco Companies, Inc. , Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1985 - Present
- Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Registered Member
- Federal Practice Task Force, Co-chair, 2002 - 2009
Past Employment Positions
- Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLC, Partner, 2002 - 2008
- Bechtel Group, Inc, Principal Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, Manager of Legal Department and Head of the Department's Litigation and Claims Group, 2000 - 2002
- Debevoise & Plimpton, Partner, 1987 - 2000
- Steptoe & Johnson, Associate, Partner, 1974 - 1987
- Hon. Oliver Seth, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Law Clerk, 1973 - 1974
- Hon. Edmund L. Palmieri, United States District Judge (S.D.N.Y.), Law Clerk
