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Kieve I  Law Offices
5A Funston Avenue
The Presidio of San Francisco
San Francisco, California  94129-1110
www.kievelaw.com

Telephone:    415.364.0060
Conference:  866.384.2318

Loren Kieve
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Loren Kieve

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 eighth 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.  When he practiced in Washington, The Washingtonian magazine listed him among the city's leading lawyers.

Education

Oxford University
(M.A., 1975)

University of New Mexico School of Law
(J.D., 1972)

Editor, New Mexico Law Review

Editor, Natural Resources Journal

Teaching Assistant in Constitutional Law

National Moot Court Competition (best brief and best oral argument)

Oxford University
(B.A., Jurisprudence, with honours, 1971)

Stanford University
(1965-68)

Prior Associations

Partner, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLC, 2002 - 2008

Principal Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, Manager of Legal Department and Head of the Department's Litigation and Claims Group, Bechtel Group, Inc., Feb. 2000 - March 2002

Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton, 1987 - 2000

Associate, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson, 1974 - 1987

Law  clerk to Hon. Oliver Seth, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 1973 - 74

Law  clerk to Hon. Edmund L. Palmieri, United States District Judge (S.D.N.Y.), sitting by designation on the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico and on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1973, 1974 (simultaneously with the clerkship for Judge Seth)

Bar Admissions

California

The District of Columbia

New York

Virginia

New Mexico

U.S. Supreme Court

Nine federal circuit courts

Ten federal district courts

Professional Activities

American Bar Foundation:

  • Sustaining Life Fellow

American Bar Association:

  • Member, Coordinating Committee on Civil Justice Reform, 1990-93
  • Founding Member, Task Force on Gun Violence, 1993-94
  • Member, Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Improvements, 2008-2011
  • Member, Segment Value Membership Initiative, 2008
  • California State Bar Delegate to the House of Delegates, 2009-2011
  • Liaison to the Standing Committee on Governmental Affairs, 2009-2010
  • Member, Task Force on Federal Pleading Standards, 2010

ABA Litigation Section (selected positions):

  • Vice-chair, Environmental Law Committee, 1988-89
  • Co-chair, Federal Procedure Committee, 1989-92
  • Member, Special Review Committee on the Federal Civil Rules, 1990-92
  • D.C. Circuit Member, Task Force on District Court Advisory Groups under the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990, 1991
  • Co-chair, Task Force on the Justice System, 1994-95
  • Chair, Federal Initiatives Task Force, 1995-96
  • Nominating Committee, 1996-97, 1998-99, 2005-2006
  • Council Member, 1996-99
  • Member, Civil Practice Standards Task Force (1996-98); Discovery Practice Standards Task Force (1997-99); Federal Practice Task Force (1998-02)
  • Liaison, Federal Judicial Conference, 1996-99
  • Liaison, Civil Rules Advisory Committee of the Federal Judicial Conference, 2000-01
  • Life Fellow, 2004
  • Award of Excellence, 2006
  • Federal Practice Task Force, 2002-2010 (co-chair, 2002-2009)
  • Representative to the Civil Rules Advisory Committee on restyling the Fed. R. Civ. P.,
    2002-2005
  • Co-chair, Special Committee on the Future of Civil Litigation, 2009-2010

California State Bar:

  • Member, Board of Governors, District Four (San Francisco and Marin Counties), 2010-2013

Other Professional Associations:

Member, District of Columbia Federal Court Advisory Committee under the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 (Chair, Trial Practice Subcommittee), 1992-94

Member, District of Columbia Circuit Judicial Conference, 1998

Honorary Member, COMBAR, the Commercial Bar Association, London, U.K.,
1999-present

Member, Association of Business Trial Lawyers, 2003-Present

Founding Member, American Constitution Society (Northern California Chapter), 2004-present

Member, Union Internationale des Avocats, 2007-present

 

Other Affiliations

  • Trustee, chair (1997-2001, 2007-2011) and executive committee member (1997-present), Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development ("IAIA"), Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1994-present (U.S. Presidential Appointment with Senate Confirmation). The IAIA is one of three congressionally chartered institutions of higher learning (along with Howard and Gallaudet Universities) and oversees four- and two-year degree programs for Native Americans and Alaska Natives as well as the Museum of Contemporary Native American Art. During Mr. Kieve's previous tenure as Chair the IAIA built and moved onto its new campus. During his current tenure as Chair, the IAIA has embarked on four new major campus construction projects.
  • Member, National Advisory Board (and Chair, Development Subcommittee), Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity ("CCSRE"), Stanford University, 2001-present. CCSRE is the umbrella organization for Stanford's African and African-American, Chicano/a, Native-American and Asian-American Studies Programs, as well as its interdisciplinary undergraduate major in and graduate research center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
  • Sustaining contributor and participant, Center for International Security and Cooperation ("CISAC"), Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, 2004-present.
  • Member, Stanford Associates (by invitation only, limited to 1,500 alumni/ae who have made significant contributions to the University), 2006-present. Co-chair, 40th Reunion.
  • Member, director (2004-present) and co-chair (2005-2007), Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the Bay Area, SanFrancisco, California, 2003-present.
  • Member and audit committee member, National Board of Trustees, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 2007-present.
  • Director and executive committee member, Flint Industries, Inc., and The Flintco Companies, Inc. (Native-owned U.S., Canadian and South American oilfield services and construction companies), Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1985-present.
  • Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in the East.
  • Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma (registered member).

Publications

Mr. Kieve has written hundreds of legal briefs on a broad range of issues at all levels, including before the U.S. Supreme Court.  He has been a primary author or major contributor to a large number of ABA and Litigation Section standards, position papers and analyses, including:

  • ABA Civil Trial Practice Standards (1998)
  • ABA Guidelines for Litigation Conduct (1998)
  • ABA Discovery Practice Standards (1999) (primary editor)
  • 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 (ABA Section of Litigation 2005) (contributing author)
  • ABA Policy on Expert Witness Reports (2006) (now pending as a proposed change to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure)
  • ABA Policy on Inadvertent Disclosure of Privileged Material (2006) (now codified as part of Federal Rule of Evidence 502)
  • ABA Standards for Final Pretrial Submissions and Orders (2008) (primary editor)
  • Expert Witnesses (ABA Litigation Section) (contributing author) (2010)

Seminar/Teaching

Mr. Kieve has been a faculty member, lecturer or participant, on average at least two times a year, at American Bar Association annual meetings, ABA Litigation Section annual meetings, Inns of Court annual meetings, etc.  The following is a sample:

  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Boulder, Colorado, 1982, 1983, 1984. Trial practice faculty member.
  • University of Rochester Graduate School of Business 1985. Lecturer on product liability issues.
  • ABA Annual Meeting 1998: Panelist: "Cutting the Litigation Process Short: Is There New Life for Summary Judgment?" (federal judges Schwarzer and Tjoflat were also panelists).
  • ABA Litigation Section Annual Meeting 1989. Program moderator: "What to Do When the Grand Jury Calls: Criminal Enforcement of Environmental Laws" (other members included former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick and Assistant Attorney General Environmental, Carol Dinkins).
  • ABA Litigation Section Annual Meeting 1990. Panel member: "The Federal Courts Study Committee's Recommendations - An Overview."
  • Workshop for Judges of the Fifth Circuit 1990. Panel member: "Civil Case Management" (other members included federal judges Feldman and Parker).
  • ABA Annual Meeting 1990. Panel member: "Fast Track Litigation: Can Judges, Practitioners and Legislators Agree on Realistic Reform?"
  • Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference 1991. Panel member: ""Moving Cases on Crowded Dockets: How Judges and Lawyers Can Work Together" (federal judges Head and Feldman were also on the panel).
  • American Arbitration Association, Annual Meeting 1992. Featured luncheon speaker ("Discovery in Arbitration").
  • American Inns of Court, Annual Meeting 1992. Program moderator: "Discovery, Competitiveness and the Threat of Malpractice."
  • ABA Litigation Section Program, London 1995. Program chair: "New Directions in U.S. Federal Civil Litigation."
  • ABA Annual Meeting 1996. Mock closing argument: "A National Closing Argument Shoot-Out" (with Steve Susman, Tony Axam and Jim Coleman).
  • ABA Annual Meeting 2003. A Master Class in Arbitration. Program chair and moderator.
  • Union Internationale des Avocats, Paris 2007. Protection of Architectural Intellectual Property.
  • COMBAR, Berlin 2008. Liabilities of Ancillary Parties (Accountants, Banks, Lawyers, etc.) for Securities and Financial Misstatement Violations.
  • ABA Litigation Section Annual Institute on E-Discovery, Chicago 2009. Will the Cost of E-Discovery End Litigation as We Know It Today?
  • COMBAR, Chicago 2009. Legal Issues Arising out of the Global Financial Crisis.
  • Corporate E-Discovery Forum, Chicago 2009. "E-Discovery Is Broken; How Do We Fix It?"
  • LegalTech, New York 2010. "Whatever Happened to Rule 11: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?" International judges panel comparing different legal systems and e-discovery approaches.
  • Judicial Conference of the United States, 2010 Civil Litigation Conference, Duke Law School 2010. Panel member.
  • COMBAR, Lisbon 2010. Ancillary and provisional remedies in support of proceedings in other jurisdictions.