Loren Kieve is a first-chair trial lawyer with a demonstrated record of resolving challenging, high stakes disputes. He has repeatedly been selected for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America in commercial litigation and his firm has also repeatedly been commended as one of the Best Law Firms (Tier 1) for commercial litigation. For eighteen years in a row, he has been named as a top “Super Lawyer” in business and commercial litigation. He is rated a “10” (the highest rating) by Avvo. When he practiced in Washington, The Washingtonian magazine listed him among the city's top lawyers.
He has represented and advised major U.S. and foreign companies and individuals in a broad variety of complex, jury and judge 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 have involved 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 is valued by his clients as a creative, hands-on problem solver. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in nationwide class actions, and arbitrated both international and domestic cases.
He has been honored for his longstanding record of public service to the legal profession, civil rights and higher education.
Representative Matters
Internet Software Provider Litigation
Represented a Canadian online retailer in litigation against a major U.S. internet business solutions provider for alleged fraud.
Breach of Contract Litigation
Represented a nationally recognized educator in litigation against her former employer for breach of its agreement to promote the acclaimed system of curriculum courses she designed.
FDIC Litigation
Represented the bankruptcy trustee of a bank holding company in litigation against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation arising out of the FDIC’s takeover of the holding company’s subsidiary bank and the transfer of $127 million from the holding company to the subsidiary bank prior to the FDIC’s takeover.
American Frontier (Marine), Inc. Litigation
Represented a ship brokerage company in litigation against William Koch’s Oxbow Carbon company over shipments of petcoke and other commodities to Asia.
Parmalat S.p.A.
Represented Dr. Enrico Bondi, the Italian extraordinary commissioner for Parmalat S.p.A., in the U.S. courts against Deloitte and Grant Thornton for accounting malpractice and other claims arising out of the $14 billion bankruptcy of the company, the largest in European history and referred to as the “Enron of Europe.”
Also represented Dr. Bondi in two separate U.S. suits against Citigroup and Bank of America for fraud and other claims arising out of the company’s bankruptcy.
Mobil and Mobil Oil
Regularly represented and advised Mobil Corporation and Mobil Oil Corporation on a broad range of complex foreign and domestic issues in some of the companies’ most important matters, including in the Exxon-Valdez oil spill cases.
- Lawyer Page: https://www.kievelaw.com/curriculum_vitae.php
- 2655 Steiner Street
San Francisco, CA 94115-1141
- French
- Italian
- Spanish
- Ethnicity: American Indian or Alaska Native
- University of Oxford, M.A., graduated 1975
- University of Oxford, B.A., graduated 1972
- University of New Mexico, J.D., graduated 1972
- Stanford University, AB, graduated 1969
- United States, U.S. Supreme Court
- United States, Nine federal circuit courts
- United States, Ten federal district courts
- California, The State Bar of California
- New York, New York State Bar Association
- District of Columbia, The District of Columbia Bar
- Virginia, Virginia State Bar
- New Mexico, State Bar of New Mexico
- Civil Justice Reform, 1990-93 - Coordinating Committee
- Federal Judicial Improvements, 2008-2011 - Standing Committee
- Immigration, 2011-13 - Commission
- Standing Committee on Gun Violence 1993-94 - Founding Member
- Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity - Stanford University - Member, National Advisory Board
- Institute of American Indian Arts - Chair of the Board of Trustees
- State Bar of California - Member, Board of Trustees
- United States Court of Appeals
- United States District Court
Kieve Law Offices
1 The Best Lawyers in America® award
Visit Website
View Firm Profile
- Commercial Litigation
- Stanford University - Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame
- Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area - Living the Dream Award
- ABA Litigation Section - Award of Excellence
- Trustee, Chair (1997-2001, 2007-2011, 2011-2021) and Executive Committee member (1997-2021), 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. In 2015, President Obama nominated him to another term.
- Member and Executive Committee Chair (2016-20), National Advisory Board, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (“CCSRE”), Stanford University. CCSRE is the umbrella organization for Stanford’s African and African-American, Latin/x, 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, 2002-present.
- University of New Mexico, Bernard S. Rodey Award (to an individual who has “devoted an unusual amount of time in a leadership capacity and whose efforts have contributed significantly to the field of education”), 2017.
- Stanford University “Multicultural Alumni Hall of Fame”, 2012.
- “Living the Dream” award, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the Bay Area, 2011.
- Member and audit committee member, National Board of Directors, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 2007-present.
- Member, director (2004-present) and co-chair (2005-2007), Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the Bay Area, San Francisco, California, 2003-present.
Your browser is not fully compatible with our automatic printer friendly formatting.
Please use the print button to print this profile page.