Practice Areas:
Business Litigation,
Securities
 Ben Suter has been a shareholder of Keesal, Young & Logan in its
San Francisco office since 1987. As an active litigator, Mr. Suter focuses
on the defense
of financial services firms and their employees in complex securities matters. Mr.
Suter also represents attorneys, senior executives and real estate professionals
in a variety of cases involving claims of negligence, breach of fiduciary duty,
unfair business practices, fraud and market manipulation. Mr. Suter has defended
over 50 class actions, “mass” actions and private attorney general actions involving
claims under various federal and state securities laws and consumer protection laws
during the 24 years that he has been with Keesal, Young & Logan. Mr. Suter has
also tried or arbitrated to conclusion approximately 100 cases in California, New
York, Hawaii, Arizona and Oregon. Those cases included jury trials and bench trials
in federal and state courts, and arbitrations before the NASD (now FINRA), the NYSE,
the PCX, the AAA and the CFTC.
Published cases handled by Mr. Suter include the following: Lippitt v. Raymond James
Financial Services, Inc., 340 F.3d 1033 (9th Cir. 2003); Herman v. Salomon
Smith Barney, Inc., 266 F. Supp. 2d 1208 (S.D. Cal. 2003); Jordan v. California
Dept. of Motor Vehicles, 100 Cal. App. 4th 431 (2002); Myers v. Merrill Lynch
& Co., Inc., 249 F.3d 1087 (9th Cir. 2001); In re McKesson HBOC, Inc. Securities
Litigation, 126 F. Supp. 2d 1248 (N.D. Cal. 2000); Lagatree v. Luce, Forward,
Hamilton & Scripps, 74 Cal. App. 4th 1105 (1999);
Shearson Lehman Bros., Inc. v. Greenberg, 1993 WL 144856, 1995 Fed. Sec.
L. Rep. (CCH) ¶ 97,409 (C.D. Cal. 1993), aff’d 60 F.3d 834 (9th Cir. 1995); Glavor v. Shearson
Lehman Hutton, Inc., 879 F. Supp. 1028 (N.D. Cal. 1994), aff’d
89 F.3d 845
(9th Cir. 1996); Franklin v. Kaypro Corp., 884 F.2d 1222 (9th Cir. 1989);
Levine v. Diamanthuset, Inc., 722 F. Supp. 579 (N.D. Cal. 1989); Hamilton
v. Shearson-Lehman American Exp., Inc., 813 F.2d 1532 (9th Cir. 1987);
Takiguchi v. Podorean, 1987 WL 256442, 1987 Fed. Sec. L. Rep. (CCH) ¶ 93,319
(Haw. 1987); Unioil, Inc. v. E.F. Hutton & Co., Inc., 809 F.2d 548
(9th Cir. 1986); Shearson
Loeb Rhoades, Inc. v. Quinard; Wager Bay, N.V. v. Shearson/American Express, Inc.,
751 F.2d 1102, 40 Fed. R. Serv. 2d 1426 (9th Cir. 1985);
Flexivan Leasing, Inc. v. M/V C.D. San Francisco, 628 F. Supp. 1077 (C.D.
Cal.
1985); Geller & Nasser, 1985 Fed. Sec. L. Rep. (CCH) ¶ 92,227
(C.D. Cal.
1985).
Mr. Suter has served as a panelist and/or speaker on presentations to the National
Association of Securities Dealers (now the Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority) and to the IBC Mutual Fund Compliance Conference,
and has made numerous legal and compliance presentations to Wall Street management
and employees. He is a member of the Securities Industry Association Legal
& Compliance section and has served as an arbitrator
for the National Futures
Association. Mr. Suter is a biographee in Who's
Who in the World
(23rd edition), Who's Who in America (54th-56th editions) and Who's Who
in American Law (4th-14th editions). He has recently been recognized
for the fourth year in a row as one of Northern California's "Super Lawyers" by
the editors of Law & Politics Magazine and San Francisco Magazine.
As a dual citizen of the United States and Switzerland, Mr. Suter grew up in California
and in Europe. After attending schools in France, Switzerland and Austria, Mr. Suter
attended the University of California, Santa Barbara where he obtained his B.A. in philosophy in 1978. He graduated from the University of California, Hastings College
of the Law in 1982, after serving as Articles Editor for the Hastings Constitutional
Law Quarterly. Mr. Suter is a member of the State Bars of California (1982), Arizona
(1983) and Hawaii (1984). He is also admitted to practice before the United States
Supreme Court (1987), as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1982) and all
of the United States District Courts in California, Arizona and Hawaii. Mr. Suter
has held a California Real Estate Broker license since 1986.
E-mail:
ben.suter@kyl.com
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