Keesal, Young & Logan opened its office in San Francisco in 1984.  The San Francisco office has 20 lawyers, 11 of whom are shareholders.   Six of our lawyers were recognized in 2007 as Northern California Super Lawyers and two were recently recognized among an elite group of lawyers in the United States who deliver the best service to Fortune 1000 clients.

The firm’s San Francisco practice mirrors the firm’s representation of top flight corporate clients in a wide array of areas, including the defense of financial services firms and broker-dealers, employment defense and advisory work, admiralty, intellectual property litigation, white-collar defense, unfair competition, appellate, and general commercial litigation.  As with the entire firm, the San Francisco office is privileged to represent a myriad of companies on the leading edge of their respective industries, many of which are counted among the Fortune 100.

The San Francisco office’s securities group represents most of the major financial services firms and broker-dealers on Wall Street and in California in federal and state class actions, securities arbitrations, regulatory proceedings and related matters.  These cases run the gamut of securities and commodities claims, including suitability, churning, misrepresentation and sales practices claims, cases alleging research and investment banking conflicts of interest, margin liquidations, incentive stock option exercise cases, shareholder derivative class action claims, customer solicitation claims, unfair business practices litigation, and audit and compliance advisory work. We have a superb trial and arbitration record.

 

San Francisco’s employment group has tried and arbitrated a wide variety of disputes under state and federal employment law, including claims for wrongful termination, discrimination, wage and hour, ERISA, sexual harassment, defamation, breach of contract and other related claims.  We have successfully litigated and resolved multiple wage and hour class actions.  The group has defends claims before the California Labor Commission, the EEOC, DFEH and other governmental/administrative agencies.  In addition to litigation, the San Francisco employment group counsels clients on a wide variety of employment issues, including wage and hour, review and revision of employee handbooks, terminations, harassment investigation, drug testing, COBRA, OSHA, unfair competition, etc.

San Francisco’s Maritime and Transportation Group provides representation to businesses involved in international and interstate transportation of goods and passengers.  We represent ship owners, tug and barge operators, vessel managers, charterers, protection and indemnity associations and terminal operators in a number of areas, including environmental/oil spill incidents, casualty work, cargo loss claims, matters arising under the Jones Act and the LHWC Act.  We also advise transportation clients regarding compliance with U.S. and international laws and conventions, and responses to actions initiated by the various state and federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security (including Coast Guard, Customs, and Immigration), the Federal Maritime Commission, the DEA, the EPA and the Department of Fish and Game.  The Group also represents other commercial carriers, including air and road carriers, particularly with regard to multi-modal transport.

Lawyers in the San Francisco office also represent firms in the high technology sector in a variety of matters, including the prosecution and defense of trademark, patent and copyright infringement, violation of licensing agreements, unfair competition and related issues.

The San Francisco commercial practice includes the representation of banks and related financial services firms in commercial cases, including forgery and bad checks matters, embezzlement claims and the like.  This representation includes litigation and advisory work in the ever-expanding field of money laundering detection and prevention.

Located in the heart of San Francisco’s dynamic, international financial center and in one of the nation’s premier commercial ports, the San Francisco group is ideally situated to handle clients’ diverse and often complex legal issues.  Reflecting a firmwide philosophy, our clients’ cases are not worked, they are solved, in a timely and creative manner designed to obtain both excellent and cost-effective resolutions.

Keesal, Young & Logan
Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 1500
San Francisco, California 94111
Phone: (415) 398-6000
Fax: (415) 981-0136
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