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Keesal, Young & Logan enjoys international recognition as the leading admiralty and maritime firm on the West Coast of the United States. With offices in Long Beach, California, San Francisco, California, Seattle, Washington, Anchorage, Alaska, and Hong Kong, we...
Insurance
Keesal, Young & Logan provides advice in the application and interpretation of policy wording as well as litigation services in both state and federal courts. The firm’s services have involved the representation of both insureds and insurers concerning all types...
Health Care
Keesal, Young & Logan serves a wide range of health care providers, including medical centers, hospitals, managed care organizations, long-term care facilities, mental health centers, IPAs, doctors and home health agencies. We represent these providers in complex...
Environmental
Keesal, Young & Logan serves as environmental counsel to international oil, chemical, manufacturing and transportation concerns. Both civil and criminal liabilities are addressed by the firm’s environmental team approach. Keesal, Young & Logan’s team of...
Employment Litigation & Advisory
Keesal, Young & Logan’s employment attorneys take pride in their ability to litigate a broad range of employment matters, while never losing sight of our clients’ overall business and employee-relations goals. Our attorneys work closely with clients to minimize...
Cyber Risk Management
Virtually every aspect of today’s business and legal world is enabled or facilitated by technology. Every minute of every day, a company’s most valuable and sensitive commercial information, and that of its clients and customers is held on or passes through multiple...
Corporate & Real Estate
We provide services to a broad variety of clients, including public companies, large and small private companies, and individuals. Oftentimes, we serve as general counsel to our clients that do not require, or choose not to employ, a full-time lawyer in-house. Our...
Construction, Engineering and Project Management
Keesal, Young & Logan takes a unique approach to high-stakes construction litigation. We try cases. We have a proven track record of successfully taking complex “bet the company” cases to a verdict with fee structures the make sense. Our clients include some of...
Consumer and Business Lending Litigation
Since 1988, Keesal, Young & Logan has represented financial institutions in hundreds of cases arising out of consumer and business lending. Among other facets of this practice, we have extensive experience handling civil litigation arising from the issuance and...
Class/Mass Actions
Keesal, Young & Logan has broad experience in defending its clients in complex litigation matters, including class and mass actions in both state and federal courts as well as before the self-regulatory agencies of the securities industry. In addition, we have...
Business Litigation
Keesal, Young & Logan serves as counsel to many local, national and multinational concerns in a wide variety of complex business litigation matters pending in federal and state court as well as in arbitration. We have successfully handled numerous commercial,...
Bankruptcy
Keesal, Young & Logan represents a number of clients in bankruptcy matters across the United States. Our practice generally focuses on creditors’ rights, and we have represented clients in contested matters and adversary proceedings in cases arising under all...
Appellate
Keesal, Young & Logan regularly represents its clients in the state and federal appellate courts, including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, all levels of state appellate courts in California, Washington, and Alaska, and the United States Supreme Court. The...
Keesal, Young & Logan Obtains Complete Dismissal for Broker-Dealer in Multi-Million Dollar Employment Arbitration
Keesal, Young & Logan recently obtained a total victory for a broker-dealer in an employment dispute. In June 2017, a FINRA arbitration panel issued a final and binding award dismissing the claimant’s claims in their entirety. The arbitration was initiated by an...
Lawdragon Lawyer Limelight: Ben Suter
The following interview was reprinted with permission from Lawdragon.com. Keesal, Young & Logan is a gem of the California legal landscape – not just because of the staggering success that the Long Beach-based firm has amassed in its typical low-key fashion. But...
Employment Alert: Texas Federal Judge Strikes Down DOL Overtime Rule
On Thursday, August 31, 2017, Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas invalidated the Obama Administration’s 2016 Department of Labor (DOL) rule doubling the salary threshold for exempting white-collar workers from overtime pay. Judge Mazzant stated that...
Maritime Alert: Effective Dates of California’s Modified Biofouling Regulations Announced
Introduction With respect to the prevention of non-indigenous marine invasive species (“NIS”) introductions, the regulation of ballast water management has garnered the lion’s share of attention. However, there is another front to the regulators’ war against NIS...
Employment Alert: California Supreme Court Opens Door to Class Action-Like Discovery of Contact Information In PAGA-Only Cases
On July 13, 2017, the California Supreme Court issued an important opinion regarding the appropriate scope of discovery in increasingly popular PAGA-only, non-class action cases. In Williams v. Superior Court (Marshalls of CA, LLC), No. S227228, the Court unanimously...
Riding the Wave of Change: ThinkSmart CEO Paul Hirner Interviews KYL’s Justin Hectus
Reprinted from ThinkSmart.com by Paul Hirner, CEO of ThinkSmart One of the pleasures of being able to appear at CLOC Institute 2017 a few weeks ago? The chance to share the stage with Justin Hectus of Keesal, Young & Logan. As a two-time International Legal...
KYL Launches its Compliance, Operations and Data Control Advisory (CODA) Division
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – July 11, 2017 – Law firm Keesal, Young & Logan (KYL) today announced the hire of Wendy Riggs from Twitter and the launch of its new Compliance, Operations and Data Control Advisory (CODA) division. A Certified eDiscovery Specialist (CEDS) and...
Maritime Alert: Clean Air Action Plan Update from Ports of LA and LB
Following a joint declaration by the mayors of Los Angeles and Long Beach setting zero emission goals for the ports of Los Angeles and Long beach, the ports announced a schedule for the finalization of the Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) 2017 Update. July 19, 2017: The...
Employment Alert: Breaking News Regarding Washington Meal Breaks
On June 29, 2017, the Washington Supreme Court confirmed that employers have an obligation to provide meal breaks and ensure that those breaks comply with Washington statutory requirements. The decision contrasts notably with the position of the California Supreme...
Maritime Alert: Busiest Ports in US set Zero Emissions Goals
On Monday, June 12, 2017, the mayors of Los Angeles and Long Beach signed a joint declaration setting zero emission goals for the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. The declaration included the following commitments: A commitment by the Cities and Ports to assist...
Cyber Alert: FBI Issues Updated PSA Warning Regarding BEC/EAC Scams
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has issued an updated public service announcement regarding the rising trend of e-mail payment scams in the United States and abroad. According to the FBI, over 40,000 incidents occurred worldwide between October 2013 and...