Keller/Anderle LLP

Firm Overview: 

Keller/Anderle LLP is among the premier boutique trial firms in California. K/A specializes in handling the most challenging matters, with highly complex fact patterns, and clients come to K/A when faced with disputes that threaten their businesses, livelihoods, assets, reputations, and even their liberty. As a firm of jury trial specialists, K/A conducts all of its work with trial in mind. Rather than engaging in unnecessary adversarial jousting during the pre-trial stages, K/A focuses entirely on pursuing a strategy that will maximize its clients’ chances of success at trial.

K/A’s practice covers a wide range of matters, focusing on the types of high-stakes, bet-the-company commercial disputes that require the attention of highly experienced litigation experts. K/A regularly represents clients in relation to a diverse range of commercial disputes covering fraud, bad faith, breach of contract, intellectual property, intentional interference with business relationships,and trade secrets and unfair competition. K/A is also known for handling corporate investigations, patent litigation, real estate litigation, securities litigation and shareholder derivative suits.

K/A’s lead trial attorneys are among the most celebrated litigators currently practicing in California. K/A’s team of advocates have more than 400 jury trials between them, with an unsurpassed record of success, including against some of the largest firms and most noted advocates in the country. K/A has achieved nearly $1 billion in verdicts and judgments for its commercial litigation clients, and successfully defended numerous high-stakes cases for high-net-worth individuals and Fortune 100 companies.

In Jennifer Keller, Kay Anderle, Reuben Cahn and Chase Scolnick, K/A fields some of California’s highest-profile and most successful advocates, and its wider team features numerous highly sought-after litigators with very strong reputations. K/A’s team has the ability to try any kind of case at any level of court, and the diversity of its work highlights is testament to this. Crucially, its standout attorneys all have extensive jury trial experience, something which litigators at many big firms lack. This routinely gives K/A’s client a stronger bargaining position during settlement negotiations.

Among K/A’s most recent high-profile matters are its representation of a college admissions scandal defendant in federal court in Boston, as well as representing revered Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey in response to highly publicized allegations by actor Anthony Rapp. In 2021, K/A successfully settled one of the largest legal malpractice cases in history for its client, CashCall in a ground-breaking transactional legal malpractice case against AmLaw 100 law firm, Katten Muchin. K/A is currently representing Arnold & Porter, one of the top large law firms in the U.S., in a California probate action involving the estate of Helen and Sanford Diller, who founded Prometheus Real Estate Group.

K/A’s clients benefit from its lean staffing, which means that each team member is familiar with the entire case for maximum efficiency. K/A is also committed to reducing the cost of litigation, wherever possible. K/A offers a range of alternative fee arrangements, including flat, contingency, reverse-contingency and hybrid fees, the latter at substantially reduced rates. Furthermore, K/A makes use of the latest technology including databases, transcript search software, computerized legal research, trial presentation software and other software applications, enabling it to compete with much larger firms whilst reducing client fees and improving their chances of success at trial.

K/A is a beacon of diversity, resulting in a unique combination of perspectives among its team. K/A is women-owned and women-led and its staff include women and men of numerous ethnicities and cultures. K/A has a strong commitment to service to the bar and the wider community, which brings its lawyers into contact with key decision-makers in many fields. K/A’s lawyers have served on numerous boards and are thought-leaders who speak regularly at bar association seminars.