Benjamin S. Feuer

Ben Feuer is the chairman of the Complex Appellate Litigation Group, one of the leading appellate specialty boutiques in the nation. He has been called one of the “top appellate litigators in California" by a national news network. Mr. Feuer regularly represents large and small businesses, individuals, and associations in the California appellate courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He leads and consults on high-stakes appeals and writs, including bet-the-company commercial disputes, multimillion-dollar tort actions, major real estate controversies, high-net worth family law litigation, and novel constitutional law challenges. Mr. Feuer has received numerous awards for his successes.

Before co-founding CALG in 2012, Mr. Feuer practiced with noted litigators at the national firms Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Williams & Connolly. He also served as a law clerk to Judge Carlos T. Bea on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Feuer graduated in the top of his class from Northwestern Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review, argued for the national moot court team, and published an article in the Northwestern Law Review on free speech and election law. He has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Trinity College in Connecticut.

The National Law Journal called Mr. Feuer an “Elite Boutique Trailblazer,” the Daily Journal named him one of the “Top 40 Lawyers Under 40” in California, Benchmark Litigation included him on its “40 & Under Hot List” twice, and the Bar Association of San Francisco awarded him its “Outstanding Barrister” prize. Super Lawyers has listed him every year for more than a decade. In 2016, the Minority Bar Council of San Francisco presented Mr. Feuer with its “Unity Award,” for “outstanding commitment to diversity in the legal profession.” He served as co-chair of the Appellate Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco from 2017-2020, and remains on the section’s executive committee. Over the years, Mr. Feuer has organized, moderated, and spoken on more than fifty panels with appellate judges, practitioners, and professors on topics related to appellate practice and constitutional theory. He also regularly authors articles on appellate and constitutional law topics, and his writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle, as well as the National Law Journal, Daily Journal, Recorder, and Corporate Counsel. Mr. Feuer is a regular guest on KALW Public Radio, KGO Talk Radio, and Voice of America broadcasts related to upcoming appellate issues and Supreme Court cases.