Kemper Diehl is a shrewd advocate dedicated to his clients’ success. He brings significant experience to bear from litigating all types of high-stakes commercial disputes, including breach-of-contract, patent, trade secret, securities fraud, and environmental tort suits. Kemper’s incisive writing and powerful oral argument skills have won key motions, cases, and appeals in federal courts, state courts, and private arbitration proceedings.

Kemper joined Susman Godfrey in Seattle after three years as a litigation associate at Covington & Burling in New York.  He clerked for Judge William H. Walls on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Before attending Columbia Law School, Kemper worked at Bain & Company as a management consultant and at the global private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners as an investment associate.

Kemper earned his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, where he was captain of the men’s swimming and water polo teams.