California is in the grips of yet another terrifying and destructive wave of lightning-caused wildfires as residents are forced to flee their homes in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of families have lost their homes and possessions over the last 10 days. Thousands more remain at risk of suffering the same fate as…
ABOTA is offering a free webinar Dismissed With Prejudice: a Discussion on Race and the Trial of Civil Cases. The goal of this panel discussion is to help the legal community work towards eliminating racial and gender bias in the civil justice system. By talking openly and honestly about implicit bias, we can help lawyers…
Nine attorneys from Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger, recognized for their outstanding contributions to the legal community are included in the latest edition of The Best Lawyers in America. This prestigious achievement is the result of a competitive selection process based on peer reviews. The Best Lawyers list is considered the gold standard of national…
The Trial School and MTMP Connect, along with hosts Rich Newsome, Troy Rafferty and Mike Kelly, are proud to announce the fifth event in the all new Champions of Trial Boot Camp series, Winning Starts on Day 1: Crafting and Delivering Opening Statements This event will cover: * The law of opening: what you can…
The Walkup Firm is proud to announce that four of its partners, Michael A. Kelly, Richard Schoenberger, Doris Cheng, and Khaldoun Baghdadi have been selected for inclusion on the Northern California Super Lawyers Top 100 list for 2020. In addition, partners Matthew Davis, Douglas Saeltzer, Spencer Pahlke and Conor Kelly were named as Super Lawyers,…
SAN FRANCISCO (July 9, 2020) — Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger is proud to announce that Super Lawyers has recognized Senior Partner Michael A. Kelly as the number one vote-getter on its list of 2020’s Top Ten Super Lawyers in Northern California. Kelly also ranked among the Top 100 Northern California Super Lawyers in the…
This is the main Lecture Hall in the brand new academic building at UC Hastings Law which opens to students for the first time in 3 weeks. This beautiful classroom was funded in part by a gift from Walkup partners Mike Kelly, Richard Schoenberger and Matt Davis, grateful Hastings alumni who are giving back as…
Walkup senior partner Michael Kelly announced that Federal District Judge John Tigar has approved the settlement in the UC Hastings v. City of San Francisco lawsuit in which he and colleagues Rich Schoenberger, Matt Davis and Jade Smith-Williams are lead counsel. Judge Tigar signed and entered an Order last week formally approving the agreement. The…
The San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and the Bar Association of San Francisco co-sponsored the first virtual mass swearing-in of 55 new California lawyers. On June 18, Doris Cheng emceed and introduced an impressive lineup of speakers who welcomed the new lawyers who passed the February bar exam. The keynote speaker was the inimitable and…
After roughly 17 months in bankruptcy, and following tragic fires in Sonoma and Napa County’s in the fall of 2017 and similarly devastating and fatal fires in Butte County in 2018, United States bankruptcy court charge Dennis Montalbano signed a final order approving a plan of re-organization on Saturday, June 20, 2020 bring in to…
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