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…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf. (June 16, 2020) – Attorneys with the San Francisco based plaintiff’s firm Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger announced last Friday a tentative settlement in a lawsuit filed on behalf of Tenderloin district residents and local business owners and UC Hastings Law School, which sought to compel the City of San Francisco to…
The Walkup firm is proud to announce its $4 million wrongful death verdict against L.A. Transit District made the list of 2019’s Top 100 Verdicts in California by Top Verdict.com. Attorneys Doug Saeltzer and Doris Cheng secured the multimillion-dollar jury verdict on behalf of the mother of a 21-year-old bicyclist who was struck and killed…
The ABOTA mission statement recognizes: “America’s greatness lies in its people. And in its people lies the foundation of justice – trial by jury.” To believe in the Seventh Amendment, we must first love, respect and value people. If we truly value people, it is our duty to denounce anything and anyone who violates human…
Mike Kelly, Rich Schoenberger and Matt Davis are lead counsel in this case filed today. The lawsuit seeks to protect and enforce the Constitutional rights of both locally housed residents and unhoused persons living on the street. Kelly, Schoenberger and Davis are all Hastings graduates who are concerned about the safety, health and livability of…
The American Board of Trial Advocates (“ABOTA”) is the leading defender of the right to a civil jury trial under the Seventh Amendment. As a member of the Executive Committee of ABOTA National and ABOTA’s COVID-19 Task Force, Doris Cheng is working to promote the preservation of jury trials during and after the current pandemic….
Anticipating the likely need for self-quarantine prior to the San Francisco government mandate to shelter in place, the Walkup firm established a fully functional remote office in order to seamlessly continue to serve existing and new clients on March 13, 2020. We are prosecuting new and existing cases utilizing various remote technologies including Zoom, Go…
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