Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger proudly salutes all eleven of our shareholders having been named among the Best Lawyers in America 2025 for their outstanding achievements. We are also proud to announce that Michael A. Kelly has been named as Lawyer of the Year in two separate categories! Read more at: https://bit.ly/3X4gQ4v #BestLawyers #bestlawyers2025 #WalkupLawFirm #TeamWalkup #PersonalInjuryAttorneys #MedicalMalpractice #Lawyers
Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger
Law Practice
San Francisco, CA 2,135 followers
Award-winning law firm with more million-dollar verdicts & settlements than any firm in Northern California.
About us
Established in 1959, we are one of the premier personal injury firms in the western United States. For over five decades our personal injury attorneys have successfully represented injured people, and in the process have established new law and used personal injury litigation to compel corporations to produce safer products. As leaders in the areas of personal injury and wrongful death litigation, our attorneys have helped shape liability law, while securing millions of dollars in financial compensation for injured clients. We represent clients of diverse backgrounds who have suffered serious and catastrophic injuries, and family members of loved ones lost in accidents throughout Northern California. Our practice is, and always has been, dedicated to representing injured plaintiffs. We do not represent insurance companies or corporations, and we do not represent defendants in personal injury or wrongful death litigation. Our primary goal is getting justice for injured individuals, and securing financial compensation to make them whole. Our San Francisco personal injury practice is comprehensive, providing advice and representation to individual clients and large groups of clients in simple and complex injury litigation. Because of the diverse talent and experience of our team, we are able to vigorously represent clients in any injury matter.
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http://www.walkuplawoffice.com
External link for Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger
- Industry
- Law Practice
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1959
- Specialties
- Catastrophic Injury, Medical Malpractice, Defective Medical Devices, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Product Liability, Premises Liability, and personal injury
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650 California Street
26th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108, US
Employees at Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger
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We are proud to announce that Michael A. Kelly has been named as Lawyer of the Year in two separate categories for Best Lawyers in America 2025. Michael A. Kelly has received top honors as one of the Best Lawyers in America for more than 20 consecutive years in recognition of his continuous and uninterrupted pursuit of justice for his clients, Kelly was selected as the 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” in the practice specialties of Personal Injury Litigation Plaintiffs and Medical Malpractice Law Plaintiffs. In the past he has earned recognition as the Lawyer of the Year in Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs, Medical Malpractice Law-Plaintiffs, Personal Injury Litigation- Plaintiffs, and Product Liability Litigation- Plaintiffs. https://bit.ly/3X4gQ4v . . . . . #bestlawyers #BestLawyers2025 #medicalmalpractice #personalinjury #personalinjuryattorney #medicalmalpracticeattorneys #triallawyers #plaintiffsattorney #plaintiffs #medmal #californiaattorney #walkuplawfirm
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Martin Neira worked at a prominent plaintiff-side toxic tort firm where he proudly represented individuals diagnosed with mesothelioma, a signature terminal cancer caused by asbestos exposure. He has an advanced L.L.M. degree from University of California, Berkeley - School of Law. Before attending Berkeley Law, he graduated magna cum laude from the University of Zurich Law School. Prior to that he earned Bachelor degrees in both law, and political science, from Saint Louis University in Brussels, Belgium. While attending law school, Martin played in Belgium’s semi-professional basketball league for four years. At Walkup he prides himself on his caring, empathetic approach to his clients and being their voice in the litigation process. His focus is on cases involving wrongful death, catastrophic injuries, product liability, toxic exposure and medical negligence. In his previous work he battled against some of the most powerful corporations in the world and represented a wide variety of clients, including longshoremen, refinery workers, construction workers, auto-mechanics, and asbestos product users. #walkuplawfirm #teamwalkup #plaintiffattorneys #triallaw #triallawyers #mesothelioma #attorney
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For more than six decades, our personal injury attorneys at Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger have successfully represented injured people in both state and federal courts, before arbitration hearing boards and in mediation and settlement conferences. In the process, we have helped establish new law and used personal injury litigation to compel corporations to produce safer products. Thank you to our client Molly for sharing her experience with Spencer and our firm. To see more testimonials from our valued clients, please visit our website at: https://lnkd.in/giexYBrn #walkuplawfirm #triallawyers #personalinjurylaw #personalinjuryfirm #personalinjuryattorney #lawfirm #californiaattorney #sanfranciscoattorney #personalinjuryfirm #plaintifflawyers #youneedachampion #clienttestimonial
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Clifton Smoot joined us from a well-known Bay Area plaintiff personal injury firm following a stellar career at UC Law SF where he graduated with honors. Clifton has been honored as a “Top 40 Under 40” by The National Trial Lawyers and takes pride in building close relationships with his clients, and in serving people of all backgrounds as they recover from unexpected loss and harm. Recent successes include a multimillion-dollar settlement on behalf of a child who suffered a brain injury and a seven-figure recovery for a welder who was crushed by a construction hoist. He works on the entire spectrum of case type we prosecute. In his free time, Clifton coaches the nationally renowned University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) Trial Team and volunteers with the The The Miracle League of San Francisco Peninsula. #walkuplawfirm #teamwalkup #plaintiffattorneys #triallaw #triallawyers
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Walkup's Michael A. Kelly and Conor Kelly obtained an $11,000,000 settlement on behalf of a 78-year-old woman who was struck by a cable car while walking inside a marked crosswalk on Hyde Street. https://lnkd.in/g4YccvVe #walkuplawfirm #settlement #legalsettlement #personalinjury #sanfrancisco #triallawyers #personalinjurfirm #lawfirm #pedestriansafety
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Before joining our firm, Tina Glezakos practiced in state and federal courtrooms around the country at both the trial court and appellate level over a 20-year career. A magna cum laude graduate from Santa Clara University School of Law, her experience includes civil trials, civil appeals, and work in the non-profit sector representing clients with disabilities. She came to Walkup after a successful career working at a nationally known firm that defended product liability, mass tort, and environmental exposure injury cases. Active in continuing education, Tina has presented at various conferences speaking on topics including deposition practice and responding to complex discovery, while also authoring articles addressing civil trial tactics. Her appellate experience includes arguing before the California Courts of Appeal. Moving to plaintiff’s practice she occupies an Of Counsel position, focusing on motions, appeals, writs and trial briefs. Tina lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children, and is actively involved in the PTA at her children’s public schools, helping with fundraising initiatives and tutoring English-learner students. #walkuplawfirm #teamwalkup #plaintiffattorneys #triallaw #triallawyers #justiceforall #personalinjuryfirm #personalinjuryattorneys #lawfirm #civiltrial
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In Parents v. California Trucking Group (Central Cal. Sup. Ct.) Doris Cheng and Clifton Smoot obtained a policy-limits $3,000,000 settlement, as well as changes to the defendant trucking company’s safety policies. Plaintiffs were the parents of an unmarried adult child. The decedent was studying medicine at the time of the crash and planning a career helping underserved patients in a community clinic setting. The defendant’s truck driver made an illegal U-turn entering the path of the decedent who was driving a motorcycle. As a result of the litigation and the settlement negotiations, the defendant trucking group agreed to make a series of safety changes to its operations including driver training, a ban on U-turns, and the expanded use of dashboard cameras in all tractors. See more of our case results at: https://lnkd.in/gkddWttt #walkuplawfirm #trucking #truckingliability #settlement #caseresults #personalinjuryattorney #triallawyers #truckingsafety #lawyers #personalinjury #californiaattorney #centralcalifornia #roadsafety #injurylaw #clientadvocacy #lawyersofinstagram #bestlawyers #superlawyers #casesettlement
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See our referenced study of The Most Dangerous Places for Bicyclists in San Francisco 2023 at: https://lnkd.in/gRHwC8_c
'Cyclists Can't Decide Whether To Fear Or Love Self-Driving Cars': "Many bike riders are hopeful about a world of robot drivers that never experience road rage or get distracted by their phones," reports the Washington Post. "But some resent being guinea pigs for driverless vehicles that veer into bike lanes, suddenly stop short and confuse cyclists trying to navigate around them. "In more than a dozen complaints submitted to the DMV, cyclists describe upsetting near misses and close calls... " Of the nearly 200 California DMV complaints analyzed by The Post, about 60 percent involved Cruise vehicles; the rest mostly involved Waymo. About a third describe erratic or reckless driving, while another third document near misses with pedestrians. The remainder involve reports of autonomous cars blocking traffic and disobeying road markings or traffic signals... Only 17 complaints involved bicyclists or bike lane disruptions. But interviews with cyclists suggest the DMV complaints represent a fraction of bikers' negative interactions with self-driving vehicles. And while most of the complaints describe relatively minor incidents, they raise questions about corporate boasts that the cars are safer than human drivers, said Christopher White, executive director of the San Francisco Bike Coalition... Robot cars could one day make roads safer, White said, "but we don't yet see the tech fully living up to the promise. ... The companies are talking about it as a much safer alternative to people driving. If that's the promise that they're making, then they have to live up to it...." Many bicycle safety advocates support the mission of autonomous vehicles, optimistic the technology will cut injuries and deaths. They are quick to point out the carnage associated with human-driven cars: There were 2,520 collisions in San Francisco involving at least one cyclist from 2017 to 2022, according to state data analyzed by local law firm Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger. In those crashes, 10 cyclists died and another 243 riders were severely injured, the law firm found. Nationally, there were 1,105 cyclists killed by drivers in 2022, according to NHTSA, the highest on record... Meanwhile, the fraction of complaints to the DMV related to bicycles demonstrates the shaky relationship between self-driving cars and cyclists. In April 2023, a Waymo edged into a crosswalk, confusing a cyclist and causing him to crash and fracture his elbow, according to the complaint filed by the cyclist. Then, in August — days after the state approved an expansion of these vehicles — a Cruise car allegedly made a right turn that cut off a cyclist. The rider attempted to stop but then flipped over their bike. "It clearly didn't react or see me!" the complaint said. Even if self-driving cars are proven to be safer than human drivers, they should still receive extra scrutiny and aren't the only way to make roads safer, several cyclists said. Thanks to Slashdot reader echo123 for shar
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