Doris Cheng
Experience:
27 years
Doris Cheng | Attorney
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About Doris
Ms. Cheng is a partner with Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger, a preeminent plaintiffs firm in San Francisco. Her areas of concentration include wrongful death, catastrophic injury, government liability, medical negligence, premises liability, sexual molestation and vehicular negligence. She has tried multiple cases to verdict throughout Northern California and obtained multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements on behalf of her clients.
A graduate of Lowell High School in San Francisco, Ms. Cheng completed her bachelor degree from the University of California at Davis and Juris Doctorate from the University of San Francisco School of Law, from which she graduated with distinction as a Public Interest Law Scholar. She served as an extern law clerk to the Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong, United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of California.
She presently serves as the Chair of the Judiciary Committee of the Bar Association of San Francisco. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, where she has chaired the Education Committee and Women's Caucus. Ms. Cheng is also active in the American Inns of Court, having served as Program Chair and Secretary-Treasurer of the USF Chapter.
She has served on the University of San Francisco School of Law Board of Governors, and continues to serve on the teaching faculty and the Executive Committee for the University of San Francisco's Intensive Advocacy Program. In 2007, USF School of Law honored Ms. Cheng with the John J. Meehan Alumni Fellow Award. She is also on the faculty of Emory University's Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ms. Cheng currently serves as the Co-Program Director for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy's San Francisco Teacher Training Program and has taught trial advocacy to practicing attorneys nationally and internationally.
She is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, and the Consumer Attorneys of California. She also serves on the Resource Committee for the National Association of Women Judges.
Admission
Colorado
2018
California
1998
Education
University of California
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