Speaker

Walkup Melodia Kelly & Schoenberger

Speaker Bio

Sara, a shareholder at Walkup, prosecutes and serves as lead trial lawyer for severely injured individuals in cases involving defective products, toxic torts, trucking accidents, transportation network company wrongdoing by companies like Uber and Lyft, aviation crashes, dangerous conditions of property, medical negligence, vehicular negligence, sexual assault, nursing home abuse, and other wrongdoing.

Sara was named one off the Best Lawyers in America 2022 for her work in Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs and Product Liability-Plaintiffs. She has been peer-nominated one of Northern California's Super Lawyers, and she is an AVVO top-rated lawyer. She is a contributing editor of the Rutter Group “œClaims and Defenses” Guide, which is a leading practice guide for lawyers in California, and she has published original legal research in an peer-reviewed scholarly periodical, the Journal of Tort Law. When she isn't representing clients, Sara is a lecturer at Stanford Law School, co-directing the Trial Advocacy course.