Needham Kepner & Fish LLP

Kirsten Fish of Needham Kepner and Fish was counsel of record for the family in a published 2021 California Court of Appeal opinion that defeated MBK Senior Living's bid to force the MuirWoods Memory Care elder-abuse case into arbitration, preserving the right to a jury trial. That case later went to a Sonoma County jury, which in 2024 returned a $20.58 million verdict for elder abuse and neglect that led to four falls, a broken hip, and the eventual death of a resident with dementia.

Craig Needham appeared as counsel for claimants against Peoples Temple in the San Francisco Superior Court receivership that ultimately distributed more than $13 million to roughly 750 survivors, family members, and creditors between 1979 and 1983.

Kirsten Fish of Needham Kepner and Fish secured a published California Court of Appeal ruling holding that a memory-care facility could not force an elder-abuse lawsuit into arbitration because the resident's daughter had no legal authority to sign away her mother's rights.

Craig Needham and Kirsten Fish won a published appellate ruling establishing that a nursing facility could not force a stroke patient into arbitration based on an agreement her daughter signed without legal authority.