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About Katherine Connolly
Katherine Connolly is an Associate Attorney at Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger (Walkup Personal Injury Lawyers) in San Francisco. Her practice focuses on premises liability, health care, vehicle collision, and mass tort matters.
Before joining Walkup, Connolly spent 2.5 years at an 80-person New York City civil litigation firm, where she defended product liability, health care, and general negligence claims, before relocating to California during the pandemic.
Connolly earned both her undergraduate and law degrees at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. As an undergraduate, she was a four-year Division I varsity lacrosse player. In law school, she served on the staff of the Journal of Women and the Law and volunteered with the Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic.
She is admitted to practice in California, New York, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Walkup Personal Injury Lawyers
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A Dallas federal jury awarded $1.04 billion to six California patients harmed by Johnson and Johnson's metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implants, with W. Mark Lanier leading an eight-week trial that produced one of the largest product-liability verdicts of 2016.
Walkup shareholder Michael A. Kelly served on the plaintiffs' leadership team that secured a $117 million settlement from former PG&E officers and directors over wildfires that ranked among the deadliest in California history.
Conor Kelly and Melinda Derish proved that a Bakersfield hospitalist never examined Kody Myrick or ordered a neurology consult, letting a treatable basilar-artery stroke destroy his brain stem, and a San Francisco jury fixed his damages at $38.6 million.
An Orange County jury found Yamaha's YXZ1000R side-by-side defectively designed and awarded $26.3 million to Justin Van Tussenbrook, a Utah man paralyzed when the vehicle's rollover protection structure collapsed at low speed.
A Kandiyohi County jury awarded $23.2 million on February 9, 2010, to a Paynesville family whose daughter was born without breathing after a labor induction and a delayed cesarean at Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar. She has spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, seizures and cortical impairment. The jury put 80 percent of the fault on Affiliated Community Medical Centers and 20 percent on the hospital. It was described at the time as the largest medical malpractice award in Minnesota state history.
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