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Khaldoun Baghdadi

Proven Verdicts
San Francisco, CA27 years experience

About Khaldoun Baghdadi

Khaldoun A. Baghdadi is a Partner and Shareholder at Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger (Walkup Personal Injury Lawyers) in San Francisco, and one of California's most respected trial lawyers. He joined the firm in 1998 and has made a career-long mission of representing people who truly need an advocate.

Baghdadi handles a wide range of catastrophic matters, including wrongful death, defective products, insurance disputes, medical negligence, and public transit injuries. In 2016, he was part of the trial team in the Pinnacle hip implant litigation trial, which resulted in a total verdict in excess of $1 billion.

Born in Jordan, Baghdadi migrated to the United States with his family as a child. A first-generation Palestinian American, his early experiences shaped his path to law and his commitment to immigrant families and communities.

He earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Irvine, and his Juris Doctor from UC Hastings College of the Law (now UC Law San Francisco). He has taught at UC Berkeley and UC Law SF and was appointed to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$540 million (reduced post-trial; $1.04 billion gross verdict)Verdict

Khaldoun Baghdadi was on the plaintiffs' trial team that won a federal jury verdict topping $1 billion for six California patients harmed by DePuy's metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implants, an award the trial judge later cut to about $543 million.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas (Dallas) · 2016Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$8.3 millionVerdict

Michael Kelly and his Walkup partners co-tried the first DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip case to reach a jury, winning an $8.3 million Los Angeles verdict for retiree Loren Kransky that the California Court of Appeal later affirmed in full.

Los Angeles County Superior Court, CA · 2013Product LiabilityRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

UC Hastings College of the Law (now UC Law San Francisco)
Juris Doctor (J.D.)
University of California, Irvine
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California (Bar No. 190111)
San Francisco Human Rights Commission (appointed)

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