Michael Kelly
VerifiedAbout Michael Kelly
Michael A. Kelly is the Managing Partner and a shareholder of Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger (Walkup Personal Injury Lawyers) in San Francisco. He has practiced since 1976 — nearly five decades — focusing on personal injury law, product liability, and medical malpractice.
Kelly chose law over careers in medicine and the ministry because it seemed the best way to serve others and make a positive difference. Over the course of his career, he has noted that car crash cases made up the vast majority of his work in the 1970s, but auto-safety improvements have shifted his practice toward product liability matters involving defective consumer goods.
Kelly earned his Juris Doctor from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in 1976 and joined the firm that same year.
Notable case results
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.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
