Spencer Pahlke
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About Spencer Pahlke
Spencer J. Pahlke is a Shareholder at Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger (Walkup Personal Injury Lawyers) in San Francisco. He joined the firm in 2007 and represents clients in personal injury, wrongful death, defective products, vehicle collisions, dangerous property conditions, and medical negligence matters.
Pahlke earned his Bachelor of Arts with Highest Distinction from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2004, with double majors in Economics and Psychology and minors in English and Communications. He received his Juris Doctor from UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2007, where he won the Prosser Trophy in Legal Ethics and Environmental Law, was a member of the California Law Review, and served as an associate editor of the Ecology Law Quarterly.
He lectures in Trial Advocacy at UC Berkeley School of Law, directs Berkeley Law's external trial competition program, and has been a guest lecturer at Michigan Law, San Francisco State University, Universidad de Monterrey, and the Baylor School of Trial Practice (St. Andrews, Scotland).
Pahlke has been recognized as a Super Lawyer (2013-2020), Rising Star (2011-2012), and Outstanding Lawyer (2014-2020), and was named to The Daily Journal's "40 Under 40" in 2020. He received the Edward D. Ohlbaum Professionalism Award. He co-authored Introduction to Trial Advocacy: The Elements of Trial.
Notable case results include a $20 million family vs. farm trustee/manufacturer recovery, a $10 million child medical negligence recovery, a $6.01 million cyclist recovery, and multiple other significant settlements and verdicts.
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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