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Recent Cases

$6,350,000 Settlement
Negligent Pediatric Neurosurgery
Quadriplegia

Neurosurgery on the young girl causing her permanent paralysis. READ ALL RESULTS

 

$5,000,000 Failure to Recognize Fetal Distress

Infant born with severe developmental delay, spastic quadriparesis, and permanent neurological injuries.
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$4,000,000 Genetic heart Condition

Kaiser's persistent failures to diagnose a genetic heart condition in 13 yr old boy.
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$3,200,000 Recovered.

49-year-old man developed cardiac tamponade four days after undergoing open heart surgery.
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$2,250,000 Failure to Recognize Neonatal Hypoglycemia.

Male infant who now suffers from blindness, developmental delay and cognitive deficits.
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$1,300,000 Failure To Diagnose Bladder Cancer.

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$1,100,000 Settlement

56-year-old suffered brain damage, required amputations of both legs below the knees.
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Who We Are


Doris Cheng 
650 California Street
26th Floor
San Francisco, California 94108
 

Communication Center 
Phone: (415) 981-7210
E-mail: Email Me
Fax: (415) 391-6965
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Ms. Cheng joined our firm in 1998 after a distinguished academic career at the University of San Francisco Kendrick Hall School of Law. Her areas of concentration include personal injury, government liability, medical negligence, premises liability, and automobile accidents. She prosecutes cases throughout California and in the Federal District Courts. She has appeared before trial courts throughout the State, and has experience in trial, mediation and arbitration. She serves on the teaching faculty and the executive committee for the University of San Francisco School of Law Intensive Advocacy Program.

An active member of the Bar Association of San Francisco, Ms. Cheng is currently Vice-Chair of the BASF Barrister's Club newsletter. She is also active in the Inns of Court program, having served as Program Chair and Secretary-Treasurer of the USF Inn of Court.

Following graduation from the University of California, Davis, Ms. Cheng attended USF's Kendrick Hall School of Law, where she graduated with distinction as a Public Interest Law Scholar. In 1997, she served as an extern law clerk to the Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California. Ms. Cheng is the assistant Program Director for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy's Western Regional Teacher Training Program and is a member of the State Bar, the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, the Consumer Attorneys of California.

Truck Accidents
Pedestrian Accidents
Fatal Drug Reactions
Government Liability
Brain Injury
Closed Head Injury
Brain Stem Injury
Birth Injuries

Year Joined Organization:
1998
Areas of Practice:
Wrongful Death
Medical Negligence
Personal Injury
Government Liability
Premises Liability
Automobile Accidents
Catastrophic Injury
Education:
University of San Francisco School of Law, San Francisco, California, 1998
Honors: With Distinction, Public Interest Law Scholar


University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA


Classes/Seminars Taught:
Teaching Faculty, Intensive Advocacy Program, University of San Francisco School of Law


Instructor, Trial Advocacy, National Institute of Trial Advocacy


Faculty Member, Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program, Emory University, Atlanta, GA


Professional Associations and Memberships:
San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association
Member, Board of Directors


University of San Francisco School of Law
Member, Board of Directors


Bar Association of San Francisco
Chair, Barrister's Club Newsletter


American Inns of Court
Program Chair and Secretary/Treasurer, USF Inn of Court


University of San Francisco School of Law
Member, Executive Committee, Intensive Advocacy Program


National Institute of Trial Advocacy
Assistant Program Director, Western Regional Teacher Training Program


State Bar of California
Member


American Trial Lawyers Association
Member


Consumer Attorneys of California
Member


Past Employment Positions:
Hon. Saundra Brown Armstrong, United States District Judge, Northern District of California, Law Clerk


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We represent Kaiser Permanente HMO members from the Oregon border to Los Angeles, from Napa Valley to Fresno, Sacramento, Merced, Stockton, Modesto, and in Hawaii; the counties of San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo, Marin, Solano, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, and in Honolulu.

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650 California Street, 26th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108-2615
Phone: 415-981-7210
Fax: 415-391-6965
www.walkuplawoffice.com
1-888-732-8897
(1-888-SFATTYS)

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