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Law Practice

Apr. 27, 2010

Trial Lawyers Roll Out the Red Carpet

After being nominated four times, Michael A. Kelly of Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association on Thursday.

By Dhyana Levey

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - When plaintiffs' attorney Michael A. Kelly took on a medical malpractice case in Kandiyohi County, Minn., he joked that the toughest defense tactic his opponents would throw at him was venue.

Although the venue of the lawsuit presented a challenge - no one had won a plaintiffs' verdict in the one-hospital town of Hibbing in nine years - it ended in a multimillio...

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