Doris Cheng

Ms.  Cheng joined the Walkup firm in 1998 after a distinguished academic career at the University of San Francisco School of Law.  She has prosecuted cases throughout California and in the Federal District Courts.  She has tried cases to verdict in multiple Northern California counties.  She has experience in trial, mediation and arbitration.  Ms.  Cheng's experience in burn injury cases include a recent eight figure settlement against an international product manufacturer that caused extensive traumatic and burn injuries as a result of an automobile-versus-bicyclist accident.  She has also obtained a eight-figure settlement against a property manager who failed to maintain the smoke detector in a residential rental property.

A graduate of the University of California at Davis, Ms.  Cheng attended USF School of Law, from which 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 also active in local bar affairs.  She is a member of the Judiciary Committee of the San Francisco Bar Association, which evaluates judicial candidates for the San Francisco Superior Court.  She has been elected to the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association as well as the Board of Governors of the University of San Francisco School of Law.  She is an officer of the American Inns of Court, having served as Program Chair and Secretary-Treasurer of the USF Inn of Court.  She serves on the teaching faculty and the Executive Committee for the University of San Francisco School of Law's Intensive Advocacy Program.

Ms.  Cheng currently serves as the assistant Program Director for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy's Western Region Teacher Training Program and has taught trial advocacy for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy at its National Trial Skills program, as well as the Western Regional and Pacific Regional Trial Skills programs.  She also serves on the faculty of Emory University's Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program in Atlanta, Georgia.

She is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Association for Justice, the Consumer Attorneys of California.