Selected as one of Northern California's Super Lawyers since 2004, Richard H. Schoenberger is one of Northern California's top trial lawyers. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, has been named one of The Best Lawyers In America for four years running, and was voted a nominated finalist for SFTLA's Trial Lawyer of the Year award. In the last five years alone, Rich has successfully tried or resolved 30 different cases with results of at least one million dollars. After graduating from Santa Clara University in 1982, Rich attended the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He began practice in 1985 as a Deputy District Attorney in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office where he prosecuted serious felonies. He joined the Walkup office in August of 1987 and became a partner in 1995. With Walkup, he has tried cases in Federal Court, the state of Oregon and dozens of cases in more than ten counties throughout the state of California. Rich has taught trial advocacy on a national and international level since the early 1990's. In California, he is a frequent speaker for the Consumer Attorneys of California and the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association. He has also served as a faculty member for the Judicial Council of California's Judicial Studies Program. As a highly rated member of the faculty for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Rich has been invited to teach advocacy at NITA's Midwestern Regional, Western Regional, Pacific Regional and National programs, as well as for private firms throughout the country. Rich has also served as a team leader at Emory Law School's renowned Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program in Atlanta, Georgia. In June of 2004, The American Bar Association, in concert with the Department of Justice's Central European Eurasian Law Initiative, invited Rich to the Republic of Georgia where he taught advocacy to 24 hand-selected attorneys whose government had only recently allowed its citizens the right to a jury trial. In 2005, he was invited to lead a similar program in Sarajevo. Rich is experienced in a wide variety of case types including traumatic brain injury, paralysis, medical malpractice, product liability, government liability, aviation disasters and wrongful death claims. In an article printed in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, an opponent was quoted as follows: "Schoenberger is everything that a good plaintiff's lawyer should be: ethical, professional and smart, and he works hard." When not practicing law, Rich is usually found on some field or court coaching any one of his three kids' teams.
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