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Spencer Pahlke - San Francisco, CA
650 California St.Fl. 26 San Francisco, CA 94108 - 2607
Walkup Melodia Kelly & Schoenberger
San Francisco Personal Injury Lawyer
Overview
Spencer's practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases involving defective medical devices, vehicular collisions, dangerous conditions of public and private property, and medical malpractice.
Outside of his practice at Walkup, he also teaches at the University of California-Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall) as a lecturer in trial advocacy. In addition to his teaching, he directs Berkeley Law's external trial competition program, and coaches multiple trial advocacy teams. Under Spencer's guidance, the program has risen to national prominence, having won many national honors and distinctions, including several national championships.
Spencer has also provided ongoing legal education, including developing and co-chairing programs produced in conjunction with Berkeley Law, with a special focus on providing training to young attorneys. He has also co-chaired a presentation on governmental liability and design immunity, spoke to leading trial associations regarding governmental liability, made presentations on liability for commercial carriers, and lectured on the topic of liability insurance in the context of products liability.
Spencer was selected as a Super Lawyer from 2013-2015, and before that was Rising Star in 2011 and 2012. In 2014 and 2015, he was listed by Best Lawyers.
After graduating with Highest Distinction from the University of Nebraska with a double major in Economics and Psychology, Spencer attended law school at Berkeley Law, receiving his J.D. in 2007. At Berkeley, Spencer was a member of the California Law Review as well as an associate editor for Ecology Law Quarterly. Academically, he won Prosser Awards in Legal Ethics and in Environmental Law.
Spencer's main interest in law school was trial advocacy, both in Berkeley Law's competitive trial advocacy program and its clinical programs. Clinically, he tried cases before Oakland's Citizen's Police Review Board. There, his responsibilities included representing people claiming violations of their constitutional rights at the hands of the Oakland Police Department. He successfully competed on several trial teams. He won the Bay Area trial competition held by the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association. Additionally, in the National Trial Competition, his three-person team was a regional finalist, and he won two top advocate awards.
Spencer joined the Walkup firm in 2007, and practices all types of personal injury litigation in all courts within the State of California.
Updated Results:
Patient v. Hospitalist / Hospital
Medical Malpractice
$5,000,000 Settlement
Snowboarder v. Equipment Manufacturer
Products Liability
$4,500,000 settlement
Pedestrian v. City and County of San Francisco
Public Transit Negligence
$3,250,000 Settlement
Insured v. Insurance Carrier
Underinsured Motorist
$2,250,000
Cable Car Passenger v. City and County of San Francisco
Negligent Operation of Cable Car
$2,026,000 Settlement
Adult Daughter v. Heavy Equipment Company
Vehicular Negligence
$2,000,000
Patient v. Cardiologist
Medical Malpractice
$1,999,900 Settlement
Wife / Children v. HMO
Medical Malpractice
$1,400,000 Settlement
Pedestrian v. Driver
Vehicular Negligence
$1,000,000 settlement
Scooter Driver v. Cab Company
Vehicular Negligence
$1,000,000
Chu v. Bay Area Community Services, Inc.
Premises Liability - Negligent Supervision
$996,000 Verdict
Insured v. Major Insurance Company
Insurance Bad Faith
$975,000 Settlement
Child v. Doctor
Medical Malpractice
$965,000 Settlement
Pedestrian v. South Bay City
Dangerous Condition of Public Property
$875,000 Settlement
Wife / Children v. HMO
Medical Malpractice
$850,000 Settlement
Cyclist v. Driver's Employer
Vehicular Negligence
$750,000 Settlement
Pedestrian v. Driver
Vehicular Negligence - Underinsured Motorist
$555,000 Settlement
Patient v. Surgeon
Medical Malpractice
$500,606.36 Settlement
Family v. HMO
Medical Negligence - Surgical Error - Wrongful Death
$475,000 Settlement
Adult Children v. Pilot / Owner of Plane
Aviation Crash Litigation
$425,000 Settlement
Insured v. Mercury Insurance
Underinsured Motorist
$421,000 Arbitration Award
Grandparent v. Youth Camp
Premises Liability
$400,000 Settlement
Pedestrian v. Cab Company
Vehicular Negligence
$350,000 Settlement
Motorcyclist v. Driver
Vehicular Negligence
$350,000 Settlement
Bicyclist v. Driver
Vehicular Negligence
$325,000 settlement
Passenger v. Driver
Vehicular Negligence - Read-End Collision
$325,000 Settlement
Customer v. Massage Therapist
General Negligence
$300,000 Settlement
Bicyclist v. Driver
Vehicular Negligence / Underinsured Motorist Liability
$300,000 settlement
Passenger v. Cab Company
Vehicular Negligence - Common Carrier
$300,000
Pedestrian v. San Diego
Mass Transit Public Transit Negligence
$300,000
Cyclist v. SUV Driver
Vehicular Negligence
$300,000 Settlement
Pedestrian v. CCSF
Dangerous Condition of Public Property
$270,000
Passenger v. MUNI
Governmental Liability
$250,000 Settlement
Driver v. Driver
Vehicular Negligence - Underinsured Motorist
$250,000
Bicyclist v. Driver
Vehicular Negligence
$250,000 Settlement
About Spencer Pahlke
Practice Areas
- Personal Injury
Current Employment Position(s)
- Shareholder
Qualifications
Education
- University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Berkeley, California, 2007
J.D.
Honors: Awarded Legal Ethics and in Environmental Law
Law Review: California Law Review, Member
Law Review: Ecology Law Quarterly, Associate Editor - University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2004
B.A.
Honors: Highest Distinction
Major: Economics and Psychology
Minor: English and Communications
Classes and Seminars
- Lecturer, Trial Advocacy, the University of California-Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall)
- Teacher, Berkeley Law's External Trial Competition Program
Achievements
Other Sources of Feedback About Spencer Pahlke
Included on the 2025 Northern California Super Lawyers list
Past Lists
- 2024 Northern California Super Lawyers list
- 2023 Northern California Super Lawyers list
- 2022 Northern California Super Lawyers list
- 2021 Northern California Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Northern California Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Northern California Super Lawyers list
- 2018 Northern California Super Lawyers list
- 2017 Northern California Super Lawyers list
- 2016 Northern California Super Lawyers list
- 2015 Northern California Super Lawyers list
- 2014 Northern California Super Lawyers list
- 2013 Northern California Super Lawyers list
- 2012 Northern California Super Lawyers list
- 2011 Northern California Super Lawyers list
Honors
- Rising Star, 2011 - 2012
- SuperLawyer, 2013 and 2016
- Best Lawyers, 2013 and 2016
- Top 40 under 40, National Trial Lawyers
Office Information
Address
650 California St.Fl. 26 San Francisco, CA 94108 - 2607
Phone
Fax
- 415-391-6965
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Websites
- https://www.walkuplawoffice.com/ (San Francisco Injury Lawyer)
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