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Doris Cheng is a partner with the law offices of Walkup, Melodia, Kelly, Wecht & Schoenberger. Her areas of concentration include wrongful death, catastrophic injury, government liability, medical negligence, premises liability, sexual molestation and vehicular negligence. She has prosecuted cases throughout California and in the Federal District Courts. She has tried cases to verdict in multiple Northern California counties.

Ms. Cheng has been elected to membership on 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 active in the American Inns of Court, having served as Program Chair and Secretary-Treasurer of the USF Inn of Court. She is the assistant director for the University of San Francisco School of Law's Intensive Advocacy Program. Additionally, she is a contributing author of the CEB treatise, California Uninsured Motorist Practice Guide.

Ms. Cheng currently serves as the assistant Program Director for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy’s Western Regional Teacher Training Program and has taught trial advocacy for NITA at its Southwest Regional and Pacific Regional Trial Skills programs. This marks her fifth year on the faculty of Emory University's Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program in Atlanta, Georgia.

Tom Jackson practices in the areas of antitrust law, business litigation, securities litigation, and intellectual property litigation. In addition, he has been involved in numerous antitrust counseling matters, including mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, governmental investigations (both state and federal), and grand juries. Tom has served as chairman of the Antitrust Section of the Dallas Bar Association.

He has also represented clients (both plaintiff and defendant) in various antitrust cases, including those alleging monopolization and attempted monopolization, price-fixing conspiracies, dealer termination actions, and issues relating to the interface between the patent and antitrust laws. In addition, Tom has been involved in a variety of commercial disputes, including breach of contract, fraud, director and officer liability, claims under the federal securities laws, and prudency issues related to the affairs of regulated utilities. He also has been involved in a number of significant patent litigation matters.

Furthermore, Tom has undertaken a number of roles relating to Dallas Office activities. For example, he is the Partner responsible for the operations of the office library and serves as the Partner for firmwide litigation support services. He is a member of the ABA (Antitrust Law Section) and the Dallas Bar Association (Antitrust Section), where he serves as a member of the section's council.

Mr. Wright has been an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1987.  During this time, he also served for a period as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of the Virgin Islands, and as an Associate Independent Counsel in Washington, D.C.   Prior to this, he was a litigation associate at Washington, D.C.’s Steptoe and Johnson, and an Honor’s Program Trial Attorney in the Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch of the United States Department of Justice.  Mr. Wright is a graduate of Howard University School of Law.  He is licensed to practice law in Ohio (inactive), Washington, D.C., New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the United States Virgin Islands, and is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales (non-practicing).  He has taught advocacy in various NITA programs, the Hofstra University Trial Techniques Program, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice in the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute and to foreign prosecutors in South Africa, Thailand and Nigeria, and in Emory’s Trial Techniques Program since 1992.  He has tried both criminal and civil cases on the federal level, in locales as varied as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Helena, Montana; San Antonio, Texas; and Christiansted, St. Croix and Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands.

Bill Elward is an Assistant Illinois Attorney General in Chicago assigned to Criminal Prosecution Trials Assistance Bureau.  Bill has been an adjunct professor at Loyola University of Chicago law school since 1996 where he teaches Evidence, Advanced Evidence, and Trial Advocacy.  He also teaches Trial Advocacy at the University of Chicago School of Law each year.

In addition to his law school teaching, he teaches frequently for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA).  Bill has been fortunate to have been invited by the Irish Department of Public Prosecutions to teach trial skills in Dublin, Ireland, to have taught evidence and criminal procedure at the Alberto Hurtado University Law School in Santiago, Chile, and to have taught comparative criminal procedure in Rome, Italy. 

Since 2005 Bill has also taught evidence, constitutional law and criminal law for Bar-Bri. 

William J. Hunt is a founder of Clark, Hunt & Embry and heads the firm’s litigation department.  Mr. Hunt concentrates his practice in business litigation, high value tort cases, employment law, and cases involving the Americans with Disabilities Act and related state and federal statutes and regulations.  Admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Mr. Hunt has tried cases throughout both states and has also tried and arbitrated cases in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and New Hampshire.

In addition to his work in NITA, Mr. Hunt is an adjunct faculty member for the trial advocacy programs of the Emory University School of Law, Hofstra University Law School and the University of San Francisco School of Law.  He is also a member of the Executive Committee of USF Intensive Advocacy Program.

Mr. Hunt has written articles on the Americans with Disabilities Act and co-authored a book on Rhode Island Evidence.  He is also a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU).  Mr. Hunt currently serves as Chairman of the Town of Hopsfield Board of Health.

A 1993 graduate of Emory Law School, where he was named “Most Outstanding Student in Trial Preparation and Litigation”, Matt is an Assistant District Attorney in the DeKalb County White Collar Crime Unit, and an Adjunct Professor at Emory Law School teaching Advanced Pretrial Civil Litigation.

While in college at Georgia State University he was the Legislative Intern for the House Appropriations Committee during the 1990 Georgia Legislative Session, and after law school was the Legal Aide for the House Judiciary and Ethics Committees during the 1993 Georgia Legislative Session.  A 1984 graduate of Atlanta Paideia School, he served on its Alumni Advisory Council from 2004 through 2006, and has helped coach its high school Mock Trial Team since 1994. He has taught at the I.C.L.E. Georgia Trial Skills Program since 1996, the Emory Trial Techniques Program since 1999, and received the “Master Advocate” designation from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in 2005.

Matt is a founding member of the Georgia Innocence Project and a member of the American Constitution Society.

Michael Washington is a senior felony trial attorney with the San Diego County Public Defender’s Office.  His current caseload includes all types of felony crimes including capital cases, and he conducts 2-4 felony jury trials a year. In addition to his work at the Public Defender’s office, in 2003 he joined the University of San Diego School of Law as an adjunct professor teaching advanced trial, deposition, and negotiation skills.  From 1994 to 2002, he coached the Mock Trial Teams at California Western School of Law.  He was named the Outstanding Public Lawyer by the Bar Association of North San Diego County in 2000.

Michael began teaching at Emory’s Kessler-Eidson Program for Trial Techniques in 2002.  Michael has also taught the National Institute of Trial Advocacy’s trial skills and deposition programs since 1998 and has been a Team Leader at NITA’s National Session in Louisville, CO., the Pacific, Southern California regionals, and the PowerPoint for Litigators program.  Michael has also been a faculty member at the Western, Southwestern and Mid-Western regionals, and numerous in-house programs.

Michael is supported in all of this by his wife, Vanessa, and his three children, Cynthia, Annette and Malcolm.