Michael T. Shepherd

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
U.S. District Court, California 1990
U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 1983
State Bar of California, 1981
U.S. District Court, Southern District, 1974

EDUCATION
Pepperdine University School of Law / Straus Institute For Dispute Resolution
2010
Hastings College of Law,
University of California, J.D.
1973
University of Santa Barbara
1968

ABOUT US

The firm provides expertise of trial litigation in matters as diverse as defending professionals, employers, and contractors to business and personal injury cases throughout the Sacramento Valley area. Selected plaintiff personal injury, business and probate representations are also undertaken.

The firm also handles litigation defense for counties and other governmental bodies. The firm's litigation includes environmental law and land use cases. In addition, public service in the form of direct participation or the enhancement of the administration of justice is encouraged.

Michael T. Shepherd

Mr. Shepherd is a graduate of Hastings College of the Law in 1973. From January of 1974 to July of 1981, Mr. Shepherd practiced in Los Angeles, California, first doing insurance defense work, then engaging in entertainment litigation representing MCA, Universal Studios, United Artist Records, and Capitol Records. During that period, Mr. Shepherd also had a general business practice.

Since 1981, when Mr. Shepherd moved his family from Los Angeles to Chico, his practice has consisted primarily of tort and commercial litigation, trying cases ranging from automobile to premises liability to defense of product liability claims on behalf of manufacturers and defense of wrongful deaths on behalf of trucking companies, construction liability, construction defect and commercial litigation, together with some general business representation and other civil matters, from personal injury work to medical malpractice defense and general contractor work. In addition to defending a myriad of personal injury cases, he has also successfully prosecuted and defended wrongful termination and business matters before juries. He has defended and prosecuted numerous personal injury litigation cases arising out of private aircraft crashes. Mr. Shepherd joined Mr. Maynard C. Craig in 1988 who passed away in November of 1996. Mr. Shepherd has tried over 50 civil jury trials including trials in the United States District Court for the Eastern District (Sacramento), Los Angeles County, Santa Barbara County, Butte County, Tehama County, Shasta County, Glenn County, Sutter County, Yuba County and Mendocino County Superior Courts. Mr. Shepherd is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is admitted to practice before all courts of the State of California, the Central and Southern District Federal Courts for California, the Ninth Appellate Federal Court and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Shepherd served as Secretary and Chairman of the Board for Aero Union Corporation Board of Directors from 1996 to 2000.

From 1988 to 2000, Mr. Shepherd served on the Board of Directors for the Chico Area Park and Recreation District, twice serving as Chair of the Board and also is Past President of the Board of Directors of the Mediation Center For The North Valley, a non-profit corporation involved in alternative dispute resolution. In 1995 Mr. Shepherd was nominated for "Citizen of the Year" by the Chico Chamber of Commerce.