Michelle Meyers

Michelle Meyers is a member of our Fire Litigation, Public Entity Law, Personal Injury and Wrongful Death, and Insurance Recovery and Bad Faith practice groups. A seasoned trial attorney, she has spent her career litigating complex civil matters involving personal injury, mass torts, civil rights, and insurance coverage in federal and state courts.

Ms. Meyers has extensive trial experience in insurance litigation. She recently tried an insurance coverage matter, wherein the jury found in favor of the Plaintiff by concluding that the insurance company improperly denied the Plaintiff’s request for payment of life insurance benefits.

Before joining Singleton Schreiber, Ms. Meyers served as a deputy attorney for the State of California Department of Transportation, as a supervising trial attorney for the City of Oakland, and as an associate and an insurance coverage partner at a firm in Oakland, California. She was the lead defense strategist for the City of Oakland in civil and criminal cases arising from the “Ghost Ship” fire, the deadliest fire in the history of Oakland.

Ms. Meyers earned a B.A. in Political Science from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, in 2000, where she was a member of the Pi Sigma Alpha National Honors Society. She earned her law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law in 2004 and is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in California and Nevada and in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Outside the office, Ms. Meyers enjoys spending time on the sports field with her family and two crazy border collies.

Awards and honors

Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers in California, National Trial Lawyers, 2024

“Lawyers on the Fast Track: Top Forty Lawyers Under Forty in California,” The Recorder

Lead defense strategist for the City of Oakland in civil and criminal cases arising from the “Ghost Ship” fire, the deadliest fire in the history of Oakland, which resulted in the tragic loss of 36 lives. Ms. Meyers served as the City of Oakland’s lead in-house attorney in the civil lawsuit, which was eventually settled for $33 million. She also assisted the City of Oakland’s Risk Management and Fire Departments’ efforts to recover the millions of dollars it expended fighting and recovering from the fire.

Jury verdict in favor of her client, Plaintiff McHugh in the matter of McHugh v. Protective Life Insurance Company

Affiliations

Society of Women Trial Lawyers

Membership

Member, Consumer Attorneys of San Diego (CASD)

Member, Sacramento County Bar Association (SCBA)

Member, San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (SFTLA)

Member, Capital City Trial Lawers Association

Member, Justice HQ

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