Todd Walburg is a Partner at McCune Law Group and leads the firm’s Northern California Office. Mr. Walburg is an experienced trial lawyer who has represented plaintiffs in product liability, personal injury, medical malpractice, sexual abuse, class action, mass tort, and whistleblower cases throughout the United States for over two decades. Mr. Walburg devotes much of his practice to representing individuals who have been seriously injured, or who have lost a loved one, as a result of corporate misconduct or individual negligence. Mr. Walburg was drawn to this type of work at age 18 when he worked part-time for a personal injury trial attorney, and he has continued working in the same field ever since – driven by his compassion for people who have suffered a loss. Mr. Walburg has found that partnering with clients seeking justice is the most rewarding aspect of his job.
Mr. Walburg represents clients in a wide variety of product liability cases (everything from unsafe vehicles to exploding e-cigarettes and stoves), as well as in many other types of negligence, fraud, personal injury, and wrongful death cases. He currently serves as the Chair of the Consumer Products Committee of a respected national organization. Mr. Walburg has significant experience handling highly technical automotive defect cases, including the following: sudden unintended acceleration; transmission, power steering, and engine defects; airbag, seat, and seat belt failures; fuel system fires; vehicle rollovers; software and hardware defects; carbon monoxide poisoning; and vehicle crashworthiness. Mr. Walburg also handles cases involving sexual abuse and molestation. As a young lawyer, he took on the LAPD and other police departments, and the Boy Scouts, when officers molested children and young women in an Explorer Scouts program. Mr. Walburg is often motivated by the unfairness of powerful corporations and insurance companies that take advantage of regular people. For example, he took on one of the worst offenders – Big Tobacco – in long and protracted litigation that included five jury trials in conservative Florida federal courts.
Due to his deep understanding and successful track record handling automotive defect cases, Mr. Walburg was appointed to the Plaintiffs Steering Committee of the Toyota Unintended Acceleration JCCP in Los Angeles Superior Court by the Honorable Lee Smalley Edmon, served on the Common Benefit Fee Committee of the Toyota Unintended Acceleration MDL, and assisted co-lead counsel in the day-to-day litigation, depositions, expert work up, trial preparation, Daubert hearings, and settlement of the Toyota MDL and JCCP. Mr. Walburg was also recently appointed to the Executive Committee of the Toyota RAV4 Battery Fires Class Action pending in Texas.
Mr. Walburg is also an active member of the San Francisco Bay Area legal community. He has served on the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association Board of Directors since 2013 and has been a member of the Alameda-Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association Board of Governors since 2003. In 1997, he started the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA, now AAJ) chapter at the University of San Francisco School of Law, and in 1998 he won the national Leesfield/Association of Trial Lawyers of America National Scholarship. He has also volunteered for the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Pro Bono Eviction Defense Project.
