Thursday, January 30, 2025

New CAAL members!

California Academy of Appellate Lawyers Announces Two New Members

The California Academy of Appellate Lawyers is pleased to announce that it admitted two new members at its January 25, 2025 meeting: Kelly Woodruff and Kendra Hall.

  • Ms. Woodruff is counsel at Complex Appellate Litigation Group and a Certified Appellate Law Specialist by the State Bar of California. She received her B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and her J.D., magna cum laude, from UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings College of the Law). After law school, she clerked for James R. Browning of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and David A. Ezra of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii.
  • Ms. Hall is a partner at Procopio, Team Leader of Procopio’s Appellate Law Services Group, and a Certified Appellate Law Specialist by the State Bar of California. She received her B.A., cum laude, from Loyola Marymount University and her J.D., cum laude, from University of San Diego School of Law.

Founded in 1972, the Academy is the nation’s oldest lawyers’ organization dedicated to appellate practice. Our members are California lawyers with substantial appellate experience, who are elected to membership after rigorous scrutiny of their reputation, character, and appellate advocacy skills. Academy members are very frequently counsel of record in the most complex and highest-impact cases before the California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal, and federal appellate courts.

More information about the Academy appears on its website at www.CalAppellate.org.