Baldwin, Merri
Rogers Joseph O'Donnell | Shareholder
Merri Baldwin is a shareholder at Rogers Joseph O’Donnell in San Francisco, where her
practice focuses on attorney liability and commercial litigation. She handles claims of
legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty, as well as motions to disqualify and for
sanctions. She regularly counsels lawyers and law firms on legal ethics and law practice
management issues. She represents attorneys in disciplinary matters before the State
Bar of California, and has extensive experience handling attorney-client fee disputes.
Ms. Baldwin is on the Board of Directors for the Association of Professional
Responsibility Lawyers and she is a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley
School of Law where she teaches professional responsibility.
She is a former chair of the State Bar of California Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct, and is currently a member of the California Lawyers Association Ethics Committee. Ms. Baldwin is a co-chair of the Legal Malpractice subcommittee for the American Bar Association Litigation Section Committee on Professional Services Litigation. She served as the vice-chair of the California Bar’s Closing the Justice Gap Working Group.
In 2017, Ms. Baldwin served as the President of the Bar Association of San Francisco
and the Justice and Diversity Center. Ms. Baldwin frequently lectures to attorneys and
professional organizations on issues related to litigation, legal malpractice and ethics
issues and Ms. Baldwin co-edited The Law of Lawyers’ Liability (ABA/First Chair Press
2012). Prior to law school, Ms. Baldwin was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of
Economics.