Jenelle Welling

Jenelle Welling brings decades of experience in complex litigation involving unfair competition, contract disputes, LLC and partnership disputes, warranty/commercial code matters, consumer financial services, and antitrust litigation. Early in her career, Jenelle, with co-counsel, completed a 50-day high profile trial in Judicial Council Coordinated Proceeding Nos. 4366 & 4270 where she was responsible for presenting expert testimony supporting $500 million restitution model. Since that time, she has engaged in all strategic and practical aspects of civil litigation from crafting initial pleadings, to conducting discovery, preparing and arguing dispositive motions, as well as trial preparation, including drafting jury instructions, motions in limine, trial briefs, preparing experts and direct and cross-examination of witnesses, and jury selection.

She recently obtained an award of nearly $900,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs after the successful representation of a client in contractual real estate dispute. In another recent matter representing a member of an LLC, she obtained full reimbursement of the client’s investment plus the promised return and repayment of attorneys’ fees and costs. She also has successfully defended clients against anti-SLAPP motions both at the trial court level and on appeal.

Select published decisions include:

In re Baycol Cases I and II (2011) 51 Cal.4th 751

Grove v. Wells Farbo Fin. Cal. Inc. (9th Cir. 2010) 606 F.3d 577

Rutledge v. Hewlett-Packard Co. (2015) 238 Cal.App.4th 1164

University of California College of the Law, San Francisco ( formerly UC Hastings)

• American Jurisprudence Award: Moot Court and Trial Advocacy
• Women’s Law Journal 

University of California Berkeley

Master of Public Policy

University of California, San Diego

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science

• Highest Honors; Minor in Law & Society

• Admitted and in good standing: State Bar of California; all U.S. District Courts for the Districts of California; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

• Alameda County Bar Association
• Contra Costa Bar Association
• Volunteer discovery facilitator for the Contra Costa Superior Court