Shannon Burkhead Email & Phone Number

After moving to Portland, Oregon full-time, I have opened a second office (with a different formal entity) and am continuing to represent, counsel, and advise Oregon property owners and management companies on any and all landlord-tenant issues which may arise. Please note that my San Francisco office (under the entity Law Office of Shannon F. Burkhead, P.C.) remains fully operational and, while my primary office is now in Portland, OR, I maintain my San Francisco office and still commute to SF on an occasional basis (during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, visits to SF are temporarily postponed).

After opening my own law firm, I have continued to represent and counsel San Francisco Bay Area property owners and managers on all aspects of their landlord-tenant matters, whether it be in the office or in the court room. In addition to litigation in a court room, I also counsel my clients in preparation for and represent them during mediations, settlements, and arbitration hearings at the rent board.In addition to representing my own clients, I also consult with other law firms who are seeking to grow their landlord-tenant practice areas. My consulting practice includes anything from helping other lawyers and firms understand the basics of preparing and filing an unlawful detainer action in the San Francisco Bay Area up to and through assisting in the representation of their clients through trial.

San Francisco, California, Us

In 2018, I joined McLaughlin Sanchez LLP as ‘of counsel’ and assist the firm in analyzing and resolving landlord-tenant, HOA, and other real property disputes and issues.

I represent and counsel landlords and various aspects of their unlawful detainer actions, whether it's in the office or in the court room. I have appeared in San Francisco Superior Court for hearings on demurrers, motions to compel, motions for protective orders, and various ex parte applications. In the office, I have drafted a variety of motions including motions in limine, oppositions to demurrers, motions to compel, oppositions to motions to vacate default judgments, and motions for summary judgment. In addition to gaining court experience, research, and writing experience, I have also conducted and assisted with multiple settlement conferences between landlords and tenants (or the tenant attorneys).

I conducted legal research on a variety of topics, including family law, wills & estates, and corporate law. In addition, I drafted, reviewed, and edited motions, pleadings, and other legal documents as requested.

Champaign, Il, Us

I consulted with other professionals in the area to help create business and marketing plans in an effort to assist the local Native Indian business owners understand how best to successfully grow their businesses. In addition, I created presentations to be used in workshops for a variety of local businesses.

I conducted research and wrote motions on a variety of legal topics including family law, wills & estates, contract law, property law, Native American/Indian law, corporate law, and criminal law. I also drafted a successful summary judgment brief that resulted in a 250 page decision granting partial summary judgment dismissing seven of the nine claims. In addition to the summary judgment brief, I also drafted an appellate brief for a felony appeal that was filed with the Alaska Court of Appeals on November 20, 2012.

During my time with the Alaska Public Defender's Agency, I interviewed, counseled, and represented approximately forty clients throughout their misdemeanor proceedings. In addition to meeting with clients one on one in the office, I represented them in court for arraignments, bail hearings, change of pleas, and sentencing hearings. Additionally, I negotiated multiple successful plea deals for my clients, which required respectful and sometimes lengthy communications and negotiations with the District Attorneys. Not all cases end in a plea deal, however, and therefore, I also represented clients in contested sentencing hearings. In Alaska, interns are allowed, with their supervisor’s and the court’s permission, to appear unsupervised in court. After seven weeks of my internship, I received permission to appear unsupervised in court for the remaining three weeks. To this day, it remains one of my proudest accomplishments.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

After graduating from the University of Southern California in 2008, I interned with Acacia Capital, a hedge fund located in Chicago, Illinois. Without a business background and without any concrete knowledge as to what it takes to succeed as a stock analyst, I was forced to learn the ins and outs of the job quite quickly. I worked alongside the managing partner who was kind enough to always make time in his busy schedule to sit down with me one on one to ensure that not only was I doing the quantitative analysis correctly, but also to ensure that I was getting the most out of my experience. My experience at Acacia was truly invaluable and, combined with what I have now learned in business school, has made me confident in my abilities to manage and invest money, whether it be my own or someone else’s.

Juris Doctor

Mba, Multinational Management & Strategy

B.A., Political Science, Forensics & Criminology