Sheila Templeton

Overview

Sheila Templeton is a member of Haight’s Appellate Law group. She focuses her practice on appellate advocacy and the firm’s law and motion aspects of litigation.

Ms. Templeton has substantial familiarity with California and Federal Civil Procedure, involving issues of removal, remand, interlocutory appeals, petitions for writ(s), discovery motions and dispositive motions. Her experience has led to drafting extensive briefs and petitions before state and federal trial courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the California Court of Appeal.

In her career as an attorney, Ms. Templeton honed her complex legal research and writing skills at litigation firms in San Diego and Los Angeles. She has acquired a breadth of experience in various areas of law, including: general liability, premise liability, professional liability, government entity/municipal liability, business litigation, construction defect, real estate, employment law, and personal injury. But, prior to law school, she served as a litigation paralegal at one of the nation’s largest defense firms for nearly six years. This background aided her professional development as an attorney, by instilling an understanding of the many facets of civil litigation.

Ms. Templeton earned her Bachelors of Arts and Juris Doctor from the University of San Francisco. Notably, during law school, she completed an internship at a major Bay Area tech company and an externship with a federal magistrate at the United States District Court, Northern District of California. Thereafter, Ms. Templeton graduated with a Public Interest Law Certificate with honors, earned the CALI award in First Amendment law, and served as co-president to the Women’s Law Association.

Ms. Templeton resides in San Diego, and is active in the local inns of court.

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