Michael Benke
A medical doctor as well as a lawyer — Berkeley law, then an MD at St George's, with clinical rotations. His published practice is complex and fire litigation; the rideshare page behind this listing is his firm's and names nobody.
The bar record
We read Michael Benke in the State Bar of California’s licensee search. The practice-area and language rows are the lawyer’s own; the Bar prints above them that it does not verify their accuracy and makes no warranties about competence.
California states plainly what it hides — and it is not this. Above every status history the Bar warns that some administrative suspensions are removed from display under its own removal policy, and it defines those as non-disciplinary: unpaid fees, missed education. Disciplinary matters are not covered by that policy, and one listing on this page proves the field works — two suspensions, two case numbers and five linked court documents, still on display years later. So a clean status history here means more than a clean one in Washington. It still does not mean the Bar has told us everything.
What the record shows
His biography gives areas of practice as Complex Litigation and Fire Litigation. Motor vehicle and rideshare work appear nowhere on it. His register lists Personal Injury and nothing else. The rideshare page behind this listing is the firm’s and names no individual attorney, which is why this listing is tagged Firm page only.Verified
That page also shows signs of not having been proofread: the heading Consult With Our San Diego Rideshare Accident Lawyers Today appears twice in succession, the phrase we have the lawyers who have has extensive experience is ungrammatical, and the final sentence — When you need an attorney — stops mid-clause.Verified
He is the only listing in this city, and one of very few on the site, to hold a medical degree alongside the law degree. Medical licensure is a separate regulator and we have not checked it.Verified
What the firm says
He says he took a J.D. at Berkeley with a concurrent Master of Public Policy, externed for a Ninth Circuit judge, and served in the chambers of a California Supreme Court justice.Reported
He says he later took an MD at St George’s University on its highest merit scholarship and completed sub-internships in medicine, family medicine and psychiatry.Reported
He says he is licensed in California and New York including the Southern District of New York. The State Bar has no field for other states and we have not checked New York.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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