Chapman Law Group, A.P.C.

Senior Attorney David Chapman represents clients in high-stakes litigation before state and federal courts, and provides legal advice in regulatory matters before administrative agencies.

Mr. Chapman has experience with a wide range of industries including chemical, oil & gas, biotechnology, commercial real estate, hi-tech, medicine, and insurance. He has represented clients on a variety of contract, consumer, corporate, medical, employment, environmental, personal injury, public entity and municipality cases.

During law school, Mr. Chapman was a member of the Santa Clara Law Review, and served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Joyce L. Kennard, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. As a practicing attorney, he served as a law clerk for Justice Kennard.

Education

J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law (1999)
B.A., English, University of California, Berkeley (1991)

Awards

American Jurisprudence Bancroft-Whitney Award, 1998

CALI Excellence for the Future Award, 1988

Awarded for excellent achievement in the study of Constitutional Law II

Admissions

Mr. Chapman is a member in good standing of the State Bar of California.

He is admitted to practice before the following courts:

• California Supreme Court and all state courts throughout California
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Memberships

• American Bar Association
• The Bar Association of San Francisco
• Marin County Bar Association

Senior Associate Anh Nguyen earned her JD from Hanoi University School of Law in Vietnam, where she was a merit-based scholarship recipient and graduated in the top 10% of her class. She also holds two LL.M. degrees from Golden Gate University School of Law, including an LL.M in Taxation.

Anh’s practice foci are Bankruptcy, Tax Law, and Civil Litigation. As a native Vietnamese speaker, Anh uses her understanding of cultural differences to effectively represent clients in financial restructuring, including bankruptcy and insolvency litigation. In addition, Anh has substantial expertise in negotiating favorable settlements with large banks and financial institutions in formal reorganization proceedings. She also draws on her knowledge and experience in Tax Law to provide practical legal advice to clients on a spectrum of matters that arise in bankruptcy.

Anh is licensed to practice law in California and New York. She is also admitted to practice in the following courts: Federal Court of New York, Third Department; U.S Federal Court Northern District of California; U.S Federal Court; Eastern District of California and U.S Tax Court.

Prior to becoming an associate at Chapman Law Group, A.P.C., Anh was an associate at the Law Office of David Boone, a boutique Bankruptcy Law firm based in San Jose.

While working on her Master Degree in Tax Law, Anh assisted in tax law individuals in front of the Franchise Tax Board and Board of Equalization, a program sponsored by the Tax Pro bono Clinic at Golden Gate University.

Anh is regularly interviewed by the Vietnamese media on complicated bankruptcy matters, and was selected as a rising star in 2014-2016 in the area of consumer bankruptcy by Super Lawyer Magazine.

Paralegal Jordan Killen joined Chapman Law Group in February 2020. Mr. Killen grew up in Marin County, California and received his B.A. in Environmental Policy from Middlebury College in 2017, graduating with highest academic honors. He has worked in various fields, including International Administration, Environmental Policy, and Behavioral Health. Mr. Killen is fluent in Spanish and speaks conversational French, and has traveled and worked in over 30 different countries. He considers himself very fortunate to have seen so much of the world.

In his free time, Mr. Killen enjoys swimming, hiking, and reading science fiction.

Law Clerk Mary Owens joined Chapman Law Group in September 2021. Ms. Owens grew up in Los Angeles, California.  She studied Liberal Arts and Sciences at Los Angeles Valley College and College of Marin, where she was a member of the Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society. She brings many years of multifaceted legal experience gained from her work in diverse law firm environments in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Marin County. Her Los Angeles experience includes a 10-year association with the law firm of Corinblit & Seltzer, where she worked on the notable cases of ZZZZ Best and Equity Funding securities fraud litigations.  Her San Francisco work experience consists of work with the mid‑size law firm of Nossaman Guthner Knox and Elliot (now Nossaman LLP) and 9 years with Brown & Wood (which in 2001 merged with Sidley Austin to become Sidley Austin Brown & Wood), a firm of over 200 attorneys.

In her free time, Ms. Owens enjoys gardening, sprouting, cooking and baking.