Michael Young and Thomas Wallin spent years defending nursing homes. Now they use every tactic, strategy, and insider secret to hold those same facilities accountable.
Early in their careers, Michael Young and Thomas Wallin worked on the other side. They sat in corporate boardrooms. They built defense strategies for some of California's largest nursing home chains. They learned firsthand how these facilities minimize abuse claims, hide evidence, and wear families down until they give up.
Then something changed. Case after case, they saw the human cost — elderly men and women suffering from preventable injuries, families devastated by neglect, and a system designed to protect profits over people. They could not stay silent.
Young and Wallin walked away from the defense side and founded California Nursing Home Law with a single mission: to use everything they know about how nursing homes defend themselves to tear those defenses apart.
Decades of relentless advocacy, measured in results that matter.
Years of combined legal experience on both sides of nursing home litigation
THE BEGINNING
Michael Young and Thomas Wallin begin their legal careers defending nursing home corporations and insurance carriers across California.
THE TURNING POINT
After witnessing the devastating consequences of institutional neglect, both attorneys leave defense work and dedicate their practice to representing elder abuse victims.
CALIFORNIA NURSING HOME LAW
Young & Wallin is founded with one mission: use insider defense knowledge to fight for the families and elders who need it most.