Skip Walker Recognized as a 2021 SFTLA “Trial Lawyer of the Year Notable Achiever”
Walker, Hamilton & Koenig is proud to announce that attorney Walter “Skip” Walker will be recognized as a Notable Achiever at the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association's 2021 Annual Gala, "SFTLA Rising Out of the Ashes." The event will be held at the InnerContinental Mark Hopkins on August 26, 2021. Additional information can be found on the…
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Hubris in the Courtroom
HUBRIS IN THE COURTROOM by Walter Walker Firm partner Walter "Skip" Walker presented at the 2021 Western Trial Lawyers Association's Summer Seminar, held in Maui, Hawaii from June 7 - 11. This conference brings together trial lawyers from around the country. As the association's website says, "From Masters of the Courtroom to litigation neophytes, everyone…
Read MoreLove Those Juries
[This originally appeared in The Trial Lawyer Magazine, Winter 2004.] By Walter H. Walker, III A friend of mine, a trial lawyer, recently said to me, "I love my juries.” This was at a cocktail party and yet I was all over her in an instant. "Which juries?" I asked. "All juries? Any jury? Regardless…
Read MoreAs I Was Telling Fidel…
[This article originally appeared in The Trial Lawyer Magazine, Spring 2002.] By Walter "Skip" Walker Some 30 of us litigators trooped off to Cuba in early December under a program fully supported by the State Department. Yes, the embargo is still in effect, but, hey, even Cuba needs cultural exchanges. So we trial lawyers, almost…
Read MorePost 9.11: Personal Injury Litigation in the Aftermath
[This originally appeared in The Trial Lawyer Magazine, Winter 2002.] By Walter "Skip" Walker March, 2000, life was good. Life was "phat," as the kids were saying. It was certainly good for everyone in the San Mateo County courtroom. Except, of course, the plaintiff. She, after all, had lost her 14-year-old son in a drowning…
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