The Fine Line Between Fiction and Litigation: An Interview with Walter Walker
This article originally appeared in the magazine of the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) Forum Magazine, October 2000. San Francisco personal injury lawyer and CAOC Board member. Walter "Skip" Walker published five novels from 1983 to 1992. In A Dime to Dance By, former high school football star, and now second-rate attorney, Chuckie Bishop whiles…
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Skip Walker Named Finalist for 2021 Marin County Trial Lawyer of the Year
The firm is proud to announce that Walter "Skip" Walker was named a finalist for the Marin County Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2021. This is Skip’s second time as a finalist for this prestigious award. He has also been nominated for San Francisco Trial Lawyer of the Year five times and California Trial…
Read MoreLessons from the Great Cow Case – No Bull!
[Note: Skip Walker presented this at the Western Trial Lawyers Association Seminar in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, March 2020.] A woman walks into a corral.... Start of something great, huh? Well, it wasn’t for this woman. A mother cow took umbrage at her presence and rammed her into a fencepost, breaking eight of her ribs. …
Read MoreLessons From a Novelist on Picking a Jury
[Originally published in Plaintiff Magazine, January 2020.] The story you tell must be yours, not one that somebody else has told in another place at another time. In my “other” career, I write novels. Usually they are about lawyers. Always they have been published by major publishing houses. On more than one occasion they have…
Read MorePlaintiff Magazine Profile: Peter Koenig
As a defense lawyer, decisions on resolving a case were "out of my hands." Not anymore. Peter Koenig is profiled in the December 2019 issue of Plaintiff Magazine. In the article he discusses is transition from working on the insurance defense side of the bar to representation of plaintiffs, a role he finds much more…
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