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Challenging exorbitant expert fees and using Aguilar to restructure summary judgments are things that we all can do

Drawing an analogy between theater and trial work is not groundbreaking. When other lawyers find out that I had a life in the theater before I turned to the law, they comment on how well a career in acting must have prepared me to try cases.

From the vernacular of Gary Dordick to the polish of Bruce Broillet and the confidence of Deborah Chang, our finest trial lawyers continue to inspire me to go forth and try cases, even after 47 years of practice.

“Rumpole doesn’t know the law…” Thus spake Phyllida Erskine-Brown (nee Trant), brilliant but strait-laced pupil of Horace Rumpole, the irascible London barrister at the center of John Mortimer’s stories and novels about life at the Bar.

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.

Firm partner Walter “Skip” Walker presented at the 2021 Western Trial Lawyers Association’s Summer Seminar, held in Maui, Hawaii from June 7 – 11.

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.”

Skip Walker presented the session “Hubris in the Courtroom” during the June 2021 Summer Conference of the Western Trial Lawyers Association.

A woman walks into a corral…. Start of something great, huh? Well, it wasn’t for this woman.

The story you tell must be yours, not one that somebody else has told in another place at another time.