Lessons 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…
Read MoreWalker, Hamilton & Koenig Wins “2018 Trial Lawyer of the Year” Award
In 2018, Attorneys Walter Walker, Peter Koenig, and Beau Burbidge were named 2018 San Francisco Trial Lawyer of the Year by the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association. The team, which was recognized for their work on Willis v. City of Fresno, received the award during a ceremony held at the Hotel Nikko…
Read MoreGreat Cases I have Lost – and the lessons learned
[This article originally appeared in Plaintiff Magazine in April 2018.] Lesson Number One In 1985, I tried the Alpine Meadows Avalanche case in Placer County for four and a half months. It took over two weeks to pick a jury in August, and in December the chosen 12 deliberated for two and a half weeks…
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