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Description of Practice:
Steve Walters is a partner in our San Francisco office who focuses on complex business and commercial litigation matters. He has tried over 100 jury and nonjury cases on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, and has represented clients in major arbitrations and before trial and appellate courts throughout the country. Steve has handled almost every type of complex civil case, including securities, consumer, and wage and hour class actions; breach of contract and business tort cases; environmental lawsuits; partnership and corporate disputes; creditors’ rights and bankruptcy matters; products liability and group tort actions; and civil rights and other actions involving government pension plans, federal agencies, and municipal corporations. He has extensive experience in complex energy cases, having been lead trial counsel for utilities, independent power producers, and fuel suppliers in many energy disputes involving tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
Steve is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has been listed repeatedly in Best Lawyers in America and in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, and was selected as one of Oregon’s Top 50 SuperLawyers.
Steve has taught courses on federal courts and constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania and Northwestern School of Law, and has been a frequent speaker on topics relating to complex civil litigation. He was in private practice for two years with a San Francisco firm and was a partner with a firm in Portland, Oregon, where he concentrated solely on complex litigation. He served as assistant to the president, deputy general counsel, and acting general counsel for the national Legal Services Corporation in Washington, D.C. Following graduation from law school, where he was an articles editor of the Stanford Law Review, Steve served as a law clerk to Judge Ben C. Duniway of the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco and to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Educational History:
Steve received his B.S. from Stanford University in 1967. He later went on to receive his J.D. from Stanford University Law School in 1972. | 