Walsh, Stephen D

Dorman Walker is a member of the Firm's litigation section and its Health Care and Employment practice groups. He is listed in Best Lawyers 2010 for Commercial Litigation, Health Care, and Labor and Employment. Mr. Walker also practices education and voting rights law. Mr. Walker represents clients in administrative proceedings before agencies that regulate health care, such as the Alabama Certificate of Need (CON) Board and the SHCC, and in contested cases and appeals to circuit court. He also advises health care clients on compliance with the many federal and state statutes and regulations that govern this area of the law.

Mr. Walker represents clients in matters involving federal employment laws, such as Title VII, the ADA, the ADEA, and collective actions under the FLSA, and in state court proceedings relating to trade secrets and non-compete and confidentiality agreements.

Mr. Walker represents colleges and universities, local boards of education, independent schools, and the Alabama Association of School Boards in matters as varied as anti-trust law, contracts, FERPA, faculty terminations, First Amendment rights, civil rights lawsuits and class actions, and compliance with open meetings and public records laws. Mr. Walker has represented the Alabama legislature's permanent committee on reapportionment and many local governments in matters involving preclearance under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, redistricting, and lawsuits under Sections 2 and 5 of the Voting Rights Act and the equal protection clause. He has participated in numerous appeals to the United States Supreme Court, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (including oral arguments) and the Alabama Supreme Court and Alabama Court of Civil Appeals.

Mr. Walker also represents clients before the Alabama Board of Adjustment.

Mr. Walker is a former President of the Hugh Maddox Inn of Court and a former long-term Secretary-Treasurer of the Montgomery Federal Bar Association. He also has chaired the Bar's grievance committee for Montgomery County, which investigates and responds to complaints of unethical conduct by lawyers.

Mr. Walker is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and the University of Alabama School of Law, where he was Alabama Editor of The Alabama Law Review, president of the Bench and Bar Honorary Society, a Hugo Black Scholar and a member of the law school's honor court.

He is Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Montgomery Academy, a K-12 independent school, and Chairman of the Board of the Cloverdale Playhouse, which will present its first season in early 2012 in its newly renovated playhouse. He is a member of St. Peter's Catholic Church.

Mr. Walker is married to Susan Russ Walker, Chief Magistrate Judge of the Middle District of Alabama.