Kristin L. Walker

Kristin Walker joined Severson & Werson's Irvine office in 2004 after a career as a prosecutor with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. She now focuses her practice on labor and employment litigation, automobile finance and mortgage fraud.

Ms. Walker is an experienced trial lawyer and civil litigator. Over the past seven years, she has tried more than 30 jury trials, 60 bench trials/juvenile adjudications, and over 600 preliminary hearings. Ms. Walker has examined and counseled thousands of witnesses in various courtroom hearings. She routinely takes and defends depositions. She has also served as a law school professor and law school trial coach in the areas of Trial Skills and Evidence.

As a labor and employment litigator, Ms. Walker presents both on and off-site seminars for clients on sexual harassment and related issues. She routinely deposes Plaintiffs and handles all aspects of litigation — from case inception through trial.

Ms. Walker also represents automobile finance and mortgage companies in actions involving fraud, products liability, wrongful repossession, violations of the fair debt collection practices acts, credit reporting, and breach of contract. She has defended clients in complex class action suits, including violations of unfair business practices claims under California Business & Professions Code Section 17200.

Ms. Walker is a member of the Orange County Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section and the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section.

Recent Professional Activity

Co-Presenter, “Mortgage and Automobile Finance Litigation and Class Actions" with Scott J. Hyman at The Conference on Consumer Finance (Dallas, Texas, October 2008).

Co-Presenter, “Current Developments in Automobile Finance" with Scott J. Hyman at the CFSA Annual Convention (Carlsbad, California, September 2008).