Phil Walker is a professional speaker, instructor, and national trial counsel for California workers’ compensation and longshore defense in San Francisco.  For over 20 years, he has represented California’s largest airlines, shipyards, steel companies, retailers, universities, and insurers in workers’ compensation and longshore matters.

Phil served as house counsel for US Steel, general counsel for New York City’s largest residential real estate firm—Douglas Elliman, and managing attorney for Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company.

Phil is a member of the Bars of California, New York, and the District of Columbia. He was educated at Vanderbilt University where he studied creative writing and public speaking and Washington & Lee Law School.

Phil was a national legal columnist for Genre Magazine, host of his own television show in San Francisco, and appeared as “the Clerk of Court” with Gene Hackman in Class Action.