Harold M. Walter

Highlights of Hal’s legal experiences include:

• Defense verdicts in the first two cases to go to verdict in the United States alleging that ELF/EMF caused brain tumors
• Obtained dismissal with prejudice of a putative class action in Maryland state court alleging violations of consumer protection and debt collection statutes, defeating claims seeking rent disgorgement and other remedies before class certification, discovery, and significant litigation costs.
• The trial of numerous consolidated product liability and mass tort cases involving multiple plaintiffs and multiple defendants in which punitive damages were at issue
• The argument of hundreds of motions and participation in over a thousand depositions
• Fluency in the language of medicine, statistics, and science, honed through the presentation and cross-examination of the world's leading experts on a variety of medical, epidemiological, and scientific issues
• The trial of a variety of multimillion dollar commercial and business claims representing either plaintiffs or defendants
• Managing litigation, including acting as national or regional counsel for clients with multistate litigation, involving the hiring, supervision, and direction of local counsel and devising and implementing litigation management systems, all within a budget
• Counseling business clients, with a particular emphasis on litigation involving complex contracts in a wide variety of business contexts