Kristin L. Walker L'08

Professor Kristin Walker teaches legal writing courses and Advanced Litigation Skills. Additionally, Walker is the Faculty Director of Externships for the College of Law, teaching seminar courses which accompany each student’s externship placement.  

Prior to joining the College of Law, Walker was a full-time practitioner at William Mattar Law Offices, Catalano Law, and Alexander & Catalano, where she practiced plaintiffs’ work.  She also practiced civil defense work at Barclay Damon LLP and Costello, Cooney & Fearon PLLC.  Early in her career, she was an associate at McCarter & English LLP in the firm’s New York City office, where she practiced in the firm’s corporate, securities and financial institutions practice group.

Walker graduated cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law in 2008, where she served as Managing Editor of the Syracuse Law Review. While in law school, she clerked for Judge David N. Hurd of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York and interned at the U.S. District Attorney’s Office. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Villanova University in 2002. 

Walker is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey.