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James Walker

Jim Walker & Associates, PLLC
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James Walker
Jim Walker & Associates, PLLC
ROCKWALL,
 TX

Jim Walker (University of Texas School of Law, Class of 2003)

 

Jim Walker has been a Trial Lawyer for 21 years, earning first chair trial and appellate victories in all kinds of trials including wrongful death, products liability, traumatic brain injuries, car wrecks, 18-wheeler collisions and truck wrecks, personal injury and medical malpractice cases. He has been listed in the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 for Civil Trial Law.

 

Memberships:

  • Professionalism Committee of the State Bar of Texas
  • Bencher, William “Mac” Taylor American Inn of Court
  • Arbitrator, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
  • Admitted to practice in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Western and Southern Districts of Texas
  • Admitted to practice in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas
  • Admitted to practice in the U.S. Tax Court
  • Certified Public Accountant – Texas State Board of Public Accountancy

Jim Walker regularly obtains verdicts and settlements in the tens of thousands of dollars for his clients. 

 

Some of his other victories include:

2021’s Significant Recoveries

Obtained $130,000 policy limit recovery for my client injured in an automobile collision.

Obtained $250,000 policy limit recovery for my client injured in an automobile collision.

2020’s Significant Recoveries

Obtained a $925,000 settlement in a suit against a worldwide bank for two homeowners.

 

Obtained $100,000 policy limit recovery for my client injured in a rear-ender in stop and go traffic.

2019’s Significant Recoveries

Obtained $1,255,062.52 recovery in a suit against a bank.

 

Obtained $153,115.25 recovery in a suit against a hospital.

 

2018’s Significant Recoveries

Obtained a $550,000 cash in-pocket settlement for a client in a suit against a worldwide life insurance company.

 

2016’s Significant Recoveries

 

Obtained over $1.2 million dollars worth of property and a $250,000 cash in-pocket settlement for a client, a small business owner: Hunter v. Mobley, Cause No. 1-16-0951, in the 382nd Judicial District Court of Rockwall County, Texas

Obtained $1 million settlement ($530,000 cash in-pocket) for a personal injury client

Obtained $300,000 settlement ($180,000 cash in-pocket) for a personal injury client

 

Representative Appellate Victories:

 

Faber v. Collin Creek Assisted Living Ctr., No. 05-18-00827-CV, (Tex. App. – Dallas May. 3, 2021 en banc)

Dayspring Assisted Living Cmty. v. Faber, No. 05-18-00112-CV, 2018 Tex. App. LEXIS 2942 (Tex. App.—Dallas Apr. 25, 2018)

 

Good Shepherd Medical Center-Linden, Inc. v. Twilley, 422 S.W.3d 782 (Tex.App.–Texarkana 2013, pet. denied)

 

Rolen v. LVNV Funding, LLC, No. 2-09-304-CV, 2010 WL 1633402 (Tex.App.–Fort Worth, April 22, 2010, no pet.)

 

Dallas-Fort Worth Intern. Airport Public Facility Imp. Corp. v. Banks, No. 2-09-176-CV, 2010 WL 87865 (Tex. App. –Fort Worth, January 7, 2010, pet. denied)

 

Experience

 

August 2007 – Present

 

Trial Attorney and CPA at Jim Walker & Associates, PLLC

 

Served as lead counsel for plaintiffs and defendants, handling hundreds of civil cases. Earned multiple first chair trial and appellate victories in numerous practice areas.

 

June 2006 – August 2007

 

Attorney at Susman Godfrey LLP

 

Worked under some of the best trial lawyers in the nation on multi-million dollar cases.

 

September 2003 – May 2006

 

Associate Attorney at Locke Lord LLP

 

Worked on multi-million dollar cases.

 

Education

 

The University of Texas School of Law

 

Juris Doctor, With Honors

 

• Presidential Scholarship recipient

 

 

The University of Texas at Arlington – College of Business

 

BBA – Accounting, Summa Cum Laude

 

• Scholarship and GI Bill recipient

Military Service

 

United States Army (Infantry)

Served honorably for an active duty term in the U.S. Army; awarded the National Defense Service Medal. Financed entire undergraduate and law school education with the GI Bill and scholarships.


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