Bill Walters bwalters@kghllaw.com Bill has practiced law for more than 33 years in Denver, Colorado. At KGHL, his practice areas include advice and counsel to nonprofit organizations, trade and professional associations, for-profit business entities as well as expertise in antitrust and trade regulation law.

Legal services include bylaw and policy review, drafting conflict of interest policies, certification programs, antitrust compliance, ethics and disciplinary procedures, compliance with state and federal laws, statutory and regulatory drafting, litigation, contract and lease review, trademarks, and employment law. Bill also has a special expertise in automotive law and has represented franchised automobile dealers for over twenty-five years. Legal services for dealers include the preparation of buy-sell agreements, compliance with state law and regulations concerning new motor vehicle dealers, and responding to inquiries from dealer clients. Additionally, Bill serves as a Special Assistant Attorney General representing the Colorado Milk Marketing Board. From 1978 to 1981, Bill served as an Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Colorado with responsibilities for prosecuting and enforcing both criminal and civil provisions of federal and state antitrust laws. He prosecuted the State's first civil antitrust case and was responsible for the State's involvement in numerous federal multi-district cases as well as State criminal prosecutions. From 1974 to 1978, he was an associate with Sherman & Howard with dual assignments in business and litigation. He provided business planning advice to nonprofit organizations, corporations, banks, partnerships, sole proprietorships and governmental entities. Bill and his wife, Christy Cutler, celebrated their twenty-seventh wedding anniversary in 2009. They have two children -- Anna, a graduate of Harvard College, and Andrew, a graduate in Geosciences at Earlham College. The family enjoys dance, outdoor adventures, reading and sailing.

• Kelly Garnsey Hubbell + Lass LLC: Of Counsel, 2007-present
• Walters Law Firm, P.C., 2004-2007
• Walters & Joyce, P.C., 1993-2004
• Walters & Theis, Partner, 1981-1993
• Colorado Attorney General’s Office, Antitrust Section: Assistant Attorney General, 1978-1981
• Sherman & Howard: Associate, 1974-1978

B.A., Emory University, 1967, cum laude

J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1974

Honors: Lawrence S. Greenbaum Prize for Oral Advocacy; American Trial Lawyers Prize for Best Oral Argument; Book prize, Consumer Protection

Colorado Bar Association:

President (2008-2009); Executive Council (2001-2002; 2004-2006)
Board of Governors (2000-2003; 2004-2006)
Joint Management Committee (2000-2006)
Economic Task Force (2008-2009)
Family Violence Task Force, Chair (2002-2006)
Member, Multi-disciplinary Practice Task Force (2000-2003)
Member, Colorado Non-Profit Corporation Code Revision Committee (1989-present)
Law Education Committee, Chair and Member (1975-86)
Civitas: Int’l Civic Education Exchange Program, Special Representative (Prague & Bratislava 2005)
Vote No 40 Steering Committee and Finance Committee (2006)
Judicial Evaluation Task Force (2007)
COBALT Training Steering Committee (2006-2008)

Denver Bar Association:

President (2001-2002); Board of Trustees (2000-2003); Barristers Ball, Co-Chair (2000); Legal Services Committee (2002-2006); Auctioneer for DBA Community Action Network fundraiser (2004-2005); Volunteer Mediator, Denver District Court Settlement Week (1989-1990); MVL Volunteer.

Continuing Legal Education in Colorado:

Past President and Board Member; Program Committee & Speaker, "Advising Nonprofit Organizations in Colorado" (1991-present); Speaker for various CLE programs on antitrust and nonprofit law (1981-present).

Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado:

Chair (1999-2000); Trustee (1995-2001).

Colorado Lawyers Committee:

Past Chair and Member of the Executive Committee; Member, Board of Directors (1985-2002); "Lawyer of Year" Award (1991).

Lead trial attorney for plaintiff in Martinez v. Boys Clubs of Metro Denver which opened clubs to girls and boys in Metro Denver (1988-1991)

Colorado Supreme Court Committee on Public Education (1985-1988)

Colorado Uniform Consumer Credit Code Revision Committee (1999)

Legal Section Council, American Society of Association Executives (1997-2000)

Tenth Circuit Judicial Conference Children's Education Program (Sedona, Arizona, 1991; Snowmass, Colorado, 1996), Planning Committee and Presenter

Contributor, ABA Manual on State Antitrust Laws

National Institute for Trial Advocacy (Deposition Program), Faculty member

Regis University Center for Non-Profit Management, Adjunct Professor (1991- 1999)

Colorado Bar Foundation (1996-present), Fellow

Emory Alumni Association, Board of Governors (2004-2006)

Past Chair, Member, Minoru Yasui Community Volunteer Award (1981-2006)

Recipient, Colorado Society of Association Executives "Award of Excellence" (1993)

Omega Tau Rho Medallion of Service, National Association of REALTORS® (2006)

Various pro bono lectures and presentations for organizations including the National Conference of Bar Presidents; National Association of Bar Executives; American Society of Association Executives; the Colorado Society of Association Executives; National Association of Independent Schools; Western Conference of Association Executives; American Society of State Veterinary Medical Associations; and Colorado Lawyers for the Arts.

Walters, William E., "Antitrust and the Nonprofit Environment: Doing Good Without Doing Time," 25 The Colorado Lawyer 51 (February 1996).

Walters, William E., "Antitrust Questions and Answers: A Primer for Practitioners," 24 The Colorado Lawyer 521 (March 1995).

Burke & Walters, "Antitrust Enforcement in Colorado: New Directions, New Concerns," 6 The Colorado Lawyer 1 (Jan. 1977).

Walters, William E. "To Thine Own Self Be True," Association Management, May 1973.

Reviewer of various articles for The Colorado Lawyer.

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What do you like best about your job?
Solving problems for clients short of litigation.

Name one co-worker in the firm you would not want to face in trial and explain why?
Woody Garnsey, one of the firm's attorneys, with whom I share a small sailboat. His opportunities for revenge with a swinging boom would be infinite.

Favorite TV Show
M.A.S.H.

If you were something other than an attorney, what would you be?
High school teacher (American History).

Name the last great book you read?
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey.

Favorite comic strip?
Dilbert.

What is your favorite movie about lawyers and why?
"Breaker Morant" for its portrayal of the importance of one individual attorney's commitment to the rule of law.

Favorite ski run?
As legal counsel to Colorado Ski Country USA, there is no way I would answer this question.

What was your proudest moment as a lawyer?
Obtaining the order from the Colorado Civil Rights Commission opening the Boys Clubs of Metro Denver to young women.