Michael Walker Email & Phone Number

Michael is able to analyse and digest complex legal problems and cases and give clear simple advice on how to solve those problems to clients. Michael oversees the commercial and criminal litigation teams at Todd & Walker law.Michael’s varied background includes all manner of disputes, including criminal, regulatory, RMA enforcement and prosecutions, employment, civil and commercial litigation.Michael is at home in the Court room and is an experienced advocate who regularly appears in the District and High Courts as well as the other alternative dispute platforms.Michael has appeared in the full hierarchy of criminal matters, including jury trials involving allegations of murder, serious violence, drug manufacture and importation, sexual violation, fraud, arson and appeals against conviction and sentence in both the High Court and Court of Appeal. He has conducted over 50 jury trials as lead counsel.In terms of background, Michael was born and bred in Southland before attending the University of Otago where he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce. Following his admission to the bar he moved to the Crown Solicitor’s Office in Auckland to begin his professional career. Michael spent the first six and a half years of his career in the Commercial and then the Criminal and Regulatory departments at a top Auckland firm where Michael was an experienced litigator and Crown Prosecutor. Michael returned to the South Island to begin working at QLDC initially as an in-house Solicitor before later becoming General Counsel.Then in 2017, Michael joined Graeme in private practice and they formed Todd & Walker law.Michael is trustee, and chairman, for the regionally significant Queenstown Trails Trust. Michael is a Chartered Director of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand.

Listed skills include Legal Advice, Commercial Litigation, Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, and 27 others.

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  University Of Otago

  Law And Commerce