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Email: lisa.walker@smitheylaw.com
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Lisa Walker is a successful trial attorney and litigator, in addition to representing clients in negotiations, administrative proceedings, and disciplinary appeals. She focuses on discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, race, age, disability and other forms of discrimination, with a particular emphasis on equal pay disputes and all forms of sexual harassment. Her experience also includes wage claims, whistleblower retaliation, and FMLA retaliation. Lisa also works with employees and employers, drafting and negotiating employment contracts and severance agreements, as well as reviewing and advising clients on non-compete agreements, and drafting employee policies and handbooks for small business clients that reduce disputes and elevate her clients’ workplaces.
During law school, Lisa interned for the Honorable Glenn T. Harrell on the Supreme Court of Maryland, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland. Prior to private practice, she served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Stuart R. Berger, and the Honorable Robert A. Zarnoch, on the Appellate Court of Maryland. Lisa joined Smithey Law in 2018 and has since risen to the rank of partner and leads one of the firm’s two practice groups.
Practice Areas, Bar Admissions, and Education
Practice Areas
- Employment Law
Bar Admissions
- U.S. District Court, District of D.C. (2024)
- U.S. District Court, Maryland (2022)
- District of Columbia (D.C. Bar) (2020)
- Tennessee (2017)
- Maryland (2016)
Bar Associations
- Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA), Labor & Employment Law Section
- American Bar Association
- National LGBTQ+ Bar Association
- American Association For Justice (AAJ)
Education and Background
Lisa graduated magna cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 2016, where she served as a Law Review Editor and a Rule 16 student attorney in the Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic. As a student attorney, she represented low-income clients in civil and administrative cases and negotiated on behalf of clients in state and federal minimum wage cases, defended clients from unemployment benefits recoupment, and advocated before the Maryland Senate for fee shifting legislation to permit greater access to the legal system for plaintiffs. Lisa also interned at the Court of Appeals of Maryland with the Honorable Glenn T. Harrell, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland, where she assisted with the Office’s investigations of emerging Labor and Employment and Consumer Protection issues.
Lisa grew up in Tennessee and received her Bachelor’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) in 2011. She went on to earn a Master’s degree in Sociology at MTSU in 2013, during which she studied organizational behavior, conducted research on inequality issues in the workforce, and completed a thesis examining sexual harassment among female servers in the sports bar industry. In her time off, she enjoys woodworking, March Madness, spending time with her wife, and traveling with friends.