Page 6 - The Zoppoth Law Firm | Attorney at Law Magazine

The group as a whole works together as a team on all of the cases.
Walker says she handles being a manager as well as a practicing attorney by focusing on the best interests of each client of the group. “Even as an attorney on your own you have to manage your clients. You have to manage your caseload. You have to man- age support people. It’s helpful to have at- torneys to help you with the caseload, but, yes, you do have to manage employees as well. is way we’re all working on the same cases together as attorneys,” Walker says.
e team concept paid o personally recently. Walker is the parent of an eight month old daughter. “Being a new mom was an adjustment for me, but also for the rm because I was out on maternity leave. But we made it work and now I’m a proud parent while still being a good lawyer in a responsible position,” she says.
e Employment Law Group has recently started advertising through television com- mercials and has established a dedicated website (www.kentuckyemploymentlawyer. com) and they are exploring the viability of adding radio advertising to the market- ing mix. Walker says so far their advertising and marketing e orts have paid o with a lot of phone calls, inquiries and additional business.
Major Responsibilities and Major Rewards
Walker and her team nd the challenges of employment law bring personal and professional rewards.
Walker says, “ is work is extremely in- teresting. e types of clients we deal with and some of the situations we deal with are very challenging and novel. With the types of calls we get, nothing shocks me anymore. At rst I was shocked to hear some of the stories that these employees were dealing with, but it’s all across the board – discrimination of every kind, even racial discrimination still goes on in the workplace on a daily basis. We encounter gender, age and pregnancy discrimination and other forms of discrimination every day, and it’s very rewarding being able to represent and assist these clients with their important legal issues and concerns. Giv- ing these people a voice and hoping to help stop and prevent this type of harassment or discrimination in the future is extreme- ly rewarding.”
Science with a double minor in English and Philosophy from Southern Methodist University. He earned his Juris Doctorate degree in 2014 from Oklahoma City Uni- versity School of Law. During his last year of law school, he studied in London, tak- ing courses analyzing the similarities and di erences in American versus European law. While in London he interned for Re- prieve, an international organization as- sisting death row inmates with their ap- peals process. During the summers of law school, he interned at the Collin County District Attorney’s O ce, right outside of Dallas, assisting one of the felony trial teams, and also at the Je erson County District Attorney’s O ce.
Timothy B. George, Jr.
George, also a Louisville native, is a 2007 graduate of Trinity High School. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from Miami University in 2011. A er graduating from Miami University, he attended the University of Louisville Brandies School of Law, earning his Juris Doctor in 2014.
He is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He is also li- censed to practice law in the United States District Court for the Western and East- ern Districts of Kentucky. He is a member of the Kentucky Bar Association, Louis- ville Bar Association, and the Kentucky Justice Association.
Success is a Team Effort
Walker says, “Scott hired me to create and develop this eld of practice at the rm; it developed and expanded into an Employ- ment Law Group currently with three attor- neys and has done very well.”
As the Supervising Attorney, Walker maintains an open-door management poli- cy. e group meets regularly to go over all their active cases and to determine the best, most e cient and aggressive approach to the clients’ challenges and to achieve their goals.
“Brad, Tim and I communicate well and e ciently. We are in and out of each oth- er’s o ces daily with di erent questions and di erent issues. It’s de nitely a collab- orative e ort. We bounce ideas o of each other and I would say that it’s de nitely a group dynamic. I may make a nal decision on certain cases, but the group as a whole works together as a team on all of the cases,” Walker says.
A self-described Type-A Personality, Walker says her biggest challenge as a man- ager is delegation. “I’m very hands-on so it’s always a challenge to delegate things that I would normally have handled before. It was de nitely di erent giving those tasks out to other attorneys because I had done it for myself for two years before Brad joined as the second member of the team. Even though I’m a Type A, I realize that real suc- cess requires a team e ort. And that’s how I manage the group.”
20 | www.AttorneyAtLawMagazine.com