Daniel J. Walker CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DATA:
DATE OF BIRTH: November 30, 1948
MARITAL STATUS: Married to Georgiana Fink
ADDRESS: 500 Amarillo Drive, Houma, LA 70360
OCCUPATION:
Partner, Watkins, Walker & Eroche
501 Roussell Street, P.O. Box 5095,
Houma, LA 70361, (985) 868-2333.
EDUCATION:
LSU LAW SCHOOL • Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
JURIS DOCTOR May 1973
Louisiana State University • Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
BACHELOR OF ARTS Economics May 1970
Terrebonne High School • Houma, Louisiana, June, 1966
EMPLOYMENT:
Law Office of Watkins, Walker & Eroche
Houma, Louisiana. 1978 to present, partner since 1980. General law
practice in South Louisiana concentrating in healthcare and business law
to include public contract law and the negotiation and preparation of
contracts for the acquisition and sale of businesses and assets and
general healthcare and corporate issues.
Captain, United States Air Force, Judge Advocate General's Corps
Rhein Main Air Force Base, Germany June 1975 to June 1978 Staff Judge
Advocate's Office as an Assistant Staff Judge Advocate to the Commander
of the Air Force's 435th Tactical Airlift Wing (MAC) with duties of
advising on administrative, policy, and contract matters, and as trial
counsel in the prosecution of courts martial at Rhein Main Air Force
Base in Frankfurt, and at Templehof Air Base in Berlin.
Eglin Air Force Base, Florida June, 1974 to June, 1975 Area Defense
Counsel. Served as Area Defense Counsel reporting directly to the Judge
Advocate General of the Air Force. Duties included acting chief
administrator of the Eglin office and trial counsel defending courts
martial under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and in Administrative
proceedings.
Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. November 1973 to June 1974 Assistant
Staff Judge Advocate to the Commander of the Air Force's Armament and
Development Testing Center (TAC) with duties of reviewing and
interpreting contracts and as trial counsel in the prosecution of courts
martial.
PROFESSIONAL Associations:
American Bar Association • Member, Section of Business Law; Member, Tort
and Insurance Practice Section; Member, Health Law Section;
Louisiana State Bar Association,
National Health Lawyers Association,
Louisiana Association of Healthcare Attorneys.
Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
EXPERIENCE:
Healthcare Law: • As general counsel to the board of commissioners of
Hospital Service District No. 1 of the Parish of Terrebonne as the owner
and operator of Terrebonne General Medical Center, a general acute care
medical center since 1979, in health related legal issues including but
not limited to:
* medical malpractice, risk management and general defense issues;
* labor law issues including representation of the medical center,
together with labor specialists and other counsel, in the case of
Leckelt v. Board of Commissioners of Hospital District No. 1, 909 F.2d
820 (5th Cir.1990), which affirmed the hospital's right to know the
HIV/health status of its employees;
* medical staff matters involving credentialing and quality of care;
* the drafting and negotiation of contracts; and
* public bond financing issues, interfacing with special bond counsel,
and public regulatory bodies.
Business Law: • In general business practice including the
representation of a diverse business clientele in many situations to
include the negotiation and preparation of contracts for: the sale and
acquisition of assets and businesses, credit agreements with lenders,
offerings of oil and gas programs, the formation of corporations,
limited liability companies, partnerships and associated representation.
Presentations:
Contracting with Health Care Professionals, Faculty Member, 15th Annual
Summer School for Lawyers, Louisiana State Bar Association, June 6-9,
1999, Sandestin, Destin, Florida.
Contracting with Health Care Professionals, Faculty Member, 1999 Yours
to Choose Seminar, Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association, December 29 –
30, 1999, Windsor Court Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Summer School Revisited, Faculty Member, 12th Annual Summer School
Revisited, Louisiana State Bar Association, December 16-17, 1999, New
Orleans Marriott Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana
CIVIC INVOLVEMENT:
• Champion, Blueprint Louisiana
• Champion, Louisiana Speaks
• Member, SCIA
• Board Member and Past President, Morganza Action Coalition
* Past Chairman and President, Houma Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce:
* Officer, Director, and Executive Committee Member,
* Past Chairman of Education Committee,
* Past Chairman of Education Foundation Committee
. Past Chairman of Infrastructure Committee
Past Chairman of Governmental Affairs Committee
* The Terrebonne Foundation for Academic Excellence in Public Education:
* Founding member, past president and member of the board of directors
* Past Chairman of the 5K Run for Excellence
* Member of the Superintendent of the Terrebonne Parish School Board's
Task Force Committee on Revenues and Expenditures for Terrebonne Parish
Schools;
* Member and Director of the Terrebonne Historical and Cultural Society,
* Past trustee of United Way of South Louisiana,
* Member and past trustee of the Public Affairs Research Council of
Louisiana,
* Past trustee of the Louisiana Council on Economic Education,
* Member and past director of the Houma Terrebonne Family YMCA,
* Chairman of the Citizen's Task Force for the Terrebonne Parish School
Board appointed to make recommendations during the teachers’ strike of
1987
* Member, Maria Immaculata Catholic Church, Houma, LA
* Past instructor, American Institute of Banking, course entitled Law &
Banking: Applications at Nicholls State University
* Former instructor of Business Law for the University of Maryland, and
for City Colleges of Chicago, European Campus, while in the US Air Force
stationed in Germany.
• Graduate, Leadership Louisiana of the Louisiana Council for a Better
Louisiana, 1995;
• Member, of the Louisiana Council for a Better Louisiana.
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