Walter Hawkins
Practice Leader / General Counsel
Key practice areas: Work Related Injuries
Other areas: Class Actions & Major Projects
Location: Canberra (ACT)
Walter Hawkins is a General Counsel and Practice Leader of the
Canberra office of Maurice Blackburn (previously Pamela Coward
Higgins). He has over 20 years experience specialising in
employment related matters and personal injury litigation. Walter's
specialist knowledge and experience ensures clients that their
interests are protected and their claims pursued promptly.
Walter has worked with the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC)
in Sydney conducting large scale product liability litigation, and
also spent six years with a national personal injury firm.
For many years, Walter was the author of the Worker's Compensation
chapter of the Lawyers Practice Manual of New South Wales.
Walter is past President of ACT Labor Lawyers, member of Australian
Lawyers Alliance, the Industrial Relations Society ACT and the
Civil Litigation Committee of the ACT Law Society. He graduated
from Macquarie University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts and
Bachelor of Law. In 2007 he obtained a Master of Business
Administration from the University of Canberra.