Tara Walters

Professor Tara Walters is thrilled to rejoin the Southwestern faculty as a visiting professor of LAWS, a position that she was honored to hold for more than a decade. After several years working as a litigator, Professor Walters was drawn to the LAWS position because of its innovative approach to preparing students for the real-world demands of lawyering and legal analysis and writing. She embraces the opportunity to share what she has learned in practice with first-year students and takes great pride in seeing her students grow from novice first-year students into legal thinkers and writers who are ready to tackle their first legal externships and jobs.  

Professor Walters discovered her passion for teaching as a law student at Georgetown Law Center, where she served as a Legal Writing Law Fellow. As a Law Fellow, she taught the fundamentals of legal research and writing to a section of first-year law students and observed first hand how helping students understand legal analysis skills through legal writing could boost their confidence in all of their first-year doctrinal courses. While at Georgetown, Professor Walters was a member of the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, a Brian Farrell Scholar, and an Equal Justice Foundation Fellowship Recipient.

After law school, Professor Walters began her career as a litigator at Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon LLP where she handled all pre-trial steps in cases involving complex environmental insurance coverage disputes, products liability, and trade secrets. She then joined the insurance practice group at Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP where she specialized in representing both plaintiffs and defendants in insurance coverage litigation and appeals.

Most recently, Professor Walters has worked with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law as an Election Protection volunteer and served on the boards of education nonprofits.