Bernard David Walter
"A little light dispels great darkness."
Bernard Walter has been licensed to practice law since 1978 — over 40 years! He's an estate planning and estate administration attorney and a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum for attorneys who have won jury verdicts of more than $1 million. He's listed in Martindale-Hubbell's Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers AV with the highest possible peer review rating in legal ability and ethical standards.
The Pennsylvania Bar Foundation awarded attorney Walter its Pro Bono Publico Certificate of Achievement. He founded and is the co-chairman of the Elder Law Committee of the Luzerne County Bar Association. He also founded the legal side of the Free Back Mountain Medical/Legal Clinic called Doctors and Lawyers at Your Service.
Born in Boston, he has lived on both coasts and Hawaii, attended high school in Portugal and France, attended University in France before transferring to UC Berkeley, did graduate work at the California Institute of Asian Studies, did law school at U.C. Hastings in San Francisco, and graduated from the Oomoto School of Traditional Japanese Arts in Kyoto, Japan.
His present office is conveniently located on Memorial Highway in Shavertown since 1996, he is a happy resident of Harveys Lake Borough, and he presently focuses his work on Estate Planning and Estate Administration, taking care of the elderly and their families.
- Oomoto School of Traditional Japanese Arts
- Certificate (1981)
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- University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- J.D. | Jurisprudence
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- Antioch University-Los Angeles
- B.A. | Comparative Philosophy
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- University of California - Berkeley
- Pre-Med
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- L'Universite de Tours, France
- Undergraduate Degree
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- Owner
- Law Offices of Bernard Walter
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- Sole practitioner focused on business law, telecommunications, and litigation eventually with offices in San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Wilkes-Barre. The practice now focuses on elder law, estate planning, and probate.
- Associate counsel
- Burditt, Bowles & Radzius International Law Firm
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- Prosecutor specialized in pimp prosecutions and appellate work.
- Primary Assistant District Attorney, City and County of San Francisco
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- Clerk to Justices
- California Court of Appeals, First District, San Francisco.
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- Research and writing primarily for Justice Molinari.
- Dare To Succeed, Secrets to Success with Jack Canfield.
- Celebrity Press
- Pornography Redefined for California.
- California District Attorneys' Association
- California State Bar  # 84104
- Member
- - Current
- California
- State Bar of California
- ID Number: 84104
- Nevada
- State Bar of Nevada
- ID Number: 5812
- Pennsylvania
- Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- ID Number: 73660
- Free Consultation
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Probate
- Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Elder Law
- Landlord Tenant
- Evictions, Housing Discrimination, Landlord Rights, Rent Control, Tenants' Rights
- French: Spoken, Written