Kenneth Walton (he likes to be called “Ken”) is an experienced and knowledgeable attorney, advisor and advocate with a background firmly grounded in employment law. Ken’s experience in practical workplace employment law is impressive. It includes award-winning stints as counsel at several large federal agencies. Throughout his career, Ken has provided employers and employees advice and counsel in singular and complex litigation in various areas of employment law including discrimination, harassment, retaliation unequal pay and reasonable accommodations for disabilities. Ken has provided training to hundreds of supervisors and employees regarding their employment law-related workplace rights and responsibilities in the US and overseas. Ken has taught contracts and employment law at various levels of the educational spectrum, including law school and assisted law school graduates in passing their bar examination. Ken has edited employment law treatises. Ken is committed the concepts of fairness and equity in the application of the rule of law. He has been guided by Justice Thurgood Marshall’s deep, abiding belief in equality and fairness: “Equality means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.”

Ken earned his B.S. from the University of Cincinnati and his J.D from Thomas P. Backus School of Law at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio where he was the recipient of the John Wragg Kellogg and Martin Luther King Jr. awards for academic achievement. Ken was also a certified mediator.  Ken is admitted to practice in the states of Ohio and Maryland and in the District of Columbia.  He is a member of the United States District Courts of the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. Ken is a former adjunct professor at Howard University Law School in Washington, DC. Outside of the office, Ken enjoys a playing golf and listening to music, especially smooth jazz.