Walter Moore is an attorney and a licensed real estate broker. Moore graduated with honors from Princeton in 1981 with a degree in Public and International Affairs. While at Princeton, Moore won various awards for public speaking and intercollegiate debate.

Moore graduated with honors from Georgetown Law in 1984, where he was an Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. During his third year, the law school hired him to teach legal research and writing, and oral advocacy, to first-year students.

From 1984 to the present, Moore has represented business clients from a wide variety of industries in disputes in Southern and Northern California.

Moore has handled cases involving breach of contract, fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets, commercial leases, easements, franchising, trusts and estates, personal injury and breach of fiduciary duty.

Moore's clients have included companies and individuals in real estate, entertainment, outdoor advertising, telecommunications, aviation, banking, fast-food franchising, retail, insurance, and government.

Some of Moore's trial victories include the following:

• Judgment in a bench trial for the defendant invalidating the multi-million dollar liquidated damages clause in Michael Jackson's confidentiality agreement with his employees;

• Jury verdict for the defendant billboard company in action for breach of lease, trespass and nuisance where Latham & Watkins represented plaintiff;

• Judgment in a bench trial award for plaintiff corporation against defendant corporation and its shareholder (on an alter ego theory) for breach of warranty for an air pollution "scrubber" machine;

• Jury verdict for plaintiff corporation for $6.6 million, including $3.3 million in punitive damages, against Texas oil man for fraud in the sale of natural gas; and

• Jury verdict for defendant fast-food chain in personal injury action filed by bicyclist who his broke hip on a bike ramp to a shopping center, in a case where all the other defendants settled.

Moore also obtained a defense summary judgment against a plaintiff represented by Graham & James in a federal action for breach of contract and software copyright infringement.

Moore offers a seminar, entitled "How to Win at Trial," approved by the California State Bar for MCLE credit.

In 2009, Moore ran for Mayor of Los Angeles, and finished second, with nearly 72,000 votes. Moore has written and co-written the official ballot arguments against various Los Angeles City ballot measures. Moore also serves on the Carthay Circle Historic Overlay Zone Board, an architectural board established by the City of Los Angeles to review proposed changes to historic buildings.