The Trip Walton Show is a laid back light and fun Legal News show that answers viewer and listeners legal questions along with discussing various legal and sports topics of the day. Located in Auburn Alabama, many topic discussions will relate to local events in and around East Alabama and West Georgia. Trip Walton, known as "The Fighter", is a former Golden Glove Heavy Weight Champion, a former Auburn University Football Player and stand out athlete. After many years of practicing law with a large prestigious firm, Trip Walton decided to build his own firm around a core of attorneys with superior trial skills, who would share the same goal of standing up and fighting for the rights of those who cannot fight for themselves. Trip has a well-earned reputation in the Personal Injury, Tractor Trailer Collision, Traumatic Brain Injury and Mediation arena. Trip is highly regarded in these areas of practice and has spoken at legal professional conferences across the country. In 2022, Trip was named to the 2023 Best Lawyers® List. Best Lawyers® is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication company in the legal profession. Trip is rated AV Preeminent by the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating Service, which means he has been rated by his peers as having the highest level of legal ability and ethical standards. He has also been selected yearly as an Alabama Super Lawyer since 2011, Top Attorney’s in Alabama since 2011, and 100 Top Trial Lawyer’s since 2011. In 2020 Mr. Walton joined a global honorary society of attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars by accepting a fellowship of the American Bar Association.Trip Walton and his team have recovered over $100 million in verdicts and settlements. Furthermore, Trip Walton has successfully defended hundreds upon hundreds of clients charged with misdemeanors and felonies. Before founding his own firm, Trip served as a Deputy District Attorney in Montgomery County, AL where he prosecuted numerous felony cases including capital murder, murder, rape, robbery, dealing of marijuana, dealing of cocaine, trafficking of illegal drugs, arson, and other felony type offenses. Trip left the DA’s office in Montgomery and began his private practice with Harper and Meadows Law Firm in Auburn, Alabama. Senior partner Bobby Harper became a circuit judge in Lee County and thereafter Trip and Bob Meadows joined forces with Walker, Hill, Adams, Umbach, Meadows and Walton. While a partner with the Walker-Hill firm, in Opelika/Auburn, Trip handled the City prosecution duties for the City of Auburn, for approximately five (5) years.
