Faculty Profile: Walter Schuler

Walt Schuler is an attorney with extensive experience in health law, business and corporate law, contracts, civil litigation, and regulatory matters. He earned his B.B.A. in International Business, magna cum laude, from The University of Memphis in 1993, and his J.D., cum laude, from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1996, where he also received a Certificate in Health Law with Honors. In law school, Walt was awarded the John J. Lawless academic scholarship, and served on the Law Journal Editorial Board, receiving the award for best student article, and earning the highest grade in the Law Journal course (A+). He was recognized for his research assistance in the Preface to West Publishing’s (now Thomson Reuters) first edition Health Law Practitioner Treatise and Health Law Hornbook, which was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court four months after its publication and a few other times since. His Law Journal article was cited shortly after publication by 37 state attorneys general in a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief supporting the prevailing party in that case.

Walt currently serves as Associate General Counsel in The University of Tennessee's Office of General Counsel in Memphis, where he primarily handles health care related and general corporate, transactional, and regulatory matters. Immediately prior to joining the University in 2009, Walt was a shareholder in The Bogatin Law Firm in Memphis, where he began his legal career as an Associate in 1996.  Before his legal career, Walt served on active duty in the United States Army for several years.

For more than a decade, Walt has been rated AV Preeminent® by Martindale-Hubbell, America's oldest and most prestigious attorney rating service. He has represented clients in state and federal courts and has argued cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the Tennessee Supreme Court, the Tennessee Court of Appeals and numerous state and federal trial courts. He is admitted to practice before the Tennessee Supreme Court (1996), Tennessee Court of Appeals (2006), U.S. District Courts for the Western (1996) and Middle (2021) Districts of Tennessee, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1998), and the U.S. Supreme Court (2003).

Walt serves in leadership roles within the Tennessee Bar Association, including the House of Delegates (2013–present) and the Executive Council of its Health Law Section since 2008 (Chair, 2012–13). He is also active in the Memphis Bar Association and is a founding Board member of its Health Law Section (Chair, 2013-14), as well as the American Health Law Association, and the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Walt has served on the Advisory Committee to the Institute of Health Law and Policy at The University of Memphis School of Law and the Health Care Fraud Working Group of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee. He has presented at numerous seminars and has authored and co-authored numerous publications on a variety of health law topics.
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