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April L. Walter

Senior Counsel

Direct: 832.263.3693
 Fax: 888.781.0162

april.walter@keanmiller.com
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April Walter is a labor and employment attorney in The Woodlands office of Kean Miller. Her practice focuses on employment law and compliance issues. April has helped guide companies through myriad legal proceedings and compliance risks, ranging from complex FLSA class actions across multiple jurisdictions to day-to-day issues such as employment agreements, employee handbooks, employment practices, and as counsel to HR professionals. She has significant first and second chair trial and arbitration hearing experience, and has been instrumental in the successful representation of companies with substantial labor and employment exposure.

April is well known for her attention to detail and efficient and accurate workflows which empower her to achieve outstanding accomplishments on behalf of her clients. This command over legal project and process improvement benefits her clients as they experience cost-effective representation and counsel, delivered in a no-nonsense and expedient manner.

April graduated from Loyola University Law School in Los Angeles as the top ranked student in her class with a full scholarship as a Fritz B. Burn Scholar.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
  • Employment law counseling and litigation work on behalf of both employers and employees involving federal and state equal employment opportunity statutes, contract disputes, and wage and hour law disputes.
  • Substantial experience preparing and reviewing employee handbooks, employee agreements and personnel policies and providing day-to-day legal advice and guidance to HR managers and business leaders regarding their hiring, compensation, leave of absence, discipline, termination, and other personnel practices and decisions.
  • Various litigation and counseling work on behalf of both employees and employers in employment law matters, including FLSA compliance audits for corporate clients, training programs for corporate clients, and defense of Department of Labor and Texas Workforce Commission investigations.
  • Lead Associate on several large FLSA collective actions that were resolved confidentially in settlements ranging from several hundred thousand dollars to mid-eight figures. Venues for these cases included Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas federal courts.
  • FLSA collective action involved approximately 3,250 eligible class members, over 84% of whom opted-in to the case. Another involved approximately 1,300 eligible class members, over 70% of whom opted-in to the case. Others involved several hundred participants.
  • Business litigation and arbitration experience, with most recent jury trial in November 2019.
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

April earned her B.S. from California State University, Long Beach, California and her J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles in 1996.

ADMISSIONS

Admitted, Texas and California; United States District Courts for the Southern, Northern, Western & Eastern Districts of Texas; United States District Courts for the Central, Southern & Northern Districts of California; and United States District Court for the District of Colorado

MEMBERSHIPS

State Bars of Texas and California

Articles, Publications and Presentations
COMMUNITY SERVICE
  • Leadership Montgomery County, Class of 2012
  • Parishioner at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, The Woodlands, TX, including ACTS, CDA, and Youth Ministries