The Lay Committee on Contemporary Spiritual-&-Public Concerns (The “CSPC Committee”) of St. Paul Parish, Cambridge, will hold the sixth lecture of its series on Friday, February 9, 2007, 7:30-9:00 pm.  Civil rights activist Charles E. Walker, Jr., Esq., will speak on “Robert Morris: Warrior Lawyer of the 1850s.”  This event will be held at St. Paul Parish,

Attorney Walker earned his Juris Doctorate from Boston College Law School and his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.  He attended the London School of Economics where he completed an independent study in Labor Law and Comparative International Law.  Attorney Walker practices as a Labor and Employment Lawyer and specializes as an Employment Discrimination Consultant and a Workforce Development Trainer.  After law school, he served as Judicial Law Clerk to Chief Justice James Lynch of the Massachusetts Superior Court and to Associate Justice Frederick L. Brown of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.  Under former Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti he served as Assistant Attorney General for six years.  Attorney Walker acted in other legal capacities for the Commonwealth: as General Counsel for the Executive Office of Elder Affairs (1990-1994); Commissioner and later Chairman for the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (1994-2000); and Administrative Judge for the Department of Industrial Accidents (2000-2004).  Recently, he served as Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association. 

Attorney Walker is devoted to legal education and service.  At Harvard Law School, he is an instructor in Professor Charles Ogletree’s Trial Advocacy Workshop, and teaches classes in Race, Law, and Social Policy at Boston College and Tufts University.  He was an Assistant Professor on the full-time faculty of the New England School of Law.  He was Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Roxbury Defenders Committee, Inc.; President of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association; and Associate Editor of the Massachusetts Law Review.  He is a sought-after commentator by local and national media for his work in civil rights enforcement and a twice-honored recipient by Boston College Law School, which bestowed upon him the “Father William J. Kenneally Alumnus of the Year Award” (1995), and a “75^thAnniversary Distinguished Alumnus Award” (2005).  The editors of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly voted him as one of the “Top Ten Lawyers of the Year.”  He is the author of several articles on black history and black lawyers practicing before Massachusetts courts.