HDLI Staff
Lisa L. Walker, Esq.
CEO and General Counsel
Lisa L. Walker is CEO and General Counsel of the Housing
and Development Law Institute (HDLI).
Ms. Walker is responsible for managing all business, marketing,
and financial affairs of HDLI, writing
and publishing HDLI's legal publications,
authoring HDLI's amicus briefs and other
legal submissions, drafting HDLI's model
policies, providing personalized legal information to HDLI
members, and planning and overseeing HDLI's
legal conferences, legal trainings, and other educational endeavors.
Ms. Walker developed HDLI's successful
on-site and online staff trainings for public housing agencies and
other housing providers or managers. Formerly a partner and commercial
litigator at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, L.L.P., a regional law
firm based in Baltimore, Maryland, Ms. Walker actively represented
the Housing Authority of Baltimore City in important public housing
reform litigation in Thompson v. HUD, and has focused on issues
facing public housing agencies for more than fifteen years. Ms.
Walker holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University
of Maryland, College Park, and a Juris Doctor from the University
of Maryland School of Law. She has been active in local and national
bar associations, as well as a number of other civic organizations,
and is a frequent speaker and presenter at bar conferences and industry
meetings. Ms. Walker is licensed to practice law before the United
States Supreme Court, the Fourth and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeal,
and the state and federal trial and appellate courts of Maryland
and the District of Columbia. Her full
biography is available here.
Ms. Walker's e-mail address is lwalker@hdli.org.
Timothy P. Coyle
Director of Administration
Timothy P. Coyle has been with the Housing and Development
Law Institute (HDLI) since October of
2000, and he has been HDLI's Director of Administration since January
of 2002. He is responsible for administering HDLI programs,
providing membership services, and planning meetings and conferences.
Mr. Coyle is the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) coordinator
for HDLI's annual legal conferences, and he administers the organization's
electronic List Serve.
Mr. Coyle holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology
and Criminology & Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland,
College Park. His e-mail address is tcoyle@hdli.org.
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