About Victor Knapp

Walter J. Lack is a founding partner and the managing partner of Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack. He received his J.D. from Loyola Law School in 1973. Mr. Lack was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1973, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in 1979, and the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981. His areas of specialty are aviation crashes, class action, complex business litigation, environmental litigation, insurance bad faith, mass toxic tort and professional liability. Mr. Lack was lead counsel for more than 1,500 residents of Hinkley and Kettleman, California (the “Erin Brockovich” case) and lead counsel in cases with an aggregate recovery in excess of $10 billion.

Mr. Lack has earned numerous awards and honors and is recognized by LawDragon Magazine as one of the 500 leading lawyers in the United States (2005-2015), by Southern California Super Lawyers as a “Top Ten Super Lawyer” (2004-present) and a recipient of American Lawyer Magazine’s “Top 10 jury Awards” in the U.S. in five separate years. He is a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and an Advocate of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is a lecturer to trial lawyer groups throughout the country on a variety of topics within the civil justice system.

Whether it is the Police, the District Attorney’s Office, the Public Defender’s Office, or even maybe your own lawyer, very often you are treated just like a case number.

I, however, see a human being that is undergoing a great deal of stress, apprehension or even anger for being improperly accused. As human being is different, so is every case and every situation.

My approach and that of every member of my staff, is to obtain all the facts, every detail and every piece of information that is available in connection with the problem or problems at hand & then develop the necessary strategies to solve them one by one. Sometimes, the simple solution is to present the prosecutor with details that either contradict or mitigate what they have been told by the police or the accuser. Sometimes, a case can be effectively handled quickly with a simple negotiation of a reasonable disposition. Other times, a lawyer must invest time in the discovery process to understand all the evidence to be challenged in pre-trial suppression hearings to see if a favorable resolution can be obtained without having to go to trial.

In any event, everything in my office starts with a no-judgment, can-do approach and a desire and willingness to seek out the details of the case to develop the most appropriate and effective strategies. AGAIN, my client is not just a case number!

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