Trip Walton is a former Golden Gloves Heavyweight Boxing Champion who brings that same discipline, toughness, and persistence to the courtroom. When your freedom and future are on the line, he fights to protect your rights and pursue the best possible outcome.
Criminal Defense Cases We Handle
Walton Law Firm defends clients facing a wide range of Criminal Defense charges across East Alabama and surrounding areas. Common cases we represent clients for include:
Public Intoxication
A public intoxication charge can lead to fines, a criminal record, and lasting consequences. Walton Law Firm works to protect your rights and minimize the impact on your future.
Drug Crimes
Drug charges can carry serious penalties, from fines to jail time. Walton Law Firm builds strong defense strategies to challenge the evidence and protect your rights at every stage.
Felonies and All Other Crimes
Facing a felony or criminal charge can have life-changing consequences. Walton Law Firm provides aggressive defense and strategic guidance to protect your freedom and your future.
DUI
A DUI charge can impact your license, finances, and future opportunities. Walton Law Firm fights to challenge the case against you and pursue the best possible outcome.
Expungements
A past charge doesn’t have to define your future. Walton Law Firm helps clear eligible records, giving you a fresh start and new opportunities moving forward.
Title IX Representation
Title IX allegations can affect your education, reputation, and future. Walton Law Firm provides discreet, strategic defense to protect your rights throughout the process.
Speak With an East Alabama Criminal Defense Attorney Today
A criminal charge can have serious consequences. Attorney Trip Walton “The Fighter” will review your case, explain the legal process, and help you understand the options available for your defense.
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Walton Law Firm is dedicated to defending individuals across East Alabama facing criminal charges. With extensive courtroom experience and a strategic, client-first approach, we will review your case, explain your options and help you determine the best path forward.
Associate Attorney | Criminal Defense & Personal Injury
Chelsea Drew is a native of Opelika, Alabama and a proud graduate of Opelika High School. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Stetson University in Florida before returning to Alabama to attend Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, where she received her Juris Doctor.
While at Cumberland, Chelsea stood out as both a leader and advocate. She founded the Native American Law Student Association and served as a member of the school’s National Arbitration Team, advancing to the National Finals in Chicago.
Chelsea has a strong passion for serving her community and now focuses her areas of practice on Criminal Defense and Personal Injury. Her background in advocacy, leadership, and dispute resolution allows her to skillfully represent clients facing some of life’s most challenging situations.
Chelsea is a member of Church of the Highlands and enjoys spending time with her black lab, Cooper.
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Alabama State Bar
Lee County Bar Association
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Alabama (2025)
Will O. (Trip) Walton, III
“The Fighter” (President & Trial Attorney)
After many years of practicing law with a large prestigious firm, Trip Walton decided to build his own firm around a core of attorneys with superior trial skills, who would share the same goal of standing up and fighting for the rights of those who cannot fight for themselves. Trip is a former Golden Gloves Heavyweight Boxing Champion. The values of a fighter are honor, dignity, pride and sportsmanship. Trip learned that aggressive hard work, persistence and diligence pay off – in the boxing ring and in the courtroom. Let Walton Law Firm fight for you!
Trip has a well-earned reputation in the Personal Injury, Tractor Trailer Collision, Traumatic Brain Injury and Mediation arena. Trip is highly regarded in these areas of practice and has been asked to speak at numerous professional conferences all across the United States. Trip has tirelessly fought, standing up to the big insurance companies, winning multi-million and million dollar settlements for his clients.
Trip also has established a practice of defending those accused of Title IX offenses which typically involve sexual and gender-based misconduct. Because the standard of proof in these cases is less than “beyond a reasonable doubt” (i.e. more likely than not), these cases are very difficult to defend and require a lot of time and experience. Trip also defends students accused of violating Auburn University’s Code of Student Conduct.
Since 2022, Trip has been named to the Best Lawyers® List. Best Lawyers® is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication company in the legal profession. Recognition by Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor, conferred on a lawyer by their peers. For more than four decades, our publications have earned the respect of the profession, the media and the public as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere.
Trip is rated AV Preeminent by the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating Service, which means he has been rated by his peers as having the highest level of legal ability and ethical standards. He has also been selected yearly as an Alabama Super Lawyer since 2011, Top Attorneys in Alabama since 2011, and 100 Top Trial Lawyers since 2011. In 2020 Mr. Walton joined a global honorary society of attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars by accepting a fellowship of the American Bar Foundation.
Walton Law Firm has also been recognized by Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, which is a select group of lawyers who have been recognized for their legal expertise and professional stature.
While in college and law school, he enjoyed a successful amateur heavyweight boxing career with a 20-1 record. As an amateur heavyweight fighter, he was known for his knockout punch with 18 first round knockout victories. His record includes the Auburn University and Southeastern Regional Intercollegiate Titles in 1978; a win in the Georgia Golden Gloves Tournament in 1980; the Alabama AAU Open-Class Heavyweight Championship in 1981; and he concluded his boxing career in 1982 by winning the Alabama Golden Gloves Heavyweight Championship.
Trip is an Eagle Scout and was a member of the Auburn University Football Team and the Auburn University Debate Team. He is a member of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity.
Before founding Walton Law Firm in 2001, Trip served as a Deputy District Attorney in Montgomery County, AL where he prosecuted numerous felony cases including capital murder, murder, rape, robbery, dealing of marijuana, dealing of cocaine, trafficking of illegal drugs, arson, and other felony type offenses. Trip left the DA’s office in Montgomery and began his private practice with Harper and Meadows Law Firm in Auburn, Alabama. Senior partner Bobby Harper became a circuit judge in Lee County and thereafter Trip and Bob Meadows joined forces with Walker, Hill, Adams, Umbach, Meadows and Walton. While a partner with the Walker-Hill firm, in Opelika/Auburn, Trip handled the City prosecution duties for the City of Auburn, for approximately five (5) years. He also built his personal injury/wrongful death practice while a partner at the Walker-Hill firm.
