WALTER F. TIMPONE received a Bachelor's degree from St. Francis College in New York in 1972, a Master's degree in Special Education from New York University in 1974, and his Juris Doctorate from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1979. He is the former law clerk to the late Honorable Vincent P. Biunno, United States District Court, District of New Jersey. He was previously associated with the firm of Townley & Updike in New York City before joining the United States Attorney's Office in Newark where he served for eleven years. His major accomplishments at the United States Attorney's Office were as the Chief of Special Prosecutions, where he led the prosecutions and convictions of nearly twenty-five public officials for corruption and fraud against the public. Mr. Timpone has served as the first Federal Election Monitor in Passaic County where he was charged with ensuring the voting rights of the County’s Hispanic citizens and the County’s compliance with Federal and State consent orders. He has also served, at the appointment of N.J. Attorney General John Farmer, on the panel charged by Governor Whitman with investigating problems surrounding the Department of Motor Vehicles Inspection Program. He acted as ombudsman to the United States Department of Defense overseeing a Defense Department contractor who entered a guilty plea concerning failed parts prepared for inclusion in Patriot missiles. He presently serves as a Commissioner on the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission.

Mr. Timpone represents health care industry organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals and has negotiated successfully Deferred Prosecution Agreements for public and private health care organizations. He acts as an Associate General Executive Board Attorney for the LIUNA Union where he investigates, charges, and takes to hearing union members for violations of the union's constitution and ethics procedures. He represents a variety of LIUNA Trusts and Committees. As a result of these experiences, his practice is now concentrated in the areas of white collar criminal work, corporate internal investigations, health care compliance and defense, labor law for labor unions and complex civil litigation.

Mr. Timpone has extensive trial experience, and is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York as well as the United States Supreme Court, Federal District Courts of New Jersey and the Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of New York. He has been listed as a Super Lawyer in New Jersey since its inception in 2005, and was listed in the Top 100 New Jersey Lawyers for 2009 and 2010. In addition, Mr. Timpone is recognized in 2011 Chambers USA as a leading lawyer in the area of Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations. When it comes to federal investigations and white-collar criminal defense work, sources consider Mr. Timpone a ‘serious heavyweight’ particularly in the healthcare market. Peers have ‘great faith in his ability to deal with large and potentially fraught cases’.