JUSTICE JOSEPH WALSH: SCHOLAR, QUINTESSENTIAL PROFESSIONAL, AND CHAMPION OF JUSTICE FOR ALL

Like a precious gem, Justice Joseph T. Walsh's life and his legacy have so many sparkling facets that anything short of a formal biography would necessarily leave out much rich material. Although his distinguished legal career did not begin with his work as a judge, the author would like to begin his discussion of his scholarship by looking back forty-two years ago when, in 1972, he was newly appointed by Governor Russell W. Peterson to become a judge on the Superior Court, Delaware's outstanding general jurisdiction trial court. During his eighteen-year service on the Supreme Court (1985- 2003), he authored over 300 opinions for the Court, spanning a broad spectrum of subjects, including corporate and other areas of civil law, criminal law, and ethics. He was instrumental throughout his judicial and practicing-lawyer careers to teach ethics and professionalism in regular, continuing legal education sessions of the Delaware Bench and Bar as well as in the various Inns of Court.