Mr. Walther received his B.A. degree with honors from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1972. He received his Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from California Western Law School in 1975 where he was presented with the Dean’s Award. He also has certificates from Notre Dame Law School – Sophia University and University of Southern California for studies in Japanese Law and Group Counseling, respectively.
He is a member of the Alaska Bar Association and has been a member of the Alaska Academy of Trial Lawyers and American Association for Justice, formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America in which he was a sustaining member. He has also earned the distinction of being named to the "Million Dollar Club” for trial attorneys and has been listed in Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who in America.
In June of 2009 Dale Walther was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in a ceremony attended at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. He is also admitted to practice before all Alaska state courts as well as all federal courts in the State of Alaska, and before the United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.