Walker Martin & Hatch

Walker Martin & Hatch is a lobbying firm formed by Laird Walker, Jack W. Martin, and Scott D. Hatch.

Jack Martin was "a veteran" of Senator Orrin Hatch's Senate staff and "a former diet supplements lobbyist" at Parry Romani DeConcini & Symms. Laird Walker, "another longtime associate of the senator, became the third partner." 

"The Hatch in the firm is the son of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), but Walker says that 'it would be a mistake for anyone to assume that the third name in our partnership is the reason we're successful. We all have the capacity and the relationships.'" However, in 2002, the firm reported a lobbying income of $930,000, with most of the fees "paid by companies and groups that count on" Senator Hatch for support. 

"'I had retired from Qwest,' recall[ed] Walker, who had started working for a predecessor to the Denver-based telecom firm Qwest Communications International Inc. in 1967. 'But they [Hatch and Martin] thought they were ready to go out on their own, and I was willing to come out of retirement." 

"When Hatch and Martin left to start their own firm, the supplements clients followed. So did the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and GlaxoSmithKline." 

"A host of pharmaceutical and dietary-supplement clients hired Parry, Romani. The trade association and individual companies in the dietary-supplements industry alone paid the firm nearly $2 million from 1998 to 2002, lobbyist reports show." 

Clients

 * Bayer Healthcare
 * Bio-Technology General Corporation
 * Coalescent Energy
 * Colgate-Palmolive Co.
 * Computerized Thermal Imaging
 * Ferrero USA
 * GlaxoSmithKline
 * Kleinfield Kaplan & Becker
 * Micron Technology
 * Natural Products Association
 * National Nutritional Foods Association
 * Oxford Glycosciences Ltd. (UK)
 * Parry Romani Deconcini & Symms
 * Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
 * Qwest Communications
 * Riverton City (Utah)
 * Twin Laboratories
 * U.S. Strategies
 * Verizon Communications Inc.

Source: Registrant/Client List and Senate Identification Numbers.

SourceWatch Resources

 * government-industry revolving door
 * pharmaceutical industry
 * U.S. prescription drug system

Contact details
510 C Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Phone: 202-543-9004 Web: http://www.walkermartinhatch.com/