Walt Auvil practices in Parkersburg, West Virginia. He is a 1981 graduate of the West Virginia University College of Law. Auvil has practiced employment law on behalf of employees for 12 years of his 21 years of practice. He is the chair of the West Virginia State Bar Employment Law Committee.

Auvil is a founder of the West Virginia Employment Lawyers Association, the state affiliate of the National Employment Lawyers Association. He has edited the West Virginia Employment Lawyers Association Employee Advocate - the state association newsletter - for 8 years. Auvil is a member of the Board of Directors of Workplace Fairness, a national non-profit organization affiliated with the National Employment Lawyers Association. The goal of Workplace Fairness is to educate workers and their advocates about workplace rights and options for resolving workplace problems and promoting the view that fair treatment of workers is both good business practice and sound public policy.

He also serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal.

He is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, the American Constitution Society and the West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.

Auvil has authored several articles on civil procedure and has spoken at local, state, and national CLE programs.

Auvil was a law clerk to former West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Thomas McHugh from 1981 through 1983. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Parkersburg Area Community Foundation and the Salvation Army Advisory Board. He is married and has an eleven year old son and two foster daughters.