Twelve years in the writing
Why a debut takes a decade, and what changed in the telling each time the story moved.
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Interview requests, review copies, translation and film rights, festival appearances and speaking engagements for James J. Lukezic are all received at info@falconerholdings.com. Below: the book at a glance, downloadable cover and portrait, a short bio cleared for reprint, and the topics he is most often asked to speak to.
The book at a glance
Fact sheet
- Title
- Walker Hall: A Memoir of Inheritance and Defiance
- Author
- James J. Lukezic
- Form
- Novel-memoir — loosely inspired by a true life, presented as fiction
- Length
- 236 pages · 34 chapters
- In the writing
- Twelve years
- Status
- Forthcoming — release notifications open
- Rights
- Translation and film enquiries welcome
- Press contact
- info@falconerholdings.com
Media kit
Cover & portrait
Please credit the author where the portrait is used. Higher-resolution files and a print-ready cover can be sent on request.
Cleared for reprint
Short bio
James J. Lukezic is Managing Principal of Old Slip Capital Partners, where he primarily leads the firm's ERISA Governance Consultancy — one of the premier institutional advisors to large corporate retirement plans with over $25 million in plan assets.
A graduate of Cornell University, he began his career at Merrill Lynch & Co. and later held roles at Citigroup Global Markets, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Oppenheimer & Co., and served as a Visiting Lecturer in Princeton University's Department of Politics. He is Chairman of ITF USA, a 501(c)(3) assisting landmine victims in more than thirty countries, and of the Lukezic Family Foundation. He lives with his family between New York and Dallas.
His debut, Walker Hall, took twelve years to write.
On the record
Interview & speaking topics
Wall Street from the inside
The trading floor at full volume, the price of a seat, and the culture that sets it.
A vineyard on the Lakeshore
The most coveted land in the Niagara Peninsula, fifteen miles from the US border on the Canadian side — and the slow arithmetic of the first vintage.
Foreclosure and the long fight
What happens after a bank changes the locks: regulators, insurers, subpoenas, three judges and a jury.
ERISA fiduciary governance
Committee process, investment policy, fee benchmarking and documented decisions, for plan sponsors and trustees.
From Manhattan to Cuba
The journey at the heart of the book — reinvention, inheritance, and what a man owes the people who came before him.
Get in touch
Press inquiry
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