Lawrence Edward Walsh (January 8, 1912 – March 19, 2014) was an American lawyer and judge who was United States Deputy Attorney General from 1957 to 1961 and a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

His service terminated on December 29, 1957, due to his resignation, having served only three and one-half years as a judge.

[3] After his resignation from the federal bench, Walsh served as Deputy Attorney General in the Eisenhower administration from 1957 to 1960.

On the eve of the 1992 presidential election, on October 30, Walsh obtained a grand jury re-indictment of Weinberger on one count of false statements.

"[4] Judge Thomas F. Hogan dismissed the October indictment two months later for being outside the statute of limitations.

[6] Weinberger's subsequent pardon by President George H. W. Bush in December 1992 preempted any trial.

Walsh steadfastly denied that the investigation was politically motivated, while Bush and others criticized it as "the criminalization of policy differences.

"[1] Walsh submitted his final report on August 4, 1993, and later wrote an account of his experiences as counsel, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up.