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Ed Walters
Ed Walters is the CEO and co-founder of Fastcase, one of the world’s largest legal publishers. Before founding Fastcase, Ed worked at Covington & Burling in Washington D.C. and Brussels. He worked in the White House from 1991-1993, first in the Office of Media Affairs and then in the Office of Presidential Speechwriting. He is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and at Cornell Tech, where he teaches The Law of Robots, a class about the frontiers of law and technol
Biography
Ed Walters is the CEO and co-founder of Fastcase, an online legal research software company based in Washington, D.C. Under Ed’s leadership, Fastcase has grown to one of the world’s largest legal publishers, currently serving more than 800,000 subscribers from around the world. He is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and at Cornell Tech, where he teaches The Law of Robots, a class about the frontiers of law and technology.Before founding Fastcase, Ed worked at Covington & Burling, in Washington D.C. and Brussels, where he advised Microsoft, Merck, SmithKline, the Business Software Alliance, the National Football League, and the National Hockey League. His practice focused on corporate advisory work for software companies and sports leagues, and intellectual property litigation.
Ed worked in the White House from 1991-1993, first in the Office of Media Affairs and then in the Office of Presidential Speechwriting. After working in the White House, he worked in an influential Washington public relations boutique. He has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The University of Chicago Law Review, The Green Bag, and Legal Times, and has spoken extensively on legal publishing around the country.
Ed earned an A.B. in government from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of The Hoya, Georgetown University’s college newspaper, and during law school, he was elected to be an editor of The University of Chicago Law Review. From 1996-97, he served as a judicial clerk with the Hon. Emilio M. Garza on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar, and the District of Columbia Bar, and he has been admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Fifth Circuit. He serves on the boards of Pro Bono Net, Friends of Telecom Without Borders, and Public.Resource.org. He is on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law (RAIL). He is the editor of Data-Driven Law (Taylor & Francis 2018).
Education
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A.B. Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 1992
J.D. University of Chicago, The Law School, Chicago, IL 1996
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Legal technology
Legal research
Artificial intelligence
Robotics
Autonomous cars
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