Edward Walters

Ed Walters is the CEO and co-founder of Fastcase, a legal software and publishing 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 900,000 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, and The Law of Autonomous Vehicles.

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. He worked in The White House from 1991-93, in the Office of Media Affairs and the Office of Presidential Speechwriting.

Ed earned an A.B. in government from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. 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 RAIL: The Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law, and he is the editor and author of Data-Driven Law: Data Analytics and the New Legal Services (Taylor & Francis 2018).