Ed Walters is the VP of Legal Innovation and Strategy at Clio and the co-founder of Fastcase, a legal publishing company based in Washington, D.C., which was acquired by Clio in 2025.

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 earned an A.B. in government from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. He served as 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. Ed worked in The White House from 1991-93 in the Office of Media Affairs and the Office of Presidential Speechwriting.

He is a member of the D.C. Bar and the Virginia State Bar. Ed is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches The Law of Robots as well as Gen AI & Big Law, and a Lecturer in Law at The University of Chicago Law School, where he teaches Generative AI in Legal Practice. He serves on the board of directors of Gifts for the Homeless and on the Leaders Counsel for the Legal Services Corporation. He is the author and editor of Data-Driven Law (Taylor & Francis 2018) and a contributing author to Legal Informatics (Cambridge University Press 2021).