Business Larry Walters of The Walters Law Group Is this Week’s Guest on Adult Site Broker Talk

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Larry Walters of The Walters Law Group is this week’s guest on Adult Site Broker Talk.

Lawrence G. Walters heads up the Walters Law Group, concentrating on Internet law, intellectual property, gaming, and First Amendment issues.

Mr. Walters has developed a passion for protecting civil liberties – in particular, online speech and expression.

He has devoted over 35 years to defending constitutional rights and protecting free speech.

Mr. Walters is an accomplished civil rights advocate, a widely published author, and a well-known public speaker.

He frequently represents clients in the online entertainment community, along with other more traditional industries.

Larry is often consulted as a national expert on legal issues about freedom of speech and the Internet. He regularly contributes to television news programs on networks such as NBC, ABC, PBS, BBC, CBC, FNC, MSNBC, CNBC, and CNN.

His high-profile cases are often followed by the print and online media, including the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and others.

Larry began practicing law in Central Florida in 1988, after graduating from Florida State University, College of Law, with Honors. While in law school, he studied English common law at St. Edmund's Hall in Oxford University and interned with a federal judge in the Northern District of Florida.

During his career, Walters has served as a Legal Studies professor at the University of Central Florida and acted as a director for the local bar association and chamber of commerce. Among his many civic and community activities, he has served as Chair of the Legal Panel of the ACLU, Central Chapter. He is a founding member of the Advisory Council for the U.C.F. Legal Studies Department.

Larry also acts as General Counsel to the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, based in Washington, DC, and serves on the Advisory Council to the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection. He has established and directed numerous non-profit associations and trade groups. His efforts in helping fight online child exploitation earned him the Annual Service Recognition Award from the ASACP.

His undergraduate alma mater, the University of Central Florida, recognized Walters with “Outstanding Alumni” and “Professional Achievement” awards in 2011.

Walters has earned an “AV” (preeminent) rating from lawyers.com, the industry-standard rating service for lawyers, and “10.0 – Superb” by AVVO.com, a popular online attorney rating service.

Since 2020, Mr. Walters has been recognized as a “Superlawyer” by Superlawyers.com, which awards that title to only the top 5% of lawyers.

He has been recognized as one of the Top 100 News Makers by the media industry group, Xbiz, and was included in the top 10% in the ‘Best of the Bar’ competition, through a poll conducted by the Orlando Business Journal. He has been named First Amendment Lawyer of the Year on numerous occasions.

Mr. Walters first practiced First Amendment law in the late ’80s by defending Florida video stores against obscenity prosecutions.

In 1997, he launched the Florida Bar’s First Amendment Law Committee, chairing it for more than ten years. He now represents hundreds of web operators around the world in Internet and IP law disputes.

His cases involve advertising, gaming, free expression, Section 230 protections, DMCA Safe Harbor, 2257, blockchain, and domain name conflicts. Walters frequently plays a role in precedent-setting litigation in adult entertainment, gaming, and social networks, often on a pro bono basis.

Walters is an experienced speaker, presenting nationwide on Internet and First Amendment law, and he regularly contributes articles to the entertainment industry press.

He joined the leadership of the First Amendment Lawyers Association in 2005, ultimately serving as National Chairman and President.

He is admitted to practice in Florida courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, federal appeals courts, and the U.S. Claims Court. In 2016, he earned certification as a foreign-trained lawyer in Canada.

Walters Law Group has earned AV recognition for its 35+ years of work in First Amendment and adult industry law.

The practice represents leading international brands as well as emerging businesses.

Its clients include producers, platforms, performers, aggregators, and hosting companies.

It has defended obscenity cases and litigated civil rights, and intellectual property matters across the U.S.

Walters Law Group has also taken part in multiple U.S. Supreme Court matters focused on free speech.

You can follow them on X @WaltersLawGroup.

Bruce, the adult site broker, host of the show, and CEO of Adult Site Broker, said, “I've wanted to get Larry on the podcast for a long time. We had an excellent discussion on the topic of obscenity law, and it was fascinating.”

Starting today, you can listen to Larry Walters of the Walters Law Group on Adult Site Broker Talk.