Partner
Walter E. Anderson
Education
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A.
Walter Anderson is a partner at HWG LLP, where helps tech and telecom companies address and comply with critical federal and state regulations, with a particular focus on privacy, marketing, and the telecommunications USF fund.
Walter has helped some of the world’s most prominent companies proactively identify, isolate, and address potential concerns. His recent experience includes:
- Designing compliance plans for biometric data use;
- Advising clients on data-processing agreements between their businesses and service providers;
- Revising privacy policies to address new laws in California, Virginia, Connecticut, Colorado and Utah;
- Assessing client compliance with FDA and FTC medical-device marketing regulations;
- Advising clients on marketing rules, such as the TCPA, CAN-SPAM, and the Telecommunications Sales Rule; and
- Advising companies on compliance with FCC rules governing contributions to and subsidies paid from the Universal Service Fund.
Walter also helps companies that face government investigations, enforcement actions, and private lawsuits. Walter has more than a decade of experience managing complex investigations and high-stakes disputes. His experience includes:
- Defending technology and telecom companies in federal agency enforcement actions, including one of the largest enforcement actions in FCC history;
- Defending clients against TCPA class action lawsuits;
- Guiding companies through complex audits by the administrator of the FCC’s Universal Service Fund;
- Achieving early resolution of multiple disputes between a marketing-company client and several vendors; and
- Resolving a dispute for a Fortune 50 company that would have been among its largest litigation matters.
Education
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A.