About Clarke Douglas Walton

Clarke Douglas Walton's Internet Law Experience & Credentials

Focused.

Clarke Douglas Walton is a lawyer focused on Internet law. Clarke combines his formal legal training with his experience as a successful Internet entrepreneur to help website owners with cutting edge Internet related legal issues.

 
 

Legal Experience.

Clarke has advised hundreds of website owners on Internet law related matters.  From website related transactions including domain name lease agreements, website sales contracts, and content licensing deals to resolving online disputes related to website problems, copyright infringement, and online defamation, Clarke counsels website owners about the legal implications of doing business online.

When the situation calls for it, Clarke also aggressively represents Internet business owners in court.  Clarke is experienced litigating website and Internet related matters in federal and state court and regularly represents clients in domain name arbitrations under the UDRP.  

Industry Experience. 

An Internet geek at heart, Clarke has hands on experience building and operating websites in a variety of industries; from online publishing to e-commerce.

Today Clarke owns and operates All Vegas Poker ("AVP"), the authority website covering the Las Vegas poker scene.  AVP is one of the top-20 poker information websites in the world, according to Google, and the site consistently serves in excess of 1MM pageviews per month.  AVP is sponsored and supported by the leading Las Vegas casinos, including The Venetian, a Five-Diamond  hotel and resort.

The technical experience gained by operating a high-traffic authority website enables Clarke to take a practical approach to his legal services, and provides him with the context to analyze related technical issues that Internet lawyers without equivalent experience might never even consider.  

Before founding Walton Law Firm, Clarke was an executive at one of the original search engine optimization companies.  He subsequently paid his living expenses during law school as an Internet affiliate marketer. 

While focusing his full-time attention on his legal education, Clarke also stayed up late working as a super-affiliate in the niche video game accessory vertical, generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in online sales for the small merchants he was affiliated with. 

Connected.

A frequent guest lecturer at the leading website industry conferences, Clarke regularly speaks about cutting edge Internet law related issues at conferences such as:

• Webmasterworld Pubcon (domain name law);
• Search Engine Strategies (search engine trademark law);
• Search Marketing Expo (search engine legal updates);
• Affiliate Summit (affiliate taxation);
• Affiliate Classroom Live (affiliate legal issues); and
• Gambling Portal Webmasters Assoc. (Internet gambling law).
   

In addition to his regular speaking schedule, Clarke participates at ICANN meetings where he serves as the advocate for the ICANN Registrar Constituency. 

Clarke has been retained as an expert witness in web-related trademark litigation to provide testimony regarding search engines, meta tags, and related issues.   He has also been interviewed for comments and insight by a wide variety of television, radio, online, and print publications ranging from mainstream media to niche web industry media publishers.  A sample of those publishers includes the following:

• CBS News (KLAS-Las Vegas);
• NBC News (KVBC-Las Vegas);
• E! Entertainment Television (E! News);
• Maxim Magazine;
• CNN Money;
• Inc. Magazine;
• Search Engine Watch;
• WebProNews;
• Lawyers Weekly USA;
• MediaPost Online Media Daily;
• Las Vegas Review-Journal;
• Casino City Times;
• and many more.
   

Clarke regularly attends meetings, forums, and roundtable discussions concerning Internet legal affairs.  He is a member of both the Nevada Bar and California Bar, and co-chairs the Nevada Bar Intellectual Property Section Membership Committee. 

Educated.

Clarke earned his law degree, Cum Laude, from the William S. Boyd School of Law at University of Nevada-Las Vegas (“UNLV”).

At UNLV Clarke earned the William S. Boyd academic scholarship awarded to students ranked among the top 10% of their class. Clarke also served as a senior editor of the Nevada Law Journal (UNLV Law Review). During law school, Clarke won top honors among his entire class at the annual UNLV Client Counseling Competition.

Clarke earned his B.S. degree from Pepperdine University, where he completed his full undergraduate coursework in less than three years.

Real.

In his free time Clarke enjoys international travel adventures and rock concerts. He has explored more than 35 countries throughout the world, and rocked out at more than 200+ concerts from Aerosmith to U2.  Clarke also studies music theory and practices piano and drums in pursuit of creating interesting and edgy tunes.