Eric Walter Lawyer Reviews & Ratings - Saint Louis

Eric's practice primarily involves representing businesses and individuals in the legalized marijuana industry. He has successfully represented companies across the country applying for facility licenses to cultivate, manufacture, and dispense marijuana and marijuana-infused products. Eric assists clients with every facet of procuring and compliantly operating marijuana facility licenses, along with mergers and acquisitions, other corporate matters, legislative and regulatory issues, and related matters. Eric also represents MoCannTrade, Missouri's marijuana industry trade association.. Eric has extensive state and federal litigation experience in a wide-range of complex commercial and business cases that include: a religious conference center prevailing in a long-running corporate governance and property dispute; a major men’s retail chain defeating false advertising claims by different state-wide classes of customers; and a publicly-traded company defeating breach of fiduciary duty claims by a national class of former stockholders.. Eric serves privately owned businesses, publicly traded companies and nonprofit corporations. A significant portion of this work involves the defending class action lawsuits brought against various business entities. Many of the cases involve allegations of fraud, false advertising, unfair trade practices and breaches of state and federal consumer protection laws.. Eric also represents clients in matters alleging breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and copyright infringement. He also provides counsel in workplace cases involving claims such as discrimination and violation of non-compete and nonsolicitation provisions.