Edwards has written many articles and been a legal columnist for a wide range of publications including "The Expatriate", "Social Services Insight", and "The Law Society's Gazette", as well as leader writer for "The Solicitors' Journal" for eighteen months in the 1990s. He has published seven books on equal opportunities, employment law and other legal subjects. In addition to his work for employers, he has throughout his career acted for many employees, and also for organisations such as the Equal Opportunities Commission, acting as the advocate for victims of pregnancy discrimination in two major cases: "Lavery v Plessey Telecommunications Ltd" ICR 373 and "Fewster v Ferry Casinos Ltd" (1999) UKEAT 408. Originally, he established distinct reputations in the fields of employment law and commercial law; his first published book concerned legal aspects of business computer acquisition, and in 1985 he acted as legal adviser to the makers of the feature film "Letter to Brezhnev".