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William S. Williams specializes in the practice areas of automobile and commercial trucking accidents, product liability, maritime, aviation, general negligence and legal malpractice cases. He has practiced exclusively in this area since 1988 throughout the state of Florida. William is a Florida Bar Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer, which is the highest level of recognition for attorney competency and experience. He is also a Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. William had his first $1 million case before he was thirty years old.
Among his numerous accomplishments, William obtained the largest wrongful death verdict in Alachua County, Florida, at the time, and has the largest verdict in the history of Sumter County, Florida. In 2011, William obtained a 14 million dollar verdict in a class action suit involving inverse condemnation. William is a graduate of Stetson University College of Law and has served on the school's Board of Overseers.
William is a fourth generation Floridian and Palm Beach County native. His great-grandfather, Henry J. Sterling, was one of the earliest pioneers of southern Palm Beach County and was a founder of the area that later became Delray Beach in the late 1800's. His grandfather, William C. Williams, Jr., was a Senator and surgeon and was one of the founders of Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach. Click here to read a newspaper article about the Sterling family. The Sterling is also featured in a Palm Beach County history publication. His father, William C. Williams, III, was a long-time Circuit Court Judge in Palm Beach County. Williams' family was recently honored with the Fannie James Pioneering Award by the Historical Society of Palm Beach County.
Florida, 1987
U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida, 1987
U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida, 1987
Member, Society of Colonial wars
Member: Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts (By right of Descent)
Federalist Society, Member
Board of Overseers, Stetson University College of Law
Member: Scandinavian-American Foundation
Chairman: Grievance Committee 15(a): The Florida Bar
Member: Florida Justice Association
Member: Florida Lawyers Action Group
Former Program Chair – Jury Selection Seminar and Automobile Negligence
Former Vice-Chairman – Grievance Committee and Civil Trial Certification Committee: The Florida Bar
Former: Omicron Delta Kappa National Scholastic and Leadership Honorary
Former: Order of Omega National Greek Leadership Honorary
Former Board of Directors and Young Lawyers Section Member: Palm Beach County Bar Association
Former Mock Trial Board: Stetson University College of Law
Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida, 1987 J.D.
University of Florida, 1984 B.A.