Mr. Williams is chairman of the firm’s Toxic Tort and Environmental Litigation Department. His practice runs the substantive spectrum of complex civil litigation. In recent years, he has focused on the defense of mass torts and commercial claims filed as class actions or consolidated actions in federal and state courts. His experience includes representing clients in three separate federal MDL coordinated proceedings in the substantive areas of toxic torts, medical devices, and antitrust.

He has served, and continues to serve, as state/regional trial counsel and national coordinating counsel to clients involved in nationwide mass tort litigation. He serves as national coordinating counsel to one of the manufacturing defendants in lead litigation filed across the country. He also heads the firm’s team that represents several auto manufacturers in asbestos litigation. He routinely prepares and tries cases involving complex scientific and medical issues, with a particular emphasis in the area of epidemiology.

Over the last several years, Mr. Williams has also concentrated in the defense of novel claims brought by plaintiffs, including public nuisance, market share liability, civil conspiracy, unjust enrichment, and deceptive trade practices. This experience has involved him in the preparation of defenses and/or the trial of cases in jurisdictions across the country, many of which are recognized as the most "plaintiff-friendly" courts in the country.

Mr. Williams serves as the firm’s account manager in its role as one of DuPont’s primary convergence law firms.

Prior to joining McGuireWoods in 1993, he served as a military prosecutor and criminal defense counsel in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. During his four years in the Army, he prosecuted and defended cases ranging from drug distribution to murder. He also represented the United States in criminal prosecutions of civilians as a special assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia between 1989 and 1991. He served in Saudi Arabia and Iraq with the 24th Infantry Division during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.