Jennifer Williams

Biography

Jennifer Williams is Counsel in the Firm’s Antitrust group focusing on pre-trial practice. Before joining the Firm, Ms. Williams worked in the pretrial practice unit on the Multi-District Opioid Litigation bellwether, resulting in just over $62 million for her firm, and on her firm’s individual opioid cases representing various state and local governments.

Previously, Ms. Williams served the judiciary of Florida’s Fourth Circuit as Director of the Office of the Judicial Staff Attorneys. In that role, she supervised the Circuit’s eleven Circuit and County court law clerks and acted as Judicial Liaison to the Mayor’s Committee for Victim Advocacy, sat on the Fourth Circuit’s Committee on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts, and was specially appointed to preside as Special Master over evidentiary hearings concerning belated appeals.

Ms. Williams began her legal career as Staff Counsel representing the Executive Branch of the Cherokee Nation in matters concerning the reclamation of natural resource treaty rights. She served as liaison to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and successfully negotiated with General Electric regarding the containment and transport of spent nuclear fuel rods through Indian Territory.

Ms. Williams graduated from Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center, where she was a Simonoff Memorial Scholar. During a visiting year at the University of Tulsa College of Law, she earned certificates from the Environmental Law and Energy Policy Institute and the Indigenous Rights Program.