Member Bio
Marc Williams is the managing partner in Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough’s West Virginia office. He has had first chair responsibility for more than 100 jury trials and appeals in his career in both state and federal courts. His practice includes extensive experience in the trial and appellate levels of class actions and other mass torts. His practice includes product liability, complex commercial litigation, toxic torts, consumer fraud, intellectual property and trade secrets, and environmental claims. He also has extensive experience in the defense of lawsuits alleging psychological injury, brain injury, medical monitoring, insurance bad faith, and catastrophic injury.
Mr. Williams is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America in eleven categories (most in West Virginia): Bet-the-Company Litigation, Banking and Finance Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Environmental Litigation, Labor and Employment Litigation, Appellate Law, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants, Legal Malpractice Law, Personal Injury Litigation, Railroad Litigation, and Product Liability Litigation. He is also recognized by Chambers USA in Band One (the highest designation) for Commercial Litigation and is listed in West Virginia Super Lawyers.
Mr. Williams is a past-President of DRI - The Voice of the Defense Bar, the 23,000-member international organization of lawyers and corporate counsel who defend the interests of businesses and individuals in civil litigation. He is a Past President of Lawyers for Civil Justice, Inc, an organization of corporations, defense bar groups and law firms that works for civil justice and procedural rule reform. He is also Past President of the National Foundation for Judicial Excellence, an organization that provides training on civil justice issues for state court appellate judges.
In addition to West Virginia, he is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He has appeared pro hac vice in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia, and Indiana.
He is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel and the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys. He is also a former President of the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia. He was the co-chair of the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia Civil Justice Committee, which in August 2003 published a critical review of the West Virginia Civil Justice System. Mr. Williams frequently lectures on litigation-related topics to national and local bar groups. He has been a pro bono volunteer for the West Virginia Legal Services Plan where he instructed indigent and at-risk women on how to obtain pro se divorce and domestic violence protection.
He is a Past Chair of the St. Mary’s Medical Center Foundation and Past Resource Development Chair of the United Way of the River Cities
He earned his Juris Doctor from West Virginia University in 1985 and a Bachelor of Arts from Marshall University in 1982.