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Justin L. Williams

For nearly 30 years, Justin L. Williams has been trying and settling major cases for international corporate defendants as well as individual and corporate plaintiffs. He has successfully represented those involved in labor related matters, anti-trust cases, personal injury, wrongful death, commercial cases and insurance disputes. Mr. Williams has obtained the distinguished “AV” rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.

Mr. Williams is a graduate of the University of Houston and received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Houston School of Law in 1983.  Prior to joining Hilliard Muñoz Gonzales LLP as a partner, Mr. Williams was a partner at the Houston-based law firm of Oppel, Goldberg & Williams.  From 2001- 2008, he managed his own firm, The Law Office of Justin L. Williams, and was Of Counsel at Hennessey, Gardner & Barth in Houston. Mr. Williams was a senior partner at then Meredith, Donnell & Abernethy, now Donnell, Abernethy & Kieschnick, when it was the largest firm in South Texas.

Mr. Williams has handled cases on both a national (Texas, New York, Louisiana, Oklahoma) and international level (London, Switzerland, Nigeria, Mexico and Trinidad). He successfully defended Mobil Oil Corporation in Stutzman v. Mobil Oil Corp., et al., in Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas.  Stutzman involved the death of two Marines in a helicopter crash. Mr. Williams obtained a directed verdict for Mobil, the original targeted defendant, while the other defendants were held liable in an $88 million verdict. For years, Mr. Williams was a successful defense lawyer defending major corporations like Halliburton, Mobil Oil Corporation and Westinghouse Electric Corporation where he gained extensive experience in oil field, product liability and chemical plant litigation.

On the plaintiff’s side, Mr. Williams obtained a $22 million verdict in John Paul Schulze v. Humana et al., a case involving a physician who was terminated by Humana for speaking out for patient care.  The case received national attention with articles in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Dallas Morning News and a cover story in Medical Economics magazine.

In 1992, he obtained what was then the largest settlement in “superbike” litigation against Kawasaki in the case of Brooks v. Kawasaki U.S. A., et al., in Houston, Texas.  Mr. Williams has also represented and settled a case involving three injured employees’ who alleged the employer elected out of the workers’ compensation coverage and the protection of the act. The case was settled in less than two months of filing. Mr. Williams also obtained a seven figure confidential settlement for a client who lost a finger in an oil field accident.

Mr. Williams is a member of the American Bar Association, State Bar of Texas, Texas Trial Lawyers Association and Maritime Law Association.  He is a past member of the Texas Association of Defense Counsel and the Defense Research Institute.

Bar & Court Admissions

• Texas, 1983
• United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas

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