About
As one of the partners and co-founders of Williams Cedar, Gerald Williams concentrates on environmental poisonous tort cases, whistleblower claims, and civil rights violations, as well as complicated personal damage cases. His wonderful prison career spans thirty-5 years in the course of which era he has practiced regulation in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, where he earned a number of the highest honors within the criminal network. After graduating from Temple University School of Law in 1982, he become an associate at a Philadelphia law office earlier than starting his own exercise in 1983. He has obtained the “AV Preeminent” score, the highest rating given, from legal writer Martindale-Hubbell. In addition, he has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer every consecutive yr considering 2006 for environmental litigation.
Mr. Williams has received tremendous verdicts and settlements for plaintiffs in civil rights and environmental tort cases in many courts, consisting of Merry v. Westinghouse, which mounted clinical tracking as a remedy beneath Pennsylvania not unusual law, and Ambrogi v. Gould, the first case to maintain clinical monitoring available below Pennsylvania’s Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act.
Mr. Williams and Williams Cedar colleagues, Beth Cole and Christopher Markos, have been honored at a reception hosted by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s Prisoner Civil Rights Panel.
They have been provided certificates of appreciation by using the Honorable Judge M. Faith Angell for their carrier in representing masses of prisoners in claims that they have been injured as a result of unconstitutional situations of the Philadelphia Prison System. Judge Angell referred to that among 2011 and 2014, the legal professionals widespread judicial appointments to represent more than 900 former seasoned se plaintiffs and resolved the huge majority of the cases, with extra than 500 ensuing in person settlements with the town and private clinical providers.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Civil Rights
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment, Fair Housing, Police Misconduct, Privacy Law
- Environmental Law
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Tax Law
- Business Taxes, Criminal Tax Litigation, Estate Tax Planning, Income Taxes, International Taxes, Payroll Taxes, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Tax Appeals, Tax Audits, Tax Planning
- Car Accidents
- Discrimination
- Child and Student Abuse
- Wage & Hour Litigation
- Commercial and Business
Costs
Certificates
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Founding Partner
Williams Cedar, LLC
2017 - Founding Partner
Williams Cuker Berezofsky
1983
Educations
Graduation year: 1982
Graduation year: 1976
Graduation year: 1973
