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, as well as complex commercial litigation, employment disputes, toxic torts, consumer fraud, drug and medical device litigation, 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. For 16 years, Mr. Williams served as an adjunct professor of Sports Law at Marshall University.

Mr. Williams is listed in the Best Lawyers in America in 11 categories: Appellate Law, Banking & Finance Litigation, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Environmental Litigation, Labor & Employment Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation, and Railroad Law. Mr. Williams was named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Charleston-WV Litigation – Banking & Finance Lawyer of the Year. 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 recently completed a term as 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 also serves as vice president and on the board of directors of Lawyers for Civil Justice, Inc., an organization of corporations and lawyers working for civil justice reform, and on the board of the National Foundation for Judicial Excellence, an organization that provides training on civil justice issues to 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, Virginia, Indiana, Alabama, and Tennessee.

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 published in August 2003 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 Immediate Past Chair of the St. Mary’s Medical Center Foundation and is currently serving as a board member of United Way of the River Cities and the Keith Albee Center for the Performing Arts.

He earned his Juris Doctor from West Virginia University in 1985 and a Bachelor of Arts from Marshall University in 1982.