About

Gerald Williams is a accomplice at Williams Cedar, specializing in environmental poisonous tort cases, whistleblower claims, civil rights violations, and private damage cases. With over 35 years of experience, he has obtained severa accolades and awards inside the legal community. Gerald Williams, a prominent lawyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of the companions and co-founders of Williams Cedar. With a awareness on environmental poisonous tort cases, whistleblower claims, civil rights violations, and complex private damage instances, Williams has constructed an excellent prison career spanning over thirty-five years. After graduating from Temple University School of Law in 1982, Williams started his prison profession as an associate at a Philadelphia law workplace earlier than organising his personal practice in 1983. Throughout his profession, he has acquired the distinguished "AV Preeminent" score from legal publisher Martindale-Hubbell, spotting his high level of skill and ethics in the legal profession. Williams has been continuously recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer on the grounds that 2006 for his paintings in environmental litigation. He has correctly represented plaintiffs in civil rights and environmental tort cases, securing substantial verdicts and settlements in various courts. One of Williams' superb instances consists of Merry v. Westinghouse, wherein he installed clinical tracking as a remedy underneath Pennsylvania not unusual regulation. Additionally, in Ambrogi v. Gould, Williams performed a groundbreaking final results by using proving scientific monitoring available under Pennsylvania's Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act. Williams, along along with his colleagues at Williams Cedar, Beth Cole and Christopher Markos, had been lately venerated by using the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania's Prisoner Civil Rights Panel. They had been commended by means of Judge M. Faith Angell for his or her committed carrier in representing masses of prisoners who suffered injuries because of unconstitutional situations in the Philadelphia Prison System. Between 2011 and 2014, Williams and his team frequent judicial appointments to symbolize over 900 pro se plaintiffs, successfully resolving the majority of cases with man or woman settlements with the metropolis and personal scientific vendors. Their dedication to justice and advocacy for the ones in want has earned them popularity and appreciate within the felony community.

Legal Issues

Civil Rights

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment, Fair Housing, Police Misconduct, Privacy Law

Environmental Law

Estate Planning

Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, 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

Certificates

No Certifications

Languages

• English: Spoken, Written

Accepted Jurisdictions

Experience

• Founding Partner
  Williams Cedar, LLC
  2017
• Founding Partner
  Williams Cuker Berezofsky
  1983

Education

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