Walton

William is an AV-Rated attorney in our Tort, Transportation & Specialized Litigation Group. He focuses his practice on Insurance Law, Professional Liability Defense, Personal Injury Litigation, White Collar Crime, Business and Commercial Disputes, and Employment Litigation among others.

• Commercial Litigation
• Employment Litigation
• White Collar, Compliance & Government Investigations
• Products, Catastrophic & Industrial Litigation
• Transportation & Trucking Rapid Response
• Trucking Litigation

• Westfeld v. Federal Republic of Germany, 633 F.3d 409 (6th Cir. 2011); FSIA claim.
• Lufkin v. Conner, 338 S.W.3d 499 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2010); legal malpractice.
• Strong v. Baker, 2008 WL 859086 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2008); legal malpractice.
• McDonald v. Calhoun, 2007 WL 4460069 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2007); medical malpractice.
• Johnson v. S & S Screw Company et. al., 2004 WL 239756 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2004); commercial litigation.
• Sommer v. Davis, 317 F.3d 686 (6th Cir. 2003); medical malpractice.
• Hogan v. Coyne Intern., 996 S.W.2d 195 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1998); commercial litigation.
• Devore v. Deloitte & Touche, 1998 WL 295024 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1998); employment discrimination.
• Rose v. H.C.A. Health Services of Tennessee, Inc., 947 S.W.2d 144 (Tenn. Ct. App 1996); medical malpractice/products liability.
• Davidson Equipment v. Deloitte & Touche, 1993 WL 295024 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1993); accounting malpractice.
• Absar v. Jones, 833 S.W.2d 86 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1992); commercial litigation.
• Pickard v. Wilgus, 742 F. Supp. 434 (M.D. Tenn. 1990); securities dispute.
• Criminal Justice Act Defense Panel (Member) (Middle District of Tennessee, 1993-2004).
• Humphress v. United States, 398 F.3d 855 (6th Cir. 2005); post conviction.
• Veach v. State, 1993 WL 75364 (Tenn. Crim App. 1993); post conviction.
• U.S. v. Hallums, 26 Mil. J. Rep. 838 (A.C.M.R. 1988); defense counsel-courts martial.

• AV-Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
• Best Lawyers in America®
  • Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, 2011-2025
• Mid-South Super Lawyers®, Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice
• Judge Advocate, U.S. Army Judge General's Advocate Corps, 1985-1988

• Tennessee, 1984
• U.S. District Courts
  • Tennessee: Eastern, Middle, Western
• U.S. Court of Appeals
  • 6th Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court
• Tennessee Supreme Court
• Tennessee Court of Appeals

• University of Tennessee, J.D., with high honors, 1984
  • Order of the Coif
  • Phi Kappa Phi
  • Moot Court Board
  • Casenotes Editor, University of Tennessee Law Review
• Vanderbilt University, B.A., cum laude, 1981
  • Distinguished Military Graduate

• Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator

• American Bar Association
• International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
• Nashville Bar Association
• Tennessee Bar Association
• Claims and Litigation Management Alliance
  • Certified Litigation Management Professional

• Lectures at continuing legal education seminars on a variety of topics.
• "Time to Examine Tennessee's Collateral Source Rule", Tennessee Bar Journal, Vol. 48, No. 12, p. 16, December 2012.
• "Recent Developments In Legal Malpractice (and other items of potential interest to Tennessee lawyers)", Tennessee Bar Journal, Vol. 41, No. 12, p. 32, December 2005.