William Sterling Williams

Florida Bar Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer

William S. Williams specializes in the practice areas of Automobile, Motorcycle, Pedestrian, Commercial Trucking collisions, Product Liability, Maritime, Aviation, Premises Liability, Chemical Exposure, Liquor Liability/Dram Shop, General Negligence and Legal Malpractice cases throughout Florida. He has practiced exclusively in this area since 1988 throughout the state of Florida. William is a Florida Bar Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer, which is the highest level of recognition for attorney competency and experience. William had his first $1 million case before he was thirty years old.  He has represented individuals from throughout the State of Florida, the United States and around the world who have been catastrophically injured or have lost a family member in a tragedy in Florida. 

Since 2010, he has obtained verdicts and settlements in excess of seventy million dollars on cases in the State of Florida.  Mr. Williams obtained the largest wrongful death verdict in Alachua County, Florida and has the largest verdict in the history of Sumter County, Florida. In 2011, William obtained an $18 million dollar verdict in a class action suit involving inverse condemnation; a state record, as well as prior multimillion dollar verdicts in civil action cases totaling over $30 million dollars in 2014.

William S. Williams is from one of the oldest families in the United States of America and a member of one of America’s founding families who arrived in 1637.  Members of his family were involved in the settlement and protection of the western part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the French and Indian Wars, as well as one being a founder of Williams College, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of Yale University. William is also a fourth generation Floridian and Palm Beach County native. His great-grandfather,Henry J. Sterling, was one of the earliest pioneers of southern Palm Beach County and was a founder of the area that later became Delray Beach in the late 1800’s. His father, William C. Williams, III, was a long-time Circuit Court Judge in Palm Beach County. Williams' family was also honored by the Historical Society of Palm Beach County for their many contributions to the county.