Gerald Williams

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Williams Cedar, LLC

Experience: 42 years

Civil Rights, Environmental Law, Estate Planning and 2 others

New Jersey, Pennsylvania, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and 4 others

List of the Nation’s Top One Percent, Super Lawyer and 2 others

Awards 4

Experience 42y

Online & Web 6

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As one of the partners and co-founders of Williams Cedar, Gerald Williams concentrates on environmental toxic tort cases, whistleblower claims, and civil rights violations, as well as complex personal injury cases. His impressive legal career spans thirty-five years during which time he has practiced law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, where he earned some of the highest honors in the legal community. After graduating from Temple University School of Law in 1982, he was an associate at a Philadelphia law firm before starting his own practice in 1983. He has received the “AV Preeminent” rating, the highest rating given, from legal publisher Martindale-Hubbell. In addition, he has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer each consecutive year since 2006 for environmental litigation.

Mr. Williams has won significant verdicts and settlements for plaintiffs in civil rights and environmental tort cases in many courts, including Merry v. Westinghouse, which established medical monitoring as a remedy under Pennsylvania common law, and Ambrogi v. Gould, the first case to hold medical monitoring available under Pennsylvania’s Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act.

Mr. Williams and two Williams Cedar colleagues, Beth Cole and Christopher Markos, were honored at a reception hosted by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s Prisoner Civil Rights Panel.

They were presented certificates of appreciation by the Honorable Judge M. Faith Angell for their service in representing hundreds of prisoners in claims that they were injured as a result of unconstitutional conditions of the Philadelphia Prison System. Judge Angell noted that between 2011 and 2014, the attorneys accepted judicial appointments to represent more than 900 former pro se plaintiffs and resolved the vast majority of the cases, with more than 500 resulting in individual settlements with the city and private medical providers.

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals

United States Supreme Court

Professional Experience

2017 - Current

Williams Cedar, LLC

Founding Partner

1983 - 2017

Williams Cuker Berezofsky

Founding Partner

Education

1982

Temple University Beasley School of Law

J.D. (1982)

1976

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh

M.A. (1976)

1973

St.Joseph's College

(1973)

Honors: Cum Laude

Awards

year - Gerald Williams

List of the Nation’s Top One Percent

National Association of Distinguished Counsel

year - Gerald Williams

Super Lawyer

Pennsylvania Super lawyers

year - Gerald Williams

AV Preeminent Rating

Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory

Gerald Williams

America’s Preeminent Lawyers

America’s Preeminent Lawyers

Contacts

Philadelphia Office 1515 Market Street Suite 1300 Philadelphia PA 19102 Telephone: (215) 557-0099

New Jersey Office 8 Kings Highway West Suite B Haddonfield NJ 08033 Telephone: (856) 470-9777

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Gerald Williams Williams Cedar, LLC

Experience: 42 years

Website: Open

Phone: (215) 557-0099

Location: USA

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Practice Areas

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

Languages

English: Spoken, Written

Websites

Williams Cedar, LLC

Williams Cedar Blog

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