Mary Williams

Mary prides herself on taking an individualized approach to every case and concentrates her practice on complex business disputes, first-party insurance litigation, and trial and appellate strategies. After serving as law clerk to the Honorable Blake A. Hewitt of the South Carolina Court of Appeals and as judicial extern to the Honorable Sherri A. Lydon of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, Mary practiced at AmLaw ranked firms in South Carolina and Georgia early in her career. Mary is at home in the courtroom and has served as embedded complex motions and appellate counsel in multiple trials, including high-stakes talc, corporate fraud, and contractual dispute trials. She has also served as demand review committee counsel during shareholder derivative action litigation. Prior to attending law school, Mary worked within the Oregon Legislature as a legislative aide and later as a lobbyist, representing state health plan providers and building trades clients. She has substantial experience in regulatory and legislative affairs and in developing multi-pronged litigation and policy strategies. The daughter of educators and whose family is proud Navy, in law school Mary served as Senior Articles Editor for the South Carolina Journal of Law and Education and was a student attorney with the Veterans Legal Clinic, where she represented service members before the Board of Veterans' Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. An ardent oral advocate, Mary was selected by the South Carolina Supreme Court as one of two winners of the J. Woodrow Lewis Moot Court Competition and was an invited student member of the John Belton O’Neall Inn of Court. Mary’s most fulfilling career success was recently securing the maximum FEMA payments for her pro bono client who lost everything during Hurricane Helene and had previously been denied all federal assistance. Mary is a classically trained ballet dancer, a lifelong artist, and loves the beach. She now lives in East Cobb with her family of all boys and Chesapeake Bay Retriever, “Stash.”

• East Side Elementary Foundation Board of Directors, legal liaison
• North Carolina Disaster Legal Services

• Georgia
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia
• South Carolina
• U.S. District Court District of South Carolina
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit

• State Bar of Georgia, Appellate Practice
• Atlanta Bar Association, Litigation Section