Anthony Williams is a partner in the New Orleans office of Kean Miller. He joined the firm in 2006 and practices in the admiralty and maritime, construction, toxic tort and litigation practice areas. His experience includes insurance defense, automotive casualty, commercial litigation, transportation law and governmental affairs.

Representative Experience

• Conducted several hundred depositions of plaintiffs, witnesses, economists, doctors (including neurologists, orthopedics, oncologists, cardiovascular surgeons, and psychologists) and defended hundreds of depositions of clients and lay and expert witnesses.
• Participated in over 30 mediations.
• Successful representation of trucking company in class action involving allegations of exposure following a chemical spill - proposed class denied at certification hearing.

Education

Anthony received his J.D. from the Louisiana State University Law Center in May 1999. He received his B.A. from Tulane University in 1996 where he was a Dean's Honor Scholar.

Admissions

• Admitted, Louisiana, 2000
• Admitted to practice in all Louisiana state courts and the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Memberships

• New Orleans, Louisiana State and American Bar Associations
• Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel
• New Orleans Association of Defense Counsel

Community Service

• Member, President's Advisory Council, Jesuit High School
• Louisiana Bar Association-Junior Judges Program, 2004
• Paneled speaker discussing resume writing and expectations/etiquette of summer law clerks, 2005
• Judge of Speech and Debate Night at the Stuart Hall School for Boys, 2002-2003
• Trial Judge, Louisiana State University Law Center Trial Advocacy Program, 2005
• New Orleans Metropolitan Leadership Council, Class of 2002

Lecturer

• Louisiana Hurricane Litigation Seminar, 2006, Springfield, MO
  
• CLE presentation at ANPAC Annual MIST/SIU/Litigation Training Conference, 2005