Charley Williamson is partner at Waller Lansden. He is the firm's Hiring Partner and serves on its Diversity Committee. He practices in the area of trial and appellate law, with an emphasis on complex commercial litigation and healthcare litigation. Mr. Williamson has represented major corporations in a wide variety of complex commercial matters, including issues of breach of contract and antitrust law. He has broad experience in non-competition litigation, negotiating executive compensation and severance agreements, and general business litigation.
Recently, Mr. Williamson successfully arbitrated a dispute between joint venture partners in outpatient surgery centers; prosecuted a major insurance billing dispute involving world-wide manufacturing companies; and enforced non-competition agreements for national companies in both the hospice and banking industries.
Mr. Williamson also has significant experience representing employers from a broad range of industries in federal and state court cases, including class and individual claims of race, sex, age, disability and religious discrimination, whistleblower, wrongful discharge and retaliation. He provides day-to-day management and strategic advice to clients in a wide range of industries, including policy review and application and internal investigations.
Professional Activities
· Hiring Partner, Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP
· Member, Waller Lansden Diversity Committee
· Member, Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations
· Member, American Health Lawyers Association
· Member, Health Law Section of the American Bar Association
· Member, Class Action Committee of the American Bar Association
· Member, Middle Tennessee and National Chapters of the Associated General Contractors of America
· Member, Society for Human Resource Management
· Frequent speaker and author on employment and workplace issues
Civic and Other Activities
· Junior Achievement of Middle Tennessee
· Second Harvest Food Bank of Nashville, Inc.
· Sunday School teacher, Westminster Presbyterian Church