Michael F. Williams
Professional Profile
Michael F. Williams is a partner in the Firm's Washington, D.C. office, where his practice includes trial and appellate litigation before federal and state courts across the country. Mr. Williams has broad experience representing clients in litigation matters involving administrative law, antitrust, banking, constitutional law, contracts, civil rights, corporate governance, finance, insurance, media regulation, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation, shareholder rights, and telecommunications law. Representative clients include Bain Capital, the Boeing Company, the Hershey Company, Honeywell International Inc., Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Siemens, AG, Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd., Time Warner Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., and Verizon Wireless.
Mr. Williams also has experience counseling clients with respect to government investigations and compliance issues as part of the Firm's White Collar Criminal Defense Practice. He maintains an active pro bono caseload on subjects as diverse as criminal and sentencing law, family law, immigration law, constitutional law, and civil rights.
Apart from his work at Kirkland, Mr. Williams is active in community and professional organizations, participating regularly in moot courts and events sponsored by the Georgetown University Supreme Court Institute and the National Association of Attorneys General. He is the Instructor for the District of Columbia Bar's Pre-Trial Skills Series Course "Taking and Defending Depositions." In addition, he is a frequent lecturer on the law and the judiciary, and he provides occasional lectures on international history and politics at Georgetown University.
Before joining Kirkland, Mr. Williams served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (2001–2002) and as a law clerk to Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court of the United States (2002–2003).
Mr. Williams received his Juris Doctor, summa cum laude and first in class, from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law & Economics and Senior Book Review & Special Projects Editor of The Georgetown Law Journal. He received his Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. At the School of Foreign Service, Mr. Williams was a Peter F. Krogh Scholar, received an Advanced Certificate in Asian Studies, and was inducted into Phi Theta Alpha, the National Honors Society in History, Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honors Society, and Omicron Delta Epsilon, the International Honors Society in Economics.Memberships & Affiliations
Criminal Justice Act Panel Committee, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Judicial Clerkship Advisory Board, Georgetown University Law Center
Section on Litigation, American Bar Association
The Federalist SocietyCourts
New Jersey Supreme Court
United States District Court for New Jersey
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
