John Eddie Williams, Jr. is passionate about the law and helping the proverbial “little guy.”

Mr. Williams represented the State of Texas against the tobacco industry in 1995. He states “Big Tobacco had a tremendous record in the courts winning 800 cases in a row! We were in a true David versus Goliath scenario, but the group worked extremely hard and knew what we were doing was the right thing to do. It was a complex case, the most complex. We had papers piled floor to ceiling, but we fought hard and we won.” That victory in that landmark case resulted in the largest settlement in United States history.

Mr. Williams doesn’t forget his roots as the son and grandson of union longshoremen. He remains a strong advocate of workers and organized labor, representing members and their cases at every opportunity.