Rodriguez Tramont Guerra & Nuñez, P.A.

RICHARD L. WILLIAMS has specialized in complex commercial cases of substantial magnitude with numerous witnesses and extensive documents for more than thirty years, including but not limited to matters involving antitrust (price fixing, bid rigging, monopolization, tying, exclusive dealing, vertical and horizontal merger, denial of access, predatory pricing, price discrimination, Hart Scott Rodino notification), banking (change of control, corporate ownership, wrongful endorsement, fraud), unfair trade practices (commercial bribery, covenant not to compete, theft of trade secret), corporate (minority shareholder squeeze, ownership dispute, control, theft of corporate opportunity, self dealing, ultra vires acts, non-bankruptcy involuntary dissolution, unregistered securities, workout, receivership), employment (discrimination, unfair termination), professional liability (legal malpractice), civil rights (police misconduct), securities (10b-5, churning, suitability), healthcare (blood banking, medical staff issues, hospital governance, Joint Commission, FDA enforcement, privilege disputes, cost containment, certificate of need), UCC (sales, negotiable instruments), CFTC (fraud), franchise (FTC and blue sky compliance), insurance (coverage, reinsurance, and carrier liability for unwitting, alleged participation in an insured's massive fraud), taxation (unconstitutional property assessment), defamation, most common law commercial causes of action, such as fraud and breach of contract, and workouts. He has appeared in federal and state civil, criminal, and administrative proceedings brought on an individual, class or qui tam basis, and he has arbitrated before the AAA and the NASD. He is equally comfortable representing plaintiffs or defendants.

Mr. Williams has been a partner of several of the state's biggest law firms. He is a member of the Florida Bar, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (including its Trial Bar), the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Tax Court, and the United States Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Duke University (B.A. 1969), the University of Florida (J.D. 1972), and Harvard Law School (LL.M. 1973) and received numerous distinctions and awards while in school and after.

Mr. Williams is of counsel to Rodriguez Tramont Guerra & Núñez, P.A.