Attorney

Jason Anderson Williams

** ****** ******, ********* *

Charleston, South Carolina 29403

843-***-****

q22lhu@r.postjobfree.com

Experience:

Wood and Warder, L.L.C., Charleston, South Carolina

Associate Attorney (November 2005 – Present)

• Responsibility for defense side litigation of claims filed pursuant to the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act and the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. This includes, inter alia, the filing of pleadings, the conduction of discovery, the taking of expert and witness depositions, the presentation of disputed issues at hearings scheduled before the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission and the Administrative Law Judges of the Department of Labor, the participation in the mediation of claims, the negotiation of claim settlements and the preparation and filing of settlement documentation.

• Preparation and filing of legal briefs and related filings in connection with appeals made to the South Carolina Court of Appeals and the South Carolina Supreme Court.

• Representation of various indigent clients on civil matters pursuant to my appointment as legal counsel by the State of South Carolina, which includes service as lead counsel in a trial by jury relating to a civil commitment claim filed under the South Carolina Sexually Violent Predator Act.

Pierce, Herns, Sloan, and McLeod, L.L.C., Charleston, South Carolina

Contract Attorney (March 2005 – November 2005)

• Responsibility for assisting staff attorneys with defense side litigation of civil claims relating to asbestos and silica exposure

Education:

University of Georgia Law School

Juris Doctorate

Athens, Georgia (August 2000 - July 2003)

Loyola University New Orleans

Bachelor of Arts (Cum Laude), Major: History/Minor: Spanish

New Orleans, Louisiana (August 1995 - August 1999)

Brussels Seminar on the Law and Institutions of the European Union

in cooperation with Institut d’Estudes Europeennes and Universite Libre de Bruxelles Brussels, Belgium (Summer 2001)

Education (continued):

Loyola University Mexico City Program

in cooperation with Universidad Iberoamericana,

México D.F., México (August 1998 – December 1998)

Other:

State Bar of Georgia, Member (2005)

South Carolina Bar, Member (2005)

Spanish, Intermediate Capacity to Speak, Read and Write

State of South Carolina Notary Public, Charleston County

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