Timothy Williams Email & Phone Number

Over 25 years of practice Tim has developed into a seasoned employment litigator who is regularly retained as lead counsel in high stakes litigation involving seven- and eight-figure disputes across California. Since 1994, Tim has handled hundred of cases, working with a broad range of clients in employment litigation, including individuals, class of employees and consumers, small businesses, and large enterprises. Tim also regularly assists executives with employment contract and separation issues. Tim guides companies in training activities, and in pre-litigation counseling. Each year, Tim also authors and updates employment law treatises and practice guides for attorneys, and speaks at seminars to train other employment lawyers on advanced practice skills. Tim is also active in leadership roles in local and statewide bar associations.

Listed skills include Arbitration, Employment Law, and Litigation.

• 

  Managing Partner

  Berger & Williams, Llp

  Apr 1999 - Present - Greater San Diego Area

  Tim’s practice focuses on federal and California employment laws, including wage-and-hour, discrimination, harassment, and separation/termination matters. He has considerable experience with wage-and-hours issues, having litigated scores of such cases over 25 years, among hundreds of cases in various federal and state courts at trial and on appeal, in arbitration and mediation, and administrative proceedings. Tim also has extensive experience in class action and complex litigation in federal and state courts throughout California. Tim writes and speaks on wage-and-hour topics annually.Tim is active in various bar associations, including the American Bar Association and State Bar of California/California Layers Association, and their sections on Labor & Employment. Tim is currently serving as a Member of the California Lawyers Association Labor and Employment Section Executive Committee. Tim is an active member with the San Diego County Bar Association, serves on its Bench-Bar Committee, and is a past Co-Chair of the SDCBA's Labor & Employment Law Section. Tim volunteers with Lawyers Club of San Diego, an attorney organization dedicated to advancing the status of women in the law and society, and is also an member of the Tom Homann LGBT Law Association. Tim is also an alumni of the Louis M. Welch Chapter of the American Inns of Court, a nationwide association of judges and lawyers committed to the preservation of ethics and civility in the practice of law.Tim has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He has also been selected each year since 2009 as an employment SuperLawyer, a distinguished award given to only a small percentage of attorneys in certain specialties around the country. Tim has also been selected as one of the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers.