Bankruptcy and Workouts
Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution 
Tax Litigation
Corporate
Sales and Dispositions
Workplace Issues
Real Estate
Construction
Growing Businesses
Environmental
Local Government Law
Justin G. Williams
Managing Member
Direct: (205) 633-0218
Fax: (205) 633-0318
jwilliams@tannerguin.com
Practice Emphasis
Mr. Williams is the President and Managing Member of Tanner & Guin and is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.  He practices in the areas of bankruptcy, debtor and creditor rights, workouts, insolvency, and commercial litigation.  Mr. Williams has represented both debtors and creditors in complex Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.  He also practices in the areas of environmental law, local government law, workplace issues, general business and commercial law, and litigation.  His litigation experience includes employment litigation, commercial litigation, construction litigation, class action defense, probate litigation, bankruptcy litigation, personal injury defense, and real property litigation.
Representative Clients

  • Corus America, Inc.

  • Brion Hardin Construction Company, Inc.

  • The Morrow Companies

  • Nichols Concrete Equipment Co., Inc.

  • Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, Inc.

  • Rite Aid Corporation

  • Rumsey Environmental, LLC

  • Rumsey Properties, LLC

  • Southern Cable Services, LLC

  • Totalcom, Incorporated
  • Town of Millport, Alabama
Memberships
  • Theatre Tuscaloosa (Board of Directors)
  • Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama(Public Affairs Council and Environmental Task Force)
  • Tuscaloosa Tip-Off Club (Board of Directors and Past Chair (2005-2007))
  • West Alabama Environmental Roundtable
  • West Alabama Brownfields Task Force
  • Tuscaloosa Sports Foundation, Inc. (Founding Member and Secretary/Treasurer)
  • FUTURE PAC (Board of Directors)
  • Designated as a Certified Alabama Planning and Zoning Official through the Alabama Planning Institute, the University of North Alabama and the Alabama Chapter of the American Planning Association

  • Member of the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution State Court Mediation Roster (2011-)

  • Turnaround Management Association
Professional Involvement 
  • American Bar Association (Member, Litigation, Environmental, Energy, and Resources Law, Government and Public Sector Division, Law Practice Management, Local Government Law, and Young Lawyers)
  • Alabama State Bar (Member, Sections of  Environmental, Real Property, Probate and Trust, and Young Lawyers)
  • Tuscaloosa County Bar Association (Member, Public Relations Committee, 2004-2005)
  • American Bankruptcy Institute
  • Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
  • Alabama Association for Municipal Attorneys
  • Contributing Author, Tuscaloosa Business Ink (2004-2006)
  • Leadership Tuscaloosa (Class of 2009)
Honors and Awards
  • Senior Editor, The Journal of the Legal Profession, 1999-2001
  • Author, "The ADA and Bar Examinations:  The Relationship Between Applicants, Physicians, and Law Examination Boards in Light of Ware v. Wyoming Board of Law Examiners," Vol. 25, The Journal of the Legal Profession, 2000-2001
Publications
  • Tuscaloosa Business Ink, April 2006, "Is It Clean?  Environmental Issues to Consider in Commercial Real Estate Deals"
  • Tuscaloosa Business Ink, February 2006, “Are You Passing Down Your Company's "Deep Smarts"?”
  • Tuscaloosa Business Ink, November 2005, "How to Avoid Personal Liability in Your Business Dealings"
  • Tuscaloosa Business Ink, October 2005, "Business Practices You Can't "Fail" to Do"
  • Tuscaloosa Business Ink, August 2005, "Top Ways to Stay Out of a Lawyer's Office"
  • Tuscaloosa Business Ink, July 2005, "Bankruptcy Reform is Here - Are Your Ready?"
  • Tuscaloosa Business Ink, April 2005, "Four Questions to Ask When You Buy Commercial Real Estate"
  • Tuscaloosa Business Ink, June 2004, "Are You a Lobbyist?  It Pays to Know (Part II)"
  • Tuscaloosa Business Ink, May 2004, "Are You a Lobbyist?  It Pays to Know (Part I)"
Education and Professional Background

Education: The University of Alabama (B.S., Secondary Education, magna cum laude, 1997; J.D., cum laude, 2001)

Bar Associations & Court Admissions: Admitted to bar, 2001, Alabama.  U.S. Supreme Court;  U.S. District Court, Northern District, Southern District, and Middle District of Alabama;  U.S. Court of Appeals Eleventh Circuit;  U.S. Tax Court

 

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