David McI. Williams is a partner in the firm of Gorman & Williams,founded in 1995, with offices in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. He concentrates in intellectual property matters, business and construction litigation, insurance coverage, maritime and marine financing, commercial law, corporate law, and creditors rights. His practice includes both domestic and international transactional work in areas of corporate, commercial lending, maritime and technology licensing together with extensive litigation experience in federal andstate trial and appellate courts and in arbitration.
He is the past chair of the Committee on Marine Financing of the Maritime Law Association of the United States with which he has participated in drafting federal maritime legislation and testified before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine of the House of Representatives. He is a former chair of the International Commercial Law section of the Maryland State Bar Association, the Admiralty Commitee for the Bar Association of Baltimore City, and was co-chair of the International Practice Group of a major mid-Atlantic firm, with offices in Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Delaware. He is also a former director for the Maryland International Trade Association.
He has lectured and written widely on topics of international and maritimelaw and in the areas of patents, copyrights and trademarks, including copyrightof computer programs. He has served as lead trial counsel in matters involving international and maritime law, trademark, copyright, and patent law, franchising law, and securities fraud. He represented the prevailing interests in landmark decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Third and Eleventh Circuits. He has lectured regularly on topics of arbitration and mediation and is a member of the Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association.
For several years he has been a Director of the Maryland International Trade Association, and he now serves as Secretary of the Association. He also serves on various other bar association, civic and community groups, including as a trustee of the Maryland Historical Society.
He is admitted to practice before the bars of Maryland and District of Columbia and is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and Princeton University. He is admitted to practice before many trial and appellate courts, including the Court of International Trade and the U.S. Claims Court.
