Full Biography: Bradley L Williams

Mr. Williams came to Ice Miller in 1988, following a ten year career with the United States Department of Justice. He previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, and as First Assistant. He was named Acting United States Attorney in 1987.

Trial Experience- Mr. Williams has participated in numerous jury and non-jury trials, as well as appeals, in federal and state courts and administrative agencies. Subject areas include qui tam, civil rights/section 1983, quiet title, and patent infringement, as well as white-collar crime including environmental crime, mail fraud, money laundering, currency transactions reporting, income tax evasion, and export control act violations. Mr. Williams has also represented individual and corporate clients in numerous grand jury investigations at the state and federal level.

Examples of Mr. Williams' trial and appellate experience include the following:

-- Mr. Williams led the defense team representing a police officer in a heavily-publicized civil rights case arising out of a police action shooting. The jury returned a defense verdict.

-- Mr. Williams defended two individual clients accused of money laundering and currency structuring violations. One client's conviction was reversed on appeal, with instructions to enter a judgment of acquittal; the other client was found not guilty.

-- Mr. Williams represented a government official in the first qui tam action tried to a jury in the State of Indiana. The jury returned a defense verdict.

-- Mr. Williams successfully defended a business owner accused of violating the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

-- Mr. Williams has represented clients in numerous appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth and Seventh Circuits, the Supreme Court of Indiana, and the Indiana Court of Appeals.

-- As a prosecutor, Mr. Williams tried a wide variety of cases, including mail fraud and public corruption, income tax evasion, environmental litigation, employment discrimination, and federal program fraud.

Recognition- Mr. Williams was named one of Indiana's "Super Lawyers" in the category of criminal defense, in a poll of over 14,000 Indiana attorneys published by the Indianapolis Monthly magazine. He was previously named one of Indiana's top criminal defense attorneys by the same publication.

Professional Activities- Mr. Williams serves as the president of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association, and is the past chair of the subcommittee on Attorney-Client and Constitutional Privileges, American Bar Association Section of Taxation. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Circuit Rules for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the Local Rules Committee for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, and is a member of the Attorney Grievance Committee of the Indianapolis Bar Association. He is a past president of the Indianapolis Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.

Mr. Williams is admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of Indiana, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Seventh Circuit, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Southern District of Indiana, and the Eastern District of Michigan.