JON R. WILLIAMS
APPELLATE SPECIALIST
THE ONE PERCENT

Only one percent of California lawyers are certified specialists. Jon R. Williams is in that one percent – an “Appellate Specialist” certified by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. For over 30 years, Jon has partnered with other law firms and trial counsel to handle their complex appellate matters, including civil appeals and writs at both the state and federal court levels.

Jon has a proven track record of success, resulting in published opinions in a wide variety of topics including: employment, class-action procedure, insurance, personal injury, civil rights, arbitration, whistleblower protection, commercial misappropriation, elder abuse, probate procedure, and Indian sovereign immunity (see “THE SUCCESS”).

Jon’s successes have been recognized statewide, receiving the coveted Daily Journal “California Lawyer of the Year” (CLAY) Award for 2019, and designated a “Consumer Attorney of the Year” finalist in 2018 by the Consumer Attorneys of California. Jon has also consistently been honored as a “San Diego Super Lawyer” (2008-2023), a “San Diego Super Lawyer Top 50 Attorney in San Diego County” (2020), as well as a “Top 10 Attorney” in the San Diego Daily Transcript’s “Top Lawyers in San Diego County” as early as 2006.

Jon is a Past-President of the San Diego County Bar Association (SDCBA), serving as President in 2014, and remains actively engaged with the court system and the legal community. He has demonstrated leadership in the areas of court funding, spearheading the SDCBA’s efforts to restore badly needed funding to the trial courts and the Courts of Appeal. Jon also served as a Board Member of the SDCBA (2009-2015), and previously was on the Board of Consumer Attorneys of San Diego (CASD) (2002-2008), where he was Civil Procedure editor for CASD’s Trial Bar News, publishing monthly articles on a number of civil procedure issues from 1996 to 2007. Jon is a Master in the Welsh American Inn of Court, and is a Master and Founding Executive Committee Member of the San Diego Appellate Inn of Court, the first American Inn of Court chapter specializing in appellate practice in California. Jon is also a Past-President of the California Western School of Law Alumni Board of Directors.

After graduating cum laude from California Western School of Law in 1992, Jon joined San Diego’s Boudreau & Trentacosta LLP, specializing for over six years in personal injury, products liability and professional negligence litigation. He next worked with San Diego-based Higgs, Fletcher & Mack LLP, focusing his practice almost exclusively on civil appeals and writs. Subsequently, as a partner at Ross, Dixon & Bell, LLP (now Troutman Pepper), Jon exclusively handled complex appellate matters in California and across the country. He has continued focusing only on appeals after forming his own firm Boudreau Williams LLP in 2007, which is now known as Williams Iagmin LLP.

Jon lives with his wife and his two adult sons in Encinitas, where he can be seen giving strong oral arguments on the merits of cycling and surfing.

SEE AN OVERVIEW OF THE APPELLATE PROCESS

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLISHED DECISIONS:

Brown v. USA Taekwondo (2021) 11 Cal.5th 204
McHugh v. Protective Life Insurance Co. (2021) 12 Cal.5th 213
McKenna v. Beasley (2021) 67 Cal.App.5th 552
Tilkey v. Allstate Insurance Co. (2020) 56 Cal.App.5th 521
Hood v. Gonzales (2019) 43 Cal.App.5th 57
Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court (2018) 4 Cal.5th 903
Yeager v. Holt (2018) 23 Cal.App.5th 450
Kabran v. Sharp Memorial Hospital (2017) 2 Cal.5th 330
Bigler-Engler v. Breg (2017) 7 Cal.App.5th 276
Lopez v. Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. (2016) 246 Cal.App.4th 566
Blackwell v. Vasilas (2016) 244 Cal.App.4th 160
Teutscher v. Woodson (9th Cir. 2016) 835 F.3d 936
Conti v. Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York, Inc.(2015) 235 Cal.App.4th 1214
Diego v. Pilgrim United Church of Christ (2014) 231 Cal.App.4th 913
SDUSD v. Commission on Professional Competence (2013) 214 Cal.App.4th 1120
Nevarrez v. San Marino Skilled Nursing & Wellness Centre (2013) 221 Cal.App.4th 102
APMC v. Superior Court (2012) 206 Cal.App.4th 491
Sciborski v. Pacific Bell Directory (2012) 205 Cal.App.4th 1152
Crowe v. County of San Diego (9th Cir. 2010) 608 F.3d 406
Ohton v. California State University (2010) 180 Cal.App.4th 1402
Laswell v. A.G. Seal Beach, LLC (2010) 189 Cal.App.4th 1399
Miller v. Collectors Universe, Inc. (2008) 159 Cal.App.4th 988
Lee v. Dynamex (2008) 166 Cal.App.4th 1325
Tucker v. GUHSD (2008) 168 Cal.App.4th 640
Kemp Bros. Construction v. Titan Electric (2007) 146 Cal.App.4th 1474
Ohton v. California State University (2007) 148 Cal.App.4th 749
Marron v. Superior Court (2003) 108 Cal.App.4th 1049
Estate of Kaila (2001) 94 Cal.App.4th 1122
Dodge v. Superior Court (2000) 77 Cal.App.4th 513

ORGANIZATIONS:

San Diego County Bar Association (Past President – 2014)
Consumer Attorneys of California
Consumer Attorney of San Diego
San Diego Appellate Inn of Court (Master)
Welch American Inn of Court (Master)

HONORS:

Daily Journal “California Lawyer of the Year” (CLAY) Award (2019) for Dynamex v. Superior Court California Supreme Court Decision
Consumer Attorneys of California “Consumer Attorney of the Year” finalist (2018)
“San Diego Super Lawyer Top 50 Attorney in San Diego County” (2020).
“San Diego Super Lawyer” (2008-2023)
Consumer Attorneys of San Diego, President’s Award (2003, 2018)

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