Williams Parker
HistoryIn 1925, during the height of the Great Florida Land Boom, attorney J.J. Williams Jr. arrived in Sarasota by ferry, establishing what would become Sarasota's oldest and largest law firm. Williams Parker has helped guide the growth and prosperity of Sarasota's skyline, neighborhoods, its banks, schools, public hospital, thriving airport, and many of the enduring and iconic institutions responsible for the area's good fortune and character. Navigating through the Great Depression and into the post-WWII boom, the firm added attorneys Parker, Harrison, Dietz, and Getzen, assisting real estate titans in turning southwest Florida into some of the most coveted property in the world. Through the 1960s, Williams Parker helped develop Bird, Lido, and Longboat keys. Booms and expansion occurred again in the 1990s, 2000s, and today--the firm expanding and diversifying each time to meet its clients' growing and complex needs while always staying true to our founding partners' vision and principles.SpecialtiesThe firm exists to help our clients implement their visions for their businesses and their families. Our clients appreciate our attentiveness, discretion, and judgment. We practice in the legal disciplines that align with our client base. In those disciplines, we have built national-caliber capabilities, offering one of Florida's largest and most sophisticated trusts and estates practices, as well as top-tier real estate, business, tax, employment, litigation, healthcare, and intellectual property practices. Through the years we have expanded our ranks to meet our clients' growing and complex needs, maintaining a single office location to create operating efficiencies for our clients and to maintain our hallmark collegiality. We are hard-working, fair-minded, and community-centered attorneys and professionals who support and collaborate with one another. Many of our practitioners have at least one advanced degree in taxation, accounting, business, or medicine, or are board certified by The Florida Bar as specialists in their areas of practice. Our attorneys and staff include native Floridians as well as