Toni J Williams
Managing Partner
Practice Area: Workers’ Compensation Defense
Overview
Attorney Toni J Williams is the managing partner in the law firm of SutterWilliams, LLC. She began her legal career in 1991 with a predecessor firm. She has represented insurance companies and self-insured employers in Workers’ Compensation litigations since 1991 in Pennsylvania and since 2009 in West Virginia. She also practices in the area of Federal Black Lung.
Education
Attorney Williams earned a bachelor’s degree from Duquesne University in 1986 and a Juris Doctorate from its Evening Division Law School in 1990.
Positions & Recognitions
- Fellow of The American Bar Association’s College of Workers Compensation Lawyers (Inducted class of 2019)
- Past chair and council member of Allegheny County Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Section
- Pennsylvania Bar Association Lawyers Assistance Committee Member
- Former Program Planning Committee Chair for Workers’ Compensation Law Section of PBA
- Board Director (emeritus) of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers of Pennsylvania, Inc
- The Best Lawyers in America – Workers Compensation Law – Employers 2015 to present
- The Best Lawyers in Pennsylvania since 2017
- Pittsburgh Best Lawyers 2015
- Co-author, PBI’s Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Practice Procedure (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
- Lecturer and program planner for Allegheny County Bench Bar conferences, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers ethics programs and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
*SutterWilliams, LLC is acknowledged as a “First Tier” firm by U.S. News and World Report for Workers’ Compensation representing employers.
Industry Recognition
Twenty years ago, Toni was asked by her peers to accept the important responsibility of being a co-author on Pennsylvania’s most widely read resource on the practice of Workers’ Compensation Law – “Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation – Practice & Procedure”.
Over the course of those two decades, she has been one of three defense attorneys, along with three claimant attorneys and a sitting judge, editing the text and reviewing trends in the law as they have unfolded.
Most Pennsylvania attorneys who practice Workers’ Compensation law rely on this publication to guide the representation of their clients.
For years, Toni has been recognized by her peers as a highly esteemed attorney in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In 2019, Toni was inducted as a fellow in the College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers; an organization established to honor those attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their practice in the field of Workers’ Compensation.
Memberships & Bar Admissions
Current Memberships
- Allegheny County Bar Association
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- West Virginia Bar Association
Recognitions
- The Best Lawyers in America – Workers’ Compensation Law – 2015, 2016, 2107, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022
- The Best Lawyers in Pennsylvania 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- Pittsburgh Best Lawyers 2015
- Board Director (Emeritus) of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers of Pennsylvania, Inc
- Past chair and council member of Allegheny County Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Section
- Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Lawyers Assistance Committee Member
- Former Program Planning Committee Chair for Workers’ Compensation Law Section of Pennsylvania Bar Association
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Lecturer and program planner for Allegheny County Bench Bar conferences, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers ethics programs and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
Admissions
Federal Courts
- United States Supreme Court
- United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the 3rd circuit and 4th circuit
- Southern District of West Virginia
Pennsylvania State Courts
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- All Pennsylvania State Courts
West Virgina State Courts
- West Virginia Supreme Court
- Lower Courts of West Virginia