Jeremy Williams
Partner
“Clients don’t need noise. They need someone who understands the record and is willing to carry the case all the way through.”
About Jeremy | Partner & Co-Chair, Employment & Civil Rights
Representing employees and consumers in high-stakes litigation requires discipline and stamina. Jeremy Williams focuses his practice on cases where clarity, persistence, and follow-through matter most.
Jeremy co-chairs Lee Segui’s Employment & Civil Rights practice and has litigated cases resulting in tens of millions of dollars in recoveries nationwide. His experience spans unpaid sales commission disputes, discrimination and wrongful termination claims, consumer class actions, retirement fund mismanagement, and product-related litigation across a range of industries.
Many of his cases have been against Fortune 500 companies and involved complex compensation structures, extensive internal communications, and unclear corporate policies. Jeremy uses that experience to cut through the complexity and develop a clear and streamlined factual record to support his clients’ cases. His work has been recognized by Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, and Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite.
When Jeremy is not advocating for his clients’ rights, he enjoys living an active lifestyle with his wife and their two young children. He is an avid golfer and skier and enjoys traveling domestically and internationally with his family and friends. Some of his favorite travels have been safaris in Kenya and South Africa, wine-focused travel to Napa, Sonoma, Santa Barbara, Franschhoek, and Bordeaux, and trips to hike and ski in Colorado, Montana, and Utah.
- March 2026: Settlement of $100,000,000 granted final approval in the Northern District of Illinois involving deceptive pricing of prescription medications
- August 2024 – February 2026: Three separate class action settlements reached over this time period totaling over $106,000,000 in multi-district litigation pending in the Western District of Tennessee involving funds missing from a church retirement plan
- December 2023: Summary judgment obtained on behalf of a class of insurance agents and brokers for unpaid sales commissions in the amount of $13,072,342.83 plus interest
- April 2021: Jury verdict in the amount of $11,085,672 in a wrongful termination action against IBM following a two week trial in the Western District of Washington
- October 2019: Judgment obtained for clients in the amount of $30,941,939.87 in a business dispute between commercial cattle farming operations
- October 2019: Confidential settlement for $21 million in a defective condominium construction case
- August 2018: Won verdict and judgment for over $2 million, after a two-week jury trial in New Hanover County for an LLC member who’d been illegally ousted from the companies by his business partners
- February 2017: Nationwide class action settlement we valued at over $20 million involving composite decking material we alleged to be defective
- Numerous additional confidential settlements in cases involving wrongful termination, discrimination, defective construction, and unpaid sales commissions, including many for over $1,000,000
