Attorney Profile

Harris D. Butler, III

Harris Butler, III

Butler Williams & Skilling, P.C.
100 Shockoe Slip, 4th Floor
Richmond, VA 23219
Contact Contact Harris D. Butler, III
T: 804-648-4848
F: 804-648-6814

Visit: www.butlerwilliams.com
Practice areas: Employment Litigation: Plaintiff (80%), Class Action/Mass Torts (10%), Personal Injury Plaintiff: General (10%)

Profile

Mr. Butler's practice emphasizes employment litigation and class action cases for private and public employees on a wide range of issues.  His cases often attract statewide and national media attention.  Mr. Butler has represented both the CEO and the maintenance man; the police officer and the ex-convict; the teacher and the student; the general counsel and the paralegal; the City Manager and the city worker; the department store manager and the part-time clerk.  All are employees, and he has helped them receive what they were due under the law.  Mr. Butler graduated from the University of Houston Law Center in 1981, practiced in Texas from 1981-1986 and has practiced in Virginia since 1986.  He is a founding member of the Firm.

Selected to:

Virginia Super Lawyers 2009
Virginia Super Lawyers 2008
Virginia Super Lawyers 2007
Virginia Super Lawyers 2006

About Harris Butler, III

Admitted: 1981, Virginia

Professional Webpage: www.butlerwilliams.com/bio.cfm?id=647

Honors and Awards: Voted Best Virginiia Employment Lawyer in the 2003 listing of Virginia Business Magazine's "Legal Elite"; Regularly elected by peers to the Virginia Legal Elite and Virginia Super Lawyers listings for Employment Law
Bar/Professional Activity: Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers, 2009, Member, Virginia Bar Association; Member, American Bar Association; Chair, Virginia Employment Lawyers Association (National Employment Lawyers Association affiliate); Member, National Employment Lawyers Association; Member, Virginia Trial Lawyers' Association; Member, Richmond Bar Association, Member, American Association for Justice; Former Chair, Virginia Bar Association Law Practice Management Section; Former Chair, Virginia Trial Lawyers' Assocation Employment Law Section
Pro bono/Community Service: Board Member, Battery Park Christian Church, Richmond, Virginia; frequent guest speaker on employment law topics; regular continuing legal education course speaker; former youth baseball and soccer coach
Educational Background: J.D. University of Houston, Bates College of Law, 1981, B.B.A. Texas A & M University, 1978
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