Mark Shelton F. Williams is a fourth-generation Montanan and third-generation Montana lawyer. He was raised in Missoula and graduated from Middlebury College. Mark worked for two years in New York’s financial district and then graduated with honors from the University of Montana School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Montana Law Review and was elected Graduate of the Year by the legal fraternity Phi Delta Phi. Following law school Mark served as a judicial law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
During the past 30 years, Mark has practiced civil litigation throughout Montana, including tort and contract claims, injury and death cases, medical malpractice, products liability, insurance coverage and commercial litigation. He has been lead trial counsel in dozens of state and federal court trials over the years, often on the defense side, but he was also co-lead counsel for the largest plaintiff’s verdict in Montana State Court history in a 2014 products liability case against an international vehicle manufacturer that was defended by national counsel. Mark now frequently serves as a mediator for all types of civil litigation matters, as well as an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association. Mark has been inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and the International Society of Barristers.
Mark has also taught future lawyers as an adjunct professor of insurance law at the University of Montana School of Law, and currently serves on the school’s advisory board. He has also served as Board Chair for Providence St. Patrick’s Hospital in Missoula.
