William L. Norton, III

William L. Norton, III is a partner in the Nashville, Tenn., office of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, PLC, which he joined in 1984. He practices in the commercial finance area and focuses primarily on creditors’ rights and insolvency law. Mr. Norton is an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University School of Law and a board member for the Nashville Conflict Resolution Center. He served as chairman of the board for 10 years after its founding by the Nashville Bar Association. Mr. Norton conducts volunteer mediations for the NCRC in General Sessions Court in Davidson County. Additionally, he is the editorin-chief of Norton Bankruptcy Law & Practice, 3d, co-wrote the Norton Creditors’ Rights Handbook (Thomson Reuters) and is president of the Norton Institutes on Bankruptcy Law (www.nortoninstitutes. org). He is a Fellow at the American College of Bankruptcy, a Fellow of the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Foundations, a past vice-president of the Nashville Bar Association, a past chair of the ADR Committee for the Nashville Bar Association, a past-president and emeritus board member of the American Board of Certification, a past-president and founder of the Tennessee Turnaround Management Association, a founding member of ABI, and a past president, former board member and frequent speaker at the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute. Mr. Norton received both his B.A. in 1975 and his J.D. in 1982 from Vanderbilt University