We Eliminate Our Clients’ Worries, Not Add to Them.
Before starting my firm, I spent 23 years as a federal and state prosecutor. I have worked on death penalty cases and complex financial cases and prosecuted tech companies, biodefense firms, and the assortment of executives associated with these businesses.
Over the years, I witnessed companies, and individuals miss critical opportunities to get ahead of investigations and charges due to an attorney’s lack of experience. As a result, clients suffered reputational harm, career damage, and sometimes—prison time.
I left my position as the Criminal Chief at the United States Attorney’s Office in South Carolina to start a boutique firm because I felt these companies and individuals deserved better.
Nathan Williams
24 Years in Federal and State Courts
Nathan’s first experience as a prosecutor was as a volunteer law clerk. While waiting on bar exam results, he handled a misdemeanor docket during the day and worked at a shoe store at night and on weekends to pay the bills.
By the time Nathan passed the bar exam and received his license to practice law, he had tried nearly a dozen cases. He spent the next ten years as a state prosecutor, working his way up from misdemeanors to over twenty murder cases, trying over eighty jury trials along the way.
Nathan was hired as a federal prosecutor by the United States Attorney’s office in the District of South Carolina. In his first year as a federal prosecutor, he tried five cases to a jury, including a six-co-defendant conspiracy and animal abuse case.
In 2010, Nathan was named the supervisor of the Charleston branch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Criminal Chief for the entire state of South Carolina in 2019.
Before being named Criminal Chief, Nathan was an Assistant United States Attorney in Columbia, SC, and Charleston, SC. He tried over twenty federal cases to verdict, including the federal death penalty case against Dylann Roof for the hate-based murder of nine parishioners during a bible study in Charleston, SC. From 2019 to 2022, Nathan was the Criminal Chief at the United States Attorney’s Office in South Carolina. He supervised over 30 criminal prosecutors and oversaw every federal case in the district.
Notable Achievements
After Almost a Decade in State Court
Nathan was hired as a federal prosecutor by the United States Attorney’s office in the District of South Carolina.
In his first year as a federal prosecutor tried five cases to a jury, including a six-co-defendant conspiracy and animal abuse case.
He was named the supervisor of the Charleston branch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2010.
He was named Criminal Chief for the entire state of South Carolina in 2019.
Over the Following 12 Years
He prosecuted over twenty federal jury trials to verdict.
Argued eleven cases before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Obtained two death sentences, one against Dylann Roof for his race-based murders of nine parishioners during a church bible study in Charleston, SC.
He was awarded the Department of Justice’s second-highest award, the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award, for his efforts in the Roof case.