MID-SOUTH COMMERCIAL LAW INSTITUTE FACULTY
WILLIAM L. NORTON III
WILLIAM L. NORTON III is a Member of the law firm Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, 1600 Division St., Suite 700, Nashville, Tennessee, 37203 (615-252-2397). He graduated from Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1975; J.D., 1982). He practices in the commercial finance area and focuses primarily in creditor's rights and insolvency law and is the firm's leader of the Bankruptcy Practice Group. Mr. Norton is Certified as a Business Bankruptcy Specialist by the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization; he is a Fellow with the American College of Bankruptcy; he teaches bankruptcy law as an Adjunct Professor in Bankruptcy Law at Vanderbilt University School of Law; and is the Managing Editor for Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice 3d (Thomson-Reuters) and Co-Author of the Creditor's Rights Handbook (Thomson-Reuters 2008). He serves as Institute Manager for Norton Institutes on Bankruptcy Law. Mr. Norton is Past President of the American Board of Certification; a Past President and current Board member of the Tennessee Turnaround Management Association; a Past President of the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute; a Past First Vice President of the Nashville Bar Association and is the current President of the Nashville Conflict Resolution Center. He is a approved Rule 31 mediator by the Tennessee Supreme Court and member of the AAA Commercial Arbitration Panel.
