William L. Norton III is a Partner at Bradley Arant's Nashville office. Bill Norton focuses his practice in the business bankruptcy area, dealing in all aspects of bankruptcy cases, creditor rights and insolvency. He first became familiar with the bankruptcy law from his Dad who was a noted scholar and Bankruptcy Judge in Atlanta, Georgia. Bill went to Vanderbilt Law School intending to practice in bankruptcy law and has done so since 1984. Over more than 30 years of practice of bankruptcy and insolvency law, Bill has represented just about every kind of client interest you can expect in bankruptcy cases. His main focus now is Chapter 11 business cases – representing debtors, secured creditors, unsecured creditors, committees and trustees.
Bill is the managing editor of Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice 3d, which is a premier 13 volume treatise on bankruptcy law published by Thompson Reuters and is the co-author of a handbook entitled Norton Creditors’ Rights Handbook (2020 Thompson Reuters). Bill is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He has been an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt Law School since 1999 (currently teaching Bankruptcy Law and Secured Transactions) and is a frequent speaker at seminars on bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, real property foreclosure and the Uniform Commercial Code. He is the institute manager of national seminars focusing on advanced bankruptcy issues sponsored by Norton Institutes on Bankruptcy Law (www.NortonInstitutes.org). Bill has written numerous manuscripts for seminar presentations, including presentations for the American Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, 6th Circuit Judicial Conference, the National Association of Credit Managers, the Mid-South Commercial Laws Institute, Isaac A. Scott Bankruptcy Law Institute, Cumberland Law School Conference, Judge Joe Lee Bankruptcy Institute, the Memphis Bar Association Annual Bankruptcy Conference, Mississippi Bankruptcy Conference, North Carolina Bar Foundation Institute, Stetson Law School Institute, the Norton Bankruptcy Litigation Institutes, the Western Mountain Norton Bankruptcy Law Institute, the Conference on Finance Law, the Nashville Bar Association, the Tennessee Bar Association, the National Business Institute, the Association of Subcontractors, Lorman Education Services, the Southeastern Business Institute, Strafford Webinars, West Legal Ed Center and the U.S. Department of Justice Education Program.
