ABOUT
WILLIAM L. NORTON III, is a member in the Nashville, Tennessee office of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP, 1600 Division St., Suite 700, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, which he joined in 1984. He earned his B.A. degree in 1975 and J.D. degree in 1982 from Vanderbilt University. He practices in the commercial finance area and focuses primarily in creditor’s rights and insolvency law. Mr. Norton is certified as a business bankruptcy law specialist and is an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University School of Law. He is the Editor in Chief of Norton Bankruptcy Law & Practice 3d and co-wrote Norton Creditors’ Rights Handbook (Thomson/Reuters). He is a Fellow at the American College of Bankruptcy, a Fellow of the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Foundations, 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 past-president, former board member and frequent speaker at the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute, a past Vice-President of the Nashville Bar Association, President of the Norton Institutes on Bankruptcy Law (www.nortoninstitutes.org) , and last term, Mr. Norton was the Chair of the Subcommittee on Individual Chapter 11s in the ABA Business Bankruptcy Committee of the Business Section of the ABA.