About Grady H. Williams
Grady H. Williams Jr. combines accounting, law and tax training in a long legal career that spans business and elder law. He began his academic path at Florida State University's School of Business, earning a B.S. in Accounting in 1976. He then took his law degree from The University of Georgia School of Law in 1979 and added an LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Florida in 1991.
Those credentials led to early work in Dallas, where he joined Haynes and Boone as an associate in 1982. He moved into in-house roles later in the decade, serving as associate general counsel at the Baptist Foundation of Texas and as vice president and associate general counsel for the Advocacy Resource Center of Texas in 1987. That combination of outside firm and corporate counsel experience gave him exposure to institutional finance and regulatory issues.
In 1991 he returned to private practice in Florida and became managing lawyer of Grady H. Williams, Jr., LL.M., Lawyers at Law, P.A. His accounting background and advanced tax study inform the way he approaches client matters. He has handled issues that touch on taxation, estates and planning—areas where technical tax knowledge and practical legal strategy intersect.
Williams has maintained professional ties in both Texas and Florida. He was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1982 and was licensed there through 1995. He joined The Florida Bar in 1991 and remains a member. His bar memberships sit alongside long-standing involvement in local and national groups, including the American Bar Association, the Jacksonville Bar Association and the Clay County Bar Association.
Community work is a visible part of his profile. He has served as a judge for Clay County Teen Court since 2008. In the academy that handles elder law in Florida, he has been a board and executive committee member of the Academy of Florida Elder Law Lawyers since 2016. Those roles reflect steady engagement with both professional peers and local civic institutions.
Today he practices from offices in St. Augustine and Hampton Park and continues to handle matters that draw on his tax training and years of counsel experience. His current practice focuses on elder law, tax-related matters and estate planning.
