William M. "Bill" Lawrence
William M. "Bill" Lawrence is a member of the firm's Corporate practice group and focuses his practice in the areas of corporate and business transaction law and wireless telecommunications law.
Bill’s business practice focuses on the representation of private and closely held companies, mergers and acquisitions, the formation and governance of various business organizations, e-commerce/technology acquisitions and agreements, and a wide range of other commercial contract matters..
Bill’s wireless telecommunications practice focuses on representing wireless carriers, cell tower owners, wireless network infrastructure providers, and other mobile broadband industry businesses in a broad range of legal, regulatory, and business related issues, including site and right-of-way space acquisitions for cell towers, small cell facilities, and other communications facilities (whether through leasing, licensing, purchasing, or obtaining other interests), communications facility and infrastructure deployments and upgrades, and network and infrastructure asset sales and other divestitures, in connection with, among other areas, site acquisition and deployment of macro sites (including cell towers, rooftop installations, etc.) and small cell deployments, network leasing/licensing, network facility upgrades.
Prior to beginning private practice, Bill served as Law Clerk for the Honorable Robert B. Propst, Senior United States District Judge of the Northern District of Alabama from 1996 to 1997.
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Cordell Hull Teaching Fellow at the Cumberland School of Law
- Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society
- Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law (2016-2020), Business Organizations (2017-2020)
- Named, "Best of the Bar" in Technology Law, Birmingham Business Journal
- Named, "Birmingham's Top Legal Minds," B-Metro Magazine
- Named "Top Lawyer" in the American Heart Association's Lawyers Have a Heart Campaign
- Two-Time Recipient, "Outstanding Service Award", American Heart Association
- Member, American Journal of Trial Advocacy
Birmingham, Alabama 35203
