Danielle Williams is a high-stakes business litigation lawyer. She handles significant, high-profile disputes for publicly traded and privately held companies involving material damages demands. Over her career, she has represented clients in high-stakes matters in federal and state courts across the country and in arbitrations in patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, copyright infringement, breach of contract, antitrust, and environmental matters. Her patent infringement cases have been concentrated in the top patent litigation courts in the country and span a variety of technologies and industries including financial services, high tech, semiconductors, telecommunications, software, mobile applications, and consumer products.
Most recently, she helped lead the antitrust trial brought by 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports against NASCAR, a case that reshaped the sport of premier stock car racing and earned her Am Law Litigator of the Week recognition.
Building on her MBA, Danielle is one of the firm’s go-to attorneys for damages issues. She regularly is brought in to develop damages strategy at all stages of cases, including at trial.
Danielle is regularly recognized as a leading lawyer in industry publications and has been ranked in The Best Lawyers in America© for Commercial Litigation and Intellectual Property Litigation since 2016 and Patent Litigation since 2017. She was recognized as an IAM Global Leader in 2026. She was listed in the 2022–2025 IAM Patent 1000, which commented that she is a “zealous litigator…with an abundance of trial experience” who “knows how to address key issues and make all the right strategic plays.”
Danielle previously served as managing partner of a major Am Law 50 office and co-chaired a global IP practice. She co-founded the ChIPs Carolinas Chapter and has driven initiatives that strengthened pipelines across the profession.
Outside of the law, she has served on many boards, including National Sports Media Association, Wake Forest University’s Face to Face, Salem Academy and College, NextNow for UNC School of Arts, and Brenner Children’s Hospital, among others.
Danielle has first-chaired, led, and consulted in numerous litigations in multiple venues, including the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals; the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals; the United States International Trade Commission (ITC); the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO); Federal District Courts in North Carolina (W.D.N.C., M.D.N.C., E.D.N.C.), Georgia (N.D. Ga.), California (N.D. Cal., C.D. Cal.), Texas (E.D. Tex., N.D. Tex. and W.D. Tex. including Waco), Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, Colorado, New Jersey, New York; as well as arbitrations before the ICC and AAA.
