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Philip S. Anderson

Founding Partner, Williams & Anderson PLC

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Mr. Philip S. Anderson is a Founding Partner of Williams & Anderson. He received his B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Arkansas. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Arkansas Law Review. Mr. Anderson has broad experience in trial and appellate practice as well as in acquisitions, mergers and general corporate matters. He was president of the American Bar Association in 1998-1999. Among the firm’s clients, Mr. Anderson represents the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, ... a newspaper of statewide circulation. He also serves on the board of directors of the newspaper and its parent company. He represents media clients on First Amendment issues, including access and defamation. He was lead counsel for ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC in access litigation arising out of the Whitewater trials in Arkansas. He has represented The New York Times, the Associated Press and HBO on media issues arising in Arkansas. He was lead counsel in trying two landmark newspaper antitrust cases to successful conclusions. For several years, Mr. Anderson was outside general counsel for the largest bank holding company in Arkansas and represented the client in the acquisition of banks throughout the state. He continues to represent clients in major acquisitions and mergers. He was lead counsel for Worthen Bank & Trust Company in an antitrust case that revolutionized the bank card industry in the United States. He defends corporate directors and officers in litigation relating to corporate governance and securities. He was lead counsel in the successful defense of former directors of four savings and loan associations in Arkansas in separate lawsuits brought by the Resolution Trust Corporation and its predecessors. In addition to trying cases in federal and state courts throughout Arkansas, he regularly appears before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the Arkansas Supreme Court. Mr. Anderson’s service to the American Bar Association, in addition to his term as president, includes two terms on the Association’s Board of Governors and more than twenty years in its House of Delegates. He was Chair of the House of Delegates in 1992-1994. He served for thirty-five years on the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions. He was appointed by President Carter to the United States Circuit Judge Nominating Commission, Panel for the Eighth Circuit, in 1978 and 1979. He has served as a member and co-chair of the Federal Advisory Committee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He is a member of the American Law Institute, which promulgates the Restatements of the Law, and its governing Council. He served as an adviser in the preparation of the Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers and the Restatement of Trusts-Prudent Investor Rule. He is listed under corporate law in The Best Lawyers in America. In civic matters, Mr. Anderson has served as president of the Friends of the Little Rock Public Library, Little Rock Unlimited Progress, the Board of Trustees of the Central Arkansas Library System and the Board of Trustees of the George W. Donaghey Foundation, a charitable trust. He is a member of the parish of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, where he has served two terms on the vestry. Mr. Anderson is a Trustee Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

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