JAMES R. STOCKS handles primarily personal injury and workers’ compensation matters, and also heads up the Williams Law Group’s appellate practice.  Mr. Stocks brings the experience and perspective he gained from defending big companies and government entities to now fight on behalf of individuals like him and his family who have been injured or otherwise harmed.  Mr. Stocks spent the first five years of his practice in large defense-oriented firms, and that experience gives Mr. Stocks an insider’s perspective when representing plaintiffs, allowing him to look at a case from the other side’s point of view. 

 Mr. Stocks lives in Gallatin, Tennessee, with his wife and two children.  Before moving to be near family in Tennessee, Mr. Stocks lived in California.  He went to the University of Southern California and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in English Literature and History in 1995.  After graduating from college, Mr. Stocks got married and taught school for two years before deciding to go back to law school.  When his wife became pregnant with their first child during his first semester of law school, they worked together to manage their growing family and the demands of law school.

 Mr. Stocks used his growing family as added motivation and graduated from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, cum laude, in 2000, and received the Order of the Coif.  While at Loyola, Mr. Stocks was a Sayre MacNeil Scholar, received the Dean’s Academic Honors Scholarship, was an editor and staff member on the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, and received American Jurisprudence/Bancroft Whitney Awards and Loyola First Honors Awards for the highest grades in a number of classes. 

 Mr. Stocks has been practicing law since 2000 and is licensed in both Tennessee and California.  He is admitted to practice before all state courts in both Tennessee and California, as well as the Federal District Courts for the Middle District of Tennessee and the Central District of California.