Faculty Profile: Will Perry

Will Perry is a Partner with Butler Snow LLP. A member of Butler Snow’s Commercial and Appellate Litigation Practice Groups, he has represented businesses and governmental entities in litigation, arbitration, and mediation in more than a dozen different states and before federal and state trial courts and courts of appeals. Will specializes in high-stakes and sensitive matters that involve constitutional guarantees, contracts, real estate, consumer protection, business torts, personal injury, and personal and intellectual property. He also is a Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator. From June 2021 to September 2022, Will served on the Chancery Court for the Thirtieth Judicial District of Tennessee, presiding over a civil docket of more than 2,000 business, governmental, tax, divorce, and child custody cases. He currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Tennessee Bar Association, the Board of Directors of the Memphis Bar Association, and as a Barrister in the Leo Bearman, Sr. American Inn of Court. In March 2022, Will was elected a Fellow of the Memphis Bar Foundation. He has been named a “Mid-South Rising Star” in Business Litigation by Super Lawyers® six times and recognized as “Best of the Bar” and “Top 40 Under 40” by the Memphis Business Journal.