Camara Williams is a Florida attorney, and community organizer. He has extensive legal experience in Constitutional law, civil rights, criminal law, business, contract, transactional law, labor, employment, federal and state law. Specifically, he experience dealing in franchises from both the legal and ownership side. In business he has counseled corporate clients regarding a wide range of matters; including compliance with federal and state regulations, contract lease negotiations and corporate governance issues. He has also negotiated high end buyouts and corporate transfers. His passion and specialization is in the areas of probate and estate planning.
His estate planning and probate practice revolves around not only professional experiences, but personal as well. In the professional world he has handled multi-million dollar probates and multi-level complicated estate plans. Including for trust for non-profit organizations, and families. Camara has constructed seven and eight figure estate plans for clients around the world. Personally, Camara believes in securing wealth within the black community by creating a wealth plans that benefit the family. His personal family story involves an attorney stealing millions of dollars from the family estate. An event that had an indelible effect on his family, him personally and focus his practice to ensure this would never happen to another person, family or organization.
His criminal experience extends to handling major publicized federal and state cases. He has handled cases ranging from drug trafficking – drug possession, murder -manslaughter cases, robbery with a firearm, burglary, assault and battery, credit card fraud, social security fraud Medicaid fraud, DUI’s, violation of probations and community control.
His Constitutional law background extends to litigating cases in for employment and civil rights cases surrounding 1st and 4th Amendment protections. His cases have been deemed successful against U.S. Government, State of Florida and the City of Orlando.
In the central Florida community, he has served in a number of local charity boards, including several committees located in the Central Florida. He has organized and participated in legal forums where they discussed the laws surrounding Same Sex Marriage, Immigration, Social Justice Issues. Not has his writings have been featured in national publications, Camara Williams has a blog and podcast (The Uncultured Bias Podcast), both of which can be found his personal website camarawilliams.com. His podcast can be found on Apple and Spotify.
He has had many public speaking engagements and has been a guest lecturer at colleges and universities within the state of Florida.
Attorney Williams has a high interest in law, policy, government as well as business and contract law, with a focus on how they are all interrelated in our society. Attorney Camara Williams also has a personal goal of seeing the increase of interest within the African-American community with regards to governance and activism especially within the Central Florida community.
He is a class 4 Fellow in the Florida Bar Leadership program. A select program where the Florida Bar identifies, selects and trains future leaders within the legal profession and throughout the State of Florida.
He is an active member of his church Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Oviedo, where he served as the youngest member of the Board of Trustees. He also a proud member Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Camara envisions himself as an advocate for the community, as well as an organizer intent on bringing people and their ideas together. His personal life consists three constants, which is faith, family and friendships. He a is proud son of Peter and Paulette Williams, who were once immigrants but received full American citizenship. He is happily married to Ivory Williams, a native of Central Florida and graduate from Jones High School and a graduate of USF with a degree in Business Administration. Together they have two wonderful daughters in Niara and Liana Williams. He believes in community and hard work, and feels that when the two are combined NOTHING is impossible.
He lives by three quotes “Why do I work so hard? Because I want to make it look easy”, “A Man who stands for nothing, falls for anything” and “Faith without work is dead”.
In 2016 he became the sitting President for the Orange County Bar Association Foundation, the youngest person and the FIRST African American to hold that seat in the organizations history. In both 2018, and 2019 he was recognized by Super Lawyers magazine as a “Rising Star” within the legal profession.
He received his Bachelor’s Degree in History with a minor in communications from Sacramento State University where he ran Track and Field. In 2008 he earned his Juris Doctorate Degree (J.D.) from the Florida A&M College of Law. His legal thesis focused on the constitutional rights of emancipated Black Americans and Native Americans, post reconstruction.
