William M. Palmer
Biography
Will is an Associate in the firm’s Norfolk office and a member of the Labor & Employment practice group and the Sports & Entertainment Industry Team. His practice focuses on employment litigation and employer counseling on how best to avoid employment litigation. Will regularly counsels his clients on a wide variety of workplace matters, including personnel policies, unemployment benefits, severance agreements, wage payment issues, discrimination avoidance and non-competition agreements.
Practices
Industries
Recognition & Honors
- 100 People to Meet; Virginia Business, 2025
- Best Lawyers in America; “Ones to Watch,” 2025
- Virginia’s Legal Elite; Virginia Business Magazine, 2024
- NextGen Award; CoVaBiz Magazine; 2024
- Virginia Rising Stars, Virginia Super Lawyers, 2024
- Scholarship and Leadership Award, American Law Institute; 2019
Admissions
- Supreme Court of Virginia
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Education
- Christopher Newport University; B.A., 2016
- Regent University School of Law; J.D., 2019
Reported opinions and published articles
- Unpardoned by Lincoln: Stephen A. Douglas’s House Servant, 44 LINCOLN F. BULL., September 2018
- Assassination in Jackson County, MILITARY IMAGES, January 2016
Press & Publications
- William M. Palmer Named by Virginia Business as One of ‘100 People to Meet in 2025’
- 51 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2024
- CoVaBIZ NextGen 2024 Outstanding Young Professionals: William Palmer, Kaufman & Canoles
- 55 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America 2025, 7 Named “Lawyer of the Year,” and 13 Named “Ones to Watch”
- 15 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named as Super Lawyers & 5 Named as Rising Stars 2024
- Tennessee and Virginia v. NCAA: The Wild(er) West of NIL in College Sports
- Game Changer: NIL Law Merges College Athletics, Legal Practice
- William M. Palmer Joins Kaufman & Canoles