William T. Yandell

William Yandell is a litigation attorney with a growing practice in business and complex commercial litigation, tort litigation, and insurance coverage and defense. His clients include individuals, partnerships, corporations, Arkansas counties, real estate entities, media companies, software developers, and insurers.

William’s practice focuses on shareholder disputes, corporate divorces, breach of contract claims, and insurance coverage litigation. He also has experience with product liability, premises liability, construction and real estate disputes, defamation, First Amendment issues, deceptive trade practices, estate litigation, and tax assessment challenges.

William has successfully argued and prevailed on motions for summary judgment and dismissal on behalf of clients in both state and federal court. He has represented clients in numerous mediations and has experience conducting and defending depositions of both fact and expert witnesses. William routinely prepares and argues dispositive and discovery motions, and has served as a member of a trial team in high-stakes commercial litigation.

William earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Arkansas School of Law. During law school, he served as Chief Justice of the Graduate and Professional Student Congress and Chief of Staff for the Student Bar Association. He co-founded and served as President of the school’s OutLaw chapter, where he organized legal clinics for underserved Arkansans. He also competed with the University’s traveling moot court team, earning recognition as an Outstanding Oralist in the American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy Competition and reaching the regional finals. He won the 2022 William H. Sutton Barrister’s Union Trial Competition and was twice awarded the Charles Thomas and Mary Alice Pearson Fellowship for academic excellence and leadership.

A native of Greenbrier, Arkansas, William holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of Central Arkansas, where he was principal trumpet for the Conway Symphony Orchestra, Bear Marching Band, and UCA’s top jazz and wind bands.

Admissions
Arkansas (2023)
United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas (2023)
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (2023)

Education
University of Arkansas School of Law, (J.D., magna cum laude, 2023)

University of Central Arkansas (B.A., Music, 2019)