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With our extensive expertise, collaboration among our attorneys enables us to provide the requisite knowledge and skill to effectively serve our clients.
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Cline Williams represents a diverse range of individuals and institutions with widely varying legal needs, which is reflected by our practice areas.
Since 1857
Our professional excellence runs deep.
For over 160 years, we have represented leading citizens, businesses, and institutions in communities, large and small, throughout the Midwest. We take pride in providing clients the highest level of expertise, advocacy, and guidance in helping them achieve their goals, and in building the places we call home.
Company Culture
Community focused.
We live, work and thrive best when we do it together. Cline Williams has made our home in the Great Plains, and we believe in building strong communities through service. We support our communities through board service, volunteering, and contributing financial and other resources. Your community is our community and we are proud to support many charitable organizations throughout the Great Plains.
On August 30, 2024, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a proposed rule for a new OSHA standard: Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings.
Currently, there is no specific standard that regulates heat stress hazards in the workplace. Rather, OSHA currently protects workers from heat risk under OSHA’s General Duty Clause. OSHA cites the need for a standard to protect workers from persistent and serious hazards posed by heat exposure, as fatalities due to environmental heat exposure have increased in recent years. Industries experiencing frequent hospitalizations and fatalities due to heat exposure include construction, manufacturing, landscaping, agriculture, and postal and delivery service. OSHA also identified certain risks which lead to heat exposure fatalities, such as leaving employees alone after heat exposure symptoms begin, a lack of water and shade on-site, and no programs to acclimatize employees to hot work environments.
On August 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas set aside the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) proposed ban on non-compete agreements, holding the FTC’s non-compete rule “shall not be enforced or otherwise take effect on its effective date of September 4, 2024 or thereafter.”
Cline Williams is proud to reveal that 34 of the firm's lawyers are listed in the Best Lawyers in America® 2025. Best Lawyers in America® are chosen through an extensive peer driven evaluation. Lawyers are recognized for their professional excellence in their area of practice. Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, listed 7 of our attorneys. The listed lawyers, who are early in their careers, are recognized for their outstanding professional excellence in private practice.
Cline Williams is also proud to announce that four firm attorneys were selected for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America® 2025 as “Lawyer of the Year” in their respective practice. They received this distinction based entirely upon peer ratings. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as a “Lawyer of the Year."
