William W. Merrell

Attorney at The Higgins Firm
Nashville, TNAdmitted 1974

About William W. Merrell

William W. Merrell is an attorney at The Higgins Firm in Nashville, Tennessee, with a primarily retired role serving as a court and deposition interpreter. Bilingual in English and Spanish, he is known in the Hispanic community as 'El Abogado del Pueblo' and brings extensive background in workers' compensation, auto liability, and criminal law representation.

Merrell earned his J.D. from South Texas College of Law in Houston in 1974 and his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1964. He also studied at La Universidad de las Americas in Mexico City and the University of Madrid in Spain.

Merrell is admitted to practice in Tennessee and Texas.

Proven verdicts and settlements at The Higgins Firm

These results are credited to The Higgins Firm. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A Nashville jury awarded $347,134 after a nursing home admitted it never administered insulin to an elderly diabetic woman during her five-day respite stay, leaving her in a hypoglycemic crisis when her family came to pick her up.

Davidson County Circuit Court, Nashville · 2024Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

The Tennessee Supreme Court held that an intrusion-upon-seclusion claim does not abate upon the plaintiff's death, allowing the family of a cognitively impaired nursing home resident to pursue her privacy lawsuit after she passed away.

Tennessee Supreme Court (orig. Coffee County) · 2025Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

South Texas College of Law Houston
B.A. (UT Austin); also studied at Universidad de las Americas (Mexico City) and University of Madrid (Spain), 1974
University of Texas at Austin
Undergraduate, 1964

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Tennessee
State Bar of Texas, admitted 1974

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