About Julie Oinonen

Julie Oinonen is the Principal Managing Partner of Williams Oinonen LLC. An honors graduate of Emory University School of Law, Ms. Oinonen assists employees, the injured, and has an in depth understanding of business owner concerns, having come from a family of business entrepreneurs and graduating Magna Cum Laude with her Masters of Business Administration from Woodbury University. Ms. Oinonen also holds an M.Ed from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, and an undergraduate degree from Covenant College, a Christian institution on Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Prior to her career as an attorney, she worked as a university director for programs to assist Latino students at a Hispanic Serving Institution. While at Emory University School of Law she was awarded a Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, presented to six of the top third years in her class. After law school, Ms. Oinonen worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Emory University School of Law. Ms. Oinonen’s primary focus is handling plaintiff’s personal injury, employment, education, and business litigation matters. Ms. Oinonen also works on the political consulting and opponent research practice area of the firm during election season. Currently, Ms. Oinonen is an Executive Committee Member of the Emory University School of Law’s Lamar Inn and also an adjunct faculty instructor at Emory University School of Law’s Trial Techniques program. She is a Board member of the National Employment Lawyer’s Association of Georgia, a civil rights association made up of lawyers whose employment litigation practice areas advocate for the rights of employees. Ms. Oinonen is also on the Board for Girls Inc; a national program which helps young girls navigate gender, economic, and social barriers and grow up healthy, educated, and independent. Ms. Oinonen has been presented with the International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award for Outstanding Excellence in Trial Advocacy, the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers Award, and the Kathleen Kessler-Eidson Trial Advocacy Award. Ms. Oinonen is a member of the Lamar Inn, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice, the National Employment Lawyers Association and admitted into the prestigious Order of Emory Advocates.