Williams Parker is seeking an accomplished Business Development Manager to lead business development as a core component of the firm’s integrated marketing function. At a time of significant growth across Sarasota and Southwest Florida, this role will connect the firm’s strategic direction and the ambitions attorneys hold for their practices with the relationships, market intelligence, and opportunities emerging across a dynamic regional market.
The Business Development Manager will identify promising avenues for client and practice development, strengthen priority relationships, and bring focus and momentum to new-business pursuits. The ideal candidate will combine established regional connections with the strategic perspective, business acumen, and follow-through to turn market insight into action. Building on Williams Parker’s century-long record of sophisticated counsel, exceptional service, and community stewardship, this role will help deepen the firm’s connections across the region.
From its founding, Williams Parker played a pivotal role in shaping Southwest Florida’s skyline and neighborhoods, supporting the development of banks, schools, the public hospital, the airport, and many of the enduring and iconic institutions that define our region’s unique character.
For a century, the lawyers at Williams Parker have built national-caliber capabilities, offering one of Florida’s largest and most sophisticated trusts and estates practices, as well as top-tier real estate law, business and tax law, labor and employment law, probate and civil litigation, health law, and intellectual property law practices. 56% have at least one advanced degree in taxation, accounting, or business, or are board-certified by The Florida Bar as specialists in their fields.
