William S. Stancil, Esq., is the founder and lead consultant of Conflict Resolution Consultancy and a University of the Potomac professor. Attorney Stancil has a wide and varied legal background that includes serving as a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellow, legal aid with the New York State Attorney General’s Office, director of paralegal programs with the National Farmworker Paralegal Training Program, director of the Intensive Skills Program at Antioch School of Law, administrative law judge with the District of Columbia Government and managing attorney with Neighborhood Legal Services Program in D.C. He has also represented clients in general civil litigation matters in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area since 1983.
Attorney Stancil holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from The University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law. He is admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, the State of Virginia Bar and the United States Supreme Court Bar. He has certifications as an Arbitrator with the Better Business Bureau, Equal Employment Opportunity Mediator with the District of Columbia Government and Entrepreneurship Teacher for Core Programs with the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship. In addition to his alternative dispute resolution practice, Attorney Stancil has taught law, ethics, non- profit management and political science courses at the undergraduate and graduate level.