Our History

The Welton Law Firm was started at the prompting of Gill Powell, Don Welton, and most importantly, the leading of the Holy Spirit.  As founder of The Welton Law Firm, LLC., Mark Welton began practicing law in 1993 after graduating from Regent University’s School of Law.  He started with the purpose of never advertising but taking the position that the Lord would send the clients He wanted Mark to represent.  In fact, one client let the office know that she had called to set up an appointment because she had seen a "billboard" and called the number.  She was surprised to hear there was no billboard.

In 1998, Welton Law Firm bought Okaloosa Investment Enterprises, Inc. from thirteen local men who had the company as their investment company.  The men agreed to allow Mark Welton to pay them for the company’s shares over a period of time, resulting in ownership of the land where the new office would be built.  These men were instrumental in providing advice and counsel, and sometimes scolding, when the young lawyer needed to be reminded of the factors important in a small town legal practice.  Men like Don Welton, Gillis Powell, Jr., Madison Newton Carroll, A.B. Galloway, Keith Brace, John King, Ray McKinney, and J.V. Wooley were instrumental in the formation of the young firm and the office building that is now the Madison Building.  

Gillis Powell encouraged a young man to chase his dreams and go to law school, then to branch out on his own and start a law practice.  Don Welton, that young man's father, challenged him to do it without advertising, trusting the Lord for each new client.  Madison Carroll participated by coming to the new lawyer as his first client.  Each man had a unique and special part directed by God, to counsel, direct, and encourage Mark, culminating in Welton Law Firm.  

Gill Powell sat across his desk from Mark Welton in 1989 and said, "You need to go to law school, and before you know it, you will have been practicing law for more than twenty years, and will wonder where the time has gone."  Over the last 25 years, words of wisdom from Godly men and women has been the legacy of Welton Law Firm.  We have fought for and represented thousands of clients in both Alabama and Florida, with a steadfast determination that all we accomplish must be for the purpose of glorifying God.  We are human, and we have had our failures, but the underlying purpose remains resolute.