2023 Legal Elite
Aug 04, 2023 03:53PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker2023Greenville Business Magazine, Columbia Business Monthly, and Charleston Business Magazine honor South Carolina attorneys each year by publishing our Legal Elite section.
We’re spotlighting the top vote recipients in 50 categories, all of them voted on by area attorneys, and providing a list of attorneys recognized by their peers.
Legal Elite is the only regional awards program that gives every active attorney the chance to participate. Attorneys are allowed to nominate members of their own firm. However, for each in-firm nomination there must be an out-of-firm nomination as well. The lists are determined solely by lawyers’ votes from our Legal Elite nomination form online; places on the list are not for sale. Attorneys are not allowed to vote for themselves.
We appreciate the participation from lawyers across the state. Thank you for your support of Legal Elite 2023.
The Legal Elite selections for 2023 are presented on the following pages, and we are pleased to honor these attorneys.
AGRIBUSINESS
Midlands
Jane Downey
Baker Donelson
Jane Downey, of counsel in Baker Donelson's Columbia office, has more than 30 years of experience in guiding financial institutions, businesses, and individuals through complex bankruptcy and restructurings. She is certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court as a specialist in bankruptcy and debtor/creditor law and as a specialist in business bankruptcy by the American Board of Certification.
Downey has extensive experience in corporate restructurings, representing debtors, secured lenders, unsecured creditors, and other parties in connection with all bankruptcy litigation matters. She has led corporate clients, landlords, doctors, car dealerships, farmers, realtors, and developers, among others, through financial restructurings and reorganizations under Chapters 7, 9, 11, 12, and 13 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
Upstate
Daniel B. Eller
Eller Frye Law Firm
Daniel Eller has spent the last 20 years representing employers before the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission, the North Carolina Industrial Commission, and the appellate courts of each State. In 2016, he became a board-certified specialist in Workers’ Compensation Law by the North Carolina State Bar.
He has represented employers of all sizes, from “mom and pops” to Fortune 500 companies. Now, he is using his past defense experience to assist injured workers in prosecuting their claims before the commission.
Eller obtained his law degree from Campbell University, where he was a member of the school’s moot court team.
ANTITRUST
Midlands
(TIE) Elizabeth “Betsy” Van Doren Gray
Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte
Elizabeth Van Doren Gray is a founding member of Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC, in Columbia. An accomplished litigator, she concentrates her practice on commercial litigation, probate and estate litigation, and professional liability and ethics.
Gray’s professional liability work includes years of experience representing lawyers, law firms, and legal professionals in litigated matters, disciplinary actions, and pre-suit and ethics counseling. She is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a permanent member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference, and member of the Chief Justice’s Commission on the Profession.
Gray is a recipient of both the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association Jean Galloway Bissell Award and the USC Law School Alumni Association’s Compleat Lawyer Award.
Midlands
(TIE)Elizabeth H. Black
Haynsworth Sinker Boyd, P.A.
Elizabeth Black, a Columbia native, focuses her practice on commercial litigation matters, with experience trying these cases in courts and before arbitration panels. She has experience representing plaintiffs and defendants involved in breach of contract disputes, corporate governance actions, antitrust and competition-based issues, government licensing and public procurement disputes, and business tort matters.
Black also advises clients on electronic preservation and discovery obligations and strategies.
Black has represented a Fortune 1000 company in various contract disputes with suppliers.
Upstate
Rachael Anna
Wyche, P.A.
Rachael Anna’s practice focuses on antitrust, complex business litigation, and data protection. She works to evaluate whether transactions raise competitive issues with federal and state antitrust enforcers.
Anna has defended numerous clients against antitrust claims and in government investigations led by the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, or state authorities. She has extensive experience with investigations and litigation involving forensic examination of electronically stored information.
She advises clients regarding privacy, data protection, information management, electronically stored information, and discovery matters.
Anna is a Certified Information Privacy Professional in the United States and Europe, a Certified Information Privacy Manager, and a member of the Sedona Conference’s Data Security and Privacy Liability Working Group 11.
APPELLATE
Midlands
Whitney Harrison
McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips, LLC
Whitney Harrison’s passion for appellate practice was first cultivated through her clerkship at the South Carolina Court of Appeals and then later at the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Harrison works with firms across the state, assisting with motions, trials, and appeals.
She said she enjoys how varied the job can be from week to week. One week, she can be addressing a novel issue in family law or corporate governance and the next she can be working with a trial team on a medical malpractice case.
Harrison holds a bachelor’s degree from Presbyterian College and a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Upstate
Wallace Lightsey
Wyche, P.A.
Wallace Lightsey is an experienced trial and appellate attorney with more than 60 trials in state and federal courts throughout the Southeast, as well as 100 bench trials, jury trials, and arbitration trials. He has also taken part in numerous appeals in the South Carolina appellate courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth, Sixth, and 11th Circuits.
His practice involves complex securities, corporate, and intellectual property cases, as well as news media and First Amendment disputes.
A graduate of Harvard Law School, Lightsey said his most influential mentor was Judge John Minor Wisdom.
BANKRUPTCY AND CREDITOR RIGHTS
Midlands
Molly Campolong
Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Molly Campolong splits her practice between commercial transactions and insolvency and creditor’s rights representation.
In her commercial transactions practice, she assists clients with purchasing and selling real estate, real estate financing, reviewing and drafting business contracts and commercial leases, entity choice, and entity formation.
In her insolvency and creditor’s rights practice, Campolong represents clients in collection matters, complex workouts, and bankruptcies.
Prior to joining Robinson Gray, Campolong clerked for The Honorable John Cannon Few at the South Carolina Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of South Carolina.
Upstate
Weyman C. Carter
Burr & Forman LLP
As a partner in the Greenville office of Burr & Forman, Weyman Carter helps creditors resolve non-performing commercial accounts, whether that resolution is found in a federal bankruptcy court, a South Carolina state court, or in an out-of-court workout.
He works with clients in a wide range of industries, including financial institutions, supermarket portfolios, manufacturers, and consulting groups.
Prior to attending law school, Carter worked as a sheriff’s deputy, where he gained experience working with people from many different backgrounds. He has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America and South Carolina Super Lawyers and cites Phil Sinclair as his most influential mentor.
BANKRUPTCY AND DEBTOR RIGHTS
Lowcountry
Sean Markham
Markham Law Firm, LLC
Sean Markham is a certified specialist in bankruptcy and debtor-creditor law and a certified mediator and is licensed to practice in both North and South Carolina. He represents both individual and business debtors and creditors before the bankruptcy court, in collection efforts, and in non-bankruptcy debt resolutions. He is the owner of the Markham Law Firm, LLC, in Charleston.
Markham serves on the South Carolina Bankruptcy Court’s Local Rules Committee. In 2017, he was awarded the William E.S. Robinson Public Service award by the South Carolina Bankruptcy Law Association. Markham is a member of the James L. Petigru Inn of Court in Charleston.
Midlands
Jane Downey
Baker Donelson
Jane Downey, of counsel in Baker Donelson's Columbia office, has more than 30 years of experience in guiding financial institutions, businesses, and individuals through complex bankruptcy and restructurings. She is certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court as a specialist in bankruptcy and debtor/creditor law and as a specialist in business bankruptcy by the American Board of Certification.
Downey has extensive experience in corporate restructurings, representing debtors, secured lenders, unsecured creditors, and other parties in connection with all bankruptcy litigation matters. She has led corporate clients, landlords, doctors, car dealerships, farmers, Realtors, and developers, among others, through financial restructurings and reorganizations under Chapters 7, 9, 11, 12, and 13 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
Upstate
Rory D. Whelehan
Whelehan Law Firm, LLC
Rory Whelehan’s practice focuses primarily on representing creditors in bankruptcy cases as well as representing litigants in state and federal courts in insolvency-related litigation.
This related insolvency litigation includes matters such as commercial collections, receiverships, and foreclosures. He has also served as a mediator in insolvency-related litigation as well as matters pending before the bankruptcy courts.
A graduate of University of South Carolina School of Law, Whelehan has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America and South Carolina Super Lawyers and is a Certified Bankruptcy and Debtor-Creditor Law Specialist on the South Carolina Supreme Court Commission on CLE and Specialization.
BUSINESS LITIGATION
Lowcountry
Michael Allen
Buxton & Collie, LLC
Michael Allen began his career as a real estate professional before moving into the legal profession.
His practice focuses on business and real estate matters and the disputes that can arise in those fields. His work includes dealing with contract disputes, corporate governance issues, accounts receivable/payable, and commercial real estate transactions and disputes.
A native of Atlanta, Allen earned his bachelor’s degree from Clemson University, where he studied financial management, accounting, and real estate, and Juris Doctor from Charleston School of Law.
Midlands
John T. Lay Jr.
Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A.
John T. Lay Jr. is a partner in Gallivan White & Boyd’s Columbia and Charleston offices. With more than 30 years of experience handling complex and high-stakes litigation for clients, he has tried over 100 cases to verdict.
His primary areas of practice are business litigation, professional malpractice, false claims act, and product liability.
Lay is a past president of the International Association of Defense Counsel, the South Carolina Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys’ Association. He also has been recognized by Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America.
Upstate
Adam Bach
Tonnsen Bach, LLC
Adam Bach handles a variety of complex business litigation claims, with a particular emphasis on shareholder disputes and intellectual property.
He has tried numerous cases in state and federal courts in North and South Carolina, handled appeals before the South and North Carolina courts of appeals and the Fourth Circuit and appeared before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
Bach has also been recognized by Super Lawyers in Business Litigation, Best Lawyer in Intellectual Property Litigation and Business Organizations and is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from Furman University and a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
Lowcountry
Brian Collie
Buxton & Collie, LLC
Brian Collie leads the firm’s commercial real estate practice, with a focus on the intersection of business law and real estate. He regularly works with clients on commercial real estate purchases and sales, a task which often involves assisting with the review or creation of leases and contracts related to real property transfer.
For purchasers of commercial real estate, Collie often advises on the choice of entity form for single-purpose asset acquisition vehicles and the associated corporate governance documents for the purchasers or investors.
In addition to this, Collie assists many of his firm’s small business clients on a wide range of business matters in a general outside counsel role and helps put teams of attorneys together to help with specific needs that involve practice areas that the firm does not offer.
Midlands
Matt Hill
Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Matt Hill focuses his practice on the areas of commercial real estate, banking, and finance. He regularly provides guidance and assistance to clients on all phases of commercial real estate development including site identification and acquisition, construction, financing, leasing, and disposition.
In addition to property owners and developers, his clients include national and regional banks that provide credit facilities for the various stages of development.
Hill also works with national and local landlords and tenants on multi-tenant and single-tenant leases for industrial facilities, warehouses, retail and office space, shopping centers, and restaurants. National and regional banks that provide financing for the development and redevelopment of commercial real estate look to Hill for counsel and problem solving.
Upstate
Jim Warren
Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Jim Warren advises lenders, investors, developers, and public and private companies in a broad range of complex real estate and economic development transactions. With a background that spans more than three decades, he helps clients navigate the development and acquisition of retail, industrial, and commercial properties.
Although Warren has practiced in the Upstate area for more than 20 years, his knowledge and experience extend throughout the southeastern market and across the nation.
He has been recognized by Chambers, Martindale-Hubbell, and Super Lawyers for Real Estate Law and was named the Greenville Real Estate Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in 2013.
CONSTRUCTION
Lowcountry
Cordes Ford
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Cordes Ford leads Womble Bond Dickinson’s U.S.-based Projects, Construction, and Infrastructure Team and is a member of the Business Litigation Practice Group. He represents construction industry clients involved in multimillion-dollar disputes. During his more than 14 years of practice, he has represented project owners, developers, general contractors, subcontractors, architects, sureties, insurers, and product manufacturers in a wide array of litigated matters in both state and federal courts and in arbitration.
A 2003 graduate of University of South Carolina School of Law, Ford has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America and has had professional and civic engagement with the American Bar Association, Charleston County Bar Association, and the Federal Bar Association.
Midlands
Trippett Boineau
McAngus Goudelock & Courie LLC
Trippett Boineau’s practice focuses on general litigation, premise and products liability, transportation and trucking, insurance defense and construction litigation. He has practiced law since 2005, with a focus on insurance defense.
His practice areas include adulterated food, alcohol liability, commercial litigation, premises liability, products liability, professional liability, and more.
Prior to joining MGC, Boineau served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable James R. Barber III.
He is a member of the Defense Research Institute, South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys’ Association, and John Belton O’Neall Inn of Court.
Upstate
W. Duffie Powers
Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A.
W. Duffie Powers centers his legal practice on design and construction and creditors’ rights in the firm’s Greenville office.
He previously worked in the construction industry and brings those insights into his understanding of the challenges faced by those in the industry. He routinely represents developers, general contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers, engineers, and other design professionals.
He has represented clients in commercial and residential construction projects involving construction and design defects, zoning and land use planning issues, contracts, and payment disputes.
Powers also maintains a significant practice in the creditors’ rights field, representing regional and national banks, governmental entities, nontraditional lending institutions, and other commercial lenders in a variety of matters.
CORPORATE INVESTIGATIONS
Lowcountry
Jennifer Blumenthal
Burr & Forman LLP
Jennifer Blumenthal serves as the vice chair of the firm’s Lending Practice Group. She practices corporate, banking, and business transactional law, with a concentration on commercial lending, real estate finance, and UCC secured transactions, including loan workouts. Her practice also covers local government law, including public utility law and municipal election law, public meeting law, public records (freedom of information), and procurement matters.
Blumenthal frequently serves as local counsel in multi-state transactions in rendering third-party legal opinions under state law and has made and moderated several presentations on third-party opinion practice.
Blumenthal serves as chair of the Legal Opinion Ad Hoc Committee.
Midlands
Judah VanSyckel
Saluda Law, LLC
Judah VanSyckel is the sole proprietor of Saluda Law, LLC. His practice areas include federal and state criminal defense, whistleblower work, and selected civil and administrative, particularly healthcare-related matters.
VanSyckel started his career as an Assistant Public Defender. He then worked as an Assistant Attorney General in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Post Conviction Relief Section before entering private practice. He is admitted to practice in South Carolina, the District of South Carolina, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Currently practicing in Lexington, he received his B.A. from the Honors College at the University of South Carolina and his Juris Doctor from the Charleston School of Law.
Upstate
Cindy Crick
Cindy Crick Law, LLC
Cindy Crick has practiced law since 2002, and in 2021, she opened Cindy Crick Law, LLC. She began her practice after serving as chief of staff for former Rep. Trey Gowdy, whom she considers her most influential mentor, in the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to this, she was a state prosecutor for eight years in the Seventh Circuit Solicitor’s Office in Spartanburg.
Crick has extensive first-chair trial experience, a background in the scientific and technical issues of complex cases, and experience in co-prosecuting a capital murder case.
She primarily focuses her practice on criminal defense and Title IX/student conduct issues.
CORPORATE LAW – BANKING & FINANCE
Lowcountry
James T.H. “Jim” Buxton Sr.
Buxton & Collie, LLC
James T.H. “Jim” Buxton Sr. is the founding partner of Buxton & Collie, LLC, a business and real estate law firm in Mount Pleasant,
Buxton’s practice focuses on private securities offerings, business purchase and sale agreements, and deal work involving high-net-worth individuals and family office clients who engage in private equity transactions.
He regularly represents middle-market companies and small businesses as outside general counsel with respect to corporate governance, third-party contracts and business combinations, acquisitions, and sales.
Upstate
Neil E. Grayson
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Neil Grayson heads his firm’s financial institutions corporate and regulatory practice group, representing primarily financial institutions, fintech companies, and alternative financial services companies. He handles securities offerings, M&A, corporate governance matters, and regulatory matters. Additionally, he is the co-leader of the firm’s social impact and diverse financial services practice initiative and has been investing much time in its growth.
Grayson also is involved with public education matters, including serving on the boards of the Institute for Child Success, Public Education Partners, and the South Carolina Student Loan Corporation (as co-vice chair of the board and chair of the foundation committee).
He also serves on the board of directors for the Motley Fool Foundation.
CORPORATE LAW – BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Lowcountry
Lauren Starkey
Buxton & Collie, LLC
Lauren Starkey is a Maryland native who, upon graduating from East Carolina University, participated in the Disney College Program and worked for the Anne Arundel County Board of Education Human Resources Department in Maryland.
Starkey went on to the University of South Carolina School of Law, where she excelled in contract law, winning the CALI award for that class and then tutoring dozens of students in contracts and other classes. Starkey is a member of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce Leadership Charleston Class of 2023.
Starkey serves clients in all areas of corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and business organizations.
Midlands
R. William Metzger Jr.
Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
William Metzger is a corporate, transactional, and bankruptcy lawyer who has helped clients meet and achieve their goals and objectives for more than 33 years. He leads the growing Business Team of 10 lawyers at Robinson Gray and works with all members on a variety of matters, whether front-end corporate and commercial transactions or back-end workout or bankruptcy transactions.
Metzger focuses on complex transactions, developing and implementing strategy to find success for clients. Metzger often serves as outside general counsel for clients in a gatekeeper role, identifying and using the strengths of the law firm to accomplish the client’s objectives.
Upstate
Andrew “Andy” Coburn
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Andrew Coburn is a veteran corporate and securities and executive compensation and benefits lawyer who represents clients in mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures, and other complex corporate matters.
A 1996 graduate of Virginia School of Law, Coburn has spent over two decades assisting companies in the design and implementation of executive compensation and employee benefit arrangements, including incentive compensation plans, stock plans, executive employment agreements, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), and other retirement plans.
CORPORATE LAW – MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Lowcountry
George E. Morrison
Burr & Forman LLP
As managing partner of the Charleston office, George Morrison advises corporate clients on formation, succession, and transactional issues, and general business matters. He is involved in all areas of corporate practice, including entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, liquidations, reorganizations, and corporate governance.
Morrison has extensive experience advising borrowers and lenders in commercial lending transactions and in the preparation of third-party closing opinions, whether as local or lead counsel.
Morrison also advises individuals and businesses on Section 1031 tax deferred real estate exchanges, Partnership and S-Corporation taxation, mergers and acquisitions, tax structuring for real estate transactions, and other tax aspects of doing business, including handling commercial and manufacturing property tax appeals at all administrative levels.
Midlands
James L. McCutchen
McCutchen McLean, LLC
Before starting his own practice, James McCutchen served as a tax litigation attorney, tax policy attorney, and attorney for the Office of General Counsel for the South Carolina Department of Revenue for six years. He handled various legal matters for the department, including contractual and procurement, collection, and Taxation.
At his firm, McCutchen handles a variety of legal issues including tax resolution and controversy, complex estate planning, probate conflict and administration, and he serves as corporate counsel for several small to medium-size businesses. He previously served as the privacy officer of the South Carolina Department of Revenue.
Upstate
Bo Russell
Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Bo Russell advises corporate clients, venture and growth stage companies, private equity funds, financial institutions, and real estate development companies with respect to corporate matters. He works with companies at various stages of development and has represented clients in M&A transactions and other corporate transactions, private placements, and debt financing.
Additionally, he advises clients on legal and business matters including entity formation, capitalization issues, capital-raising considerations, equity compensation alternatives, customer and vendor contracts, and license and supply agreements.
Russell has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
CORPORATE LAW – SECURITIES
Lowcountry
James T.H. “Jim” Buxton Sr.
Buxton & Collie, LLC
James T.H. “Jim” Buxton Sr. is the founding partner of Buxton & Collie, LLC, a business and real estate law firm in Mount Pleasant.
Buxton’s practice focuses on private securities offerings, business purchase and sale agreements, and deal work involving high-net-worth individuals and family office clients who engage in private equity transactions.
Buxton is a council member for the South Carolina Bar's Corporate, Banking and Securities Committee and is a co-author of the new SC Bar publication, “South Carolina Business Law Handbook.” He is also on the governing council of the South Carolina Law Institute based at the University of South Carolina.
Midlands
Elizabeth “Betsy” Van Doren Gray
Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte
Elizabeth Van Doren Gray is a founding member of Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC, in Columbia. An accomplished litigator, she concentrates her practice on commercial litigation, probate and estate litigation, and professional liability and ethics.
Gray’s professional liability work includes years of experience representing lawyers, law firms, and legal professionals in litigated matters, disciplinary actions, and pre-suit and ethics counseling. She is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a permanent member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference, and member of the Chief Justice’s Commission on the Profession.
Gray is a recipient of both the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association Jean Galloway Bissell Award and the USC Law School Alumni Association’s Compleat Lawyer Award. Gray has volunteered much of her time mentoring young lawyers.
Upstate
Bo Russell
Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Bo Russell advises corporate clients, venture and growth stage companies, private equity funds, financial institutions, and real estate development companies with respect to corporate matters. He works with companies at various stages of development and has represented clients in M&A transactions and other corporate transactions, private placements, and debt financing.
Additionally, he advises clients on legal and business matters including entity formation, capitalization issues, capital-raising considerations, equity compensation alternatives, customer and vendor contracts, and license and supply agreements.
Russell has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, while also being a member of the South Carolina Education Lottery Commission and serving on the board of directors of Greenville Community Foundation.
CRIMINAL – DUI
Midlands
Judah VanSyckel
Saluda Law, LLC
Judah VanSyckel is the sole proprietor of Saluda Law, LLC. His practice areas include federal and state criminal defense, whistleblower work, and selected civil and administrative, particularly healthcare-related matters.
VanSyckel started his career as an Assistant Public Defender. He then worked as an Assistant Attorney General in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Post Conviction Relief Section before entering private practice. He is admitted to practice in South Carolina, the District of South Carolina, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Currently practicing in Lexington, he received his B.A. from the Honors College at the University of South Carolina and his Juris Doctor from the Charleston School of Law.
Upstate
Steve Sumner
Sumner & Todd, Attorneys at Law, LLC
Since opening his own practice as a criminal defense attorney in 1997, Steve Sumner has been recognized both nationally and locally for his work in defending clients accused of DUI, felony DUI, all driving offenses, and drug cases.
Sumner has repeatedly been recognized by Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, Best Law Firms in America, and Best Attorneys of America for his work in DUI Defense. In 2022 and 2020, Sumner was named DUI Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers. He cites John “Bo” R. Hetrick as his most influential mentor.
CRIMINAL – GENERAL
Lowcountry
Adam Young
Young & Young Attorneys at Law
During his time as a lawyer, Adam Young has successfully represented criminals and personal injury clients in negotiations, mediations, and litigation of their crimes and claims. His areas of practice include Criminal Law, Domestic Violence, Drug Violations, Personal Injury Litigation, DUI/DWI, and Personal Injury.
In addition to Young’s personal injury and criminal defense clients, he is the legal advisor for Hunting for Healing Inc., which is a charitable organization aimed at providing positive outdoor events and hunts for disabled United States military veterans and spouses.
Young also works as a prosecutor for the city of Folly Beach.
Midlands
Judah VanSyckel
Saluda Law, LLC
Judah VanSyckel is the sole proprietor of Saluda Law, LLC. His practice areas include federal and state criminal defense, whistleblower work, and selected civil and administrative, particularly healthcare-related matters.
VanSyckel started his career as an Assistant Public Defender. He then worked as an Assistant Attorney General in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Post Conviction Relief Section before entering private practice. He is admitted to practice in South Carolina, the District of South Carolina, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Currently practicing in Lexington, he received his B.A. from the Honors College at the University of South Carolina and his Juris Doctor from the Charleston School of Law.
Upstate
Frank Eppes
Eppes & Plumblee, P.A.
A native of Travelers Rest, Frank Eppes is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina Law.
A third-generation attorney, Eppes practices in the area of criminal defense – including white collar, securities violations, civil and criminal appeals, investigations, and serious personal injury litigation. He is admitted to the North Carolina, South Carolina, and New York State Bars, and is a member of the South Carolina Bar House of Delegates.
He also serves on the Board of Governors of the South Carolina Association for Justice and is co-chair of the SCTLA Appellate Practice Committee.
CRIMINAL – WHITE COLLAR
Lowcountry
Rhett DeHart
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Rhett DeHart is an experienced litigator who defends individuals and companies in government investigations, including white-collar criminal matters, civil False Claims Act cases, and regulatory and administrative actions. Additionally, he conducts internal investigations for companies, and represents individuals and companies who have been victims of fraud. In civil litigation, he also helps his colleagues and other lawyers in cases that are likely to proceed to trial, as he is a fan of both jury and non-jury trials.
In his first year at Womble Bond Dickinson, DeHart represented clients before the Special Counsel’s Office investigating the 2020 presidential election; the United States Attorney’s Offices in the Southern District of New York, the Northern District of Georgia, and the District of South Carolina; the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); the Justice Department in Washington; and the Department of Defense Suspension and Debarment Office.
Midlands
Judah VanSyckel
Saluda Law, LLC
Judah VanSyckel is the sole proprietor of Saluda Law, LLC. His practice areas include federal and state criminal defense, whistleblower work, and selected civil and administrative, particularly healthcare-related matters.
VanSyckel started his career as an Assistant Public Defender. He then worked as an Assistant Attorney General in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Post Conviction Relief Section before entering private practice. He is admitted to practice in South Carolina, the District of South Carolina, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Currently practicing in Lexington, he received his B.A. from the Honors College at the University of South Carolina and his Juris Doctor from the Charleston School of Law.
Upstate
Beattie B. Ashmore
Beattie B. Ashmore Attorney at Law, P.A.
Beattie Ashmore is a former federal prosecutor with more than 35 years of civil and criminal trial experience. He has been named as one of the top 10 lawyers in South Carolina by SuperLawyers magazine for the last 10 years, and he has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
Ashmore has represented hundreds of individuals in state and federal criminal courts. His areas of legal practice include criminal defense, civil litigation, white collar crime, personal injury, wrongful death, and appellate practice.
A graduate of College of Charleston and the University of South Carolina School of Law, he cites his father as his most influential mentor.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Lowcountry
Justin Hoyle
Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Justin Hoyle is a corporate attorney, concentrating his practice on helping clients build legal strategies to support business growth and economic vitality in the region. His areas of expertise include corporate and business planning and formation, particularly in the areas of taxation, commercial real estate, and economic development incentives.
Hoyle focuses specifically on mergers and acquisitions, entity formations and governance, finance, representing major developers and investors in real estate joint ventures, purchase and sale of equity interests, commercial real estate transactions, and tax advice.
Midlands
William Johnson
Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
William Johnson leads Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd’s Economic Development practice group and concentrates his practice on economic development, corporate law, and tax matters. His work has helped facilitate over $5 billion in domestic and foreign investment in South Carolina.
A 2006 graduate of New York University School of Law, Johnson notes his parents as his most influential mentors, because taught him by example to work hard, strive for excellence, and give back to the community.
He received the Harry J. Rudick Memorial Award from New York University, which is the highest academic honor presented to a member of the graduate tax program, and he was awarded the Dean’s Medallion for graduating first in his class from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Upstate
James “Jim” K. Price
Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Whether through lender financing, tax incentives, credits, or grant contributions, James Price assists his clients in accessing funds to achieve their business goals. Price’s practice primarily concentrates on commercial and industrial real estate, economic development incentives, and corporate law.
Price is actively involved in the South Carolina economic development community and represents the firm in several organizations, including the Upstate SC Alliance, Greenville Area Development Corporation, and the South Carolina Economic Developers Association.
Price has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America many times and has received the South Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s 2013 Leadership Award.
EDUCATION
Lowcountry
Stafford J. “Mac” McQuillin
Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
A Charleston native, Stafford J. “Mac” McQuillin blends an established business litigation practice with a growing mediation practice as a certified Circuit Court Mediator. He advises individuals, local businesses, and government entities in complex matters, and has extensive experience with both jury and non-jury trials.
He serves as trial counsel on both sides of the aisle, prosecuting cases on behalf of clients and defending clients when they are sued. He regularly litigates LLC and partnership disputes, property tax appeals, probate, estate, and trust cases, and provides general counsel and litigation services to local governments.
Midlands
Joseph P. Bias
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Joseph Bias provides advice and counsel to education sector clients on a broad range of issues, including Title VII, Title IX, Clery Act, ADA, FERPA, FMLA, employment law related issues (EEOC & SCHAC complaints), compliance, ethics, risk management, student related legal issues, and other relevant federal and state laws. Bias has written Title IX policies for colleges and has served as an advisor and hearing officer in Title IX hearings.
In addition to his education-based practice, Bias has experience in insurance defense litigation. He has provided defense in the areas of construction law, premises liability litigation, product liability litigation, automobile accident/UIM cases, employment law, and education law.
Upstate
Wade Kolb
Wyche, P.A.
Wade Kolb’s practice involves advising educational institutions and employers of all types in navigating complex legal problems. His career handling litigation and appellate work informs the analysis he provides in his role as outside general counsel.
Kolb, a former teacher, leads Wyche’s education law practice, providing guidance to secondary schools and institutions of higher education on policy and handbook reviews, student discipline and honor code matters, and regulatory compliance, including Title IX. He also leads Wyche’s internal investigations group.
EMINENT DOMAIN
Midlands
Keith M. Babcock
Lewis Babcock, LLP
Keith Babcock’s practice focuses on eminent domain, business litigation, legal malpractice, and legal ethics.
A native of Haddonfield, New Jersey, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and Juris Doctor from Georgetown University.
Babcock began his career as a staff attorney with the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office, before moving to the position of state attorney, and then assistant attorney general. He went into private practice in 1981.
He has been selected for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America from 2007 through 2023 and South Carolina Super Lawyers of South Carolina from 2008 through 2023.
Upstate
Luke Burke
Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Luke Burke has assisted utilities and businesses in the Upstate with their legal issues for over 10 years. Burke’s main area of practice is civil litigation with a primary focus on eminent domain/right of way acquisition and business litigation. He assists businesses, landowners, and developers with regulatory issues. Burke also enjoys appellate work and assisting others with their appeals.
He is a board member for the Better Business Bureau of the Upstate. He graduated with honors from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2011 where he was a member of the Law Review, Order of the Coif, and Order of Wig and Robe. Burke received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame.
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Midlands
Shannon Polvi
Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
Shannon Polvi’s legal career focuses on advocating for employees in South Carolina. Polvi’s practice focuses on the employee/plaintiff side of employment and labor law with various employment cases brought before federal, state, administrative, and appellate courts.
Polvi represents individuals in discharge, wage and hour, discrimination, harassment, medical leave, whistleblower, and denial of benefits litigation (ERISA), among several others.
Polvi has worked with the National Women’s Law Center to help advocate for women facing pregnancy discrimination in the workplace.
Upstate
Andrew “Andy” Coburn
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Andrew Coburn is a veteran corporate and securities and executive compensation and benefits lawyer who represents clients in mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures, and other complex corporate matters.
A 1996 graduate of Virginia School of Law, Coburn has spent over two decades assisting companies in the design and implementation of executive compensation and employee benefit arrangements, including incentive compensation plans, stock plans, executive employment agreements, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), and other retirement plans.
EMPLOYMENT – DEFENDANT
Lowcountry
Lucy C. Sanders
Bloodgood & Sanders, LLC
Lucy Sanders received her Juris Doctor from the Charleston School of Law in 2009. She has been practicing employment law for over a decade and is admitted to practice in South Carolina, as well as in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
With the exception of a judicial clerkship, Sanders has practiced employment law for her entire legal career. She has much experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal employment litigation.
In addition to litigation, Sanders devotes a significant portion of her practice to advising employees and small businesses on employment related issues, helping clients understand employment laws, and resolving employment claims through mediation and negotiation.
Midlands
(TIE) Stephen T. Savitz
Gignilliat, Savitz & Bettis, LLP
Stephen Savitz’s practice is exclusively in labor and employment law, representing management as a Certified Specialist by the South Carolina Supreme Court in labor and employment law.
Savitz works primarily in wage and hour law, Equal Employment Opportunity, National Labor Relations Act, collective bargaining, and Affirmative Action and fair employment practices. His practice is throughout the State of South Carolina, in the public and private sector, representing clients with a few employees to clients with thousands of employees.
Midlands
(TIE) Joseph Dickey Jr.
Richardson Plowden
Joseph Dickey Jr. focuses his law practice in employment law, governmental relations, workers’ compensation, and businesses’ litigation and transactional matters. He also serves as the District Four council member of the City of West Columbia where he was elected in 2019. In this role, he is responsible for the overall leadership and direction of the City of West Columbia. In 2016, he became a South Carolina Circuit Court Mediator.
Dickey earned dual bachelor’s degrees from Clemson University – a Bachelor of Science in management with an international management concentration and a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese and International Trade – and a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Upstate
Sarah S. Batson
Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Sarah Batson is a skilled litigator and employment attorney who guides employers through a wide variety of complex disputes and compliance issues. She practices in federal and state court and arbitrates in North and South Carolina.
A graduate of University of South Carolina Moore School of Business, Batson has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America for Litigation, as well as by Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, South Carolina, Labor & Employment.
EMPLOYMENT – PLAINTIFF
Lowcountry
Lucy C. Sanders
Bloodgood & Sanders, LLC
Lucy Sanders received her Juris Doctor from the Charleston School of Law in 2009. She has been practicing employment law for over a decade and is admitted to practice in South Carolina, as well as in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
With the exception of a judicial clerkship, Sanders has been practicing employment law for her entire legal career. She has much experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal employment litigation.
In addition to litigation, Sanders devotes a significant portion of her practice to advising employees and small businesses on employment related issues, helping clients understand employment laws, and resolving employment claims through mediation and negotiation.
Midlands
(TIE) M. Malissa Burnette
Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
M. Malissa Burnette is a founding attorney in the Burnette Shutt & McDaniel law firm.
She has been a Certified Specialist in Employment and Labor Law since 1993, and she practices in state and federal courts, primarily representing individuals in complex employment cases involving discrimination, civil and constitutional rights, breach of contract, restrictive covenants, employment-related torts, wage payment claims, and academic tenure and promotion matters.
A graduate of the University of South Carolina and the USC School of Law, Burnette is a Certified Federal Court Mediator and an arbitrator, and she received the Compleat Lawyer Platinum Award from USC School of Law in 2019.
Midlands
(TIE) Paul Porter
Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
Paul Porter practices employee-side employment law statewide based out of his office in Columbia. He is certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court Commission on Specialization as a specialist in Employment and Labor Law.
Additionally, Porter serves as a member of the Employment and Labor Law Specialization Committee and as Chairman of the Employment Law Section of the South Carolina Association of Justice. He started practicing employment law in 2012 for J. Lewis Cromer & Associates, LLC. In 2017, Lewis Cromer, Jay Babb, Ryan Hicks, and Porter formed Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC.
Upstate
W. Andrew Arnold
The Law Office of W. Andrew Arnold, P.C.
Andrew Arnold has been an employment lawyer and business litigator for 30 years. He litigates cases in state and federal courts and has a long track record of success.
Arnold represents mostly individuals in employment matters, but he also has tried cases involving age discrimination, trade secrets cases, unpaid bonuses, wrongful discharge, breach of contract, shareholder oppression, nursing home abuse and neglect and various other high-stakes matters. He has argued before the South Carolina Supreme Court and Court of Appeals as well as the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
ENERGY & UTILITIES
Lowcountry
J. Ashley Cooper
Baker Donelson, P.C.
J. Ashley Cooper represents companies in a range of transactional and litigated matters in the energy sector, representing clients with interests before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), and state utility commissions. He represents clients in contested proceedings, including rate adoption/modification proceedings, interconnection and transmission service disputes, and contract disputes. He is very active working on emerging issues related to energy efficiency and demand response, electric vehicles, and battery storage.
Cooper also advises clients seeking to implement or maintain an effective compliance program.
He holds an undergraduate degree from Clemson University and a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Midlands
S. Jahue “Jake” Moore Sr.
Moore Bradley Myers Law Firm, P.A.
S. Jahue “Jake” Moore is the founding senior partner of Moore Bradley Myers. He grew up in Charlotte and is a graduate of Presbyterian College and the University of South Carolina School of Law.
He has served as a community advocate across the Midlands for decades. He is passionate about conservation as well as literacy.
Moore also worked to donate trees to several local churches, roads, interchanges, churches, schools, and parks. He also worked to secure land for and built the Irmo Veterans Park. Additionally, Moore was recently given the Key to the City for the Town of Irmo.
Upstate
Rivers S. Stilwell
Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Rivers Stilwell is the leader of the Greenville litigation team, overseeing a team of more than 25 people. He practices in the areas of business and commercial litigation, public procurement, water and sewer utilities, zoning, land use and development, and construction.
Stilwell has trial, appellate and arbitration experience involving business disputes, financial institutions, computer software, special purpose districts, product liability, and construction. He also represents a regional sewer authority as its General Counsel handling procurement, government contracting, FOIA, corporate governance and litigation.
He has been recognized by South Carolina Super Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America, in addition to being on the 2021 South Carolina Supreme Court Pro Bono Honor Roll.
ENVIRONMENTAL
Lowcountry
Newman Jackson Smith
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Newman Jackson Smith practices in the areas of environmental law and litigation, administrative law, land use law, and constitutional law. His environmental practice includes hazardous waste site management and remediation, contaminated property liability negotiation, litigation, redevelopment, and related regulatory counseling. Additionally, he is experienced in matters of administrative law, land use planning and zoning law, and he works on brownfields redevelopment, environmental insurance and environmental regulatory permitting.
Smith held attorney positions with the Office of Coastal Resources Management, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the S.C. Coastal Council, while also being appointed as alternate delegate for the State of South Carolina to the Coastal States Organization.
Midlands
W. Thomas “Tommy” Lavender Jr.
Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
W. Thomas “Tommy” Lavender Jr.’s practice consists exclusively of advising the regulated community on state and federal compliance and enforcement matters, as well as assisting on due diligence on real estate transactions.
He has been a member of the firm in its Columbia office since 1994 and is the senior member of its Environmental Practice.
Lavender earned a mechanical engineering degree from Clemson University and his law degree from University of South Carolina, and he began his career as an environmental engineer at DHEC, then moved to the role of assistant general counsel.
After leaving DHEC, he worked as in-house counsel to several local corporations before entering private practice in 1983.
Upstate
Rita Bolt Barker
Wyche, P.A.
Rita Bolt Barker is an experienced practitioner in environmental compliance and related litigation. She has broad experience helping clients navigate the wide range of laws that protect natural resources.
Barker is a fellow in the American College of Environmental Lawyers, is recognized by Chambers USA, and serves as chair of the American Bar Association Section of the Environment, Energy, and Resources Environmental Transactions and Brownfields Committee.
A Harvard Law School graduate, Barker said her most influential mentors were The Honorable Beverly B. Martin and Patricia Barmeyer.
ESTATE & TRUST – LITIGATION
Lowcountry
Laurel Blair
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Laurel Blair specializes in strategic advice, negotiation, mediation and fiduciary litigation in trust and estate matters. She has over 25 years of experience representing professional fiduciaries (financial institutions serving as corporate trustees and personal representatives) and individuals in the private wealth, private banking, trust administration, wealth management, and estate administration areas.
Her clients include financial institutions serving as trustees, personal representatives/executors, and conservators. Blair advises financial institution chief fiduciary officers, in-house general counsel, trust officers, investment portfolio officers, and registered investment advisors.
Upstate
Ian Conits
Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A.
Ian Conits is based in his hometown of Greenville with a statewide practice that focuses on business and commercial litigation, trusts and estate litigation, and personal injury litigation (defense).
He previously served as a judicial law clerk under The Honorable Letitia H. Verdin, whom Conits calls his most influential mentor. Conits also served as assistant solicitor for the 13th Judicial Circuit Solicitor’s Office, and as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina.
Conits earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Clemson University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law.
ESTATE & TRUST – PLANNING
Lowcountry
Anne K. Russell
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Anne Russell operates out of her Charleston office and offers clients in South Carolina and Georgia a wide range of estate planning and wealth transfer advice. Primarily, she provides counsel to business owners, individuals, and families who want to ensure that their wishes are followed in the event of a serious illness or death.
With her Master of Tax Laws, Russell works with business owners, individuals, and families to preserve, protect, and transfer wealth to the next generation in the most tax efficient manner.
Russell is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law in South Carolina and is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).
Midlands
Jonathan E. Spitz
Todd & Johnson, LLP
Todd Spitz is a partner with the firm and represents clients in matters involving estate planning and administration; probate litigation; guardianship and conservatorship issues; and corporate formation.
Spitz graduated from Wofford College and received his Juris Doctor from the Charleston School of Law where he served as a research assistant to Professor Ginny Meeks.
After law school, Spitz clerked for the Honorable Amy W. McCulloch, Probate Judge for Richland County. He earned a Master of Laws Degree in Taxation from the University of Alabama School of Law.
Upstate
Hall Provence
Ashmore, Leaphart, Rabon & Provence, LLC
Hall Provence is a partner with Ashmore, Leaphart, Rabon & Provence, LLC, focusing his practice in the areas of estate planning, trusts and trust administration, estate administration, and wealth transfer planning, as well as business planning, succession planning, and general business transactions.
He represents individuals, families, executors/personal representatives, beneficiaries, and trustees in all aspects of wills, trusts, estate planning, probate, and administration matters.
His estate-planning practice includes drafting estate plans, special needs trusts, asset protection trusts, and estate tax planning for high-net-worth individuals.
FAMILY
Midlands
Ashby Jones
Kinard & Jones, LLC
Ashby Jones is listed by Super Lawyers as one of the Top 25 Lawyers in South Carolina and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. She is board-certified in the area of family law by the National Board of Trial Advocates and is a Master in the South Carolina Family Law Inn of Court. In addition to this, she is also the Family Law Section chair of the South Carolina Association for Justice and a member of the Board of Trustees for the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association.
Jones has received the University of South Carolina Compleat Lawyer Award, which recognizes alumni for their outstanding civic and professional accomplishments, significant contributions to the legal profession, and those who exemplify the highest standards of professional competence, ethics and integrity.
Upstate
Reid T. Sherard
Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Reid Sherard leads Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd’s Family Law practice group. He concentrates his time in complex divorce-related litigation, particularly involving significant assets, income, valuation, or other challenging financial issues as well as contested custody matters, interstate and international jurisdiction disputes, and premarital and postnuptial agreements.
Before joining Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, Sherard practiced for 15 years at an AmLaw 100 firm. He is a graduate of the Family Law Trial Institute in Houston, Texas.
Sherard began his law career as a clerk to the late Honorable G. Ross Anderson, Jr., U.S. District Judge for the District of South Carolina, and has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America, South Carolina Super Lawyers, and the Jefferson Awards Foundation, among others.
FORECLOSURE
Lowcountry
Morris Ellison
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Morris Ellison’s broad-based practice includes commercial real estate transactions, economic development, commercial litigation and counseling of entrepreneurs, startup, and mature knowledge-based companies.
He represents local, national, and international investors, lenders and real estate developers in the development, financing, and disposition of commercial properties and other assets.
In addition, Ellison assists international companies that want to do business in South Carolina, as well as South Carolina businesses engaging in international markets. He has a particular focus on the Israeli market, as he leads Womble Bond Dickinson’s Israel Team. He has been part of South Carolina’s trade mission delegation to Israel since 2011.
Midlands
Paul Hoefer
Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Paul Hoefer represents clients in creditor-debtor litigation, real estate title litigation, and related business litigation, often involving financial and contractual disputes.
Hoefer has regularly represented creditors in debt recovery matters, including workouts, collections, foreclosures, tax sales, asset research and recovery, and high value judgment collection cases. He has significant experience resolving problem loan and lease accounts and pursuing recoveries across South Carolina, including through successor liability, alter-ego/piercing veil, and fraudulent transfer claims.
Hoefer has regularly represented mortgage holders and property owners in real property and lien litigation.
GOVERNMENT – FINANCE
Lowcountry
(TIE) Jamey H. Goldin
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Jamey Goldin represents clients in regulatory, administrative, and government relations matters. His practice is focused on energy, environmental, healthcare, insurance, and local government clients.
In addition to this, Goldin represents and counsels clients in proceedings before state public utility commissions, federal regulatory agencies, the South Carolina Supreme Court, other levels of state and federal trial and appellate courts, the South Carolina Department of Insurance, and other federal and state branches of government.
(TIE) Stephanie L. Yarbrough
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Stephanie Yarbrough has played a role in many of the largest economic development deals of the past 20 years in the Southeastern United States. She works closely with companies including manufacturers, data centers, distribution centers, corporate headquarters, and large office projects seeking to expand or relocate business operations. Her efforts on behalf of companies have led to the creation of thousands of new jobs and billions of dollars in new investments.
Yarbrough works with new and expanding businesses in negotiating and securing economic incentives, as well as site selection. Her team counsels companies on all aspects of deals – incentives, tax, real estate, corporate, construction, IP/patent, litigation, employment, immigration, environmental and land use/zoning.
Midlands
Dwight F. Drake
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP
Dwight Drake focuses his practice on government relations, legislative issues, and disputes involving government contracts. Maintaining an active litigation practice, Drake has argued before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the South Carolina Supreme Court.
He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Government Relations Practice (2007-2023) and was Lawyer of the Year in Columbia, S.C. for Government Relations Practice in 2021.
A 1972 graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law, Drake has been involved in the lobbying efforts for numerous major pieces of legislation, including Governor Riley’s Education Improvement Act in the mid-1980s and the South Carolina Education Lottery Act in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Upstate
Bruce Bannister
Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Bruce Wyche Bannister is a partner of Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC, and a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
Bannister focuses on family law, eminent domain, and real estate law. He has tried cases involving personal injury, premises liability, eminent domain, education law, residential real estate, and more.
He has practiced law since 1998 and was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives for District 24 in 2005. He now serves as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Bannister also serves as chairman of the South Carolina Bar Lawyer Legislator task force.
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
Lowcountry
Charlie Condon
Charlie Condon Law Firm, LLC
Charlie Condon served as South Carolina Attorney General from 1995 to 2003. He was the first chairman of the Republican Attorneys General Association and co-chair of the Criminal Law Committee of the National Attorneys General Association. He was elected Solicitor of Charleston and Berkeley Counties and was president of the South Carolina Circuit Solicitor's Association from.
He was admitted to the South Carolina and U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina in 1978; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit in 1987; and U.S. Supreme Court in 1988.
Condon is a member of the Charleston County Bar, South Carolina Bar, American Bar Association, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, and The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Trial Lawyers.
Midlands
Matthew Richardson
Wyche, P.A.
Matthew Richardson has contributed to a number of landmark legal outcomes, including the largest minority owner oppression litigation in South Carolina, the largest public utility rate case, the largest public corruption investigation and prosecution in a generation, as well as statewide redistricting challenges and a federal constitutional challenge to temporary rate relief after construction was abandoned on a new nuclear power plant.
A graduate of Duke University and the University of South Carolina School of Law, Richardson is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. The USC School of Law has recognized his professional and civic accomplishments with the Compleat Lawyer Gold and Silver Awards for excellence in the profession.
Upstate
David H. Wilkins
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP
David Wilkins chairs the public policy and international law practice group with a special focus on U.S.-Canada interests. He served as U.S. ambassador to Canada from June 2005 to January 2009. Since returning home from Canada, Wilkins spent six years chairing the Clemson University Board of Trustees and is now a trustee emeritus member of that board.
In 2010, then South Carolina’s Governor-elect Nikki Haley tapped Wilkins to chair her government transition team. First elected in 1980, Wilkins served 25 years in the South Carolina House of Representatives. He was elected speaker in 1994 — a position he held for 11 years.
He is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards including the Order of the Palmetto.
HEALTH CARE
Lowcountry
Lauren Gresh
Hall Booth Smith, P.C.
Lauren Gresh is a partner in the Charleston office of Hall Booth Smith, P.C. Her practice focuses on medical malpractice defense and insurance defense. She has experience in legal writing and research and worked as a law clerk for Michael E. Spears. P.A. from 2007 to 2013.
Gresh received her Juris Doctor at Charleston School of Law, and lists Jack Gresh as her most influential mentor in life.
Midlands
John C. Bradley Jr.
Moore Bradley Myers Law Firm, P.A.
John Bradley Jr. is a South Carolina native who represents hospitals, physicians, nurses, and pharmacists in Professional Licensure Disputes & Disciplinary Actions cases in both the state and federal court.
Bradley is a member of the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association and the Defense Research Institute.
In 2022, Bradley was named an AV Distinguished Attorney: one of the highest ratings for an attorney selected by his peers for high professional achievement and ethical standards.
Upstate
Henry Parr
Wyche, P.A.
For more than 30 years, Henry Parr has handled major disputes both in courts and arbitration.
He has represented companies and individuals in court proceedings, including both civil and criminal jury trials, as well as arbitrations—involving disputes ranging from $100,000 to over $1 billion, including class actions.
Parr’s cases and arbitrations have included disputes involving aviation, telecommunications, healthcare, software, electrical outlets, data security, medical devices, finance, insurance, and securities, including both individual and class action proceedings.
HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM
Lowcountry
Foster Gaillard
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Foster Gaillard has practiced commercial real estate law in Charleston for over 48 years. His practice involves contract negotiations and drafting, zoning and land use issues, regulatory matters, real estate finance and closing the deal. His clients include developers of hotels and restaurants, condominiums and planned developments, mixed-use developments, apartment complexes, office and retail developments, timber transactions and industrial/distribution facilities.
Gaillard is a member and past Governor of the American College of
Real Estate Lawyers and a past chair of the Real Estate Practices Section of the
South Carolina Bar.
Upstate
T. Chase Samples
Jackson Lewis, P.C.
T. Chase Samples is a principal and the office litigation manager of the Greenville office of Jackson Lewis, P.C. His practice covers the spectrum of employment litigation, including both state and federal claims, and individual and class action suits.
While attending law school at the University of Georgia, Samples served on the editorial board of the Georgia Law Review. He won the National Trial Competition Regional tournament and served as vice chairman of the Mock Trial Executive Board.
In recent years, most of Samples’ practice has been in wage and hour law. He regularly defends corporations and organizations against class and collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and state law.
INSURANCE
Midlands
Brett Bayne
McAngus Goudelock & Courie LLC
Brett Bayne’s practice focuses on general civil litigation defense, including automobile negligence, premises liability, products liability, and construction defects.
He specializes in trial litigation and seeing cases through to verdict. Prior to joining MGC, Brett served as judicial law clerk to The Honorable G. Thomas Cooper Jr.
Bayne also serves on MGC’s Trucking: Rapid Response Team. In his spare time, Brett teaches Trial Advocacy at the University of South Carolina School of Law and has served as the director and head coach of the USC School of Law Mock Trial Bar since 2013.
He is a Certified Circuit Court Arbitrator and received the Silver Compleat Lawyer Award from the University of South Carolina School of Law Alumni Council in 2023.
Upstate
Amanda Bradley
McAngus Goudelock & Courie LLC
Amanda Bradley is a partner with McAngus, Goudelock & Courie, leading the Litigation Team in the Greenville office.
She has been a trial lawyer for more than 25 years, focusing on litigating personal injury, class action, bad faith, premises liability, products liability, insurance coverage, and toxic tort cases.
Bradley is a certified mediator, mediating all types of civil litigation and has presented seminars on defense litigation strategies, approaches to ethical dilemmas, mold litigation, and interviewing techniques.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INNOVATION
Lowcountry
Brent Sausser
Sausser Summers, P.C.
Brent Sausser, president of Sausser Summers, P.C., established the law firm in 2013 with the goal of simplifying federal trademark registration. By offering flat fees, online forms, and an attorney to speak to at any time, his firm modernizes the government process to protect brand names, logos, and slogans.
Powered by a web-based platform, OnlineTrademarkAttorneys.com is now consistently ranked among the top 100 trademark filing law firms in the United States based on volume.
Midlands
Steve A. Matthews
Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Steve Matthews focuses on achieving resolutions – whether by negotiation or litigation – of the more complex issues arising in a wide range of legal fields that involve mission-critical aspects of his clients’ businesses.
He is experienced in transactional negotiation and documentation, as well as trial and appellate advocacy, involving intellectual property, where his practice includes copyright and trademark registration; copyright, trademark, and patent litigation (both plaintiff and defense sides); IP licensing; and IP portfolio counseling.
His practice also includes privacy and data security, trade regulation and advertising.
Upstate
Tom Vanderbloemen
Vanderbloemen Law Firm, P.A.
Tom Vanderbloemen started his boutique practice in 2017, benefiting from years of experience with large law firms in Atlanta and Greenville, and from a clerkship with a federal judge.
Vanderbloemen and his firm help businesses protect their trademarks and other intellectual property. They help establish and grow franchises while also serving as outside general counsel for new, emerging, and established businesses.
Their clients are local, regional, national, and international in scope.
INTERNATIONAL
Lowcountry
Olivia Froncillo
Froncillo Law Firm, LLC
Olivia Froncillo is the owner and principal attorney of Froncillo Law Firm, LLC. She began working in immigration law in 2011 and has been a practicing immigration attorney since 2014.
She has represented clients in removal court hearings and bond hearings, helped individuals obtain non-immigrant and immigrant visas, represented small companies and large businesses with investor and business visas, and guided individuals through asylum and humanitarian immigration.
Froncillo holds a bachelor’s degree from College of Charleston and a Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law Houston.
Midlands
Joseph Dickey Jr.
Richardson Plowden
Joseph Dickey focuses his law practice in employment law, governmental relations, workers’ compensation, and businesses’ litigation and transactional matters. He also serves as the District Four council member of the City of West Columbia where he was elected in 2019. In this role, he is responsible for the overall leadership and direction of the City of West Columbia. In 2016, he became a South Carolina Circuit Court Mediator.
Dickey earned dual bachelor’s degrees from Clemson University – a Bachelor of Science in management with an international management concentration and a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese and International Trade – and a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
A native of Wellford, he is an adjunct professor for the Civil Litigation Capstone at USC School of Law.
Upstate
Jay Rogers
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP
Jay Rogers is a partner in Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Greenville office, where he provides corporate counsel to businesses, including helping with mergers and acquisitions, corporate structure, commercial relationships, and economic development incentives.
From 2006 to 2009, Rogers served as chairman of the board of directors of the Greenville Area Development Corporation, the economic development vehicle of Greenville County.
He has advised U.S. and foreign companies with respect to mergers and acquisitions, corporate and capital structures, economic development incentives and more.
LABOR
Lowcountry
Lucy C. Sanders
Bloodgood & Sanders, LLC
Lucy Sanders received her Juris Doctor from the Charleston School of Law in 2009. She has been practicing employment law for over a decade and is admitted to practice in South Carolina, as well as in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
With the exception of a judicial clerkship, Sanders has been practicing employment law for her entire legal career. She has much experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal employment litigation.
In addition to litigation, Sanders devotes a significant portion of her practice to advising employees and small businesses on employment related issues, helping clients understand employment laws, and resolving employment claims through mediation and negotiation.
Midlands
Stephen T. Savitz
Gignilliat, Savitz & Bettis, LLP
Stephen Savitz’s practice is exclusively in labor and employment law, representing management as a Certified Specialist by the South Carolina Supreme Court in labor and employment law.
Savitz works primarily in wage and hour law, Equal Employment Opportunity, National Labor Relations Act, collective bargaining, and Affirmative Action and fair employment practices. His practice is throughout the State of South Carolina, in the public and private sector, representing clients with a few employees to clients with thousands of employees.
Upstate
Jennifer Cluverius
Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Jennifer Cluverius specializes in employment, labor, and other business-related matters, advising and defending many prominent companies doing business in the Southeast.
Cluverius represents employers in federal and state court litigation and before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the South Carolina Human Affairs Commission, and the Department of Employment and Workforce.
She regularly conducts investigations into alleged harassment, discrimination, and other misconduct claims, and is a Certified Specialist in Employment and Labor Law.
MARITIME
Midlands
Rebecca “Becky” Laffitte
Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Rebecca Laffitte has a diverse litigation practice with focus on disputes involving alternative dispute resolution, construction, dram shop, healthcare, insurance coverage, premises liability, product liability, and commercial transportation and trucking.
She is a Fellow in both the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Litigation Counsel of America and is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel and the American Board of Trial Advocates.
Laffitte is also a member of the John Belton O’Neall Inn of Court and the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals.
MEDIATION
Midlands
Costa Pleicones
Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Costa Pleicones, former chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, advises Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd clients on complex litigation and appellate matters. He is a Certified Circuit Court Arbitrator and Mediator.
In 1991, Pleicones was elected Resident Circuit Court Judge for the Fifth Judicial Circuit and was then elected as an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court in 2000. He was elected chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court on May 27, 2015, and served until December 2016.
Pleicones serves on the Wofford College Board of Trustees and is the recipient of the Charles H. Gray ’72 Distinguished Service Award. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Appellate Practice since 2021.
Upstate
Amanda Bradley
McAngus Goudelock & Courie LLC
Amanda Bradley is a partner with McAngus Goudelock & Courie, leading the Litigation Team in the Greenville office.
She has been a trial lawyer for more than 25 years, focusing on litigating personal injury, class action, bad faith, premises liability, products liability, insurance coverage, and toxic tort cases.
Bradley is a certified mediator, mediating all types of civil litigation and has presented seminars on defense litigation strategies, approaches to ethical dilemmas, mold litigation, and interviewing techniques.
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE – DEFENDANT
Lowcountry
Lauren Gresh
Hall Booth Smith, P.C.
Lauren Gresh is a partner in the Charleston office of Hall Booth Smith, P.C. Her practice focuses on medical malpractice defense and insurance defense. She has experience in legal writing and research and worked as a law clerk for Michael E. Spears. P.A. from 2007 to 2013.
Gresh received her Juris Doctor at Charleston School of Law, and lists Jack Gresh as her most influential mentor in life.
Midlands
G. Murrell Smith Jr.
Smith Robinson
Murrell Smith is a co-founding partner of Smith Robinson. He focuses his practice in a variety of areas including civil litigation, medical malpractice defense, insurance defense, and governmental law.
In April 2022, Murrell was elected to be Speaker of the SC House of Representatives. In 2000, Murrell was elected to the SC House of Representatives, serving District 67. He began his political career as a member of the House Judiciary Committee rising to first vice chairman.
Murrell has received numerous awards including being named to Best Lawyers in America, elected to membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates, and being selected as a Compleat Lawyer by USC School of Law.
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE – PLAINTIFF
Midlands
Robert F. Goings
Goings Law Firm, LLC
The Goings Law Firm, LLC was founded by Robert Goings to protect the values of South Carolina and represent the interests of South Carolinians.
Goings’ practice primarily focuses on personal injury cases, including catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims. Whenever the situation calls for it, Goings and his team work with other firms in the community to achieve justice for their clients.
He is a strong supporter of the jury system not only through his frequent participation in it, but also via leadership roles in organizations such as the American Board of Trial Advocates.
Upstate
Wes A. Kissinger
KD Trial Lawyers
With a civil trial practice that began in the late 1990s, primarily defending lawsuits for insurance companies and large retail corporations, Wes Kissinger has represented injured individuals and families in state and federal court since 2003.
He is managing partner of Killoren, Kissinger, Dantin, Denton & Dunham, P.C. (KD Trial Lawyers) in Spartanburg, a firm that provides representation in the fields of workers’ compensation, family court, criminal defense, imminent domain, medical malpractice, and personal injury.
A graduate of Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, Kissinger’s litigation practice remains focused on injury and wrongful death cases arising from trucking, automobile, and motorcycle collisions.
PERSONAL INJURY – DEFENDANT
Lowcountry
Joseph “Trey” Thompson III
Hall Booth Smith, P.C.
Joseph “Trey” Thompson III is a partner in the Charleston office with a range of experience litigating commercial disputes as well as catastrophic personal injury claims arising from premises, products, and toxic exposures.
He has tried more than 100 jury trial cases in state and federal courts in his 28 years of practice. He has argued cases before the South Carolina Supreme Court and South Carolina Court of Appeals.
Thompson is a Certified Circuit Court Mediator, as qualified by the South Carolina Board of Arbitrator and Mediator Certification.
Midlands
Johnston Cox
Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A.
For 20 years, Johnston Cox’s practice has focused on insurance litigation, business litigation and personal injury matters. He has litigated cases in these areas as well as declaratory judgment and bad faith actions for various insurance industry clients in state and federal courts throughout South Carolina. He has tried over 45 cases to verdict.
Cox has obtained an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America for insurance and personal injury law.
Cox previously served as a board member of Senior Resources Inc., the Community Advisory Board for Home Works of America Inc. and currently serves on the board of Home Works of America Inc.
Upstate
Amanda Bradley
McAngus Goudelock & Courie LLC
Amanda Bradley is a partner with McAngus Goudelock & Courie, leading the Litigation Team in the Greenville office.
She has been a trial lawyer for more than 25 years, focusing on litigating personal injury, class action, bad faith, premises liability, products liability, insurance coverage, and toxic tort cases.
Bradley is a certified mediator, mediating all types of civil litigation and has presented seminars on defense litigation strategies, approaches to ethical dilemmas, mold litigation, and interviewing techniques.
PERSONAL INJURY – PLAINTIFF
Lowcountry
Bradley Banyas
Hughey Law Firm
Bradley Banyas has practiced with the Hughey Law Firm for the duration of his entire legal career, representing plaintiffs in civil litigation.
Banyas primarily handles catastrophic injury and wrongful death matters and specializes in long-term care cases involving nursing home, assisted living, and hospital medical negligence.
Though his office is in Mount Pleasant, Banyas handles cases across South Carolina. He and his firm are frequently associated on cases from lawyers across South Carolina and the country.
Midlands
Kenneth Berger
Law Office of Kenneth Berger
Kenneth Berger’s practice focuses exclusively on life-changing injury and wrongful death cases. Many of these cases involve drunk drivers, 18-wheelers, and traumatic brain injuries.
He and his firm have made substantial donations to local charities, as well as a recent $100,000 gift to establish the Kenneth & Grace Berger Endowed Scholarship fund at the USC School of Law.
A Columbia native and graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law, Berger counts Jason Savage as his most influential mentor.
Upstate
(TIE) Scott Bradley
The Joel Bieber Firm
Scott Bradley is the managing attorney for the South Carolina practice of the Joel Bieber Firm. He has been litigating and trying cases in state and federal courts in South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana for 25 years.
After spending the first part of his career on the defense side, Bradley became an advocate for injured people in 2011. His practice focuses on personal injury and wrongful death arising from auto and truck accidents, industrial accidents, and premises liability.
Bradley earned his undergraduate degree from the University of South Florida and his Juris Doctor from Tulane Law School.
(TIE) Wes A. Kissinger
KD Trial Lawyers
With a civil trial practice that began in the late 1990s, primarily defending lawsuits for insurance companies and large retail corporations, Wes Kissinger has represented injured individuals and families in state and federal court since 2003. He is managing partner of Killoren, Kissinger, Dantin, Denton & Dunham, P.C. (KD Trial Lawyers) in Spartanburg, a firm that provides representation in the fields of workers’ compensation, family court, criminal defense, imminent domain, medical malpractice, and personal injury.
A graduate of Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, Kissinger’s litigation practice remains focused on injury and wrongful death cases arising from trucking, automobile, and motorcycle collisions.
PRODUCT LIABILITY – DEFENDANT
Midlands
Gray T. Culbreath
Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A.
For 35 years, Gray Culbreath has defended corporations and insurers in trials and appeals in state and federal court. After trying courts martial in the US Army Trial Defense Service for four years, Culbreath returned to Columbia to practice and defend class action suits, commercial litigation matters, and product liability lawsuits.
In addition to trials, Culbreath has handled appeals at the South Carolina Supreme Court and Court of Appeals and the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates where he currently serves as the Vice President of Southeastern ABOTA.
Upstate
Rivers S. Stilwell
Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Rivers Stilwell is the leader of the Greenville litigation team, overseeing a team of more than 25 people. He practices in the areas of business and commercial litigation, public procurement, water and sewer utilities, zoning, land use and development, and construction.
Stilwell has trial, appellate and arbitration experience involving business disputes, financial institutions, computer software, special purpose districts, product liability, and construction. He also represents a regional sewer authority as its General Counsel handling procurement, government contracting, FOIA, corporate governance and litigation.
PRODUCT LIABILITY – PLAINTIFF
Midlands
Matthew Richardson
Wyche, P.A.
Matthew Richardson has contributed to a number of landmark legal outcomes, including the largest minority owner oppression litigation in South Carolina, the largest public utility rate case, the largest public corruption investigation and prosecution in a generation, as well as statewide redistricting challenges and a federal constitutional challenge to temporary rate relief after construction was abandoned on a new nuclear power plant.
Richardson is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. The USC School of Law has recognized his professional and civic accomplishments with the Compleat Lawyer Gold and Silver Awards for excellence in the profession.
PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY
Lowcountry
D. Jay Davis Jr.
Clement Rivers, LLP
D. Jay Davis Jr. is a partner in the law firm of Clement Rivers, LLP. He is chair of the firm’s Professional Liability section and the firm’s Business Litigation practice group. Davis also serves on its management committee. He practices primarily professional liability, legal and medical malpractice, nursing home and assisted living, commercial litigation, business, and real estate litigation.
In addition to this, Davis is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Martindale Hubbell rates him AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated.
Midlands
John T. Lay Jr.
Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A.
John T. Lay Jr. is a partner in Gallivan White & Boyd’s Columbia and Charleston offices. With more than 30 years of experience handling complex and high-stakes litigation for clients, he has tried over 100 cases to verdict.
His primary areas of practice are business litigation, professional malpractice, false claims act, and product liability.
Lay is a past president of the International Association of Defense Counsel, the South Carolina Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys’ Association. He also has been recognized by Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America.
Upstate
Sam Outten
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Sam Outten represents clients in trying complex, high–value cases to verdict across a variety of practice areas including professional malpractice, commercial litigation, product liability, and patent infringement. His appellate experience includes lead briefing responsibility and oral argument. He has been recognized by Chambers USA, SuperLawyers, and Best Lawyers in America.
Outten is certified by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys for legal malpractice. He is a past president of the South Carolina Chapter of ABOTA, a past president of the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association and served on the Board of Directors of DRI.
RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE
Lowcountry
Catherine LaFond
LaFond Law Group, P.A.
After earning her Juris Doctor degree in 1997 from the University of South Carolina School of Law, Catherine LaFond opened her own law firm in 1998 and immediately started handling real estate transactions and creating estate plans. In 2009, she moved to South Beach for a year to obtain an LL.M. from the University of Miami School of Law.
LaFond has been given an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been the volunteer attorney for Sea Island Habitat for Humanity homeowners since 1999 and for Pet Helper’s since 2002. Also, LaFond is a member of the ElderCounsel LLC, Lowcountry Senior Network, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, SC Elder Law Bar Committee, and SC Women Lawyers Association.
Upstate
P. Griffin Bell
Bell, Carrington, Price & Gregg, LLC
Griffin Bell has been practicing real estate law in Greenville for 20 years, first with the Leatherwood Law Firm closing commercial real estate transactions, and currently with Bell, Carrington, Price & Gregg, LLC, which he started in 2010 with friend and law partner Lindsay Carrington. Bell’s primary area of practice with Bell Carrington centers on closing residential home purchases and refinances.
He attended Wake Forest University and South Carolina Law School and considers Al Bell to be his most influential mentor.
SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY
Lowcountry
Thomas M. White
The Steinberg Law Firm
Thomas White exclusively handles work injury cases, with many cases resulting in payments to injured workers in excess of $1 million.
After graduating from the South Carolina School of Law in 1978, White joined Steinberg Law Firm the following year. He is a member of the Charleston County Bar Association, South Carolina Bar Association, and South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association. For the past 20 years, White has been listed in Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers for Workers’ Compensation.
White has served on the Charleston County Common Pleas Liaison Committee and the Charleston County Grievance Committee.
TAX AND ESTATE PLANNING
Midlands
William “Billy” Newsome III
Newsome Law, P.A.
William “Billy” Newsome III practices in the area of trust and estate administration and litigation, wealth transfer planning, taxation, and exempt organizations.
He is a South Carolina Supreme Court-certified specialist in the areas of estate planning and probate law and is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.
A Hartsville native, Newsome earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Francis Marion College, attending as a Francis Marion Scholar. He earned a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law and a Master of Laws in Taxation from the University of Florida School of Law.
Upstate
David Merline Jr.
Merline & Meacham, P.A.
David Merline Jr. has been serving clients since 1984 in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, business and transactional law, succession planning, estate planning, taxation, asset protection and ERISA. He is a graduate of Furman University, the University of South Carolina School of Law (J.D.) and the University of Miami School of Law (LL.M. in Taxation).
Merline is certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court in the areas of Taxation Law and Estate Planning and Probate Law.
Merline is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for 2023 in the fields of Business Organizations, Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law, Corporate Law, ERISA, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tax Law, and Trusts and Estates.
WORKER’S COMPENSATION – DEFENDANT
Lowcountry
Dan Addison
Hall Booth Smith, P.C.
Dan Addison has a quarter-century of experience litigating complex workers’ compensation claims. He defends corporations and other employers in claims involving alleged exposure to hazardous substances unique to the claimant’s workplace, and he also represents clients in other high-risk occupational exposure claims.
Addison is often asked to share his knowledge on occupational disease and related matters to panels and professional gatherings. In addition, he often counsels clients on health care workers’ compensation disputes and trucking workers’ compensation cases.
Midlands
Shannon Till Poteat
Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Shannon Till Poteat focuses her practice on workers’ compensation and workers’ compensation mediation. She co-authored “The Law of Workers’ Compensation in South Carolina,” second, third, fourth, and fifth Editions, a comprehensive book analyzing this complex area of law. Poteat is a member of the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Educational Association and has been consistently recognized by Best Lawyers for her work in Workers’ Compensation Law.
She has successfully defended denied cases involving affirmative defenses under the SC Workers’ Compensation Act and also participated in multi-defendant litigation involving construction litigation with upstream contractors and transfer of liability to the SCUEF.
Upstate
Daniel B. Eller
Eller Frye Law Firm
Daniel Eller has spent the last 20 years representing employers before the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission, the North Carolina Industrial Commission, and the appellate courts of each State. In 2016, he became a board-certified specialist in Workers’ Compensation Law by the North Carolina State Bar.
He has represented employers of all sizes, from “mom and pops” to Fortune 500 companies. Now, he is using his past defense experience to assist injured workers in prosecuting their claims before the commission.
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION – PLAINTIFF
Lowcountry
Michael J. Jordan
The Steinberg Law Firm
Michael J. Jordan has dedicated his career to ensuring his clients will make the recovery they deserve. A Columbia native who received his law degree from the Florida Coastal School of Law, Jordan joined the Steinberg Law Firm because of its long history of dedication to helping injured workers and its strong reputation in personal injury trials.
Jordan has been recognized for his legal work in Best Lawyers in America for three consecutive years. He was also selected as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in 2014.
He is a member of the South Carolina Bar, Charleston County Bar Association, Berkeley County Bar Association, South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association, and South Carolina Bar Young Lawyers Division.
Midlands
Ramie Shalabi
Dayson Shalabi Burkett Law Firm, LLC
Ramie is one of the founding partners and serves as the managing member of Dayson Shalabi Burkett Law Firm with offices in both Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina. After serving as a state prosecutor, Ramie represented insurance companies for a few years before “switching sides” to now only representing individuals who have been injured at work or due to the negligence of others. No case is too big or too little for Ramie. He has tried cases against individuals, the government, and billion dollar corporations. Ramie takes pride in treating every client as though he or she is his only client.
Ramie was born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina before moving to Columbia, South Carolina to attend the University of South Carolina. Upon earning his Bachelor's in political science, Ramie attended and earned his law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law. He is licensed to practice in state and federal court in South Carolina.
Ramie assists clients all over South Carolina. While Ramie primarily lives on Lake Murray, he also spends time in downtown Charleston when assisting clients in the lowcountry.
Upstate
Daniel B. Eller
Eller Frye Law Firm
Daniel Eller has spent the last 20 years representing employers before the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission, the North Carolina Industrial Commission, and the appellate courts of each State. In 2016, he became a board-certified specialist in Workers’ Compensation Law by the North Carolina State Bar.
He has represented employers of all sizes, from “mom and pops” to Fortune 500 companies. Now, he is using his past defense experience to assist injured workers in prosecuting their claims before the commission.
Also recognized:
Agribusiness
Midlands
Justin Hoyle | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Jonathan Milling | Milling Law Firm, LLC
Upstate
Chris King | King Kozlarek Law LLC
Tom Vanderbloeman | Law office of Tom Vanderbloeman
David Gossett | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Jeff Larson | Wyche, P.A
Antitrust
Midlands
Dennis Lynch | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Travis Wheeler | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
E. Bart Daniel | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Upstate
Natalma (Tami) N. McKnew | Fox Rothschild LLP
Jay Matthews | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Sam Mabry | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Marguerite Willis | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
John Perkins | Perkins Law Firm
Andy Coburn | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Henry Parr | Wyche, P.A.
Appellate
Lowcountry
John Fletcher | Barnwell Whaley
Cameron J. Blazer | Blazer Law Firm
Ainsley Tillman | Ford Wallace Thomson, LLC
*Lydia Blessing Applegate | Yarborough Applegate
Law Firm, LLC
Midlands
John Nichols | Bluestein Attorneys
Sarah J.M. Cox | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Jack E. Cohoon | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Chad Johnston | Burr & Forman LLP
Mark Cauthen | Cauthen Law
Jacqueline Marie Pavlicek | City of Columbia
Christian Stegmaier | Collins & Lacy, P.C.
Shannon Polvi | Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
Laura Jordan | Gallivan White & Boyd
Dayne C. Phillips | Price Benowitz LLP
Lisle Traywick | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Beth Richardson | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Austin Reed | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose & Morgan, LLC
Rachel Lee | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose & Morgan, LLC
George Gallgher | Speed Seta Martin Trivett Stubley
& Fickling
Brett Stevens | Stevens Law, LLC
Thorne Barrett | Turner Padget
Bryant Caldwell | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Kevin Hall | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Todd Carroll | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
John Moylan | Wyche, P.A.
Upstate
Christopher Brumback | Brumback & Langley, LLC
Trey Still | Clawson and Staubes
Jeffrey Dunlaevy | Dunlaevy Law Firm
Stephanie G. Flynn | Fox Rothschild LLP
Ken Shaw | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Sarah Spruill | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Kirsten Small | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Hannah Rogers Metcalfe | Metcalfe & Atkinson, LLC
Miles Edward Coleman | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Heather Vry Scalzo | Offit Kurman
John Perkins | Perkins Law Firm
Josh Smith | Smith Hudson Law, LLC
Hugh McAngus, Jr. | The Carolina Law Group, LLC
Tom Vanderbloemen | Vanderbloemen Law Firm
David A. Wilson | Wilson & Englebardt LLC
Henry Parr | Wyche, P.A.
Jimmy Cox | Wyche, P.A.
Meliah Bowers Jefferson | Wyche, P.A.
Bankruptcy and Creditor Rights
Lowcountry
Kristen Nichols | Turner Padget
*Charles Summerall | Walker Gressette & Linton, LLC
Midlands
Jane Downey | Baker Donelson
Michael Beal | Beal, LLC
Theodore von Keller | Crawford & Von Keller, LLC
B. Lindsay Crawford IV | Crawford & Von Keller, LLC
Lindsay Joyner | Gallivan White & Boyd
Taylor Peace | Harrell, Martin & Peace, P.A.
Mary Caskey | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
John B. Butler, III | John B. Butler III, P.A.
Rick Mendoza | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Jody Bedenbaugh | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Amy Hill | Richardson Thomas, LLC
Kevin Brown | Scott & Corley, P.A.
Derrick Jackson | Tobias G. Ward, Jr. P.A.
Ian McVey | Turner Padget
Upstate
Aaron Angell | Angell Molony, LLC
Lindsay Carrington | Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, LLC
Jim Cassidy | Cassidy Coates Price, P.A.
M. Kevin McCarrell | Fox Rothschild LLP
Duffie Powers | Gallivan White & Boyd
Kristen Miller | Global Lending Services
Donna Shetley | Johnson Smith Attorneys at Law
James Sarratt | Sarratt & Clarke
Jordan D. Beumer | Scott & Corley, P.A.
Josh Hudson | Smith Hudson Law, LLC
Courtney Plyler | Whelehan Law Firm, LLC
Rory Whelehan | Whelehan Law Firm, LLC
Sterling Laney | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jason Wyman | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Bill Wilson | Wyche, P.A.
Jessica Monsell | Wyche, P.A.
Marshall Winn | Wyche, P.A.
Bankruptcy and Debtor Rights
Lowcountry
Tara Nauful | Beal, LLC
Charles Summerall | Walker Gressette & Linton, LLC
Midlands
Michael Beal | Beal, LLC
Taylor Peace | Harrell, Martin & Peace, P.A.
Kathleen Muthig | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Mary Caskey | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Molly Campolong | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Upstate
Aaron Angell | Angell Molony, LLC
Jim Cassidy | Cassidy Coates Price, P.A.
M. Kevin McCarrell | Fox Rothschild LLP
Marina Goewey | Global Lending Services
Stan McGuffin | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Jason Ward | Jason Ward Law, LLC
Cedric Cunningham | Kinlaw & Cunningham, LLC
James Sarratt | Sarratt & Clarke
Jordan Beumer | Scott and Corley, PA
Randy Skinner | Skinner Law Firm
Josh Hudson | Smith Hudson Law, LLC
Marshall Winn | Wyche, P.A
Bill Wilson | Wyche, P.A.
Business Litigation
Lowcountry
Dawes Cooke | Barnwell Whaley
Jeremy Bowers | Barnwell Whaley
Kenny Gardner | Butler Snow LLP
Brian Duffy | Duffy and Young, LLC
Ainsley Tillman | Ford Wallace Thomson, LLC
Paige C. Ornduff | Gallivan White & Boyd
Elizabeth Morrison | Hall Booth Smith, PC
David K. Haller | Haller Law Firm
Elliot Condon | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Mary Leigh Arnold | Law Office of Mary Leigh Arnold
Ellis Lesemann | Lesemann & Associates
Cheryl Shoun | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
James D. Smith, Jr. | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
JD Smith | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Merritt Abney | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Robert H. Brunson | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Seth Whitaker | Seth W. Whitaker Ltd Co.
James Grimsley, III | Tupper, Grimsley, Dean & Canaday, P.A.
Christy Ford Allen | Wills Massalon & Allen, LLC
Matthew Tillman | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Greg Horton | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Henry Smythe | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Laurel Blair | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Midlands
Kirby Shealy | Adams and Reese LLP
Lyndey R. Z. Bryant | Adams and Reese LLP
Matthew G. Gerrald | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Creston W. Brown | Belser Law Firm, PA
Eric Bland | Bland Richter, LLP
Kathleen McDaniel | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Nekki Shutt | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Benjamin “Ned” E. Nicholson, V | Burr & Forman LLP
Ian Duggan | Callison Tighe & Robinson, LLC
Paul Porter | Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
Beth Bowen | Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
Dan D’Alberto | D’Alberto, Graham & Grimsley, LLC
Marion Moses | Law Office of Marion Moses
Keith Babcock | Lewis Babcock L.L.P.
Dennis Lynch | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Tommy Lydon | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
James L. McCutchen | McCutchen McLean, LLC
Jake Moore, Sr. | Moore Bradley Myers
Nick Riley | Moore Bradley Myers
Ward Bradley | Moore Bradley Myers
Amy Hill | Richardson Thomas, LLC
Ben Gooding | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Guyton Murrell | Scott & Corley, P.A.
Austin Reed | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose & Morgan, LLC
Jonathan M. Robinson | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose
& Morgan, LLC
Fred Hanna | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose & Morgan, LLC
Rachel Lee | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose & Morgan, LLC
Jonathan Robinson | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose
& Morgan, LLC
Bess DuRant | Sowell & DuRant, LLC
Joe Catalano | The McKay Firm
Derrick Jackson | Tobias G. Ward, Jr. P.A.
Mark Goddard | Turner Padget
Bryant Caldwell | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Kevin Hall | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Todd Carroll | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Tally Parham Casey | Wyche, P.A
Upstate
Jay Anthony | Anthony Law, LLC
Luke Burke | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Ryan Pasquini | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Burl Williams | Burl F. Williams, P.A.
Bernie Ellis | Burr & Forman LLP
James K. Gilliam | Burr & Forman LLP
George Campbell | Campbell Teauge
Thomas W. Traxler | Carter, Smith, Merriam, Rogers
& Traxler, P.A.
Jeanmarie Tankersley | Clawson and Staubes
JJ Andrighetti | Culbertson Andrighetti LLC
John Devlin | DevlinSnyder ADR, LLC
Lee Plumblee | Eppes & Plumblee
Paul Landis | Fayssoux & Landis
William A. Neinast | Fox Rothschild LLP
Daniel B White | Gallivan White & Boyd
Carter Massingill | Gallivan White & Boyd
Daniel White | Gallivan White & Boyd
Ian Conits | Gallivan White & Boyd
Amelia Farmer | Gallivan White & Boyd
Danny White | Gallivan White & Boyd
Derrick Quattlebaum | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Jeremy Summerlin | Horton Law Firm, P.A
Randy Moody | Jackson Lewis P.C.
Shane Rogers | Johnson Smith Attorneys at Law
Hunter Freeman | Kim, Lahey & Killough Law Firm
Steven Buckingham | Law Office of Steven Edward
Buckingham, LLC
W. Andrew Arnold | Law Office of W. Andrew Arnold, P.C.
Andrew Mathias | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Lane Davis | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Rivers Stilwell | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Zach Brown | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Martin Cain | Moseley Marcinak Law Group
Tom Chase | Moseley Marcinak Law Group
Miles Coleman | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Sam Outten | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Emily Bridges | Parker Poe
John Perkins | Perkins Law Firm
Keith Munson | Rimon Law
Josh Smith | Smith Hudson Law, LLC
Kurt M. Rozelsky | Spencer Fane LLP
Travis V. Olmert | The Olmert Law Firm, LLC
Christian Thorndike | Townes B. Johnson III, LLC
Kimberly T. Thomason | Truluck Thomason, LLC
Zach Weaver | Weaver Law Firm
Wes Few | Wes Few Law
Sterling Laney | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jimmy Cox | Wyche, P.A
Eric Amstutz | Wyche, P.A.
Greg English | Wyche, P.A.
Henry Parr | Wyche, P.A.
Jimmy Cox | Wyche, P.A.
Wallace Lightsey | Wyche, P.A.
Commercial Real Estate
Lowcountry
Mark Sharpe | Burr & Forman LLP
R. Chilton Stone | Dodds Hennessy & Stith
Chilton Stone | Dodds Hennessy & Stith
Anthony Stith, Jr. | Dodds Hennessy & Stith
Jacob Allen | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Chris Digby | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
William Stroud | Moore Van Allen
Jay Claypoole | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
William Dawson | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Cynthia Spieth Morton | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Daniel Orvin | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Matthew Orville | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Morris Ellison | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Midlands
William McElveen, Jr. | Adams and Reese LLP
David Wolff | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Benton D. Williamson | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Kathleen Muthig | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Leighton Lord | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
David Ross | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Will Starnes | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Jake Moore, Sr. | Moore Bradley Myers
Thomas D. Kilpatrick | Murphy and Kilpatrick, P.A.
Maura Greg | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Kevin Garrison | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Lanny Lambert | Turner Padget
Kara Bailey Hamilton | Wyche, P.A.
Upstate
Jack McDonald | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Griffin Bell | Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, LLC
Brian Price | Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, LLC
John Walker | Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, LLC
Bradley K. Richardson | Bradley K. Richardson, PC
Adam W. Breaux | Breaux & Callahan, P.A.
Doug Evans | Brown Massey Evans McLeod
& Haynsworth LLC
Adam Artigliere | Burr & Forman LLP
Amber Glidewell | Cassidy Coates Price, P.A.
Erin Culbertson | Culbertson Andrighetti LLC
Bryan De Bruin | De Bruin Law Firm
William B. Swent | Fox Rothschild LLP
Aimee V. Leary | Fox Rothschild LLP
Michele Fuller Lyerly | Fox Rothschild LLP
William B. Swent | Fox Rothschild LLP
Jason Gainey | Gainey & Gainey, LLP
Kate Laffitte | Graybill, Lansche & Vinzani, LLC
Meg Scoopmire | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
John Kehl | Horton Law Firm, P.A
Thomas Dugas | Horton Law Firm, P.A
Daniel Craig | Johnson Smith Attorneys at Law
Steve Querin | Johnson Smith Attorneys at Law
Ryan Brown | Keable & Brown, PA
Chris King | King Kozlarek Law LLC
Dale McKinney | McKinney Sullivan, LLC
Henry Sullivan | McKinney Sullivan, LLC
Brad Gower | Nelson & Galbreath
Cecil Nelson | Nelson & Galbreath
Ryan Nichols | Nelson & Galbreath
Will Glenn | WCM Global Wealth, LLC
Amy Clayton | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Lindsay Smith | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Josh Lonon | Wyche, P.A.
Megan O’Neill | Wyche, P.A.
Construction
Lowcountry
Barbara Wagner | Barnwell Whaley
Michael Barfield | Barnwell Whaley
Summers Clarke | Barnwell Whaley
Dean Best | Best Law, P.A.
Jay A. Jones | Gallivan White & Boyd
Alan Belcher | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Derek Newberry | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Elizabeth Freeman Wieters | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Robert Hawk | Hawk & Hawk Law Firm
James D. Smith Jr. | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
JD Smith | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Phil Cristaldi | Ross & Cristaldi, LLC
Jesse Kirchner | Thurmond Kirchner & Timbes, P.A.
Matthew Byzet | Thurmond Kirchner & Timbes, P.A.
David Cobb | Turner Padget
Andrew Walden | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
William R. Warnock | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Midlands
Robert T. Strickland | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Matthew G. Gerrald | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Joey Floyd | Bruner, Powell, Wall & Mullins, LLC
Benjamin C. Bruner | Bruner, Powell, Wall & Mullins, LLC
Franklin Smith | FJS ADR
Shelley Montague | Gallivan White & Boyd
Kyle McGann | Gallivan White & Boyd
Joshua Shaw | Hedrick Gardner Attorneys
John Davidson | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
George James | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Riley Bearden | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Caleb Riser | Richardson Plowden & Robinson, P.A.
Joshua A. Bennett | Rogers Townsend, LLC
Bryan Barnes | Rogers Townsend, LLC
Catherine Leatherwood | Rogers Townsend, LLC
Brandon Jones | The McKay Firm
Upstate
Jay Anthony | Anthony Law, LLC
Beau Brogdon | Campbell Teague
Jeanmarie Tankersley | Clawson and Staubes
Jason J. Andrighetti | Culbertson Andrighetti LLC
John Devlin | DevlinSnyder ADR, LLC
Mason A. Goldsmith Jr. | Elmore Goldsmith Kelley
& DeHoll, P.A.
Carter Massingill | Gallivan White & Boyd
Ronald G. Tate, Jr. | Gallivan White & Boyd
Stephanie Burton | Gibbes Burton, LLC
Jay Matthews | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Nick Nicholson | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Tom Coker | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Stokely Holder | Holder, Padgett, Littlejohn & Prickett, LLC
Greg Placone | Hudson Lambert Parrott, LLC
Ted Vick | Hudson Lambert Parrott, LLC
Ward Lambert | Hudson Lambert Parrott, LLC
James Warmoth | Kenison, Dudley & Crawford, LLC
John Crawford | Kenison, Dudley & Crawford, LLC
Robert Mebane | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Batten Farrar | Rogers Townsend, LLC
Eric Tonnsen | Tonnsen Bach
Christian Thorndike | Townes B. Johnson III, LLC
Townes B. Johnson III | Townes B. Johnson III, LLC
Bill Wilson | Wyche, P.A
Construction Defect Litigation
Lowcountry
Kevin W. Mims | Luzuriaga Mims LLP
Corporate Investigations
Lowcountry
J. Walker Coleman IV | K&L Gates
Miller Shealy | Law Office of Miller Shealy
Bart Daniel | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Rhett DeHart | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Ryan Ellard | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Midlands
Deborah Barbier | Deborah Barbier, Attorney at Law
Jason Peavy | Law Office of Jason Peavy
Cory Manning | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Thornwell “Biff” Sowell | Sowell & DuRant, LLC
Kevin Hall | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Tally Parham Casey | Wyche, P.A.
Upstate
Jim Bannister | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Beattie Ashmore | Beattie Ashmore, Attorney at Law, PA
Stephanie Lewis | Jackson Lewis PC
Andrew Mathias | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Billy Wilkins | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Sarah Batson | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Ryan Beasley | Ryan Beasley Law
Josh Smith | Smith Hudson Law, LLC
Jamie Francis | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Matthew Richardson | Wyche, P.A.
Camden Massingill | Wyche, P.A.
Eric Amstutz | Wyche, P.A.
Jim May | Wyche, P.A.
Wade Kolb | Wyche, P.A.
Wallace Lightsey | Wyche, P.A.
Jimmy Cox | Wyche, P.A.
Corporate Law – Banking & Finance
Lowcountry
Kristen Nichols | Turner Padget
James Wilson | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Laurel Blair | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
William Dawson | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Midlands
*William McElveen, Jr. | Adams and Reese LLP
Jane Downey | Baker Donelson
W. Verne McGough, Jr. | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Todd Haynie | Parker Poe
Chris Boguski | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Angelia Grant | Scott & Corley, P.A.
Sabrina Cleveland | Sherpy & Jones, PA
Upstate
Brian Price | Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, LLC
Burl Williams | Burl F. Williams, P.A.
Brandon Norris | Burr & Forman LLP
Jim Cassidy | Cassidy Coates Price, P.A.
M. Kevin McCarrell | Fox Rothschild LLP
William B. Swent | Fox Rothschild LLP
Marina Goewey | Global Lending Services
Frank Davis | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Meg Scoopmire | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Seth Swan | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Tyler Gilliam | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Chris King | King Kozlarek Law LLC
David Gossett | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Lee Kiser | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Douglas B. O’Neal | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
John Jennings | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Ben Barnhill | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Brad Rustin | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Brittany McIntosh | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Eric Graben | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
John Perkins | Perkins Law Firm
Josh Hudson | Smith Hudson Law, LLC
Josh Smith | Smith Hudson Law, LLC
Matthew B. Edwards | Thomas, Fisher & Edwards, P.A.
Amy Clayton | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Elizabeth (Betty) Temple | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Sterling Laney | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Eric Amstutz | Wyche, P.A.
Jeff Larson | Wyche, P.A.
Matthew Couvillion | Wyche, P.A.
Corporate Law – Business Organizations
Lowcountry
Nathan Johnson | Buxton & Collie, LLC
Clay Grayson | Grayson Law Firm
Thomas Barrow | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Guy Dabbs | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Jennifer Williams | Law Office of Jennifer K. Williams, LLC
Mary Leigh Arnold | Law Office of Mary Leigh Arnold
Ross Miller | Miller Conway
William Dawson | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Whit McGreevy | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Midlands
Ryan Patane | D’Alberto, Graham & Grimsley, LLC
Samuel C. Waters | Finkel Law Firm LLC
Richard R. Gleissner | Gleissner Law Firm, L.L.C.
Jones Dubose | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
James L. McCutchen | McCutchen McLean, LLC
W. Verne McGough, Jr. | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Daniel J. Fritze | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Upstate
David Anna | Anna Law
Jake Rea | Burr & Forman LLP
Jim Cassidy | Cassidy Coates Price, P.A.
Bryan De Bruin | De Bruin Law Firm
Henry M. Gallivan, Jr. | Fox Rothschild LLP
Philip Land | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Tyler Gilliam | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Kyle Clelland | Johnson Smith Attorneys at Law
Robert Merting | Kim, Lahey & Killough Law Firm
Todd Davidson | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Lee Kiser | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Andrew Merline | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Douglas B. O’Neal | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Robert E. August | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Bob August | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Courtney C. Atkinson | Metcalfe & Atkinson, LLC
D. Lesesne Phillips | Moseley Marcinak Law Group
Eric Graben | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Erika Byrd | Parker Poe
John Perkins | Perkins Law Firm
Jordan S. Goewey | Thomas, Fisher & Edwards, P.A.
Zach Weaver | Weaver Law Firm
Jamie Francis | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Eric Amstutz | Wyche, P.A.
Jeff Larson | Wyche, P.A.
Jo Watson Hackl | Wyche, P.A.
Matthew Couvillion | Wyche, P.A.
Ming Lee | Wyche, P.A.
Corporate Law – Mergers & Acquisitions
Lowcountry
James T.H. “Jim” Buxton Sr. | Buxton & Collie, LLC
Nathan Johnson | Buxton & Collie, LLC
Carter Grant | Grant & Kuyk
Graeme Philp | Graybill, Lansche & Vinzani, LLC
Justin Hoyle | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Brian Gillespie | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Midlands
Jones Dubose | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Mark Knight | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
W. Verne McGough Jr. | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Bryan Letteer | Moore Bradley Myers
Benjamin Carlton | Richardson Plowden & Robinson, P.A.
Bill Metzger | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Upstate
David Anna | Anna Law
Brian Price | Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, LLC
Brandon Norris | Burr & Forman LLP
Jake Rea | Burr & Forman LLP
Frank C. Williams III | Fox Rothschild LLP
Henry M. Gallivan, Jr. | Fox Rothschild LLP
Frank Davis | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Philip Land | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Kyle Clelland | Johnson Smith Attorneys at Law
Chris King | King Kozlarek Law LLC
Joel Stoudenmire | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Todd Davidson | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Lee Kiser | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Douglas B. O’Neal | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Andrew D. Merline | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
David Merline Jr. | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Robert E. August | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Eric Graben | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
John Jennings | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Erika Byrd | Parker Poe
John Perkins | Perkins Law Firm
Jordan S. Goewey | Thomas, Fisher & Edwards, P.A.
Matthew B. Edwards | Thomas, Fisher & Edwards, P.A.
Randy E. Fisher | Thomas, Fisher & Edwards, P.A.
Andy Coburn | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Elizabeth (Betty) Temple | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jamie Francis | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jeff Larson | Wyche, P.A.
Matthew Couvillion | Wyche, P.A.
Corporate Law – Securities
Lowcountry
Brian C. Duffy | Duffy and Young, LLC
Brian Gillespie | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
James A. Blair, III, Esq. | WCM Global Wealth, LLC
Midlands
Jay Hennig | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Upstate
David Anna | Anna Law
Philip Land | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Eric K. Graben | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Lee Kiser | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Neil Grayson | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
John Perkins | Perkins Law Firm
Jordan S. Goewey | Thomas, Fisher & Edwards, P.A.
Andy Coburn | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Elizabeth (Betty) Temple | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Matthew Couvillion | Wyche, P.A.
Eric Amstutz | Wyche, P.A.
Jeff Larson | Wyche, P.A.
Stephen Layne | Wyche, P.A.
Criminal – DUI
Lowcountry
Scott Bischoff | Adams & Bischoff
Joe Good | Joe Good, Attorney at Law
Don Sorenson | Law Office of Peter David Brown, PA
Susan E. Williams | Law Office of Susan E. Williams
Peter O’Reilly | O’Reilly Law Firm
Chad Shelton | Price Benowitz LLP
Michael Sahn | Sahn Law Firm, LLC
Christopher Skipper | Skipper Law Firm LLC
Jonathan “Jeb” Lewis | The Law Office of Jonathan
Lewis, LLC
Paul Thurmond | Thurmond Kirchner & Timbes, P.A.
*Trey Harrell | Trey Harrell Law Firm
Adam Young | Young & Young Law Firm
Midlands
Derek Bush | Aiken Public Defender
Clarke Newton | Bluestein Attorneys
Micah Caskey | Caskey Law Firm, P.A.
Alex Postic | Law Office of Alex Postic
Lori Murray | Law Office of Lori S. Murray
Todd Ellis | Law Office of Todd Ellis, PA
Micah Leddy | Leddy Law Firm, LLC
Victor Li | Li Law Firm, LLC
Jonathan Milling | Milling Law Firm, LLC
Gill Bell | Moore Bradley Myers
Nick Riley | Moore Bradley Myers
Stanley Myers | Moore Bradley Myers
S. Jahue Moore, Jr. | Moore Bradley Myers
Dayne C. Phillips | Price Benowitz LLP
Alexandra Benevento | Strom Law Firm
Marion Moses | The Law Offices of Marion M. Moses, LLC
Upstate
Patrick Anderson | Anderson Moore
Jim Bannister | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Marcelo Torricos | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
John Bateman | Bateman Law Firm
Beattie Ashmore | Beattie Ashmore, Attorney at Law, PA
Jennings Byford | Byford Law Firm, LLC
Christopher D. Brough | Cate & Brough, P.A.
Cindy Crick | Cindy Crick Law
Jenny Barwick | Clawson and Staubes
Sam Tooker | David R. Price Jr., P.A.
Frank Eppes | Eppes & Plumblee
James (Wally) W. Fayssoux, Jr. | Fayssoux & Landis
Stuart Sarratt | Greenville County Public Defender’s Office
John D. Newkirk | John D. Newkirk, Attorney At Law
Jennifer E. Wells | KD Trial Lawyers
Stephen L. Denton | KD Trial Lawyers
Mills Ariail | Law Office of R. Mills Ariail Jr.
Lucas Marchant | Marchant Law Firm, LLC
Andy Moorman | Moorman Law Firm
Chad Propst | Price Benowitz LLP
E. Powers Price | Price Law Firm, P.A.
James H. Price, IV | Price Law Firm, P.A.
Ryan Beasley | Ryan Beasley Law
Scott Todd | Sumner & Todd, Attorneys at Law
Scott Talley | The Talley Law Firm
Adam Touma | Touma and Fedali, LLP
Chris Scalzo | Turner Padget
Asher Watson | Watson Law Attorneys & Counselors
Jim May | Wyche, P.A.
Criminal – General
Lowcountry
*Cameron Blazer | Blazer Law Firm
Matthew Hubbell | Duffy and Young, LLC
Tim Kulp | Kulp & Elliot
Peter David Brown | Law Office of Peter David Brown, PA
Susan E. Williams | Law Office of Susan E. Williams
Peter O’Reilly | O’Reilly Law Firm
Chad Shelton | Price Benowitz LLP
Michael Sahn | Sahn Law Firm, LLC
Stephen Schmutz | Schmutz & Schmutz
Christopher Skipper | Skipper Law Firm LLC
Trey Harrell | Trey Harrell Law Firm
Midlands
Aimee Zmroczek | A.J.Z. Law Firm, LLC
Deborah Barbier | Deborah Barbier, Attorney at Law
Jim Griffin | Griffin Humphries LLC
Johnny Gasser | Harris & Gasser
Chris Leonard | Kendrick & Leonard, P.C.
Alex Postic | Law Office of Alex Postic
Lori Murray | Law Office of Lori S. Murray
Seth Rose | Law Office of Seth Rose
Jack Swerling | Law Offices of Jack Swerling
Micah Leddy | Leddy Law Firm, LLC
Joe McCulloch | McCulloch & Schillaci
Jonathan Milling | Milling Law Firm, LLC
Jake Moore, Sr. | Moore Bradley Myers
Bryan Letteer | Moore Bradley Myers
Gill Bell | Moore Bradley Myers
Stanley Myers | Moore Bradley Myers
S. Jahue Moore, Jr. | Moore Bradley Myers
Dayne C. Phillips | Price Benowitz LLP
Alexandra Benevento | Strom Law Firm
Jonathan “Jeb” Lewis | The Law Office of Jonathan
Lewis, LLC
Marion Moses | The Law Offices of Marion M. Moses, LLC
Jim May | Wyche, P.A.
Upstate
Patrick Anderson | Anderson Moore
AnneMarie Haynsworth Odom | AnneMarie Odom Law, LLC
Erika Baldwin | Baldwin Law, LLC
Jim Bannister | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Marcelo Torricos | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Beattie Ashmore | Beattie Ashmore, Attorney at Law, PA
Jennings Byford | Byford Law Firm, LLC
Christopher D. Brough | Cate & Brough, P.A.
Randy Chambers | Chambers Law Firm
Christopher L. Jones | Christopher L. Jones, Attorney
at Law, LLC
Cindy Crick | Cindy Crick Law
David Seay, Jr. | David Seay Jr., LLC Attorney At Law
Sloan Ellis | Ellis Hinton, LLC
James (Wally) W. Fayssoux, Jr. | Fayssoux & Landis
William Grove | Grove Ozment LLC
Jake Erwin | Jake Erwin Attorney at Law
John D. Newkirk | John D. Newkirk, Attorney At Law
Jennifer E. Wells | KD Trial Lawyers
Stephen L. Denton | KD Trial Lawyers
Toria Smith | KD Trial Lawyers
Stephen L. Denton | KD Trial Lawyers
Lucas Marchant | Marchant Law Firm, LLC
Billy Wilkins | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Chad Propst | Price Benowitz LLP
E. Powers | Price Law Firm, P.A.
Lance Crick | Ryan Beasley Law
Ryan Beasley | Ryan Beasley Law
Monty Desai | The Carolina Law Group, LLC
Nihar Patel | The Carolina Law Group, LLC
Scott Talley | The Talley Law Firm
Adam Touma | Touma and Fedali, LLP
Chris Scalzo | Turner Padget
Brann Fowler | Watson Fowler
Jim May | Wyche, P.A.
Criminal – White Collar
Lowcountry
Tim Kulp | Kulp & Elliot
Peter David Brown | Law Office of Peter David Brown, PA
Susan E. Williams | Law Office of Susan E. Williams
Bart Daniel | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Matt Austin | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Jerry Theos | Theos Law Firm, LLC
Adam Young | Young & Young Law Firm
Midlands
Brianne Steiner | Aiken Public Defender
Jim Griffin | Griffin Humphries LLC
Alex Postic | Law Office of Alex Postic
Lori Murray | Law Office of Lori S. Murray
Jack Swerling | Law Offices of Jack Swerling
Mark Moore | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Joe McCulloch | McCulloch & Schillaci
Jonathan Milling | Milling Law Firm, LLC
Gill Bell | Moore Bradley Myers
Ward Bradley | Moore Bradley Myers
S. Jahue Moore, Jr. | Moore Bradley Myers
Dayne C. Phillips | Price Benowitz LLP
Tina Cundari | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose
& Morgan, LLC
Alexandra Benevento | Strom Law Firm
Marion Moses | The Law Offices of Marion M. Moses, LLC
Jim May | Wyche, P.A.
Upstate
AnneMarie Haynsworth Odom | AnneMarie Odom Law, LLC
Bill Bannister | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Jim Bannister | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Charles Bondurant | Bondurant Legal LLC
Cindy Crick | Cindy Crick Law
Brandi Hinton | Ellis Hinton, LLC
Frank Eppes | Eppes & Plumblee
James (Wally) W. Fayssoux, Jr. | Fayssoux & Landis
Stuart Sarratt | Greenville County Public Defender’s Office
William Grove | Grove Ozment LLC
Jake Erwin | Jake Erwin Attorney at Law
Jennifer E. Wells | KD Trial Lawyers
Stephen L. Denton | KD Trial Lawyers
Josh Kendrick | Kendrick & Leonard, P.C.
Lucas Marchant | Marchant Law Firm, LLC
Billy Wilkins | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Konstantine Diamaduros | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Andy Moorman | Moorman Law Firm
Ryan Beasley | Ryan Beasley Law
Nihar Patel | The Carolina Law Group, LLC
Scott Talley | The Talley Law Firm
Christopher Scalzo | Turner Padget
Asher Watson | Watson Law Attorneys & Counselors
Economic Development
Lowcountry
Ric Tapp | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Jamey Goldin | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Stephanie Yarbrough | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Whit McGreevy | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Midlands
J. Michael “Mike” Ey | Burr & Forman LLP
Edward G. Kluiters | Nelson Mullins Riley
& Scarborough LLP
Alyssa Richardson | Palmetto Community Developers
Upstate
Brandon Norris | Burr & Forman LLP
Frank Davis | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Kathleen Crum McKinney | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Philip Land | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Daniel Craig | Johnson Smith Attorneys at Law
Richard Few | Parker Poe
Ryan Beasley | Ryan Beasley Law
Jenny Barwick | The Barwick Law Firm, LLC
Ming Lee | Wyche, P.A
Matthew Couvillion | Wyche, P.A.
Josh Lonon | Wyche, P.A.
Education
Lowcountry
Elizabeth Morrison | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Alice Paylor | Saxton & Stump
Midlands
Grant Burnette LeFever | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Samantha Albrecht | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Elizabeth Millender | Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
David Lyon | Duff Freeman Lyon, L.L.C
Allison Hanna | Halligan Mahoney & Williams
Kathy Mahoney | Halligan Mahoney & Williams
Connie Jackson | Halligan Mahoney and Williams
Jake Moore, Sr. | Moore Bradley Myers
Joseph D. Dickey | Richardson Plowden & Robinson, P.A
Jennifer Rainville | SC Appleseed Legal Justice
Mary Allison Caudell | Turner Caudell
Andrea White | White & Story, LLC
Kevin Hall | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Upstate
Ross Plyler | Cassidy Coates Price, P.A.
Daniel B. White | Gallivan White & Boyd
Doug Webb | Greenville County Schools
John Bell | Greenville Tech
Jay Matthews | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Montrio Belton | Montrio Belton
Dick Riley | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Heather Scalzo | Offit Kurman
Inez Tenenbaum | Wyche, P.A.
Ted Gentry | Wyche, P.A.
Eminent Domain
Lowcountry
*Abigail B. Walsh | Williams & Walsh, LLC
Kevin Mims | Luzuriaga Mims, LLP
William E. Applegate IV | Yarborough Applegate
Law Firm, LLC
Midlands
William C. Dillard, Jr. | Belser Law Firm, PA
David L. Paavola | Kenison, Dudley & Crawford
Sean M. Foerster | Rogers Townsend, LLC
John DuBose | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose
& Morgan, LLC
Upstate
Michael Gault | Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, LLC
Howard “Pat” W Paschal | Howard “Pat” W Paschal PA
Max T. Hyde, Jr. | Hyde Law Firm, PA
Ryan F. McCarty | KD Trial Lawyers
Greg English | Wyche, P.A
Josh Lonon | Wyche, P.A.
Bill Wilson | Wyche, P.A.
Employee Benefits
Midlands
Nekki Shutt | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Jack Cohoon | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Reggie Belcher | Turner Padget
Frank Shuler | Turner Padget
Palmer Freeman | Whetstone Perkins & Fulda
Upstate
Nathaniel Bax | Foster Law Firm, LLC
Robert E. Hoskins | Foster Law Firm, LLC
William L. Dennis | Fox Rothschild LLP
Chris Gantt-Sorenson | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Marie Monroe | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Eric Penkert | Ogletree Deakins
Thomas M. Christina | Ogletree Deakins
Debbie Kleman | Parker Poe
John Peace | Perkins Law Firm
Camden Massingill | Wyche, P.A.
Employment – Defendant
Lowcountry
Melissa Spence | Butler Snow LLP
Allan Holmes | Gibbs & Holmes
Elliot Condon | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Mary Stuart King | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Jonathan Lane | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Amy Jenkins | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Michelle McMahon | Ogletree Deakins
Greg Horton | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Midlands
Grant Wills | Baker Donelson
Jack Cohoon | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Sarah J.M. Cox | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Samantha Albrecht | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Blaney Coskrey | Coskrey Law Office
Sheila Willis | Fisher Phillips
Regina Lewis | Gaffney Lewis, LLC
Laura W. Jordan | Gallivan White & Boyd
Foster Haselden | Gignilliat, Savitz & Bettis, LLP
Sara Svedberg | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Hannah Stetson | Turner Padget
Upstate
John Connell | Burr & Forman LLP
Debbie Brown | Gallivan White & Boyd
Chris Gantt-Sorenson | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Ellison McCoy | Jackson Lewis P.C.
J. Brendan Kelley | Jackson Lewis P.C.
Andy Satterfield | Jackson Lewis P.C.
Chase Samples | Jackson Lewis P.C.
Frank Stern | Jackson Lewis P.C.
Randy Moody | Jackson Lewis P.C.
Stephanie Lewis | Jackson Lewis P.C.
William Gignilliat | Jackson Lewis P.C.
Casey Martens | Kim, Lahey & Killough Law Firm
Sandi Wilson | Lockheed Martin
Matthew K. Johnson | Matthew K. Johnson Law Firm, LLC
Jennifer Cluverius | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Mark Bakker | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Giles Schanen Jr. | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Courtney Atkinson | Metcalfe & Atkinson, LLC
Ashley Cuttino | Ogletree Deakins
John Merrell | Ogletree Deakins
Phillip Kilgore | Ogletree Deakins
Emily Bridges | Parker Poe
Alexander Paterra | Paterra Law Firm, LLC
John Perkins | Perkins Law Firm
Josh Smith | Smith Hudson Law, LLC
Tom Stephenson | Stephenson and Murphy
Zach Weaver | Weaver Law FIrm
Camden Massingill | Wyche, P.A.
Fred Suggs | Ogletree Deakins
Phillip Kilgore | Ogletree Deakins
Eric Penkert | Ogletree Deakins
Employment – Plaintiff
Lowcountry
Allan Holmes | Gibbs & Holmes
Joseph D. Dickey | Richardson Plowden & Robinson, P.A
Midlands
Jack Cohoon | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Sarah J.M. Cox | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Samantha Albrecht | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Jacob Modla | Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
Beth Bowen | Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
Elizabeth Millender | Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
Jay Babb | Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
Donald Gist | Gist Law Firm
Robin R. McLean | McCutchen McLean, LLC
Upstate
Brian Arnold | Arnold Law Firm
Jeff Dunlaevy | Dunlaevy Law Firm
Jeremy Summerlin | Horton Law Firm, P.A
Andy Satterfield | Jackson Lewis P.C.
Randy Moody | Jackson Lewis P.C.
Casey Martens | Kim, Lahey & Killough Law Firm
Laura E. Martin | Martin & Martin Attorneys
Matthew K. Johnson | Matthew K. Johnson Law Firm, LLC
Courtney Atkinson | Metcalfe & Atkinson, LLC
Emily Bridges | Parker Poe
Alexander Paterra | Paterra Law Firm, LLC
Josh Hudson | Smith Hudson Law, LLC
Brian Murphy | Stephenson and Murphy
Tom Stephenson | Stephenson and Murphy
Zach Weaver | Weaver Law FIrm
Jim May | Wyche, P.A
Camden Massingill | Wyche, P.A.
Wade Kolb | Wyche, P.A.
Energy & Utilities
Lowcountry
Jamey Goldin | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Midlands
Benjamin “Ned” E. Nicholson, V | Burr & Forman LLP
John Boyd | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Weston Adams | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Frank R. Ellerbe III | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Frank Ellerbe | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Belton Zeigler | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Matthew Richardson | Wyche, P.A.
Upstate
Will Middleton | Baker Donelson
Bruce Bannister | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Luke Burke | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Heather Smith | Duke Energy
R. Taylor Speer | Fox Rothschild LLP
Josh Spencer | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Sarah Spruill | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Ryan F. McCarty | KD Trial Lawyers
David Dill | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Rita Bolt Barker | Wyche, P.A.
Jimmy Cox | Wyche, P.A.
Wallace Lightsey | Wyche, P.A.
Environmental
Lowcountry
Mary Shahid | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Elizabeth Dieck | Parker Poe
Midlands
Beth Partlow | Beth Partlow Law
Kathleen McDaniel | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Karen Crawford | KLAC Law Firm LLC
Childs Cantey Thrasher | Law Office of Childs
Cantey Thrasher, LLC
Joan Hartley | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Ashley McMahan | McMahan & Taylor
Tom Mullikin | Mullikin Law Firm
Weston Adams | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Frank Ellerbe | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Ethan Ware | Williams Mullen
Jessie King | Williams Mullins
Upstate
Bill Coates | Cassidy Coates Price, P.A.
Robert A. Deholl | Elmore Goldsmith Kelley & DeHoll, P.A.
R. Taylor Speer | Fox Rothschild LLP
Daniel B White | Gallivan White & Boyd
Danny White | Gallivan White & Boyd
Kelly Lowry | Law Firm of Lowry and Associates, LLC
Gene McCall | McCall Environmental
Gary Poliakoff | Poliakoff and Associates
Josh Smith | Smith Hudson Law, LLC
Michael Corley | South Carolina Environmental Law Project
Michael Bogle | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Greg English | Wyche, P.A.
Estate & Trust – Litigation
Lowcountry
Andrew Chandler | Evans, Carter, Kunes & Bennett
R. Bruce Wallace | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Cecile Crogan | Parker Poe
G.P. Diminich | Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
Midlands
Lyndey R. Z. Bryant | Adams and Reese LLP
Jeffrey Hopkins | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
James L. McCutchen | McCutchen McLean, LLC
Verne McGough | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Andrew Atkins | Millender Elder Law
Thomas D. Kilpatrick | Murphy and Kilpatrick, P.A.
William G. Newsome III | Newsome Law, P.A.
Greg Parker | Parker Law, LLC
*Amy Hill | Richardson Thomas, LLC
Beth Richardson | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
George S. Bailey | Sojourner, Caughman and Thomas
Creighton Segars | Stuckey Fata & Segars, LLC
James Segars | Stuckey Fata & Segars, LLC
Matthew Myers | Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A.
Kenneth B. Wingate | Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A.
A. Bennett Evers | Todd & Johnson, LLP
Johnny Kornegay | Todd & Johnson, LLP
Jonathan E. Spitz | Todd & Johnson, LLP
Upstate
James Anderson | Anderson Law Firm
Tanner Riley | Bradley K. Richardson, PC
R. David Massey | Brown Massey Evans McLeod
& Haynsworth LLC
Tyler E. Mcleod | Brown Massey Evans McLeod
& Haynsworth LLC
Jeanmarie Tankersley | Clawson and Staubes
James B. Drennan, III | Dennis Shaw Drennan & Pack, LLC
Mike Bridges | Dobson Law Group
E. Zachary Horton | Horton & Horton Law Firm, LLC
Shane Rogers | Johnson Smith Attorneys at Law
Ryan F. McCarty | KD Trial Lawyers
Dave Thompson | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
J. Aaron Nelson, Jr. | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Keith G Meacham | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Perry Deloach | The Law Offices of Perry B. DeLoach, Jr., LLC
Jordan S. Goewey | Thomas, Fisher & Edwards, P.A.
Zach Weaver | Weaver Law FIrm
John Moylan | Wyche, P.A
Greg English | Wyche, P.A.
Marshall Winn | Wyche, P.A.
Estate & Trust – Planning
Lowcountry
Maria Averill | Averill Law Firm
Andrew Rhea | Evans, Carter, Kunes & Bennett
Patricia Scarborough | Evans, Carter, Kunes & Bennett
Jennifer Williams | Law Office of Jennifer K. Williams, LLC
Jennifer Davis | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Cecile Crogan | Parker Poe
Brent Bullock | Taylor Foley Law Firm
J. Aaron Nelson | The Nelson Law Firm
Laurel Blair | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Tom Zamadics | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Midlands
Alan Reyner | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Jeffrey Hopkins | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Erin A. Cook | Estate Planning of SC, LLC
Lisa Hostetler Brown | LawyerLisa
James L. McCutchen | McCutchen McLean, LLC
W. Verne McGough, Jr. | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Andrew Atkins | Millender Elder Law
Thomas D. Kilpatrick | Murphy and Kilpatrick, P.A.
Tim Thompson | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Jasmine Smith | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Rita Bragg Caughman | Sojourner, Caughman and Thomas
Jennifer MacLeod | Sojourner, Caughman, and Thomas
Creighton Segars | Stuckey Fata & Segars, LLC
Matthew Myers | Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A.
Amber Daniels | The Law Office of Amber Daniels
Johnny Kornegay | Todd & Johnson, LLP
W. Steven Johnson | Todd & Johnson, LLP
William M. Reynolds, III | Todd & Johnson, LLP
A. Bennett Evers | Todd & Johnson, LLP
Madison Barnhill | Turner Padget
Upstate
James Anderson | Anderson Law Firm
Neal Rabon | Ashmore, Leaphart, Rabon LLC
Thomas Sinclair | Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, LLC
Suzanne Massey Schemm | Brown Massey Evans McLeod
& Haynsworth LLC
Jake Rea | Burr & Forman LLP
Jeanmarie Tankersley | Clawson and Staubes
Aaron DeBruin | De Bruin Law Firm
James B. Drennan, III | Dennis Shaw Drennan & Pack, LLC
Adam Lee | Dobson Law Group
Jake Brice | Fox Rothschild LLP
Michelle H. King | Fox Rothschild LLP
Justin Hamrick | Hamrick Law
Mac McLean | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Kristin Barber | Johnson Smith Attorneys at Law
Cory Hughes | Law Office of W. Cory Hughes, LLC
Andrew D. Merline | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Keith G. Meacham | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Marie Monroe | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Phillip J. Martin | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Robert E. August | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Douglas O’Neal | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
David Merline | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
David Vines | Offit Kurman
Jim Hardin | Offit Kurman
Jordan S. Goewey | Thomas, Fisher & Edwards, P.A.
Matthew B. Edwards | Thomas, Fisher & Edwards, P.A.
David A. Thompson | Thomas, Fisher & Edwards, P.A.
Randy E. Fisher | Thomas, Fisher & Edwards, P.A.
Matthew Couvillion | Wyche, P.A
Cary Hall | Wyche, P.A.
Family
Lowcountry
Daryn R. Barker | Barker Family Law
Anne Frances Bleecker | Bleecker Family Law
Megan Dell | Dell Family Law
Evan Smith | Evan Smith Law Firm
Elizabeth Rast | Family Advocacy Law Firm
Britton Hawk | Hawk & Hawk Law Firm
Ross Miller | Miller Conway
Rene Dukes | Saxton & Stump
Sean Keefer | Sean F. Keefer, LLC
Sara Turner | The Law Office of Sara Turner
Midlands
Reed Swearingen | Archer Swearingen Divorce
Attorneys, LLC
Amanda Mueller | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Destinee Wilson | Cordell & Cordell
Mackenzie Pearson | Cordell & Cordell
Stephanie Smith | Cordell & Cordell
Christine Robbins | Cordell & Cordell
Stephanie M. Smith | Cordell & Cordell
Rebecca Creel | Creel Family Law, LLC
Stephanie Fajardo | Fajardo Law Firm, LLC
Rebecca West | Harling & West
Amber Cary Fulmer | Jewitte Dooley Law, LLC
Jewitte Dooley | Jewitte Dooley Law, LLC
Kana Rahman | Kana Law, LLC
Katharine Fisher | Kinard & Jones, LLC
Andrew Farley | Law Office of Andrew Farley
Catherine Hendrix | Law Office of Catherine Hendrix
Kenneth M. Mathews | Law Offices of Kenneth Mathews
Robin McLean | McCutchen McLean, LLC
Claire Dorbandt | McCutchen McLean, LLC
Robin R. McLean | McCutchen McLean, LLC
Peter Currence | McDougall Self Currence & McLeod
Jim McLaren | McLaren & Lee
James T. McLaren | McLaren & Lee
Bill Fortino | Moore Bradley Myers
Emily Collins | Moore Bradley Myers
William “Bill” Fortino | Moore Bradley Myers
Dale Turner | Moore Bradley Myers
Ralph Nichols “Nick” Riley, Jr. | Moore Bradley Myers
Shelia Robinson | Moore Bradley Myers
S. Jahue Moore, Jr. | Moore Bradley Myers
Sandra Parise | Parise & Noë Law Firm, P.A.
Michelle Matthews | Strom Family Law
Patricia Morr | Strom Family Law
Susan Strom | Strom Family Law
Paul Fata | Stuckey Fata & Segars, LLC
Lynsey Barker | The GAL Law Firm
Ryan Lane | The Lane Law Firm, LLC
Jonathan “Jeb” Lewis | The Law Office of Jonathan Lewis, LLC
Tripp Rush | The Rush Law Firm
Cyril (Tripp) B. Rush III | The Rush Law Firm
Carrie Warner | Warner Law Firm
Upstate
Alex Kornfeld | Alex Kornfeld, Attorney at Law, LLC
Amie Carpenter | Anderson Carpenter LLC
Tripp Atkins | Atkins Law Firm, P.A.
Bruce Bannister | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Elizabeth McCool | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Marcelo Torricos | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Thomas W. Traxler | Carter, Smith, Merriam, Rogers
& Traxler, P.A.
Rachel I. Brough | Cate & Brough, P.A.
Amanda Gallivan | Christophillis & Gallivan, P.A.
Jessica Christophillis | Christophillis & Gallivan, P.A.
Jenny Barwick | Clawson and Staubes
Ashton Bowns | Cordell & Cordell
James C. Todd IV | Cordell & Cordell
Will Davis | Davis Law Group
Jordan Peeler | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Mackenzie Ruroede | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Chip Howard | Howard Law Firm, P.A.
Tatyana Ustimchuk | Hub City Law, LLC
Jason Elliott | Jason Elliot Law Firm
Allison P. Dunham | KD Trial Lawyers
Jonathan W. Lounsberry | KD Trial Lawyers
Jennifer Mook | Law Office of Jennifer Mook
Danielle Mitchell | Mitchell Ramseur, LLC
Joseph Ramseur | Mitchell Ramseur, LLC
Sidney Mitchell | Mitchell Ramseur, LLC
Lisa Mobley | Mobley Law Firm
Ben Stevens | Offit Kurman
Carlisle Brice | Offit Kurman
Heather Scalzo | Offit Kurman
J. Benjamin Stevens | Offit Kurman
Stephen L. Chryst | Offit Kurman
James H. Price | Price Law Firm, P.A.
Christine Hodge | SC Legal Services
Travis V. Olmert | The Olmert Law Firm, LLC
Todd W. Pruette | Todd W. Pruette, Attorney at Law LLC
Ashlea White | White Davis & White Law Firm
David Wilson | Wilson & Englebardt, LLC
Amos Workman | Wyche, P.A.
Foreclosure
Lowcountry
*Allison Heffernan | Scott & Corley, P.A.
Midlands
Jane Downey | Baker Donelson
B. Lindsay Crawford IV | Crawford & Von Keller, LLC
Mary Caskey | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
J. Kershaw Spong | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Reggie Corley | Scott & Corley, P.A.
Kevin T. Brown | Scott & Corley, P.A.
Upstate
Michael Bagwell | Bradley K. Richardson, PC
Weyman Carter | Burr & Forman LLP
*Jim Cassidy | Cassidy Coates Price, P.A.
M. Kevin McCarrell | Fox Rothschild LLP
Kristin Barber | Johnson Smith Attorneys at Law
Andrew Carson | The Clardy Law Firm, PA
Rory D. Whelehan | Whelehan Law Firm, LLC
Jason Wyman | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Sterling Laney | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Bill Wilson | Wyche, P.A.
Greg English | Wyche, P.A.
Government – Finance
Midlands
Elizabeth “Beth” Atwater | Atwater & Associates
Bob Coble | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Ray Jones | Parker Poe
David Jones | South Carolina Office of the Attorney General
Carrie Warner | Warner Law Firm
Upstate
Michael W. Burns | Burr & Forman LLP
Frank Eppes | Eppes & Plumblee
Logan Wells | Greenville City Attorney’s Office
Brad Love | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Kathy McKinney | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Jason Elliot | Jason Elliot Law Firm
Michael Kozlarek | King Kozlarek Law LLC
Lane Davis | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
David Wilkins | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Josh Lonon | Wyche, P.A.
Rita Barker | Wyche, P.A.
Eric Amstutz | Wyche, P.A.
Government – Relations
Lowcountry
James Goldin | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Midlands
Todd Atwater | Atwater & Associates
Ryan Hicks | Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
Kyle Michel | Kyle Michel Law Firm
Bob Coble | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Burnie Maybank | Adams and Reese LLP
Sally Rogers | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Christian Spradley | Moore Bradley Myers
Dwight Drake | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Rob Tyson | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Ronald C. Scott | Scott & Corley, P.A.
Katie Nilges | South Carolina Department of Education
John Moylan | Wyche, P.A.
Upstate
Bruce Bannister | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
John Devlin | DevlinSnyder ADR, LLC
Frank Eppes | Eppes & Plumblee
Logan Wells | Greenville City Attorney’s Office
Jason Elliott | Jason Elliott Law Firm
Doug Smith | Johnson Smith Attorneys at Law
Michael Kozlarek | King Kozlarek Law LLC
Laura E. Martin | Martin & Martin Attorneys
Billy Wilkins | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Rivers Stilwell | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Ryan Beasley | Ryan Beasley Law
Rita Bolt Barker | Wyche, P.A.
Healthcare
Lowcountry
Sandra Miller | Baker Donelson
Alissa Fleming | Baker Donelson
Lindsay Nishan | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Jennie Smith | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Spencer Craig Gill | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Marshall Allen | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Nathan Hughey | Hughey Law Firm, LLC
Stephen Bittinger | K&L Gates
Eli Poliakoff | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Kevin Horton | Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
Laura J. Evans | Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
Midlands
Creasie Parrott Schlachter | Barnes Alford Stork
& Johnson, LLP
Weldon R. Johnson | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Emily Collins Brown | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
E. Wade Mullins III | Bruner, Powell, Wall & Mullins, LLC
Jim Parham | Jim Parham & Associates
Chandler Martin | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Ashley Johnson | Parker Poe
Will Thomas | Parker Poe
Darra James Coleman | Prisma Health
George Beighley | Richardson Plowden & Robinson, P.A.
Monty Todd | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Wes Jackson | Rogers Lewis
Judah Vansyckel | Saluda Law, LLC
Jay McKay, II | The McKay Firm
Kelli Sullivan | Turner Padget
Upstate
Catherine Wrenn | Baker Donelson
Harvey Cleveland | Bon Secours Mercy Health
Perry Boulier | Boulier Thompson & Barnes, LLC
Walker Barnes | Boulier Thompson & Barnes, LLC
Rachel O. Gilbert | Burr & Forman LLP
Trey Suggs | Cassidy Coates Price, P.A.
Cameo Joseph | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Ben Alexander | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Matt Utecht | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Meghan Riordan | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Sally Purnell | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Brown Parkinson | Holcombe Bomar, P.A.
Collie W. “Trip” Lehn, Jr. | Huff, Powell & Bailey, LLC
Joe Mooneyham | Mooneyham Berry, LLC
Ella Barbery | Shelly Leeke Law Firm
Anne Culbreath | Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, P.A.
Rachael Anna | Wyche, P.A.
Hospitality & Tourism
Lowcountry
James Wilson | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Midlands
Evan Gessner | Collins & Lacy, P.C.
*Trevor Eddy | Eddy Law Firm
Ryan Holt | Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A.
Upstate
Aimee V. Leary | Fox Rothschild LLP
Laura E. Martin | Martin & Martin Attorneys
Insurance
Lowcountry
*Dawes Cooke | Barnwell Whaley
Kenny Gardner | Butler Snow LLP
Christie Perrin | Copeland, Stair Valz & Lovell, LLP
Elizabeth Freeman Wieters | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Elizabeth Morrison | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Shawn Bevans | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Ben Davis | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Nickisha Woodward | Turner Padget
David Cobb | Turner Padget
Allison Carter | Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, P.A.
Ryan Ellard | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Midlands
Richard C. Thomas | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Curtis Dowling | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Austin Hood | Clawson and Staubes
A. Johnston Cox | Gallivan White & Boyd
Makenzie P. Segars | Gallivan White & Boyd
Shelley Montague | Gallivan White & Boyd
Adam Ribock | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Julie Moose | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Michael Trask | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Riley Bearden | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Robert Trippett Boineau III | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Sierra Carini | Moore Bradley Myers
Ward Bradley | Moore Bradley Myers
John R. Murphy | Murphy & Grantland P.A.
Michael Montgomery | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Daniel Plyler | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose & Morgan, LLC
Samantha Sanders | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose
& Morgan, LLC
Aaron Hayes | Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A.
Mark Barrow | Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A.
Richard McLawhorn | Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A.
Ryan Holt | Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A.
Brandon Jones | The McKay Firm
Janet Brooks Holmes | The McKay Firm
Thom Salane | Turner Padget
James Brogdon | Whetstone Perkins & Fulda
Upstate
Catherine Wrenn | Baker Donelson
Tim Nowacki | Clardy Law Firm, P.A.
David Hartman | Clardy Law Firm, P.A.
Genevieve Weaver | Clardy Law Firm, P.A.
Jeanmarie Tankersley | Clawson and Staubes
Shelby Herbkersman | Clawson and Staubes
Trey Still | Clawson and Staubes
David Price Jr. | David R. Price Jr., P.A.
James (Wally) W. Fayssoux, Jr. | Fayssoux & Landis
Daniel B White | Gallivan White & Boyd
Carter Massingill | Gallivan White & Boyd
David Rheney | Gallivan White & Boyd
Jennifer Johnsen | Gallivan White & Boyd
Natalie Ecker | Gallivan White & Boyd
Phillip Reeves | Gallivan White & Boyd
Danny White | Gallivan White & Boyd
Derrick Quattlebaum | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Frankie Marion | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Jonathan Klett | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Konstantine Diamaduros | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Lane Davis | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Bo Williams | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Vernon Dunbar | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Zach Brown | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Mitchell Appleby | Mooneyham & Berry, LLC
Rocky C. Rogers | Moseley Marcinak Law Group
Alex Timmons | Moseley Marcinak Law Group
Kristen Nowacki | Moseley Marcinak Law Group
Nick Farr | Rogers Townsend, LLC
Kurt M. Rozelsky | Spencer Fane LLP
Andrew Carson | The Clardy Law Firm
Genevieve Weaver | The Clardy Law Firm
Adam Bach | Tonnsen Bach
David Moore | Turner Padget
Kyle White | White Davis & White Law Firm
Clay Custer | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Greg English | Wyche, P.A.
Rita Bolt Barker | Wyche, P.A.
Intellectual Property and Innovation
Lowcountry
B.C. Killough | Kim, Lahey & Killough Law Firm
John McElwaine | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Midlands
Todd Serbin | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Upstate
Doug Lineberry | Burr & Forman LLP
Alan Marshall | Dority & Manning
Allison Ko | Dority & Manning
Parks Workman | Dority & Manning
Rhoades White | Dority & Manning
Neil Batavia | Dority & Manning, P.A.
Thomas W. Epting | Fox Rothschild LLP
Hunter Freeman | Kim, Lahey & Killough Law Firm
Seann Lahey | Kim, Lahey & Killough Law Firm
Doug Kim | Kim, Lahey & Killough Law Firm
Bryan Baysinger | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Tim St. Clair | Parker Poe
John Perkins | Perkins Law Firm
Josh Smith | Smith Hudson Law, LLC
Zach Weaver | Weaver Law FIrm
Kean J. DeCarlo | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Meliah Bowers Jefferson | Wyche, P.A.
Wallace Lightsey | Wyche, P.A.
Tom Vanderbloemen | Vanderbloemen Law Firm
International
Lowcountry
John H. Wilkinson | John H. Wilkinson ADR
Midlands
Wolfgang Buchmaier | Buchmaier Law Firm
David Dubberly | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Dayton Riddle | Parker Poe
Upstate
Joseph Rohe | 6125 Trade LLC
Allen Ladd | Allen C. Ladd, Attorney
Frank Davis | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Garrett Steck | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Philip Land | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Jonathan W. Lounsberry | KD Trial Lawyers
Laura E. Martin | Martin & Martin Attorneys
Billy Wilkins | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Henry Burwell | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Amy Hinson | Parker Poe
Elizabeth (Betty) Temple | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Marshall Winn | Wyche, P.A.
Labor
Lowcountry
Melissa Spence | Butler Snow LLP
Elliot Condon | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Jonathan Lane | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Michelle McMahon | Ogletree Deakins
Midlands
Jenni Dunlap | Baker Donelson
Grant Wills | Baker Donelson
Samantha Albrecht | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Chance Sturup | Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
Beth Bowen | Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
Elizabeth Millender | Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
Paul Porter | Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
Sheila Willis | Fisher Phillips
Angus Macaulay | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Robin R. McLean | McCutchen McLean, LLC
Joseph D. Dickey | Richardson Plowden & Robinson, P.A
Upstate
Brian Arnold | Arnold Law Firm
James K. Gilliam | Burr & Forman LLP
Chris Gantt-Sorenson | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Jeremy Summerlin | Horton Law Firm, P.A
Andy Satterfield | Jackson Lewis P.C.
Frank Stern | Jackson Lewis P.C.
Randy Moody | Jackson Lewis P.C.
Stephanie Lewis | Jackson Lewis P.C.
William Gignilliat | Jackson Lewis P.C.
Mark Bakker | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Sarah Batson | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Courtney Atkinson | Metcalfe & Atkinson, LLC
Ashley Cuttino | Ogletree Deakins
Fred Suggs | Ogletree Deakins
John Merrell | Ogletree Deakins
Phillip Kilgore | Ogletree Deakins
Alexander Paterra | Paterra Law Firm, LLC
John Perkins | Perkins Law Firm
Josh Smith | Smith Hudson Law, LLC
Tom Stephenson | Stephenson and Murphy
Camden Massingill | Wyche, P.A.
Maritime
Lowcountry
Randell Stoney | Barnwell Whaley
Scott Bluestein | Bluestein Law Firm
Ryan Gilsenan | Hines & Gilsenan LLC
*Julius Hines | Hines & Gilsenan LLC
Upstate
Joseph Rohe | 6125 Trade LLC
Stephen Layne | Wyche, P.A.
Mediation
Lowcountry
Marvin Infinger | Barnwell Whaley
Randell Stoney | Barnwell Whaley
Jack Gresh | Dodds Hennessy & Stith
Jay A. Jones | Gallivan White & Boyd
Bill Lyles | Lyles Law Firm
Todd Manley | Manley & Halverstadt
Mark Davis | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Darren Sanders | Sanders ADR, LLC
*Tom Wills | Wills Massalon & Allen LLC
John Massalon | Wills Massalon & Allen, LLC
Midlands
Anthony Charles | Anthony J. Charles Mediation
Services, LLC
Jane Downey | Baker Donelson
Marti Bluestein | Bluestein Attorneys
Malissa Burnette | Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, P.A.
Rebecca Creel | Creel Family Law, LLC
Earl Ellis | Ellis Mediation
Karl Folkens | Folkens Law Firm
Gray T. Culbreath | Gallivan White & Boyd
Angus Macaulay | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Robin R. McLean | McCutchen McLean, LLC
Anthony Livoti | Murphy & Grantland P.A.
Kelly Morrow | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Thornwell F. Sowell III | Sowell & DuRant, LLC
Jay McKay, II | The McKay Firm
H. Ronald Stanley | The Stanley Law Group
Upstate
Thomas W. Traxler | Carter, Smith, Merriam, Rogers & Traxler, P.A.
Patrick Trey Still | Clawson and Staubes
Trey Still | Clawson and Staubes
Amy Snyder | DevlinSnyder ADR
Jeffrey Dunlaevy | Dunlaevy Law Firm
Lee Plumblee | Eppes & Plumblee
Stuart Mauney | Gallivan White & Boyd
William B. “Kip” Darwin, Jr. | Holcombe Bomar, P.A.
Kenneth P. Shabel | Kennedy & Brannon
Mike Farry | MAF Mediations, LLC
Mark Bakker | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
Joseph M. Ramseur, Jr. | Mitchell Ramseur, LLC
John Perkins | Perkins Law Firm
Josh Smith | Smith Hudson Law, LLC
Kurt M. Rozelsky | Spencer Fane LLP
Steven Buckingham | The Law Office of Steven
Edward Buckingham
Anne Culbreath | Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, P.A.
Eric Englebardt | Wilson & Englebardt, LLC
Henry Parr | Wyche, P.A.
John Moylan | Wyche, P.A.
Wallace Lightsey | Wyche, P.A.
Medical Malpractice – Defendant
Lowcountry
Caroline Niland | Copeland, Stair Valz & Lovell, LLP
Jack Gresh | Dodds Hennessy & Stith
Jennie Smith | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Spencer Craig Gill | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Ashley Heslop | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Mary Agnes ‘’Molly’’ Hood Craig | Hood Law Firm, LLC
Kevin Horton | Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
J. Bennett Crites, III | Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
Midlands
Creasie Parrott Schlachter | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Weldon R. Johnson | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Creasie Parrott Schlachter | Barnes Alford Stork
& Johnson, LLP
Emily Collins Brown | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Ashby Davis | Davis & Snyder
James (“Jimmy”) Long | Maynard Nexsen, P.C.
John C. Bradley, Jr. | Moore Bradley Myers
George C. Beighley | Richardson Plowden & Robinson, P.A.
William C. McDow | Richardson Plowden & Robinson, P.A.
Monty Todd | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Austin Reed | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose & Morgan, LLC
Murrell Smith | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose
& Morgan, LLC
Marshall Crane | Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A.
Jay McKay, II | The McKay Firm
Gerald Chambers | Turner Padget
Upstate
Clark Price | Cassidy Coates Price, P.A.
*Trey Suggs | Cassidy Coates Price, P.A.
Brown Parkinson | Devlin and Parkinson
Daniel White | Gallivan White & Boyd
Danny White | Gallivan White & Boyd
Ben Alexander | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Ken Shaw | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Sally Purnell | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Collie W. “Trip” Lehn, Jr. | Huff, Powell & Bailey, LLC
David Williford | Huff, Powell & Bailey, LLC
Amanda Bradley | McAngus, Goudlock & Courie
Mitchell Appleby | Mooneyham & Berry, LLC
John Moylan | Wyche, P.A
Matthew Richardson | Wyche, P.A.
Jimmy Cox | Wyche, P.A.
Medical Malpractice – Plaintiff
Lowcountry
Jack Gresh | Dodds Hennessy & Stith
Julie Moore | Duffy and Young, LLC
Bradley Banyas | Hughey Law Firm, LLC
*Nathan Hughey | Hughey Law Firm, LLC
Justin Kahn | Kahn Law Firm
Julia Flumian | McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips LLC
Cooper Wilson | McLeod Law Group
Joe Rice | Motley Rice
Midlands
Francis M. “Brink” Hinson IV | HHP Law Group LLC
Kenneth Suggs | Janet, Janet & Suggs, LLC
Robert B. Ransom | Leventis & Ransom
Randall Hood | McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips LLC
Amanda Pittman | McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips, LLC
Brady Thomas | Richardson Thomas, LLC
Jescelyn Spitz | Rikard and Protopapas
Jay McKay, II | The McKay Firm
John Eric Fulda | Whetstone Perkins & Fulda
Lucy Dinkins | Wyche, P.A.
John Moylan | Wyche, P.A.
Matthew Richardson | Wyche, P.A.
Upstate
Ryan Pasquini | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Bobby Jones | Bobby Jones Law
Thomas W. Traxler | Carter, Smith, Merriam,
Rogers & Traxler, P.A.
Will Davis | Davis Law Group
James (Wally) W. Fayssoux, Jr. | Fayssoux & Landis
Jennifer Spragins Burnett | Harbin & Burnett, LLP
J. Camden Hodge | HawkLaw, P.A.
Thomas A. Killoren | KD Trial Lawyers
Joe Mooneyham | Mooneyham Berry, LLC
Cori Christine Stewart | Parham Smith & Archenhold, LLC
Bill Dodson | Parham Smith & Archenhold, LLC
Blake Smith | Parham Smith & Archenhold, LLC
Brooke Archenhold | Parham Smith & Archenhold, LLC
Bill Dodson | Parham Smith & Archenhold, LLC
JP Baum | Truluck Thomason, LLC
Kyle White | White Davis & White Law Firm
Jimmy Cox | Wyche, P.A.
Meliah Bowers Jefferson | Wyche, P.A.
Personal Injury – Defendant
Lowcountry
Mary Linton | Barnwell Whaley
Christy Fargnoli | Clawson Fargnoli Utsey, LLC
Paige C. Ornduff | Gallivan White & Boyd
Daniel Fuerst | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Elizabeth Morrison | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Spencer Craig Gill | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Nathan Hughey | Hughey Law Firm, LLC
Shawn Bevans | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Madelyn Dukes | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Danielle Payne | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Nicholas CC Stewart | Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
James Weatherholtz | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Midlands
Kay Gaffney Crowe | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Joshua Hill | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Richard C. Thomas | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Hank Burris | Burris and Ridgeway
Wayne Ridgeway | Burris and Ridgeway
Steven Price | Clawson and Staubes
Henry McMaster Jr. | Collins & Lacy, P.C.
Jerry Reardon | Law Office of Jerry Reardon
Brett Bayne | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Michael Trask | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Riley Bearden | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Sierra Carini | Moore Bradley Myers
Stanley Myers | Moore Bradley Myers
Ward Bradley | Moore Bradley Myers
Timothy Caiello | Murphy & Grantland P.A.
Becky Laffitte | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Michael Montgomery | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Becky Laffitte | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Maya Weeks | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose & Morgan, LLC
Samantha Sanders | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose
& Morgan, LLC
Richard Simmons II | Speed Seta Martin Trivett Stubley
& Fickling
Matthew Richardson | Wyche, P.A.
Upstate
Charles Groves | Charles M. Groves, LLC
Patrick Trey Still | Clawson and Staubes
Shelby Herbkersman | Clawson and Staubes
Trey Still | Clawson and Staubes
Will Davis | Davis Law Group
Amy Snyder | DevlinSnyder ADR
David Rheney | Gallivan White & Boyd
William Maurides | Gallivan White & Boyd
Daniel White | Gallivan White & Boyd
Ian Conits | Gallivan White & Boyd
Michael Rabb | Gallivan White & Boyd
Phillip Reeves | Gallivan White & Boyd
Danny White | Gallivan White & Boyd
Ryan Langley | Hodge & Langley
Jeremy Summerlin | Horton Law Firm, P.A
Hunter Reid | Howard, Howard, Francis, & Reid
David Price, Jr. | Howard, Howard, Francis, & Reid
Geoff Gibbon | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Zach Brown | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Michael Melonakos | Melonakos Law Firm
Andy Moorman | Moorman Law Firm
Megan Early-Soppa | Moseley Marcinak Law Group
James H. Price, IV | Price Law Firm, P.A.
Kurt M. Rozelsky | Spencer Fane LLP
Wilson Jackson | Steinberg Law Firm
Perry Deloach | The Law Offices of Perry B.
DeLoach, Jr., LLC.
Charles F. Turner | Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, P.A.
Clay Custer | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Marshall Winn | Wyche, P.A.
Personal Injury – Plaintiff
Lowcountry
Wil Alexander | Alexander and Alexander
Christy Fargnoli | Clawson Fargnoli Utsey, LLC
Jack Gresh | Dodds Hennessy & Stith
Nathan Hughey | Hughey Law Firm, LLC
Mark Joye | Joye Law Firm
Sean Wilson | Law Office of Sean M. Wilson, LLC
Cooper Wilson | McLeod Law Group
Joe Rice | Motley Rice
Taylor L. Grooms | Steinberg Law Firm
Midlands
Clarke Newton | Bluestein Attorneys
Hank Burris | Burris and Ridgeway
Stephen Krzyston | Cavanaugh and Thickens
Steven Price | Clawson and Staubes
Christopher Paschal | Goings Law Firm, LLC
Jessica Gooding | Goings Law Firm, LLC
Robert Goings | Goings Law Firm, LLC
Jamie Rutkoski | Kassel McVey
John Kassel | Kassel McVey
Michael Emmer | Kennedy Law Firm, LLC
Joel Hughes | Law Office of Kenneth Berger
Lori Murray | Law Office of Lori S. Murray
Micah Leddy | Leddy Law Firm, LLC
Tyler Lee | Lee Injury Law
Amanda Pittman | McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips LLC
Tem Miles | Miles Law Firm
Stanley Myers | Moore Bradley Myers
Jake Moore | Moore Bradley Myers
Will Lewis | Richardson Thomas, LLC
Jescelyn Spitz | Rikard and Protopapas
Jason Reynolds | Samuels Reynolds Law Firm
J Logan Cannon | Shaw and Cannon LLC
Daquan Blyther | Solomon Law Group
Jessica Fickling | Strom Law Firm
Trevor Eddy | The Eddy Law Firm
John Eric Fulda | Whetstone Perkins & Fulda
Matthew Richardson | Wyche, P.A.
Upstate
Jay Anthony | Anthony Law, LLC
Alex Stalvey | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Ryan Pasquini | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Beattie Ashmore | Beattie Ashmore, Attorney at Law, PA
Tyler McLeod | Brown Massey Evans McLeod
& Haynsworth LLC
Thomas W. Traxler | Carter, Smith, Merriam, Rogers
& Traxler, P.A.
Mark Chappell Jr. | Chappell Smith & Arden, P.A.
James Sproat | Chappell Smith & Arden, P.A.
Doug Churdar | Churdar Law Firm
Allen Clardy | Clardy Law Firm, P.A.
Genevieve Weaver | Clardy Law Firm, P.A.
Tim Nowacki | Clardy Law Firm, P.A.
Gene Covington | Covington Patrick Hagins Stern & Lewis, PA
Dan Pruitt | Dan Pruitt Law Firm
David Price Jr. | David R. Price Jr., P.A.
Sam Tooker | David R. Price Jr., P.A.
Geoff Gibbon | Fayssoux & Landis
Paul Landis | Fayssoux & Landis
James (Wally) W. Fayssoux, Jr. | Fayssoux & Landis
J. Camden Hodge | HawkLaw, P.A.
Hunter Reid | Howard, Howard, Francis, & Reid
John B. White, Jr. | John B. White, Jr. PA
Thomas A. Killoren | KD Trial Lawyers
Ryan F. McCarty | KD Trial Lawyers
Tom A. Killoren Jr. | KD Trial Lawyers
Patrick Knie | Knie & Shealy Law Offices
W. Andrew Arnold | Law Office of W. Andrew Arnold, P.C.
Randall Hood | McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips LLC
Doug Patrick | Patrick, Lewis & Watts, P.A.
Eric Philpot | Philpot Law Firm, PA
Elizabeth H. Philpot | Philpot Law Firm, PA
Will Maxey | Pracht Injury Lawyers, LLP
Raymond Wooten | Smith Jordan, P.A.
Nihar Patel | The Carolina Law Group, LLC
J. Matthew Whitehead | The Carolina Law Group, LLC
Andrew Carson | The Clardy Law Firm
Zandra Johnson | The Law Firm of Zandra L. Johnson, LLC
Jessica DeShon | The Law Office of Jessica R. DeShon, LLC
Perry Deloach | The Law Offices of Perry B. DeLoach, Jr., LLC.
Christopher Pracht | Thomason & Pracht, LLP
Elizabeth McFarland | Thomason & Pracht, LLP
Kyle White | White Davis & White Law Firm
John Moylan | Wyche, P.A
Marshall Winn | Wyche, P.A.
Meliah Bowers Jefferson | Wyche, P.A.
Product Liability – Defendant
Lowcountry
*Barbara Wagner | Barnwell Whaley
Ainsley Tillman | Ford Wallace Thomson, LLC
Joseph “Trey” Thompson | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Mark Phillips | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Dana Lang | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
James Weatherholtz | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Midlands
Curtis Dowling | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Joshua Hill | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Morgan Drapeau | Bowman and Brooke LLP
Brian Boger | Brian Boger Law Firm
Kyle Brady | Collins & Lacy, P.C.
Curtis Ott | Gallivan White & Boyd
Brett Bayne | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Becky Laffitte | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Joe Catalano | The McKay Firm
Janet Brooks Holmes | The McKay Firm
Jay McKay, II | The McKay Firm
Richard Willis | Williams Mullen
Bryant Caldwell | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Kevin Hall | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Upstate
Trey Still | Clawson and Staubes
Jeanmarie Tankersley | Clawson and Staubes
Shelby Herbkersman | Clawson and Staubes
Allyson Twilley | Fox Rothschild LLP
Stephanie G. Flynn | Fox Rothschild LLP
David Rheney | Gallivan White & Boyd
Daniel White | Gallivan White & Boyd
Phillip Reeves | Gallivan White & Boyd
Ronald K. Wray | Gallivan White & Boyd
William Maurides | Gallivan White & Boyd
Danny White | Gallivan White & Boyd
David Conner | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Amy Hinson | Parker Poe
Kurt M. Rozelsky | Spencer Fane LLP
Ken Carter | Turner Padget
Matthew Richardson | Wyche, P.A.
Greg English | Wyche, P.A.
Inez Tenenbaum | Wyche, P.A.
Product Liability – Plaintiff
Lowcountry
Ainsley Tillman | Ford Wallace Thomson, LLC
Nathan Hughey | Hughey Law Firm, LLC
Brad Banyas | Hughey Law Firm, LLC
*Justin Kahn | Kahn Law Firm
Sean Wilson | Law Office of Sean M. Wilson, LLC
Austin Crosby | Parker Law Group
Midlands
Clarke Newton | Bluestein Attorneys
Brian Boger | Brian Boger Law Firm
Dave Maxfield | Dave Maxfield, Attorney, LLC
Janet Brooks Holmes | The McKay Firm
Paul Coyle | Walker Law Firm
Upstate
*Gene Covington | Covington Patrick Hagins Stern
& Lewis, PA
Allyson Twilley | Fox Rothschild LLP
Tom A. Killoren Jr. | KD Trial Lawyers
Wes. A. Kissinger | KD Trial Lawyers
Randall Hood | McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips LLC
Amy Hinson | Parker Poe
Doug Patrick | Patrick, Lewis & Watts, P.A.
Andrew Carson | The Clardy Law Firm
Timothy Nowacki | The Clardy Law Firm
Drew Bradshaw | White Davis & White Law Firm
John Moylan | Wyche, P.A
Inez Tenenbaum | Wyche, P.A.
Professional Liability
Lowcountry
Joseph “Trey” Thompson | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Thomas Pendarvis | Pendarvis Law Firm
Midlands
Desa Ballard | Ballard & Watson, Attorneys at Law
Eric S. Bland | Bland Richter, LLP
Ryan Hicks | Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC
John Warren | Law Office of Bill Nettles
Julie J. Moose | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Jamie Wilson | Price Benowitz LLP
Peter Protopapas | Rikard and Protopapas
Benjamin Gooding | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Cal Watson | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Tina Cundari | Smith Robinson Holler DuBose
& Morgan, LLC
Jay McKay, II | The McKay Firm
Kevin Hall | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
John Moylan | Wyche, P.A.
Upstate
Paul Landis | Fayssoux & Landis
C. Stuart Mauney | Gallivan White & Boyd
Hunter Williams | Gallivan White & Boyd
Derrick Quattlebaum | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Mitchell Appleby | Mooneyham & Berry, LLC
Anne Ross Culbreath | Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, P.A.
Eric McCarthy | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jill Rothstein | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Wallace Lightsey | Wyche, P.A.
Residential Real Estate
Lowcountry
Lenord Mitchum | Buxton & Collie, LLC
Chilton Stone | Dodds Hennessy & Stith
Anthony Stith, Jr. | Dodds Hennessy & Stith
Chris Digby | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Chelsea Phillips | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Ryan Patterson | McCutchen Vaught Geddie & Hucks, P.A.
Mark Weeks | Weeks Law Firm
Midlands
Leslie Peters | Boger & Peters LLC
Charles Cantzon Foster, II | Foster Law Offices, LLC
Trey Harrell | Harrell, Martin & Peace, P.A.
Robert Grimm | Dial Law Firm
*James B. Hindersman | Law Offices of James B.
Hindersman, LLC
Lisa Hostetler Brown | LawyerLisa
David Ross | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
James McCutchen | McCutchen McLean, LLC
Thomas D. Kilpatrick | Murphy and Kilpatrick, P.A.
Tiara Pitts | SC Association of Realtors
Creighton Segars | Stuckey Fata & Segars, LLC
James Segars | Stuckey Fata & Segars, LLC
Chad Dial | The Dial Firm, LLC
Matthew E. Rupert | The Dial Firm, LLC
Jonathan Moore | The Law Office of Johnathan Moore, LLC
Doug Thomas | Thomas Law Firm
Upstate
Jack McDonald | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Steven Hammett | Blair Cato Pickren and Casterline
Bradley K. Richardson | Bradley K. Richardson, PC
Hunter Baughman | Bradley K. Richardson, PC
Adam W. Breaux | Breaux & Callahan, P.A.
Courtney Camferdam | Camferdam Law Firm, LLC
Cristine Oyer | Cristine Oyer Law
Erin Culbertson | Culbertson Andrighetti LLC
JJ Andrighetti | Culbertson Andrighetti LLC
Bryan DeBruin | De Bruin Law Firm
Chris Edwards | Edwards Law Firm, LLC
Jim Fayssoux | Fayssoux & Landis
Jason Gainey | Gainey & Gainey, LLP
Robert S. “Trey” Ingram III | Holliday Ingram Law Firm
John Kehl | Horton Law Firm, P.A
Tommy Dugas | Horton Law Firm, P.A
Daniel Craig | Johnson Smith Attorneys at Law
Howard Kinard | Johnson Smith Attorneys at Law
Kim Keable | Keable & Brown, PA
Jay Duvall | Law Office of Jay W. Duvall, LLC
Bailey Crosby | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Henry Sullivan | McKinney Sullivan, LLC
William D. McKinney | McKinney Sullivan, LLC
Brad Gower | Nelson & Galbreath
Nathan Galbreath | Nelson & Galbreath
Cam Salle | Salle Law Firm
Megan O’neill | Wyche, P.A
Josh Lonon | Wyche, P.A.
Social Security Disability
Lowcountry
Stacy Thompson | Bluestein Attorneys
*D. Michael Kelly | Mike Kelly Law Group, LLC
David Allen | The Allen Law firm
Upstate
Linda B. McKenzie | Bowen McKenzie & Bowen, LLP
Daniel Hughes | Duggan & Hughes
Paul McChesney | McChesney & McChesney
*Danny Smith | Smith Legal Group, P.C.
Tax and Estate Planning
Lowcountry
Andrew Rhea | Evans, Carter, Kunes & Bennett
David Kunes | Evans, Carter, Kunes & Bennett
Graeme Philip | Graybill, Lansche & Vinzani, LLC
Jennifer Williams Davis | Nelson Mullins Riley
& Scarborough LLP
*G.P. Diminich | Shumaker Loop & Kendrick, LLP
Brent Bullock | Taylor Foley Law Firm
J. Aaron Nelson | The Nelson Law Firm
Anne Kelley Russell | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Laurel Blair | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Tom Zamadics | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Midlands
Alan Reyner | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
Jeffrey Hopkins | Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson, LLP
John Ecton | Ecton Law Firm
Erin Cook | Estate Planning of SC, LLC
David F. Ford, II | Ford Law Firm
Frank Cureton | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
J. Donald Dial, Jr. | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Angela Kirby | Kirby Law, LLC
James L. McCutchen | McCutchen McLean, LLC
W. Verne McGough, Jr. | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Thomas D. Kilpatrick | Murphy and Kilpatrick, P.A.
Tim Thompson | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
David Sojourner | Sojourner, Caughman and Thomas
Jennifer MacLeod | Sojourner, Caughman and Thomas
Kenneth B. Wingate | Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A.
Matthew Myers | Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A.
Charles Prescott | The Prescott Law Firm, LLC
Jonathan E. Spitz | Todd & Johnson, LLP
Bill Reynolds | Todd & Johnson, LLP
W. Steven Johnson | Todd & Johnson, LLP
Johnny Kornegay | Todd & Johnson, LLP
David Johnson | Turner Padget
Upstate
James Anderson | Anderson Law Firm
Ben Leaphart | Ashmore, Leaphart, Rabon LLC
Thomas Sinclair | Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, LLC
Alexander M. Evans | Bradley K. Richardson, PC
Tyler McLeod | Brown Massey Evans McLeod
& Haynsworth LLC
Jake Rea | Burr & Forman LLP
Michael Pack | Dennis Shaw Drennan & Pack, LLC
J. Tod Hyche | Fox Rothschild LLP
Jake Brice | Fox Rothschild LLP
William L. Dennis | Fox Rothschild LLP
Mac McLean | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
E. Zachary Horton | Horton & Horton Law Firm, LLC
Alan Tewkesbury | Johnson Smith Attorneys at Law
Phillip Martin | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Andrew D. Merline | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Douglas B. O’Neal | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Jonathan R. Colao | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Keith G. Meacham | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Phillip J. Martin | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Robert E. August | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
David Thompson | Merline & Meacham, P.A.
Chuck Verdin | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Amy Montague | Offit Kurman
David Vines | Offit Kurman
Jim Hardin | Offit Kurman
Matthew B. Edwards | Thomas, Fisher & Edwards, P.A.
Randy E. Fisher | Thomas, Fisher & Edwards, P.A.
Jessica Ferguson | Turner Padget
Cary Hall | Wyche, P.A.
Matthew Couvillion | Wyche, P.A.
Worker’s Compensation – Defendant
Lowcountry
Phillip Ferderigos | Barnwell Whaley
Chrissie C. Ormand | Gallivan White & Boyd
Erin Edwards | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Mark Davis | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Jill King | Trask & Howell, LLC
Elizabeth Wiles | Turner Padget
Zack Jarrett | Turner Padget
W. Adam Stovall | Warder Law Firm, LLC
Midlands
Emily Richardson | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Rocky Hughey | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Rusty Goudelock | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
J. Russell Goudelock | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Mundi George | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Matt Mandeville | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Matt Moser | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Nick Riley, Jr. | Moore Bradley Myers
Stanley Myers | Moore Bradley Myers
Grady Beard | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Ashley Dixon | Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Stephen Stubley | Speed Seta Martin Trivett Stubley
& Fickling
Heath Owen | Speed Seta Martin Trivett Stubley & Fickling
Ben Calhoun | Turner Padget
Ashley Kirkham | Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, P.A.
Candace Hindersman | Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, P.A.
Upstate
Jim Sproat | Chappell Smith & Arden, P.A.
Patrick Fant | Fant Law Firm
Casey Gonyea | Gallivan White & Boyd
Mills Gallivan | Gallivan White & Boyd
Amity Edmonds | Gallivan White & Boyd
Cory Ezzell | Gallivan White & Boyd
Scott Anderson | Grimes Teich Anderson
Ryan Langley | Hodge & Langley
John C. Alfieris | Holder, Padgett, Littlejohn & Prickett, LLC
David Padgett | Holder, Padgett, Littlejohn & Prickett, LLC
Mike Farry | Horton Law Firm, P.A
Erroll Anne Hodges | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Katie Grove | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Kristie Commins | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Tyler Hembree | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Vernon Dunbar | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Mark A. Allison | McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Ashley Forbes | McAngus, Goudlock & Courie
Stephanie Pugh | McAngus, Goudlock & Courie
Bill Bouton | Mitchell Law Firm
Graham Buckner | Smith Jordan, P.A.
Carole Dennison | The Dennison Law Firm, P.C.
Stephanie Pugh | McAngus, Goudlock & Courie
Ashley Forbes | McAngus, Goudlock & Courie
Ian Gohean | Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, P.A.
Jason Griggs | Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, P.A.
Ben Renfrow | Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, P.A.
Hal Willson | Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, P.A.
Jeff Jones | Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, P.A.
Ben Renfrow | Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, P.A.
South Lewis | Willson, Jones, Carter & Baxler, P.A.
Worker’s Compensation – Plaintiff
Lowcountry
Dan Addison | Hall Booth Smith, PC
Nathan Hughey | Hughey Law Firm, LLC
Peter David Brown | Law Office of Peter David Brown, PA
Ben Akery | Steinberg Law Firm
Tom White | Steinberg Law Firm
Adam P. Greene | Steinberg Law Firm
Midlands
Allison Sullivan | Bluestein Attorneys
Marti Bluestein | Bluestein Attorneys
Nick Skorzewski | Cavanaugh and Thickens
George Taylor | Chappell Smith & Arden, P.A.
Christian Boesl | Goings Law Firm, LLC
Kenneth Berger | Law Office of Kenneth Berger
Zachary D. Linowski | Lee Eadon Isgett Popwell & Owens
Tyler Lee | Lee Injury Law
Jamie Davidson | Mickle & Bass LLC
Gill Bell | Moore Bradley Myers
Nick Riley, Jr. | Moore Bradley Myers
Michael Swindell | The Joel Bieber Firm
Andrea Roche | Williams & Roche
Upstate
Alex Stalvey | Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC
Jim Sproat | Chappell Smith & Arden, P.A.
Brad Easterling | Clardy Law Firm, P.A.
Timothy Nowacki | Clardy Law Firm, P.A.
David Price Jr. | David R. Price Jr., P.A.
Richard Davis | Davis Law Group
Scott Anderson | Grimes Teich Anderson
Jeremy A. Dantin | KD Trial Lawyers
Laura E. Martin | Martin & Martin Attorneys
Bill Bouton | Mitchell Law Firm
Dana Mitchell | Mitchell Law Firm
Irvin H. Philpot III | Philpot Law Firm, PA
John P. Griffith | Smith & Griffith, LLP
Graham Buckner | Smith Jordan, P.A.
Mitchell Byrd | The Carolina Law Group, LLC
David Hartman | The Clardy Law Firm
Carole Dennison | The Dennison Law Firm, P.C.
James Segura | Varner and Segura
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