Trusted Counselors
For Difficult Legal Challenges
Practice Areas
- Mediation and Arbitration
- Commercial Litigation
- Insurance Bad Faith
- Premises Liability
- Products Liability
- Professional Liability
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
Education
- University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina
- J.D. - 1979
- University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
- B.A. - 1974
Bar Admissions
- South Carolina, 1979
- U.S. District Court District of South Carolina, 1979
- U.S. Federal Courts, 1980
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1979
Professional Associations
- American Bar Association
- American Bar Foundation Fellow
- American Board of Trial Advocates, President, Charleston Chapter, 2008 to 2009
- Board of Commissions of Grievances and Discipline for Supreme Court of South Carolina, 1993 to 1996
- Charleston County Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute
- Federal Bar Association
- International Association of Defense Counsel
- National Association of Distinguished Neutrals
- James L. Petigru American Inn of Court
- South Carolina Bar Association, Litigation Section, Member
- South Carolina Bar Association, Trial & Appellate Advocacy Section, Chairman, 1993 to 1993
- South Carolina Bar Association, Judicial Qualification Committee
- South Carolina Defense Trial Lawyers Association, President, 1996 to 1997
- South Carolina Supreme Court Joint Commission on ADR Rules
Honors
- Best Lawyers, Lawyer of the Year, Arbitration/Mediation
- AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
- Super Lawyers, ADR
- Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
Certified Legal Specialties
- Certified Mediator and Arbitrator