South Carolina Lawyers Weekly
2018
Kara Mackenzie Bailey – Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC
Joseph Bias – Vernis & Bowling of Columbia
Twana Burris-Alcide – The Burris Legal Group, PA
Reginald Corley – Scott & Corley, P.A.
Rebecca Poston Creel – Lester and Hendrix, LLC
Brian C. Duffy – Duffy & Young, LLC
Thomas W. Epting – Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP
Lawrence E. Flynn – Pope Flynn
Robert F. Goings – Goings Law Firm, LLC
Nick Haigler – Sowell Gray Robinson
Christopher R. Hart – Hart Law
John C. Hayes, IV – Hayes Law Firm
Lisa Hostetler – LawyerLisa, LLC
Ray E. Jones – Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
Lindsay A. Joyner – Gallivan, White & Boyd, PA
Marlon Kimpson – Motley Rice LLC
Lenna S. Kirchner – Charleston County Probate Court
Jack Gary Leader – Elrod Pope Law Firm
J.W. “Jay” Matthews III – Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Kathleen McDaniel – Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, PA
George E. Morrison – McNair Law Firm
Sally Newman – Charleston Legal Access
Laura Elizabeth Paris Paton – Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP
Sheally Venus Poe – Venus Poe, PA
Nosizi Ralephata – Kernodle Coleman
Kirby D. Shealy, III – Adams and Reese LLP
Franklin J. Smith, Jr. – Richardson Plowden
Heather Hite Stone – Hite and Stone
John H. Tiller – Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Robert E. Tyson, Jr. – Sowell Gray Robinson
2017
Lawyer of the Year: Jon René Josey – Turner Padget
Desa Ballard – Ballard & Watson, Attorneys at Law
Shannon Furr Bobertz – S.C. Department of Natural Resources
Curtis E. Bostic – Bostic Law Group, P.A.
Johnston Cox – Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A.
Ronnie L. Crosby – Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick P.A.
Margaret S. Day – Law Office of Margaret S. Day, LLC
Jodi Westbrook Flowers – Motley Rice LLC
Daniel E. Henderson – Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick P.A.
Robert S. “Trey” Ingram III – Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP
Ashley Ryon Kirkham – Collins & Lacy, P.C.
Christopher R. Koon – The Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina, Inc.
Ken H. Lester – Lester & Hendrix, LLC
Cory E. Manning – Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Steve A. Matthews – Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Kevin McCarrell – Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP
Edward G. McDonnell – McDonnell and Associates, P.A.
Stafford J. (Mac) McQuillin III – Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Julie O. Medich – Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Franchelle C. Millender – Millender Elder Law LLC
Wade Mullins III – Bruner Powell Wall & Mullins, LLC
David T. Pearlman – Steinberg Law Firm, LLP
Marie-Louise Ramsdale – Ramsdale Law Firm, LLC
Beth Burke Richardson – Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
John W. Roberts – Willoughby & Hoefer, P.A.
Sandra J. Senn – Senn Legal, LLC
Angela G. Strickland – Bowman and Brooke LLP
Fred W. Suggs, Jr. – Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Paul R. Thurmond – Thurmond Kirchner & Timbes Law Firm
Robin F. Wheeler – South Carolina Access to Justice Commission
2016
Lawyer of the Year: Pamela DeFanti Robinson – USC School of Law
Frederick C. Baker – Motley Rice LLC
Stephanie M. Brinkley – Brinkley Law Firm, LLC
Michael S. Cashman – Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP
Ashley Prickett Cuttino – Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
John E. Cuttino – Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A
Kathryn Cook DeAngelo – Kathryn Cook DeAngelo Law Firm, Ltd.
G.P. Diminich – Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP
Laura J. Evans – Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP
Richard A. Farrier, Jr. – K&L Gates LLP
Justin S. Kahn – Kahn Law Firm, LLP
Mark A. Mason, Esquire – The Mason Law Firm, P.A.
Elizabeth M. McMillan – McAngus Goudelock & Courie, P.A.
Warren Moise – Grimball and Cabaniss, LLC
Richard J. Morgan – McNair Law Firm, P.A.
Robert D. Moseley, Jr. – Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP
Boyd B. Nicholson, Jr. (“Nick”) – Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Nancy Olah – Nancy Olah Law
Elizabeth “Beth” J. Palmer – Rosen, Rosen & Hagood, LLC
Jeanne A. Pearson – Johnston, Allison & Hord, P.A.
Mary Beth Pfister – Office of Legal Education Department of Justice
John Robinson – McDowell & Robinson, Attorneys at Law
Ronald C. Scott – Scott & Corley, P.A.
Peter Shahid, Jr. – Shahid Law Office, LLC
Nekki Shutt – Callison Tighe & Robison, LLC
Thornwell F. Sowell – Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Christian Stegmaier – Collins & Lacy, PC
Sarah Elizabeth Wetmore – Carlock Copeland & Stair
Joshua S. Whitley – Smyth Whitley, LLC; Berkeley County Council
Nancy C. Wicker – United States Attorney’s Office, District of South Carolina
2015
Lawyer of the Year: J. Calhoun Watson – Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Boone Aiken, III – Aiken, Bridges, Elliott, Tyler & Saleeby, P.A.
Stuart M. Andrews, Jr. – Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
William E. Applegate, IV – Yarborough Applegate LLC
David Aylor – David Aylor Law Offices
Sue Berkowitz – South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center
George B. Cauthen – Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP
Joe Clark – Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Tina Cundari – Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Carl B. Epps, III – Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Michael Ethridge – Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP
Rosalyn Woodson Frierson – South Carolina Judicial Department
Jonathan P. Lee – Sojourner, Caughman & Thomas, LLC
Dixon Lee, III – McLaren & Lee, Attorneys
Stephanie Lewis – Jackson Lewis P.C.
Camden Lewis – Lewis, Babcock & Griffin, LLP
Wallace Lightsey – Wyche, P.A.
James H. Lucas – Lucas, Warr & White, LLC
Angus H. Macaulay – Nexsen Pruet, LLC
James T. McLaren – McLaren & Lee, Attorneys
Kirby Mitchell – South Carolina Legal Services, Inc.
Julie J. Moose – Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney, P.A.
Stanley L. Myers, Sr. – Moore Taylor Law Firm, P.A.
Richard B. Ness – Ness & Jett, LLC
James H. Suddeth, III – Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Kelli L. Sullivan – McKay, Cauthen, Settana, & Stubley, P.A.
James Fletcher Thompson – Law Offices of James Fletcher Thompson, LLC
Bradish J. Waring – Nexsen Pruet, LLC
Elizabeth Henry Warner – Santee Cooper
Richard H. Willis – Bowman & Brooke, LLP
Patrick C. Wooten – Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Benjamin Turner Zeigler – Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
2014
Lawyer of the Year: Richard W. Riley – Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP
James Edward Bradley – Moore Taylor Law Firm
Steven Edward Buckingham – Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A.
Dawes Cooke – Barnwell Whaley Patterson & Helms, LLC
Nathan M. Crystal – Crystal & Giannoni-Crystal, LLC
Michelle Dhunjishah – Foster Care Review Board- Director & General Counsel
Anne S. Ellefson – Greenville Health System
Michael E. Elsner – Motley Rice LLC
Eric K. Englebardt – Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A.
Rebecca Kirkland Halberg – Collins & Lacy, P.C.
Sue Erwin Harper – Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP
William R. Johnson – Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
I.S. Leevy Johnson – Johnson, Toal & Battiste, P.A.
Catherine Hood Kennedy – Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A.
Stuart Mauney – Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A.
John O. McDougall – McDougall & Self, L.L.P.
Alan Medlin – University of South Carolina School of Law
Alice F. Paylor – Rosen, Rosen & Hagood, LLC
Ross B. Plyler – Collins & Lacy, P.C.
Thomas E. “Tommy” Pope – Elrod Pope Law Firm
Phillip E. Reeves – Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A.
Terry E. Richardson, Jr. – Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman, LLC
Pete Strom – Strom Law Firm, LLC
Allison P. Sullivan – Bluestein, Nichols, Thompson & Delgado, LLC
Mark Tanenbaum – Mark C. Tanenbaum, PA
Susan Taylor Wall – McNair Law Firm, P.A.
Samuel C. Waters – Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC
Dave Whitener – Whitener & Wharton, P.A.
Robert M. Wilcox – University of South Carolina School of Law
William K. Witherspoon – United States Attorney’s Office, District of South Carolina
2013
Bruce W. Bannister – Bannister & Wyatt, LLC
Jay Bender – Baker, Ravenel & Bender, L.L.P.
Cynthia Durham Blair – Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC
James W. “Wally” Fayssoux, Jr. – Fayssoux Law Firm, P.A.
Gregory S. Forman – Gregory S. Forman, P.C.
Mills Gallivan – Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A.
Jack D. Griffeth – Collins & Lacy, P.C.
John A. Hagins – Covington, Patrick, Hagins, Stern & Lewis, P.A.
Steven W. Hamm – Richardson Plowden & Robinson, P.A.
Richard A. Harpootlian – Richard A. Harpootlian P.A.
John T. Lay, Jr. – Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A.
Karen L. Luchka – Fisher & Phillips LLP
John Shannon Nichols – Bluestein, Nichols, Thompson & Delgado, LLC
Jon Ozmint – Collins & Lacy, P.C.
Gary W. Poliakoff – Poliakoff and Associates, P.A.
Margaret C. Pope – Pope Zeigler
James K. Price – Nexsen Pruet, LLC
Rebecca Ann Roser – Robinson, McFadden & Moore, PC
Andrew J. Savage, III – The Savage Firm
Barbara M. Seymour – Supreme Court of South Carolina; Deputy Disciplinary Counsel
Jack B. Swerling – Law Office of Jack B. Swerling
Billy Walker – Walker & Morgan, LLC
James L. Ward, Jr. – Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman, LLC
Daniel B. White – Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A.
2012
Melissa Azallion – Nexsen Pruet
Joel W. Collins Jr. – Collins & Lacy
Elizabeth Crum – McNair Law Firm
Steve E. Farrar – Smith Moore Leatherwood
Elaine H. Fowler – Turner Padget Graham & Laney
Henrietta U. Golding – McNair Law Firm
Rusty Goudelock – McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Michael Henthorne – Littler Mendelson
Keith Hutto – Nelson Mullins
Mike Kelly – Mike Kelly Law Group
Stanford E. Lacy – Collins & Lacy
Eugene H. Matthews – Richardson Plowden & Robinson
Rita M. McKinney – McNair Law Firm
Natalma M. McKnew – Smith Moore Leatherwood
Robert W. Pearce Jr. – Smith Moore Leatherwood
Patricia S. Ravenhorst – South Carolina Victim Assistance Network
Joseph F. Rice – Motley Rice
Susan Rosen – Rosen Law Firm
Kurt M. Rozelsky – Smith Moore Leatherwood
Dominic A. Starr – McAngus Goudelock & Courie
Tom Stephenson – Nexsen Pruet
David J. Tigges – McNair Law Firm
Hagood Tighe – Fisher & Phillips
2011
Laurie A. Becker – Nexsen Pruet, LLC
Robert T. Bockman – McNair Law Firm, P.A.
Howard Boyd, Jr. – Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A.
Rita Bragg Cullum – Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims, P.A.
Ronald L. Motley – Motley Rice, LLC
Bennett Mullinax – J. Bennett Mullinax, LLC
Edward W. Mullins, Jr. – Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP
David T. Pearlman – The Steinberg Law Firm, LLP
Steven J. Pugh – Richardson Plowden & Robinson, P.A.
Louis T. Runge, Jr. – Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims, P.A.
Carl L. Solomon – The Solomon Law Group, LLC
Daniel R. Unumb – South Carolina Legal Services
Robertson H. Wendt, Jr. – Robertson H. Wendt, P.A.
Marguerite S. Willis – Nexsen Pruet, LLC
2010
Charles J. Baker – Buist Moore Smythe McGee P.A.
Walter H. Barefoot – Turner Padget Graham & Laney P.A.
Edward Bell – Bell Legal Group
Stephen Keith Benjamin – Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
James R. Courie – McAngus Goudelock & Courie, LLC
John D. Delgado – Bluestein, Nichols, Thompson & Delgado, LLC
John D. Elliott –
Arthur E. Justice – Turner Padget Graham & Laney P.A.
Kathleen C. McKinney – Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
John E. Parker – Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth & Detrick, P.A.
Lex A. Rogerson – Attorney at Law
Morris D. Rosen – Rosen, Rosen & Hagood, LLC
Tiffany R. Spann-Wilder – Spann-Wilder Law Firm, L.L.C.
Elizabeth Van Doren Gray – Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC
Bradish J. Waring – Nexsen Pruet
William W. Wilkins – Nexsen Pruet
2009
William C. Boyd – Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.
Molly Hughes Cherry – Nexsen Pruet, LLC.
Robert D. Coble – Nexsen Pruet, LLC
Gray Culbreath – Collins & Lacy PC.
Tanya A. Gee – South Carolina Court of Appeals
William C. Hubbard – Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP.
Lanneau Wm. Lambert, Jr. – Turner Padget Graham & Laney PA
Richard S. Rosen – Rosen, Rosen & Hagood, LLC
Mary E. Sharp – Griffith Sadler & Sharp PA
Reynolds Williams – Willcox Buyck & Williams, PA
