Brian Patrick Murphy Attorney Stephenson + Murphy, Greenville

South Carolina Lawyers Weekly staff//April 17, 2026//

South Carolina Lawyers Weekly staff//April 17, 2026//

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Brian Murphy is an attorney at Stephenson + Murphy in Greenville, with 34 years of practice. He earned his law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1992.

Murphy represents individuals and small businesses in employment matters. His casework includes two particularly notable outcomes: in Dawsey v. BMW, he secured a $5.1 million verdict on compensatory and punitive damages in an employment discrimination case — the largest of its kind in South Carolina of which he is aware. In Butler v. Drive Automotive Industries of America, 793 F.3d 404 (4th Cir. 2015), he was part of the litigation that established the joint employer test under federal law for the 4^thCircuit.

Murphy said his focus on employment matters has given him a perspective on the development of case law that few practitioners can match, and that he has tried a comparatively large number of cases during that time.

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