Oconee County Lawyers

Seasoned Criminal Defense Attorney. Former Prosecutor. Big Firm Experience. I have been practicing law in the Upstate for almost 30 years. I have worked in a large law firm and have prosecuted hundreds of criminal cases. Now, I defend those accused of crimes in South Carolina state, county and city courts. My office is across the street from the Anderson County Courthouse. Let me put my experience to work for you.

I also handle personal injury cases. If you have been injured due to someone else's negligence, you need an experienced lawyer to help you navigate the complicated justice system and...

Chris was born in Hawaii to a military family but was raised in Spartanburg, SC. He attended Spartanburg High School before double majoring in Political Science and Philosophy at the University of South Carolina and graduated from USC School of Law in 2015. While in law school, Chris spent his summers working as a law clerk conducting legal research to advocate for policy change for low-income South Carolinians. He provided legal assistance to low-income and underfunded communities through the Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps JD program, received awards in scholastic achievement and Dean’s List recognition, and served as the Treasurer for...

Jonathan David Herpy, Sr. has been named one of the top private equity and corporate attorneys in Illinois under the age of 40 by Chicago Magazine in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

Jonathan has represented investors, sponsors, and managers of public and private pension plans, broker-dealers, investment advisers, custodians, and other financial industry service providers throughout the entire range of the investment spectrum and routinely provides market-leading advice on public/private offerings of equity and debt along with capital raising strategy.
In addition to the above, Jonathan has been touted as an industry leader for his sophisticated and efficient approach to structuring...

Virginia grew up in Prince George, Virginia until she moved to South Carolina to attend the University of South Carolina, where she graduated magna cum laude in 2019 with a degree in Criminal Justice. After college she worked for the University of South Carolina before moving to Arkansas, where she graduated with honors from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law in 2023. During law school she was a member of law review where she published an article in the UALR Law Review journal (Volume 45) and held leadership roles with multiple organizations. Outside of...

Attorney Scott Anderson has a passion for helping the injured and protecting their interests against insurance companies. Mr. Anderson has extensive trial, and strategic negotiation experience is personal injury, wrongful death, and workers compensation matters in North Carolina and South Carolina. He is licensed in both states and has handled matters in both states over the past 29 years. He is managing partner of Grimes Teich Anderson LLP, a North Carolina and South Carolina personal injury law firm with 8 offices in both states. Before becoming a personal injury attorney, he was an insurance defense lawyer, which gives...

THE SADISTIC SURGEON RIDDLE: Before undergoing open-heart surgery, your sadistic surgeon comes in and gives you twelve (12) identical looking pills. One (1) of the pills will put you to sleep during the operation, the other eleven (11) pills will not. Also, any of the eleven (11) placebo pills will neutralize the sleeping pill, so take multiple pills will not help. The only other difference between the sleeping pill and the placebo pills is that the sleeping pill weighs either more or less than the other pills. The sinister surgeon, being a sport, gives you a...

Whether in trial or strategic negotiations, Attorney Richard Davis is a dedicated advocate for injury victims. With years of litigation experience in courts and administrative tribunals throughout South Carolina, his extensive work before the SC Workers Compensation Commission and the Social Security Administration has led to the recovery of millions of dollars for victims of accidents and negligence.

AV® Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®, Ric has helped his firm, the Davis Law Group, LLC ( davis.law) cultivate a reputation for knowledgeable legal defense and exemplary client services. With over 35 years of experience, he can help defend your right to compensation.

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Litigation practice includes land use, governmental liability, civil rights and injuries. Also elder law services including probate, guardianships, Medicaid, minor trusts and conservatorships, wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and living wills.

Attorney Jeff Martin is passionate about helping the injured by protecting their rights and making sure they get the justice they deserve and the compensation to which they are entitled under the law.

Jeff focuses on Workers' Compensation, Personal Injury, and Automobile Accidents. He is a Greenville, South Carolina native, and partner at Grimes Teich Anderson LLP. Jeff practices in the firm's Greenville, Spartanburg and Gaffney, South Carolina offices.

In 2019 Jeff was selected to Greenville Business Magazine Legal Elite for Workers' Compensation Law. He is a member of the South Carolina Bar, the Greenville County Bar Association, the South...

M. J. Goodwin has been a practicing Family Court lawyer in Anderson, South Carolina, and the surrounding counties, since 1991. M. J. Goodwin is a 1987 graduate of Clemson University. She graduated from the School of Law at the University of South Carolina in 1991. She was admitted to the South Carolina Bar that same year. She began her career in Anderson as a prosecutor with the Tenth Circuit Solicitor’s Office. After establishing herself as familiar figure in the Family and Criminal Courtrooms in Anderson, she opened her own firm in 1994. In...

I have been representing those wrongfully injured in our State since 1990 and have never represented or defended an insurance company. The Hayes Law Firm is concerned about quality representation, not quantity. We aggressively represent our clients in and out of the court room. Please call me for a free consultation today to see if I can help you get the compensation that you are entitled to. The insurance companies and their adjusters have attorneys working for them, please make sure you have an attorney working for you. I have been doing this now for...

Attorney Raymond T. Wooten focuses his practice on Automobile Accidents, Personal Injury Cases, and Nursing Home Abuse cases. If you have been hurt as a result of the negligence of someone else, let Raymond help you deal with the insurance companies. Raymond is a member of both the South Carolina and Georgia Bar Associations, and can assist you in either state.

James “Jamie” D. George, Jr. graduated from Presbyterian College in 2015 and graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2018. Jamie served as a member of the editorial staff (Volume 68) and as a student works editor (Volume 69) for the South Carolina Law Review. Upon his law school graduation, he was admitted as a member of the Order of the Wig and Robe. Jamie currently focuses his practice on personal injuries, motor vehicle collision, products liability, third party workers’ compensation claims, and commercial motor vehicle collisions. In addition to practicing law, Jamie teaches as an adjunct professor...

Catherine Christophillis began her career in law thirty-eight years ago after receiving her juris doctorate from the University of South Carolina Law School. Catherine joined our firm in 2016 and focuses her practice on family law issues such as divorce, separation, child custody name change, child support and alimony as well as preparation of wills, powers of attorney and health care powers of attorneys. Catherine is both a certified mediator/arbitrator and Guardian ad Litem. She was trained in Atlanta, GA in 1993 before South Carolina approved mediation. She served on the committee that wrote and proposed...

Greenville's Concierge law firm: It's all about you. Every client, every case, every situation is unique. You don't need an attorney who is fixated on dollar signs. Or a large, "mega-firm" that doesn't even remember your name - or who prioritizes you in terms of the law firm's ROI. You are not typical, and I'm not your typical lawyer. My approach is different. Much like the general family doctor from years ago - who knew you personally and understood the dynamics of your family and life - I want to serve you as a true counselor. You deserve...

George’s practice is concentrated in workers’ compensation and personal injury claims. He has handled hundreds of cases before the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission, including through trial and appeal before the South Carolina Court of Appeals. George has likewise handled hundreds of cases in state and federal courts throughout South Carolina. He is passionate about representing injury victims and takes great pride in the personal relationship he builds with each of his clients. George holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from The Citadel. After graduating, he accepted a Commission into the U.S. Air Force. He deployed multiple times during his...

Graduate of the College of Charleston with a degree in Business (B.S. 1984) and the University of South Carolina School of Law (J.D. 1986). Member of Newspring Church and resides with his wife Paula in the North Greenville area. They have seven children living in the Greenville area and throughout the southeast. Licensed to practice law in all South Carolina state and federal courts.

Immediately after passing the South Carolina Bar, Attorney Caroline Temple began working at George Sink, P.A. Injury Lawyers in the Veterans Disability Law subdivision. Her passion for people, especially for veterans, has allowed for her to represent clients to ensure that they receive the disability payments they deserve. She understands that in today’s society, veterans are often over-looked. For this reason, she works hard to make sure each of her veteran clients is comfortable and confident through the entire case process. Before beginning her career in law, Temple attended Louisiana State University where she earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees...

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Mr. Creech was born and raised in Greenville, S.C. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C., in 1994. He then attended the University of South Carolina School of Law and graduated in 1997. He began his legal career as a judicial law clerk for Judge C. Victor Pyle Jr.. After his judicial clerkship, Mr. Creech became a prosecutor, where he handled almost every type of criminal case from simple DUI cases to murder. Mr. Creech also received extensive training in trial advocacy within the internal training system of the District Attorney’s Office...

Our firm handles immigration, workers' compensation and serious personal injury claims throughout South Carolina. Over the past 25 years, we have helped many clients with Deferred Action, fiance' visas, work authorizations, and other family-based immigration issues. We have a Spanish-speaking paralegal on staff. Numerous lawyer rating services have given us the highest ratings, but it is our clients' satisfaction that we prize most.

I represent employees and businesses in multiple areas of employment law, such as discrimination (age, disability, sex, religion, or race), wrongful termination, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), non-compete agreements, and wage theft, which includes unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, and minimum wage violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act. I can be reached personally via email at jsummerlin@hortonlawfirm.net and via telephone at 864.233.4351. Please visit our website at www.hortonlawfirm.net and our blog at www.hortonlawfirm.net/blog for more details about our services.

Raised in Greenville SC. James H. Price IV was born and raised in Greenville, SC. After high school, he earned his Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of South Carolina where he was a member of a national honors fraternity. James later earned his law degree from Charleston School of Law in 2011. After graduation for law school and passing the South Carolina Bar exam, James took a public job as an Assistant Solicitor with the 13th Circuit Solicitor’s Office in Greenville County SC. This position gave him unique insight into the criminal justice system. He learned to...

Mr. Jordan is a shareholder at Smith Jordan, P.A. He has practiced in Easley, South Carolina for 30 years. He is devoted to providing high quality legal representation to his clients. He represents injured workers before the South Carolina Workers' Compensation Commission. He also helps individuals with their social security disability claims. Mr. Jordan also assists individuals who have suffered abuse in a nursing home. He has experience with cases involving bed sores, misdiagnosis of serious medical conditions, and wrongful death. Mr. Jordan speaks Spanish and represents Spanish speaking clients who have been injured at...

T. Matthew Bradley is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, which is limited to attorneys who have won million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements. He handles cases in all state and federal courts in South Carolina, with a focus on Motor Vehicle/Truck/Motorcycle Collisions, Wrongful Death, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Dog Bites, Products Liability, Criminal and DUI law.

Highly respected among his peers, Matthew has been named to The National Trial Lawyers: Top 40 under 40, an invitation-only, professional organization comprised of Americas top young trial attorneys and has also been selected as member of the Anderson Independent Mail's...

Henry Philpot is a graduate of the University of South Carolina with a degree in Business (B.S. 1961) and the University of South Carolina School of Law (LL.B. 1964). He and his wife Becky are members of Berea Friendship United Methodist Church and they reside in the North Greenville area. They have four children of whom three are attorneys at the family law firm. Henry is licensed to practice law in all South Carolina State and Federal Courts.

Eric Philpot is a graduate of the University of South Carolina with a degree in History (B.A. 1994) and the St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, Florida (J.D. 1997). Eric resides in Greenville with his wife Lorri and two children and is a member of Christ Church Episcopal. Attorney Eric Philpot has been recognized by Greenville Business Magazine as one of the Legal Elite of upstate South Carolina for personal injury. He was voted Best Trial Lawyer in Greenville News Best of the Upstate 2019 and was a finalist in 2020. Licensed to practice law in all South...

Ryan Montgomery is a 1997 graduate of Clemson University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech and communications. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Baltimore in 2000 and attended Georgetown University School of Law as a visiting student in 2000. Following his graduation from law school, Ryan served as a law clerk to the Honorable Michael D. Mason, Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland. He then went onto work for a litigation and trial law firm in Rockville, Maryland. After the birth of his first child, he and his wife moved home to South Carolina where he...

Jacob Born concentrates in the areas of premises liability, personal injury, motor vehicle accidents, product liability, nursing home abuse and neglect, catastrophic injury litigation and trucking accidents. Jacob received his J.D. from The Charleston School of Law and was admitted to practice in 2011. He was also admitted to practice in Georgia in 2012.

James Christopher Sproat (Jim) is an attorney with Smith, Born, Leventis, Taylor & Vega, LLC. Mr. Sproat received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of South Carolina in 2008 and his Juris Doctor from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 2011. While at the University of Cincinnati, Mr. Sproat served as both the Student Bar Association President and the Managing Editor of the Immigration and Nationality Law Review. He was admitted to practice law in South Carolina in 2011, after working with both the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio...

Paul Hammack is licensed in South Carolina and Georgia, and serves both areas in personal injury and worker's compensation cases.

Paul moved to Greenville, South Carolina in 1992 and has been an active member of his communities in South Carolina and Georgia ever since. He worships in Greenville and volunteers his time with several civic and charitable organizations, including the United Way and the American Red Cross. He has also served on the Board of Directors for Hands On Greenville.

Susan Cobb Singleton is an elder law attorney, who was formerly an Associate Greenville County Probate Judge. She is a senior's advocate who teaches seniors and the adult children of seniors "How to Pay, How to Play, and How to Protect your Loved Ones." Ms. Singleton is a strategist and a teaching attorney, who enjoys working with families to plan so that the golden years bring your loved ones the highest quality standard of living possible.