1960

Nexsen Pruet attorney Harold W. Jacobs will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1964

Nexsen Pruet attorney Thomas S. Tisdale, Jr. will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1967

Nexsen Pruet attorney William W. Wilkins will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1969

Nexsen Pruet attorney J. David Hawkins will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1971

Manning attorney Ray Chandler was awarded the Order of the Palmetto, the state's highest civilian honor in July. Chandler, who has served as general counsel for the SC Firefighters association for 32 years, is a partner with Manning law firm Chandler, Coffey and Kent and handles criminal defense and wrongful death civil litigation. He formed his current practice with Billy Coffey and Tommy Cooper in 1979.

Nexsen Pruet attorney Edward G. Menzie will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1973

Nexsen Pruet attorneys Victoria L. Eslinger and Neil C. Robinson, Jr. will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1976

Stephen D. Baggett and Stephen D. Baggett Jr. announce the opening of Stephen D. Baggett, Attorneys At Law, LLC located at 214 Waller Ave., P.O. Box 49533, Greenwood 29649.

Nexsen Pruet attorneys Henry W. Brown and W. Thomas Lavender, Jr. will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1977

The South Carolina Bar has named the committee chairs for the 2009-10 year: Sharon Dantzler of Columbia, administrative and regulatory law committee.

Nexsen Pruet attorneys B. Joel Stoudenmire and Bradish J. Waring will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1979

Nexsen Pruet attorney Thomas L. Stephenson will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1981

Nexsen Pruet attorneys G. Marcus Knight and Burnet R. Maybank III will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1982

Florence native Dr. Philip Nofal has been named medical director of Daymark Recovery Services Inc. Nofal completed his specialty in psychiatry at Wake Forest University and his subspecialty in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of North Carolina. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and Clinical Faculty at Wake Forest University.

Nexsen Pruet attorney John A. Sowards will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1983

Nexsen Pruet attorneys Julio E. Mendoza, Jr. and R. Kent Porth will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1984

The South Carolina Bar has named the committee chairs for the 2009-10 year: George W. Branstiter of Branstiter Law Offices in Lexington, resolution of fee disputes board; Leslie Cotter Jr. of Richardson Plowden & Robinson, PA in Columbia, practice and procedure committee.

Nexsen Pruet attorney David E. Dubberly will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1985

Nexsen Pruet attorney Fred L. Kingsmore, Jr. will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1986

Nexsen Pruet attorneys Elbert S. Dorn, David W. Gossett, Stephen P. Groves, Sr. and M. Jeffrey Vinzani will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

Rivers Lawton Mcintosh was elected to the Circuit Court Bench, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Seat 1, on May 13, 2009. He was a law clerk for the Honorable Luke N. Brown, Jr., Circuit Court Judge, Fourteenth (14th) Judicial Circuit until May, 1987. In May of 1987, he was hired as an associate by Mcintosh & Sherard; and he later became a partner of the practice, now Mcintosh, Sherard and Sullivan.

1987

Nexsen Pruet attorneys Cherie W. Blackburn and William H. Floyd III will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

S. Lester Tate III, of Cartersville, and a native of Cedartown, was installed as president-elect of the 40,000 member State Bar of Georgia on June 20 during the organization’s annual meeting at Amelia Island, Fla. Tate will be sworn in as president of the State Bar of Georgia in June 2010. Tate, a partner at the firm Akin & Tate P.C., was admitted to practice law in Georgia in 1987. With more than 20 years of litigation and courtroom experience, Tate has also served on the State Bar’s Board of Governors and Executive Committee, most recently as treasurer. He is a Fellow of the Lawyers Foundation of Georgia and a member of both the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

1988

Nexsen Pruet attorney Alan M. Lipsitz will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1989

Nexsen Pruet attorneys Julian Hennig III and Timothy L. Hewson will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1990

Nexsen Pruet attorney Michael T. Brittingham will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1991

Nexsen Pruet attorney William G. Newsome III will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

The South Carolina Bar has named the committee chairs for the 2009-10 year: E. Katherine Wells of the S.C. Senate Judiciary Committee in Columbia, conventions committee.

1993

Nexsen Pruet attorney Molly Hughes Cherry will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1994

The South Carolina Bar has named the committee chairs for the 2009-10 year: Thomas Shelley III of Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC in Columbia, law related education committee.

1995

Nexsen Pruet attorneys C. Jones DuBose, Jr. and Matthew B. Roberts will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

1996

Nexsen Pruet attorney Michael S. Pitts will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

2000

The South Carolina Bar has named the committee chairs for the 2009-10 year: Andrew N. Cole of Collins and Lacy in Columbia, insurance programs committee; Stacy E. Thompson of Bluestein, Nichols, Thompson & Delgado, LLC in Columbia, continuing legal education publications committee; Michael Virzi of the USC School of Law in Columbia, ethics advisory committee.

McAngus Goudelock & Courie, LLC announces that Mary Margaret Hyatt has relocated to the Myrtle Beach office located at 1107 48th Ave. N., Ste. 210, 29577.

2002

Lincoln Memorial University-Duncan School of Law announces that Jonathan A. Marcantel has joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Law located at 601 W. Summit Hill Dr., Knoxville, TN 37902.

Roe Cassidy Coates & Price, P.A. is pleased to announce that Fred W. "Trey" Suggs III began his term as president of the Young Lawyer's Division of the South Carolina Bar (YLD) on Wednesday, July 1, 2009. He has previously served in a variety of YLD leadership positions, including 13th Circuit Representative, Secretary/Treasurer, and President-Elect. He has also served in several leadership positions with the Greenville Young Lawyers and has represented the YLD at American Bar Association meetings around the country. Suggs focuses his practice on medical malpractice defense, commercial litigation, and personal injury litigation.

Susan E. Williams announces the opening of the Law Office of Susan E. Williams, LLC located at 107 W. 8th N. St., Summerville 29483 and 129 N. Parler Ave., Ste. 2A, St. George 29477.

2003

Stephen D. Baggett and Stephen D. Baggett Jr. announce the opening of Stephen D. Baggett, Attorneys At Law, LLC located at 214 Waller Ave., P.O. Box 49533, Greenwood 29649.

2004

Bernstein & Bernstein, LLC announces that Overture E. Walker has become an associate of the firm located at 1019 Assembly St., Columbia 29201 and 10202 Two Notch Rd, Ste. A, Columbia 29229.

2005

The South Carolina Bar has named the committee chairs for the 2009-10 year: Robert L. Brown of Moses Koon & Brackett, PC in Columbia, unauthorized practice of law committee.

2006

Jackson Kelly is pleased to welcome Laura Swingle to its Charleston, West Virginia office. Swingle joins the Firm in the Environmental Practice Group. Her practice will focus on state and federal issues related to air, water and waste management as well as the developing area of global climate change. Prior to joining Jackson Kelly, Swingle was Assistant Counsel at the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection where she represented the agency in a variety of manners relating to the state’s water quality and permitting program.

2008

Raymond W. Burroughs has joined Young Clement Rivers LLP as an associate in the firm's Charleston office. He will practice with the tax, estate planning and probate group.

IN MEMORIAM

Marvin Parler Stoney Jackson, Jr., 66, of Florence died Monday, July 13, 2009, in a Florence hospital. He was a graduate of McClenaghan High School, attended the University of South Carolina Florence Branch for two years, graduated from the University of South Carolina in Columbia with a Bachelor Degree and received his Juris Doctor in 1968 from the University of South Carolina School of Law. He was a member of the Evening Lions Club, the Florence County Bar, the South Carolina Bar and a member of the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association. He practiced law with Phillip H. Booby Arrowsmith, the Jackson and Bell Law Firm and later practiced law independently.

Mortimer Meyer Weinberg, Jr., beloved husband of 52 years to Mary Bloodworth Weinberg, died on Saturday July 25, in Tuomey Hospital in Sumter. He attended Clemson College and graduated from the University of South Carolina where he also received his law degree in 1953 after serving in the army during the Korean Conflict. As a law student, he served as an editor of the South Carolina Law Quarterly, Vice President of the Law Federation, and was a member of Wig and Robe. Upon graduation, he joined his father's law practice and continued in that capacity until his death. Weinberg was a member of Temple Sinai Congregation where he had served as Congregation President. In the past, he had also been a director of the Sumter Jaycees, President of the Sumter Bar Association, a member of the Board of Governors of the South Carolina Bar Association, a member of the Claremont Masonic Lodge and the Elks Club. He also served as Sumter's city attorney, and as chairman of the local Bank of America Board. He was a member of the South Carolina Defense Trial Lawyers Association, and a member of the National Association of Insurance Attorneys.