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Barbara Seymour represents lawyers, law firms, judges, and law students in matters related to ethics, professional discipline, and Bar admissions at Clawson & Staubes, LLC. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Management and Marketing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1990 and her Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia in 1993. Barbara worked as a trial lawyer until 2000 when she joined the staff of the Office of Disciplinary Counsel. She served as the Deputy Disciplinary Counsel from 2007 until 2017. Barbara is a member of the South Carolina Bar, the State Bar of Georgia, the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, and the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association. She currently serves on the Law Related Education, Professional Responsibility, Unauthorized Practice of Law, and Diversity Committees at the South Carolina Bar. She was a 2006 and 2011 Fellow of the National Institute for the Teaching of Ethics and Professionalism. She is the author of Trust Accounting for South Carolina Lawyers: An Annotated Practice Manual, published by the SC Bar. She has also taught a variety of Paralegal Studies courses for the past twenty-five years.

Breon C.M. Walker earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a double major in marketing and management from the University of South Carolina Honors College in 2000. She earned her Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law in 2003, where she was the recipient of the Custer Tuggle Award for Excellence in Family Law.

Following her graduation from Emory, Breon clerked for Circuit Court Judge Reginald I. Lloyd in Columbia, S.C. She then practiced in both the civil and criminal divisions of the South Carolina Office of the Attorney General. Prior to joining The Stanley Law Group, Breon practiced with a large firm defending insurance carriers and their insureds in personal injury cases.

An experienced speaker, Breon has prepared and presented seminars to clients and colleagues on statutory compliance, case law developments and effective witness preparation.

Breon has been recognized by several organizations for her legal acumen including being recognized as a Super Lawyers “Rising Star” from 2012-2019 and a Super Lawyer from 2020-present.  In 2013, Breon was selected by the National Bar Association as one of the “Nation’s Best Advocates: 40 Lawyers Under 40.”  Breon was also selected to the “Under 40 Hotlist” by Benchmark Litigation in 2016.  In 2020, Breon was named an Honoree of the South Carolina Leadership in Law Award by South Carolina Lawyers Weekly. 

Breon is an accomplished courtroom advocate with 15 years of experience as a trial lawyer.

Her areas of practice include:

Professional Memberships

• The South Carolina Bar
• President of the South Carolina Black Lawyers’ Association
• Richland County Bar Association (Co-Chair of the Young Lawyers’ Division from 2009-2014)
• South Carolina Association of Justice
• American Association for Justice
• Columbia (SC) Chapter of The Links, Inc
• Board of Directors of the 701 Center for Contemporary Art – Secretary
• Richland-Lexington Airport Commission
• Leadership Columbia (Class of 2011)

Dan was born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina. He attended the University of Virginia then returned to Columbia for law school at the University of South Carolina. Upon graduating law school he clerked for Chief Justice Jean Toal of the South Carolina Supreme Court. Dan then accepted a job working at the firm of Ness Motley Loadholt Richardson & Poole. When that firm dissolved in 2002, Dan became one of the original associates of Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook, & Brickman. In 2020, Dan formed the firm Richarson, Thomas, Haltiwanger, Moore, & Lewis.  In 2024, Dan formed his current firm Morgan, Slaughter & Haltiwanger. His practice covers a wide variety of litigation areas including unsafe products, premises liability, tractor trailer litigation, railroad litigation, and consumer class actions. Since 2006 he has served on the board of directors for South Carolina Legal Services, a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights of low income South Carolinians. In 2009, Dan was elected to the Board of Governors for the South Carolina Association for Justice. He also served 4 years on the Executive Committee of the South Carolina Association for Justice. He lives in Aiken, South Carolina and has two young children, Diana and William.