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Adam Whitsett
Adam Whitsett is the General Counsel of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. In that role, he advises SLED on all legal matters, including criminal investigations and civil litigation. He is a former Assistant Attorney General with the South Carolina Attorney General's Office where he worked in the civil division and represented the State of South Carolina, various state agencies, judges, and other entities on civil and regulatory litigation matters and appeals throughout the state. Adam has presented at numerous CLEs around the state on various topics, including expungements, FOIA, interrogations, sex offender registration, special searches, and gaming machine litigation. Before the Attorney General's Office, Adam was a litigator at The Finney Law Firm, Inc. Adam graduated from The Citadel and obtained his law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
S.C. Law Enforcement Division
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Anna Rushton
Anna Rushton is the Securities Outreach Program Coordinator with the Securities Division of the South Carolina Attorney General's Office. Since joining the office in April of 2015, Anna has conducted a variety of investor education events for senior groups, law enforcement, military personnel, and business associations. Anna also serves as Vice-Chair of the Senior Outreach Committee for the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) which helps develop programs to help protect seniors in the US and Canada. A graduate of Wofford College, Anna earned her BA in Government.
S.C. Attorney General's Office
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Daniel Blanchard
Entered 11.11.09 by CCN
DANIEL F. “FRANK” BLANCHARD, III, ESQUIRE
Daniel F. Blanchard, III has been actively involved in civil trial work with primary emphasis in employment, civil rights, personal injury, consumer law, and business litigation cases. He was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1992 and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Blanchard is a member of the Charleston County Bar Association, the South Carolina Bar, the American Bar Association, and the United States Supreme Court Historical Society. Mr. Blanchard received his Bachelors of Arts degree in Political Science from Furman University and earned his law degree with honors from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Areas of Practice
Articles
Admitted to Practice
South Carolina
U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, 1995
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1996
U.S. Supreme Court, 1996
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 1998
Professional Memberships
Charleston County Bar Association
South Carolina Bar
American Bar Association
U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society
S.C. Bar, House of Delegates
Graduate of Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce “Leadership Charleston” Class of 2002
Charleston Motor Carriers Association
Education
Furman University (B.A., Political Science)
University of South Carolina School of Law (J.D., cum laude)
Rosen Hagood LLC
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David Kershaw
David Kershaw is a 2011 Graduate of South
Carolina State University where he earned his Bachelor of Science in
Marketing. While at South Carolina State
University, David was an active member of the Honors Program which transitioned
to the Honors College during his tenure at the University. In May of 2015, David received a Juris Doctor
and a Certification in Children’s Law from the University of South
Carolina. At the time of graduation, David was awarded the Compleat Lawyer Award, one of the highest achievable honors for a South Carolina lawyer. After law school, David served as a judicial
law clerk to the Honorable Amy McCulloch, Richland Probate Judge, and as a
judicial law clerk to the Honorable Helen Burris, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the
District of South Carolina. Following
his clerkships, David worked as an Associate at Turner Padget Graham &
Laney, P.A., a regional law firm based in South Carolina, and then at Fox
Rothschild, LLP, a national law firm based in Pennsylvania. While working in private practice, David
focused on creditor’s rights matters including bankruptcy administration and
litigation, probate litigation, financial services and civil litigation.
David recently transitioned from private practice and joined United Community Bank as Vice President and Legal Counsel. In this role, David works with the bank’s General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel, and Special Assets and Commercial Credit Counsel to advise on matters related to distressed loans, bankruptcies, collections, litigation, foreclosures and probate estates. David
is a licensed member of the South Carolina Bar and the North Carolina Bar.
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Frederick Faircloth
Freddy is the owner and attorney at The Faircloth Law Firm, LLC, a boutique estate planning law firm based in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He focuses his practice in the areas of estate and wealth transfer planning, probate, estate and trust administration, and business succession planning. A Rock Hill native, Freddy received a B.S. in Accounting from Clemson University in 2000. He received a J.D. from the University of South Carolina in 2003, where he was a member of the South Carolina Law Review and a recipient of the Arthur B. Custy Tax Award. He received his Masters of Law (LL.M.) in Taxation from the University of Florida in 2004. Freddy was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 2003 and the North Carolina Bar in 2005. He is a South Carolina Supreme Court Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law and currently serves on the South Carolina Supreme Court Estate Planning and Probate Law Specialization Advisory Committee. Freddy is a frequent lecturer in the areas of estates and trusts. In March 2020 he was elected as a Fellow of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel ("ACTEC"), an organization of approximately 2,500 trust and estate lawyers and law professors from across the country who are elected by their peers in recognition of having made outstanding contributions to the practice of trust and estate law. In addition to his law practice, Freddy is the Executive Vice President of the Rock Hill Coca-Cola Bottling Company, which his family has owned and operated since 1908. Freddy also serves as a member of the Board of Directors and as Secretary of South Atlantic Canners, a bottling cooperative in Bishopville, South Carolina, that supplies Coca-Cola products to bottlers across South Carolina and North Carolina. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the South Carolina Beverage Association, the trade group representing the soft drink industry in South Carolina. Freddy is married to the former Catherine Hicklin, and they have three daughters.
The Faircloth Law Firm, LLC
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Heather Galvin
Judge Heather Galvin graduated from Kent State
University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science where she was a member
of the Golden Key National Honor Society and the Delta Zeta Sorority. She
obtained her Juris Doctor from the Cleveland Marshall College of Law at
Cleveland State University and is admitted to the practice of law in Ohio,
South Carolina, and Washington D.C. Prior to moving to South Carolina; she
worked for LexisNexis as an Applications Consultant and Senior Legal Research
Associate. Upon relocating to South Carolina, Judge Galvin served as an
Assistant Solicitor for the 14th Judicial Circuit. In 2007, she opened the Law
Offices of Heather Galvin focusing on the areas of family and probate law. As
part of her practice, she had the opportunity to serve as part-time Staff
Attorney for the Beaufort County Probate Court; contract attorney for the Guardian
ad litem programs in Allendale, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper
Counties in abuse and neglect proceedings involving children; and pro-bono
Special Prosecutor in Beaufort County for animal cruelty cases. In October of 2012, she was sworn in as
full-time Associate Probate Judge for Beaufort County where she served until
her election as Probate Judge in 2023.
She is the Second Vice President of the South Carolina Association of
Probate Judges and a member of the Executive Committee of the National College
of Probate Judges. In her spare time, she enjoys jogging, swimming, Pilates,
and tennis.
Beaufort County
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Jesse Cartrette
The
Honorable Jesse S. Cartrette, Jr. was born in Florence, South Carolina in 1979,
the oldest of three sons born to Jesse Cartrette, Sr. and Gail Sturgeon
Cartrette. After serving as Student Body President and receiving an academic
letter jacket, he graduated double-cord from South Florence High School in
1998. The first member of his family to attend college, he was an honors
student at Francis Marion University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of
Science degree in Political Science in May of 2002. He was a member of the
first graduating class of the Charleston School of Law (“Charleston Law”),
where he was a founding member of the Christian Legal Society and served as one
of the first class of justices seated on the law school’s student-led court
formally known as the Honor Council.
Judge Cartrette was awarded The Civility Award, Charleston Law’s highest
honor, by election of his peers, just before receiving his Juris Doctor degree
from the Charleston School of Law in 2007.
After graduating from
law school, he had the honor and privilege of serving as a Law Clerk for the
Honorable Thomas A. Russo, Judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court of
Common Pleas and General Sessions. Cartrette was then admitted to the South
Carolina Bar in May of 2008 and formed his own private law practice in
Florence, South Carolina in November of that same year. He was admitted to
practice in the United States District Court for South Carolina in May of 2010.
Prior to his election in
2018, Judge Cartrette’s community involvement included serving as a proud
member of the Florence County Bar championing and protecting the rights of
underprivileged clients in our community including, but not limited to, senior
citizens, abused and neglected children and vulnerable adults. In his legal career, Judge Cartrette became
an accomplished and respected attorney, mediator and guardian ad litem in the
Probate, Circuit and Family Courts of Florence and the surrounding Pee Dee Area
counties. He has also served as an
adjunct professor of business law for Limestone University.
Judge Cartrette has previously served on the Board of
Directors for the Florence County Senior Citizens Association and as a member
of the Florence Rotary Club. He is also
a Paul Harris Fellow. Judge Cartrette
enjoys spending time with his family and friends, He attends Compassion Church
in Florence, South Carolina, and is passionate about helping those in need in
our community and frequently participates in various community service
projects, promoting charitable organizations and engaging in other
philanthropic endeavors to benefit local artists; farmers; homeless and
disadvantaged members of the community; disabled veterans; religious charities;
children’s and high school sports teams including baseball, softball and basketball;
and working on initiatives to foster community unity and understanding between
people of diverse backgrounds and beliefs.
He was elected Florence County Probate Judge on November 6, 2018.
S.C. Probate Court
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John Kittredge
John Kittredge was
born and raised in Greenville
County . Justice Kittredge graduated from the University of South Carolina, summa cum laude . He graduated
from the University of South Carolina School of Law. Academic honors include
Phi Beta Kappa, Order of the Coif, and Wig and Robe. Justice Kittredge is the first person ever to serve on all South Carolina courts, which include the family court, the circuit court, the court of appeals, and currently the state supreme court. Justice Kittredge and his wife, Lila, have three children and two grandchildren. Through the years, Justice Kittredge has served on many boards and commissions, including Chair of the Chief Justice’s Commission on the Profession.
S.C. Supreme Court
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Matthew Myers
Matt focuses his practice in the general areas of trusts, estates, probate, taxation, business entities, and nonprofits, including planning, administration, litigation, and transactions in each of these areas. He is a certified specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law, a member of the Columbia Estate Planning Counsel and the Columbia Tax Study Group, and the author of "The South Carolina Personal Representative Handbook,” as published by the South Carolina Bar.
In law school, Matt served as an
editor for the Real Property Probate and Trust Journal, before going on to
obtain an advanced degree in taxation from the University of Florida.
Prior to law school, Matt studied economics at the University of South Carolina
Honors College and subsequently worked in the banking industry for several
years as a commercial loan officer and credit analyst.
Matt is a native of Darlington, South Carolina, and is married to the former Sarah Grove of Whiteville, North Carolina. They have two children and are members of Shandon United Methodist Church.
Sweeny Wingate & Barrow, PA
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Philip Porter
Philip S. Porter
graduated from Clemson University in 1975 and from the University of South
Carolina School of Law in 1979. He was employed by the South Carolina
Department of Consumer Affairs as a staff attorney, eventually serving as
Deputy for Regulatory Enforcement, and as the Department’s Administrator and
the State’s Consumer Advocate from the mid-1990s until 2002. He was in private
practice from 2002 until 2007. From 2007 until March 2021 he served as Deputy
General Counsel of the SCDMV where he handled, among other matters, driver
license, dealer license and fuel tax matters in the Office of Motor Vehicle
Hearings, Administrative Law Court, Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. In
addition to the S.C. Bar, he is admitted to the Bars of the District of South
Carolina, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the D.C. Circuit Court of
Appeals.
S.C. Department of Consumer Affairs
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Randy Skinner
Randy Skinner is a bankruptcy attorney in Greenville,
S.C. He received his B.S. (Business
Administration), M.B.A., and J.D. from the University of South Carolina.
Since being admitted to the South Carolina Bar in
1991, Mr. Skinner has become a statewide leader in the bankruptcy field, with
numerous accolades and appointments, including U.S. Bankruptcy Court Chapter 7
Panel Trustee, 2002-2019; Certified Specialist in Bankruptcy Law by the South
Carolina Supreme Court; Past chairman of the Bankruptcy and Debtor-Creditor Law
Specialization Advisory Board; named to Best Lawyers in America; named to South
Carolina Super Lawyers; and named South Carolina Legal Elite by Greenville
Business Magazine and Columbia Business Monthly.
Mr. Skinner is a member of the South Carolina Bar,
South Carolina Bankruptcy Law Association, American
Bankruptcy Institute, National Consumer Bankruptcy Law Association, past chairman
of the Law Related Education Committee of the South Carolina Bar and past recipient
of Pro Bono Small Law Firm of the Year by the South Carolina Bar.
Skinner Law Firm, LLC
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S. Medlin
S. Alan Medlin is an attorney licensed to practice in the State of South Carolina since 1979. He received a B.A. degree from the University of South Carolina ( summa cum laude ) in 1976 and a J.D. degree from the University of South Carolina in 1979. From 1979 to 1984, he was a partner in the firm of Whitener, Knight, and Medlin, with an emphasis on estate planning matters and real estate transaction and mortgage lending matters. Since 1984, he has taught at the University of South Carolina School of Law. He has taught courses in Trusts and Estates, Fiduciary Administration, Property, Real Estate Finance, Real Estate Transactions I, Real Estate Transactions II, Legal Ethics, Advanced Legal Ethics, Fundamentals of Professionalism, and Law Practice Workshop. Since 1989, he has co-authored and co-edited, along with Professor Lad Boyle and Howard Zaritsky, the Probate Practice Reporter, a monthly publication distributed nationally. He has served as editor-in-chief, resident editor, and associate editor of the American Bar Association's Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal, the scholarly journal of the ABA's Real Property, Trust and Estate section; he also served on the editorial board of Probate and Property magazine, the bi-monthly magazine of the ABA's Real Property, Trust and Estate section. He has published five books, several book chapters, and numerous articles. He has made presentations to regional and national audiences in the areas of legal ethics, estate planning, probate, and real estate law. He is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and is a former chair of the Board Governing Certified Specialists in Estate Planning and Probate for South Carolina. Professor Medlin has been named Outstanding Law Faculty Teacher multiple times. He is a recipient of the South Carolina Compleat Lawyer Award and is an honorary member of the South Carolina Association of Probate Judges. He received the 2004 Treat Award recognizing excellence from the National College of Probate Judges. He is a former Chair of the Real Estate Practices Section of the South Carolina Bar.
University of South Carolina School of Law
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Sally Dey
South Carolina Department of Social Services
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Tiffany Provence
Tiffany Provence formed PMC Law Firm after more than 10 years as Dorchester County Probate Judge. Provence is a graduate of the University of Florida and University of South Carolina School of Law. Provence also holds dual certifications as both a Civil and Family Court mediator and is currently the SC Bar’s trainer for the 40-hour mediation certification course.
Provence has served as President and Legal Counsel for Dorchester Paws (formerly Francis R. Willis SPCA), Secretary for the Dorchester County Bar, Advisory Counsel to the South Carolina Supreme Court, and a member of the Executive Committee for the South Carolina Association of Probate Judges. She is also currently serving as the Dorchester County Drug Court Judge and was formerly a professor at both the Charleston School of Law and Trident Technical College. Her classes and lecture topics include Probate, Wills & Trusts, Legal Ethics, Fiduciary Administration, and Mediation & Negotiation.
In her community, Provence currently serves on the Advisory Board for Truist and the Endowment Board for Dorchester Paws. She has also offered her tim e and talents to numerous organizations including the Board of Director's for Palmetto Scholar's Academy Charter School, Board of Directors for Sculpture in the South, Board of Directors for Children's Trust of South Carolina, Habitat for Humanity and local organizations supporting youth athletics. Tiffany was raised in Summerville, SC.
Provence Messervy, LLC
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Timothy Brown
Judge Timothy L. Brown was born September 17, 1946. He was raised by his grandparents, the late Dr. William Wilson Brown and Annabelle Davis Brown.
Judge Brown has served in the US Marine Corps. Judge Brown graduated cum laude from the University of South Carolina with a B.A. in government. He graduated in 1976 from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Judge Brown has worked for Legal Services of Western Carolina in Greenville, SC and has been in private practice from 1979 up to his election to Family Court Judge in 1998. His law practice of 23 years consisted primarily of matters to do with Family Court, (custody and equitable division), Appellate Court, Federal Court as well as municipal, criminal and civil courts. Judge Brown has lectured at CLE seminars as well as JCLE seminars. He has also lectured to the Guardian's Program and taught Family and Business Law at Greenville Technical College.
Judge Brown was elected by the General Assembly as Family Court Judge of the 13th Judicial Circuit, Seat No. 6 on May 5, 1998.
Judge Brown married Sharon Johnson Brown August 30, 1968 and they have two (2) children. He is a member of the Masons, Scottish Rite, Shrine & Rotary and Westminster Presbyterian Church.
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