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Beth has been practicing law since 2001. Her practice focuses on business disputes, in courtroom and arbitration settings, including FINRA. Beth’s clients include publicly traded and private companies and their officers and employees operating in a wide array of industries such as real estate, insurance, energy and utility, restaurant and retail, financial investing, and health care. Beth also represents clients with trust and estate issues, and on appeals, particularly in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She has handled successful appeals of cases involving issues of first impression and divided authorities. Beth also regularly assists other lawyers in ethics matters. 

Before joining the firm in 2013, Beth served as an adjunct professor in Advanced Legal Writing at the University of South Carolina School of Law and was an associate for five years at a Big Law firm. Beth completed judicial clerkships in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. She received her law degree from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, where she served as Editor in Chief of the Law Review and was the National Association of Women Lawyers Outstanding Law Graduate. Her undergraduate degree is from Duke University.

Bart Daniel served as United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina from 1989 until 1992. Bart also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the early 80’s prosecuting civil and criminal fraud, money laundering, drug and tax cases.  He was one of the leading prosecutors as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Operation Jackpot.

Bart defended Tuomey Hospital throughout the Government’s investigation and trial of False Claims Act allegations. While he served as lead counsel in the 2013 trial, his role during the 2010 trial was to lead all negotiations and mediations. Bart served as counsel to the hospital’s Board through the entire matter.

Bart defended the first federal criminal health care fraud case to go to trial in South Carolina. He has represented numerous health care providers in criminal and civil False Claims Act cases.

Bart co-authored Health Care Fraud and Collateral Consequences, 3rd Edition (2019) which discusses the False Claims Act at length, as well as the featured article in the South Carolina Lawyer entitled “Health Care Reform: Recent Developments in Fraud Enforcement.” He has lectured extensively on the False Claim Act and health care enforcement to attorneys, providers and consultants, as well as government prosecutors, auditors and investigators.

Bart is former President of the National Association of Former United States Attorneys. He serves on U.S. Senator Tim Scott’s Federal Judicial Nominating Commission, is a member as well as Past Chairman of U.S. Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel, and served as President of the Charleston County Bar in 1994-1995.

Bart is co-chair of the Nelson Mullins White Collar & Government Investigations Group.

Jim Durham is a nationally recognized go-to trial lawyer in both civil and criminal cases. He maintains a robust trial practice representing victims of negligence and intentional acts, whistleblowers in False Claims Act cases, businesses and individuals in bet-the-company business litigation and white-collar criminal matters.

Jim finished his storied career with the Department of Justice (DOJ) after serving as the United States Attorney (Acting) for the Southern District of Georgia. As a federal prosecutor, Jim was three times awarded Director’s Awards, one of DOJ highest honors, each relating to successful jury verdicts he secured involving public corruption and massive fraud and money laundering schemes. After leaving the DOJ, in his first trial back in private practice, Jim secured a $10,000,000.00 jury verdict on behalf of a rape victim against the apartment complex where she lived.

In recognition of his superior trial skills, Jim was inducted in 2014 in the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers, an invitation only fellowship, limited to not more than 1% of the total lawyer population of a particular state.
Before founding Griffin Durham, Jim was a partner with one of the preeminent plaintiff’s firms in Georgia, Savage, Turner, Durham, Pinckney & Savage. At the Savage firm, Jim successfully tried, settled, and handled cases involving catastrophic injury, high-stakes business disputes, False Claims Act litigation and white-collar criminal defense.

During his government service, Jim handled some of the most complex cases in his office. Jim served as lead trial counsel in public corruption, fraud, and significant violent crime investigations, obtaining guilty verdicts in multiple high-profile trials. Among his many accomplishments, Jim has been recognized for his work by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Health and Human Services, Federal Reserve Office of the Inspector General, and others. In his last five years with the DOJ alone, Jim’s prosecutions led to the return of over $75 million to victims of crimes and the American taxpayers.

Jim began his legal career in 1995 at Chilivis, Cochran, Larkins & Bever, an Atlanta firm specializing in complex civil litigation and white-collar criminal defense. After becoming a partner of the Chilivis firm in 2001, Jim left private practice in 2002 to serve as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Savannah. While continuing to prosecute a full caseload of complex fraud and public corruption cases, Jim also served as the Southern District of Georgia’s Criminal Chief (2007-2010); First Assistant U.S. Attorney (2010-2017); then Acting U.S. Attorney (2017). In recognition of his exceptional years of service with the DOJ, Jim received the 2023 William H. Webster’s Profiles in Leadership Award, one of the most prestigious public service awards in the country.

 Joseph P. Griffith, Jr. is a federal False Claims Act and white collar criminal defense attorney located in Charleston, South Carolina.  Joe handles a wide variety of federal False Claims Act cases including those involving ambulance companies, autism spectrum providers, bank holding companies, defense contractors, chiropractors, dentists, dialysis clinics, durable medical equipment suppliers, emergent care clinics, government contractors and grantees, home health providers, hospice companies, hospitals, laboratories, Medicaid Managed Care Organizations, medical marketing companies, Medicare Advantage Organizations, nursing homes, pharmacists, pharmaceutical companies and physicians. Past and present clients include a number of publicly traded and private corporations, and/or their CEOs, COOs and CFOs, who have been subjected to a variety of white collar and/or qui tam investigations, litigation and/or prosecutions.

Joe is currently the chairman of the Qui Tam Whistleblower-False Claims Act Section of the Federal Bar Association of South Carolina. Joe’s white collar defense practice focuses on securities fraud, antitrust crimes, bank fraud, bankruptcy fraud, campaign finance crimes, commercial bribery, computer fraud, criminal tax fraud, customs crimes, defense procurement fraud, environmental crimes, gambling, health care fraud, insurance fraud, and public corruption crimes. Joe has extensive experience in federal grand jury investigations and corporate internal investigations. He has tried numerous complex civil and criminal federal court cases. Joe was an Assistant United States Attorney in the South Carolina district for about 12 years, prosecuting numerous white collar crimes and civil matters.  Joe also handles catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases.

Joe is a graduate of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A. 1979) and University of South Carolina School of Law (J.D. 1982). He is the founding member of Joe Griffith Law Firm, LLC, has received an AV rating from Martindale- Hubbell® and a Superb rating from AVVO®, is a member of the Bar Register of Pre-eminent Lawyers®, the Million Dollar Advocates Forum®, the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum®, and has been selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America® (since 2007) and as a South Carolina Super Lawyer®. Joe has co-authored three books published by the South Carolina Bar Association: Health Care Fraud and Collateral Consequences, Third Edition (2019), Health Care Fraud and Collateral Consequences, Second Edition (2011) and Federal and State Securities Enforcement (2008), and has made multiple CLE presentations involving white collar criminal defense and federal whistleblower cases under the federal False Claims Act.  For more details on Joe’s practice, or to contact him, visit www.joegriffith.com.

Michael Moore is a founding partner of Moore Hall, where he leads the firm’s efforts in medical malpractice, wrongful death, sexual abuse cases, qui tam and False Claims Act litigation, complex fraud cases, white-collar defense, and high-stakes commercial litigation. Based in the firm’s Atlanta office, Michael draws on decades of experience at the intersection of public service, private practice, and federal law enforcement.

Michael has built a reputation as a fearless advocate for those facing overwhelming odds. His clients have included legendary musicians, influential music industry executives, former professional athletes, and courageous whistleblowers—people with powerful stories who needed a steady hand and a strong voice. Known for representing “David against Goliath,” Michael brings deep trial experience and an unwavering commitment to justice. He’s recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for his clients and is regularly called upon to serve as trial counsel in high-stakes cases across Georgia. In addition to his courtroom work, Michael is often engaged as an expert witness throughout the Southeast, where his insight and strategic thinking are highly sought after. Whether standing up for individuals who’ve been wronged or guiding complex litigation to trial, Michael is the advocate you want in your corner when it matters most.

In 2010, Michael was appointed by President Obama to serve as the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. As United States Attorney, Michael targeted violent crimes, human trafficking, and public corruption. During his time as the chief federal prosecutor, he oversaw the prosecution of national food safety cases, resulting in record-setting prison sentences for corporate executives and the largest criminal fine ever imposed against a corporation for food safety violations.

Michael took an active role in civil rights matters, overseeing numerous cases involving the brutal mistreatment of arrestees and prison inmates, and personally mediated a landmark settlement guaranteeing adequate representation for children and individuals in the Superior Courts.

Michael is a former Georgia State Senator and is a legal analyst for CNN, appearing regularly on both national and international broadcasts and has provided commentary for MSNBC, FOX News, and the BBC.

Mr. Singh is an accomplished appellate advocate for plaintiffs, including whistleblowers and also victims of terrorist attacks, human trafficking, air crashes, pharmaceutical product defects, and civil rights violations. He has argued four cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, where he made history as the first turbaned Sikh to ever argue—as well as more than a dozen cases in federal and state appellate courts, with an overwhelmingly positive win/loss record. Indeed, Mr. Singh has not only won each of his four Supreme Court cases, he won the vote of every single Justice in each of those cases.

Through his fifteen years of experience presenting arguments to the most demanding judges in opposition to the best lawyers the defense bar has to offer, Mr. Singh has developed a deep understanding of the law, including an ability to anticipate trends and shape them through skilled advocacy. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has described him as “an awesome lawyer,” and his co-counsel in several high-stakes cases commented that Mr. Singh’s advocacy “transformed our trial court and appellate briefings into some of the best exemplars of written advocacy I have ever had the privilege of signing,” and that he “is the best oralist I have known,” with the ability to “change an obviously hostile judge’s mind” at argument.

Outside of his legal practice, Mr. Singh makes frequent panel appearances to discuss legal developments, and also serves on the President’s Council of Taxpayers Against Fraud, as well as the Advisory Board of the Federal Bar Association’s Qui Tam Section, which hosts a regular video podcast of his called The Rounds: FCA News with Tejinder Singh. For several years, Mr. Singh also taught Supreme Court litigation at Harvard Law School.

Prior to joining Sparacino PLLC, Mr. Singh was a partner at a prominent Supreme Court and appellate litigation boutique. Before that, he clerked in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for the honorable Diana Motz.

Mr. Singh graduated from Harvard Law School cum laude in 2008, where he was named the best oralist in the Ames Moot Court Competition, and served as Editor in Chief of the Harvard Law and Policy Review. Before that, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, with a minor in Business Administration, from U.C. Berkeley, where he was also a successful collegiate policy debater.

Mr. Singh is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and New York, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, D.C., and Federal Circuits, along with the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Maryland as well as the Northern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Prior to becoming a founding partner of Heaphy Smith Harbach & Windom, Tim was Chief Investigative Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate The January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol.  As the leader of the committee’s investigative team, he created the plan for comprehensive evaluation of the facts and circumstances surrounding the attack, supervised dozens of lawyers and investigative staff professionals, and personally conducted numerous committee interviews and depositions, and ultimately contributed to the committee’s hearings and final report.

Immediately prior to his service on the Select Committee, Tim served as University Counsel to the University of Virginia.  As chief legal officer to a major public research university, Tim advised the university’s leadership and Board of Directors on a wide array of legal issues across the academic division and health system. From 2009-2014, he served as the Presidentially-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, where he led a team of attorneys and staff in a broad range of significant investigations and cases involving national security, financial and health care fraud, public corruption, money laundering, civil rights and other matters. Earlier in his career, Tim served for 12 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in both the District of Columbia and the Western District of Virginia. In addition, Tim has several years of experience in private practice.  He was a partner and White Collar Defense and Internal Investigations Practice chair at prominent law firms in Washington, DC and Virginia. He began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge John A. Terry of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Tim is a lecturer at University of Virginia School of Law, where he has taught since 2003. His courses have included Federal Criminal Practice, Trial Advocacy and Law and Riots. He also taught a seminar called “Congress, Oversight, and the Separation of Powers” in the fall of 2023.

 In 2016, Tim founded a nonprofit organization, The Fountain Fund, which provides low-interest loans to formerly incarcerated people. He currently serves as founder and chairman of the Board of Directors of that organization.