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.