Greenville Attorney A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr. to Lead South Carolina Bar

COLUMBIA, SC – April 28, 2011 – Greenville attorney A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr. will be installed as the 2011-12 president of the South Carolina Bar on Thursday, May 5, during the Bar’s House of Delegates meeting at Larkin’s on the River in Greenville. S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean H. Toal will administer the oath of office, and Quattlebaum will address the House on initiatives for the coming year.

Quattlebaum serves as the Business Litigation Practice Group co-chair of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP and as a member of the firm’s Management Group. He practices in the areas of business litigation, products liability litigation and other complex civil litigation and is admitted to practice before the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. He graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1989.

Quattlebaum is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, American Law Firm Association Product Liability Steering Committee, Defense Research Institute, S.C. Defense Trial Attorneys’ Association, American Bar Association, U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society, Products Liability Advisory Council, Litigation Counsel of America, the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference and the Greenville County Bar Association. His other positions in the South Carolina Bar have included president-elect, secretary, and member of the Board of Governors and House of Delegates. He also is listed in the Best Lawyers in America and S.C. Super Lawyers.

In 2009, Quattlebaum was honored with the USC School of Law’s Compleat Lawyer Award, which recognizes alumni for outstanding civic and professional accomplishments.

The South Carolina Bar, which has a membership of more than 13,500 lawyers, is dedicated to advancing justice, professionalism and understanding of the law.