Turner Padget Attorneys Named Among South Carolina Super Lawyers

May 3, 2014

GREENVILLE, SC –   April 29, 2014  – Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A. announced that sixteen of the firm’s attorneys have been named by Super Lawyers magazine as top attorneys in South Carolina for 2014.  In addition, seven attorneys are named as South Carolina Rising Stars.

Columbia Super Lawyers:
Reginald W. Belcher – Employment & Labor
J. Kenneth Carter, Jr. – Personal Injury Defense, Products
Catherine H. Kennedy – Estate & Trust Litigation
Lanneau W. Lambert, Jr. – Real Estate
Edward W. Laney, IV – Insurance Coverage
Steven W. Ouzts – Class Action
Thomas C. Salane – Insurance Coverage
Franklin G. Shuler, Jr. – Employment & Labor

Charleston Super Lawyers:
John K. Blincow, Jr. – Professional Liability Defense
Richard S. Dukes, Jr. – Personal Injury Defense – Products
Elaine H. Fowler – Business/Corporate
John S. Wilkerson – Insurance Coverage

Charleston Rising Stars:
Julian K. Allen – Personal Injury Defense General
Ashley S. Heslop – Professional Liability Defense
Nosizi Ralephata – Business Litigation
Shawn R. Willis – Real Estate

Florence Super Lawyers:
J. Rene Josey – Business Litigation
Arthur E. Justice, Jr. – Employment & Labor

Florence Rising Stars:
C. Pierce Campbell – Business Litigation
J. Jakob Kennedy – Professional Liability Defense

Myrtle Beach Super Lawyer:
R. Wayne Byrd – Business/Corporate
Otis Allen Jeffcoat, III – Real Estate

Myrtle Beach Rising Star:
Audra M. Byrd – Civil Litigation Defense

The selections for Super Lawyers are made by Law & Politics, a division of Key Professional Media, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minn. Each year, Law & Politics undertakes a rigorous multi-phase selection process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, independent evaluation of candidates by Law & Politics’ attorney-led research staff, a peer review of candidates by practice area, and a good-standing and disciplinary check. Super Lawyers was first published in 1991, and the complete 204 list can be found online at www.superlawyers.com.

About Turner Padget

Founded in 1929, Turner Padget is one of South Carolina’s largest law firms with five offices across the state in Charleston, Columbia, Florence, Greenville and Myrtle Beach. The firm provides clients in many industries with quality legal services in areas such as arbitration and mediation, business entity planning and organization, business litigation, construction and environmental litigation, employment and labor law, estate and tax planning, insurance coverage analysis and litigation, intellectual property, personal injury defense litigation, products liability, professional liability, real estate transactions, trucking and transportation, and workers’ compensation. For additional information, visit http://www.turnerpadget.com.