Stephanie devotes 100% of her practice to litigation, with a primary focus in the areas of products liability and toxic and mass torts litigation in both federal and state courts. She is on the firm's Products Liability, Toxic and Mass Torts, Transportation, and Tort and Personal Injury practice teams. Her products liability practice has included a wide range of products, including pharmaceuticals, latex products, recreational products, and automotive products. Stephanie also has substantial experience in toxic and mass tort litigation, having been heavily involved in asbestos litigation on behalf of both product manufacturers and insulation subcontractors and defending cases involving exposure to chlorine gas, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, alumina oxide and toxic molds.
Stephanie was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the College of Charleston in 1996, graduating cum laude in three years. She joined the South Carolina Bar in 1999, after earning her Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from the University of South Carolina School of Law. During law school, Stephanie served as the Senior Articles Editor for the ABA's Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal.
Stephanie is active locally with the United Way of Greenville County, serving as a member of the Young Philanthropist Council and serves on the Leadership Greenville Alumni Association Board.
Honors and Awards
Order of the Coif
Order of the Wig and Robe
Bar Admissions
South Carolina, 1999
U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, 2000
Education
J.D., cum laude, University of
South Carolina School of Law, 1999
Author, Duty to Mitigate Damages Upon a Tenant's Abandonment, 34 ABA REAL PROPERTY PROBATE AND TRUST JOURNAL (Winter, 2000)
Authors, Getting Down to the Online Truth: Becoming the Ultimate Cyber-Sleuth, DRI For the Defense Magazine, April 2011
Presentations
Moderator, A Look at Changes to the Professional
Conduct Rules, ABA Section of Litigation Products Liability Committee’s
Thirteenth Annual Women in Products Liability Regional CLE Workshop, November
15, 2012
Presenter, Becoming the Ultimate Cyber-Sleuth - Getting Down to the Online Truth, October 2010 DRI Annual Meeting
Moderator, Legal Marketing: What Technology Works?, 11th Annual Women in Products Liability Workshop, November 12, 2010
Professional Associations & Memberships
Defense Research Institute - Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee
Defense Research Institute - Vice-Chair of the Trial Tactics
Specialized Litigation Group for the Toxic Tort and Environmental Law Committee
Defense Research Institute - Marketing Chair for the
Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee (2013-present)
Defense Research Institute - Co-Chair of Marketing for
the 2012 and 2013 Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Seminars
American Bar Association, Section of Litigation Member - Products Liability Committee, Women in Products
Liability Subcommittee, Mass Torts Litigation Committee
South Carolina Bar Association
South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys' Association
Greenville County Bar Association
Greenville CountyYoung Lawyers
Graduate of South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys' Association Trial Academy, 2001
Graduate of IADC Trial Academy, 2003
Graduate of Leadership Greenville, Class 37
Community Service
Leadership Greenville Alumni Association, Board of Directors
United Way of Greenville County - Young
Philanthropist Council 2006-Present, Born Learning Trail Committee 2010-Present, New Member Committee Chair 2008-09, Loaned Executive 2005
Judge, 2013 Carol
N. Ney National Mock Trial Tournament, Furman University
Downtown Symphony Club - Greenville Symphony Orchestra
Upstate College of Charleston Alumni Network
Dining for Women, North Main Chapter
State High School Mock Trial Competition Judge, 2009
