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| | Address | | 508 Hampton Street, P.O. Box 11716 | | Columbia, South Carolina 29211 | | (Lexington & Richland Cos.) | | | |
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| Austin & Rogers, P.A. practices in the following areas of law:
General Civil and Criminal Litigation in all State and Federal Courts and before Administrative Agencies. Banking, Commercial, Condominium, Construction, Contract, Corporate, Estate Planning and Trust, Family, Divorce, Foreclosure, Insurance, Personal Injury, Automobile Accidents, Wrongful Death, Trucking Accidents, Head and Spinal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Probate, Public Utility, Real Estate, Tort, and Workers Compensation Law. | | Firm Size: 8 | Representative Clients:
AOR Management of South Carolina, Inc.; BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc.; Carolina Power & Light Company; Carolina Water Service, Inc.; The Christie Company, Inc.; Columbia Ventures, L.L.C.; Duke Power, A Division of Duke Energy Corporation; First Citzens Bank and Trust Company; Oncology and Hematology Associates of South Carolina, L.L.C.; Pulliam Motor Co.; South Carolina Insurance Reserve Fund; Southern Wine & Spirts of America, Inc.; Southern Wine & Sprits of South Carolina, Inc.; Richland Community Health Care Association, Inc.; Town of Eastover; U.S. Oncology, Inc. |
APPROVED ATTORNEYS FOR: Chicago Title Insurance Company; Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation; Old Republic National Title Insurance Company. | | William F. Austin (Partner) born Greenwood, South Carolina, February 12, 1932; admitted to bar, 1955, South Carolina, U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina, U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit and U.S. Tax Court; 1966, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Erskine College (B.S., 1953); University of South Carolina (J.D., 1955). Assistant Attorney General, South Carolina, 1955-1960. Chief Insurance Commissioner, South Carolina, 1960-1964. General Counsel, South Carolina Public Service Commission, 1968-1972. Member: Richland County and American Bar Associations; South Carolina Bar. Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Business Law; Elder Law; Corporate Law; Probate; Estate Planning; Public Utility Regulation. Email: William F. Austin | | Timothy F. Rogers (Partner) born Orangeburg, South Carolina, October 3, 1947; admitted to bar, 1976, South Carolina; 1979, U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina; 1989, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. Education: Clemson University (B.A., 1969); University of South Carolina School of Law (J.D., 1973). President, Clemson University Student Body, 1968-1969; Member, South Carolina Legislature 1983-1996. Member, House Ways and Means Committee, S.C. Legislature 1987-1997. Assistant Fifth Circuit Solicitor (Prosecuting Attorney) 1979-1983. Member: Richland County and American Bar Associations; South Carolina Bar; South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Public Utility Regulation; Business Law. Email: Timothy F. Rogers | | Raymon E. Lark, Jr. (Partner) born Greenville, South Carolina, July 7, 1952; admitted to bar, 1978, South Carolina and U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina; 1979, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1983, U.S. Supreme Court; 1984, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit. Education: Duke University (B.A., cum laude, 1974); University of South Carolina School of Law (J.D., 1978). Contributor, USFWS Environmental Planning for Offshore Oil and Gas and Volume IV, Regulatory Framework for Protecting Living Resources, 1978. Author, "State Regulatory Authority and Nuclear Ratemaking Issues," Nuclear Law, S.C. Bar, 1983. Classes/Seminars: "Developments in State and FERC Rate Base Regulation: A Consumer Perspective," Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Electricity Law and Regulation, American Bar Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1990; "A Public Policy Perspective for Regulatory Reform in Response to Electric Competition," Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Williamsburg Conference, Institute of Public Utilities, Michigan State University, 1991; "Comments on Rate Base Regulation, Prudence Review and Long-Term Power Supply Contracts -- Restoring the Regulatory Bargain," Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference on Electricity Law and Regulation, Chicago, Illinois, 1991; Contributor, America's Energy Choices, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Mass., 1991; "Perspective-One Law Round: A Former Consumer Advocate Defends Securitization and Stranded Cost Recovery," Public Utilities Fortnightly, April 1, 1998. Counsel and Director, South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs, 1978-1992. Chairman, Electric Committee, National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA), 1988-1990; Secretary, NASUCA, 1990-1992; Member, Keystone Center Energy Projects, 1989-1992; Member, Advisory Committee, Pew Charitable Trusts Regulatory Reform Project, 1991—. Member: Richland County and American Bar Associations; South Carolina Bar; Federal Energy Bar Association. Practice Areas: Public Utility Regulation; Environmental Law; Business Law. Email: Raymon E. Lark, Jr. | | Richard L. Whitt (Partner) born Winnsboro, South Carolina, 1946; admitted to bar, 1991, South Carolina and U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1996, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of South Carolina (B.A., 1976); University of South Carolina Law School ( J.D., 1990). Phi Delta Phi. Listed in Who's Who Among American Law Students, 1989-1990. Member: South Carolina Bar; American Bar Association. [U.S. Air Force, 1965-1968]. Practice Areas: Public Utility Regulation. Email: Richard L. Whitt | | William Michael Duncan (Partner) born Columbia, South Carolina, September 10, 1965; admitted to bar, 1994, South Carolina, U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina and U.S. Supreme Court; 1995, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. Education: Erskine College (B.S., cum laude, 1987); University of South Carolina (J.D., 1993). Academic All-American in Cross Country, 1986. Member: Richland County (Volunteer, Ad Litem, 1993-1994) and American Bar Associations. Languages: French. Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Personal Injury; Probate; Family Law. Email: William Michael Duncan | | Jefferson D. Griffith III (Partner) born Columbia, South Carolina, March 11, 1955; admitted to bar, 1979, South Carolina and U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina; 1985, North Carolina and U.S. District Court, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina. Education: Wofford College (B.A., cum laude, 1976); University of South Carolina Law School (J.D., 1979). Legislative and Regulatory Lobbyist and Associate General Counsel, Duke Energy Corporation. Member: Mecklenburg and Tri-County (Secretary, 1979-1980) Bar Associations; South Carolina Bar; North Carolina State Bar. Email: Jefferson D. Griffith III | | Edward L. Eubanks (Partner) born Memphis, Tennessee, April 15, 1957; admitted to bar, 1986, South Carolina. Education: Harvard University (B.A., cum laude, 1979); University of South Carolina (J.D., cum laude, 1985). Member, Moot Court Bar. Author: "Keys to Success in the Real Estate Transaction in South Carolina," National Business Institute, 1994; "The Boundary Dispute in South Carolina," NBI, 1992 Member: Richland County Bar Association (Chairman, Register of Deeds Committee); South Carolina Bar (Member, Sections on Real Estate, Probate, Estate Planning and Trusts); Palmetto Land Title Association. Practice Areas: Residential Real Estate; Commercial Real Estate; Commercial Law; Corporate Law; Corporate Planning; Corporate Organization. |
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