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R. Brent Thompkins named shareholder

R. Brent Thompkins (2008) was named a shareholder at Spencer & Spencer, PA in January 2016. 

This entry was posted in Alumni News and tagged 2008 on 11 January 2016 by Rob Schaller.

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Contact Michelle Thaxton Hardy, ’00 law, senior director of development and alumni relations at the School of Law, at 803-777-3047 or hardymt@law.sc.edu.

Employment By the Numbers:

U.S. News and World Report:
National rate: 65.7 percent
USC Law rate: 76.1 percent

LST:
National rate: 54.2 percent
USC Law rate: 69.5 percent

National Jurist:
National rate: 71.0 percent
USC Law rate: 82.1 percent

NALP:
National rate: 84.3 percent
USC Law rate: 89.5 percent

Affiliated Faculty:

  • Derek Black
  • Josie Brown
  • Josh Gupta-Kagan
  • Danielle Holley-Walker
  • Candice Lively
  • Eboni Nelson
  • Elizabeth Patterson
  • Anne Marie Ugarte
  • Marcia Zug

Available Courses

  • Advanced Family Law
  • Child Protection Advocacy Clinic
  • Children and the Courts; Children’s Law Externship
  • Constitutional Issues in
    Public Education
  • Education Law and Policy
  • Family Law
  • Juvenile Justice
  • Juvenile Justice Clinic
  • Parents, Children and the Law
  • Poverty Law and Policy
  • Race, Class and Education

View the guide

Click here to learn more about the guide, or to download a copy of the Criminal Records Expungement and Pardon guides that Chelsea Clark helped produce.

Summer 2014 Flipbook version

Spring 2015 Flipbook version

Summer 2016 Flipbook version

Winter 2017 Flipbook version

Other Nonprofit Organization Clinic clients:

International

  • Portal Medical Mission, which provides medical assistance to individuals in Honduras
  • A Chance through Literacy, which provides schoolbooks and educational materials to schools in developing countries

South Carolina

  • The FriendShip, which provides for the care and transportation needs of the elderly living in their own homes
  • Pocket Productions, which supports local artists creating projects for Columbia and the greater community
  • Alala Cancer Society, which provides assistance for individuals who are in need of prosthetics as a result of cancer treatment
  • Midlands Mediation Center, which provides for mediation of claims throughout the Midlands
  • Widows of Opportunity, which provides support for widows of Veterans of all wars
  • SC World Affairs Council and ECI Find New Markets, which provide import/export and other economic development services and opportunities throughout the state and internationally
  • Sustainable Midlands, which provides environmental sustainable support and projects, partnering with groups throughout the Midlands

Other Clinical courses taught at Carolina Law include:

  • Child Protection Advocacy Clinic
  • Criminal Practice Clinic
  • Consumer Bankruptcy Clinic
  • Juvenile Justice Clinic

All students enrolled in clinical courses are certified by the Supreme Court of South Carolina to practice law under their professor’s license, and are therefore bound by the SC Rules of Professional Conduct--the same as all licensed lawyers in the state.

The inaugural class of S.C. Legal Writing Academy fellows include:

  • Jordan Calloway of McGowan Hood & Felder LLC in Columbia
  • Matthew Gerrald of Barnes Alford Stork & Johnson LLP in Columbia
  • Marghretta Hagood of Harrison White Smith & Coggins PC in Spartanburg
  • Whitney Harrison of McGowan Hood & Felder LLC in Columbia
  • Everett McMillian of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Columbia
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