Admitted
1986, South Carolina
Law School
Harvard University, J.D., cum laude, 1983
Law School Graduation Year
1983
College
Duke University, A.B., summa cum laude, 1979
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa. Executive Editor, 1982-1983 and Editor, 1981-1982, Harvard Law Review. Listed in: Best Lawyers in America, 1997-2004. Author: Note, Disengaging Sales Law from the Sale Construct: A Proposal to Extend the Scope of Article 2 of the UCC, 96 Harv. L. Rev. 470 (1982); Lightsey, A Critique of the Promise Model of Contract, 26 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 45 (1984). Chairman and Contributing Author: South Carolina Jurisprudence, Libel and Slander, 1993; Contributing Author: South Carolina Jurisprudence, Appeal and Error, 1992. Law Clerk to: Honorable John Minor Wisdom, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1983-1984; Honorable Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1984-1985. Chairman, South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct. (Also at Columbia Office)