Charleston, SC

Mark Joye

Mark Joye is a trial lawyer and Firm Partner at Joye Law Firm, heading the litigation department. He specializes in trucking litigation, personal injury, and product liability, particularly focusing on tractor-trailer crashes and defective automobile components. Following in his father's footsteps, he is deeply empathetic to clients experiencing catastrophic events and prides himself on solving their problems and educating them on the legal process. He finds great satisfaction in seeing clients start new lives after successful case resolutions.

Terry Richardson

Widely regarded as one of the pre-eminent plaintiff attorneys in the southeastern United States, Terry E. Richardson Jr. is a consummate litigator who represents individuals, groups, governments, and businesses in a wide range of matters. Often honored by colleagues and a leader in professional organizations, Terry’s legal career has included cases involving catastrophic injuries, product liability, securities fraud, and class actions. He has tried, and won, some of the largest cases in South Carolina. His more-notable cases include a $500 million settlement in a train derailment that was the largest single tort case in South Carolina history. He also represented a young construction worker who lost all four limbs in an electrocution in what is thought to be the largest personal-injury settlement in the state’s history. He was a pioneer in asbestos litigation, and he has represented many people in lawsuits against manufacturers and national retailers who were burned by defective products. Terry grew up helping his father raise and harvest crops on the family farm, an experience that taught him business skills at a very early age. He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in economics at Clemson and completed a master’s in management and operations research in only one additional semester. He served as a systems engineer for IBM before being directly commissioned into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War to work on computerized logistical systems stateside and in Thailand. After returning to civilian life, he worked at Wilbur Smith & Associates, where he helped governments with financing bonds for airports and toll roads. He left the consulting firm to attend the University of South Carolina School of Law, graduating in 1974 after serving as editor-in-chief of the South Carolina Law Review. Throughout the 70s, Terry and his firm worked extensively on asbestos products liability litigation, pursuing thousands of cases throughout the country. By the early 2000s, he was overseeing dramatic growth and expansion of a firm that achieved the multi-billion-dollar Tobacco Master Settlement. That case, against the four largest cigarette manufacturers in America, required the tobacco industry to pay states billions of dollars annually forever and restricted sales and marketing of cigarettes. Terry has won numerous professional accolades over the course of his career, including the Compleat Lawyer Award from the University of South Carolina School of Law Alumni Council, the Southern Trial Lawyers Association War Horse Award and President’s Award for service to the South Carolina Trial Lawyers. He has twice been a Lawyer of the Year in the annual “Best Lawyers in America” publication, and he has consistently maintained a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rating. Terry and his wife, Gail, still live in the Barnwell home they bought at the beginning of his legal career. They enjoy spending time at Edisto Beach with their three children and 10 grandchildren. Terry also enjoys ski trips with friends.

Brady Thomas

Brady Thomas represents families and victims in a variety of cases, including catastrophic injuries, medical malpractice, burn injuries, product liability, and other personal injury litigation. He’s driven by a desire to help others who are suffering. At times, he helps others in addition to his clients. Brady has represented victims in more than five dozen cases involving exploding gas cans across the country. His work spurred the industry to add flame arrestors to all new plastic gas cans beginning in 2017, a change from which everyone benefits. He has worked on behalf of consumers in class action cases such as a challenge to closing fees in auto sales. He was the lead trial attorney in a case that resulted in a $4 million judgement for car buyers who were charged fees that went beyond dealers’ actual expenses. He successfully argued an appeal of the verdict. Licensed to appear in state and federal courts in Georgia as well as in South Carolina, he has helped medical malpractice victims in both states with cases involving misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis, surgical errors, retained objects, and falls after failure to supervise. Brady also represents victims in auto crash cases, including roof crush, tire defect and fuel-fed fire cases. A native of Evans, Ga., Brady attended Florida State University. He ran cross country and track during college. He earned his Juris Doctor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, graduating in the top 10 percent of his class. He has earned professional distinction throughout his legal career, including recognition in “Super Lawyers,” “The Best Lawyers in America” and a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rating. Brady and his wife, Brooke, attend St. John Neumann Catholic Church in northeast Columbia with their children Ansley and Ryan. In his spare time, Brady enjoys running with his dogs and following Florida State sports.

Mark D. Clore

Mark Clore, the owner of Clore Law Group, is a trial lawyer who practices catastrophic personal injury and business law. His areas of expertise include personal injury, wrongful death, trucking, and commercial transportation cases, business losses and litigation, construction and premises liability, product liability, toxic torts, medical malpractice, pharmaceutical liability, and nursing home negligence. Mark is licensed to practice law in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma, and various federal courts. Clore frequently handles many types of lawsuits for clients, and at the request of other attorneys, in numerous states across the country.

James B. Hood

James B. “Jamie” Hood is a partner at Hood Law Firm, LLC, focusing on civil litigation, including defense of products liability, commercial litigation, medical malpractice, admiralty, negligence, personal injury, construction litigation, and insurance coverage litigation. He has extensive trial experience in multiple jurisdictions.

Matthew Marin

Matthew Marin is a founding partner at Marin, Barrett, and Murphy Law Firm and a leader within the Plaintiffs’ bar, where he represents plaintiffs in mass tort and personal injury litigation. With over 17 years of experience, he litigates cases involving personal injury, corporate negligence, defective products, and environmental disasters, preparing them for trial and holding corporations and individuals accountable.

Ric Davis

Ric Davis has 36 years of experience as a litigator, with the judgment and skill necessary to provide clients with the strategic tools required to prosecute complex personal injury, family, and insurance disputes. His vast litigation experience makes him an exceptional mediator.