Elizabeth Van Doren Gray

Betsy is a founding member of Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC in Columbia, South Carolina. An accomplished litigator, she concentrates her practice on commercial litigation, probate and estate litigation, and professional liability and ethics. Betsy’s professional liability work includes years of experience representing lawyers, law firms, and legal professionals in litigated matters, disciplinary actions, and pre-suit and ethics counseling. She is a Fellow in the preeminent American College of Trial Lawyers, a permanent member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference, and member of the Chief Justice’s Commission on the Profession, among others.

Betsy served as the second woman president of the South Carolina Bar, and her accomplishments have been recognized with the Fellows Award, given by the National Conference of Bar Presidents. In addition, she has received the DuRant Distinguished Public Service Award by the South Carolina Bar Foundation, a prestigious statewide honor recognizing meritorious service to the law and community. Betsy is a recipient of both the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association Jean Galloway Bissell Award and the USC Law School Alumni Association’s Compleat Lawyer Award, Gold Medallion.

She has been consistently recognized by Best Lawyers in America and by Chambers USA as a “Leading Lawyer for Business,” and has been repeatedly named to the South Carolina Super Lawyers Top Ten List. Betsy enjoys giving back to her community and has volunteered much of her time mentoring young lawyers. She is a past chair of the Board of Trustees for Still Hopes Episcopal Retirement Community and a former board member of the University of South Carolina’s Educational Foundation.