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Firm News

SC Bar Young Lawyers Division honors Sowell Gray’s Leaphart

B. Gibbs Leaphart Jr., an associate with Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, has been honored as a “Star of the Quarter” for his work with the South Carolina Bar Young Lawyers Division. Leaphart, who toured the Southeast as a bass guitarist with the band Five Way Friday before attending law school, has served since 2008 […]

Community, Firm News

Haigler joins Leadership Columbia board

COLUMBIA, SC – Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC attorney Nicolas L. Haigler has joined the board of directors of Leadership Columbia, a program that helps up-and-coming business people connect more deeply with their community. Haigler was a member of Leadership Columbia’s Class of 2010, as well as recipient of the Glenn Jacobus Award. That […]

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Leadership Columbia honors Sowell Gray’s Haigler with Jacobus award

COLUMBIA, SC – Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC attorney Nicolas L. Haigler has received the Glenn Jacobus Award, which honors the outstanding leader in each Leadership Columbia class. Leadership Columbia is a program through the Columbia Chamber of Commerce that brings together up-and-coming young business people to help them connect more deeply with their […]

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Sowell Gray’s Tyson elected to South Carolina Bar House of Delegates

Rob Tyson, of Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC, has been selected to serve a term in the South Carolina Bar House of Delegates. Tyson was appointed to the House in 2008 and 2009 as a representative of the Government Law Section. This month he was elected by his peers to represent South Carolina’s 5th […]

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Beard joins national organization that honors workers’ compensation lawyers

COLUMBIA, SC – Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte LLC member Grady Beard has become a fellow in The College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers, an organization that seeks out the best workers’ compensation attorneys in the country. Beard was officially inducted in March, during the American Bar Association’s Workers’ Compensation Mid-Winter Conference. He became the first […]

Accolades, Firm News

Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, four members named in international guide to lawyers

Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC, will be rated among the top law firms in South Carolina when the Chambers USA’s 2010 edition of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business is released in June. The publication is an internationally recognized guide to the legal profession. Additionally, four Sowell Gray members – Betsy Gray, Biff Sowell, Bobby […]

Accolades, Firm News

Six Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte members named "Super Lawyers"

Six members of Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC have been named to the 2010 list of South Carolina Super Lawyers®, with three of them ranking among the top 25 in the state. Biff Sowell, Betsy Gray, Bobby Stepp, Becky Laffitte, Cal Watson and Monty Todd were listed in the annual publication, which is distributed […]

Firm News, Community

Stepp featured in Columbia Star profile

Bobby Stepp of Sowell Gray Star Profile By John Temple Ligon thecolumbiastar.com View the original article at thecolumbiastar.com Bobby Stepp Bobby Stepp Attorney Bobby Stepp, former president of the South Carolina Philharmonic Board of Directors, remains on the board who managed a six–continent, nearly three–year search to find Morihiko Nakahara, the orchestra’s fifth music director. […]

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Hill joins Richland County Bar Association Executive Committee

Amy B. Hill, an attorney with Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, has been elected to the Richland County Bar Association Executive Committee. Hill has co-chaired committees for the South Carolina Bar Young Lawyer’s Division and currently serves on the South Carolina Bar Professional Responsibility Committee and Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee.  She is a 20007 […]

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Gray, Laffitte Invited To Join National Legal Honor Society

Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte LLC members Elizabeth Van Doren Gray and Rebecca Laffitte have been invited to become Fellows of The Litigation Counsel of America, a legal honorary society that inducts less than one half of 1 percent of the country’s attorneys. The LCA’s purpose is “to recognize deserving, experienced and highly qualified lawyers,” its […]