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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Sowell Gray Firm, Attorneys Highlighted in Benchmark Litigation
Benchmark Litigation, a definitive guide to the country’s leading lawyers and firms, has named Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC, one of the top litigation firms in South Carolina. Additionally, the guide has named Sowell Gray members Thornwell Sowell, Elizabeth Van Doren Gray and Robert Stepp as local litigation stars. All three also were included […]
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Two Sowell Gray Members Certified as Circuit Court Mediators
Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte LLC members Cal Watson and Grady Beard have been certified as Circuit Court Mediators by the South Carolina Board of Arbitrator and Mediator Certification. Mediation is a process in which an impartial, neutral third-person helps two or more parties resolve their dispute or conflict. As mediators, Cal and Grady will […]
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Sowell Gray Lawyers Take to the Streets to Help Keep Columbia Clean
They traded suits and ties for shorts and T-shirts for a good cause recently, when the staff of Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte hit the streets to clean up downtown Columbia. Armed with trash bags, the 18 people patrolled six blocks of Lady Street in the city’s historic Vista district as part of the firm’s […]