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Kenneth Suggs

Kenneth M. Suggs, a principal in the firm, has leadership roles in the firm‰s medical negligence and pharmaceutical departments. A tireless champion of consumers for almost 30 years, Mr. Suggs has achieved remarkable successes for his clients along the way to becoming one of the country‰s leading trial lawyers.

Mr. Suggs graduated from Clemson University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1968. After graduating from Clemson, he served four years in the United States Navy, including two years in the Vietnam Theater. Following his return from the Service, Mr. Suggs earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1975 and began practicing trial law.

Mr. Suggs is the Immediate Past President of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He is also a member of the Legal Affairs Committee and serves as co-chair of the Public Affairs Committee. Mr. Suggs is the 2006 recipient of the "Advocate of the Year" award presented by the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center. He has also attained recognition as a Fellow of the National College of Advocacy. He served as President of the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association in 1981 and currently serves on its Board of Governors and Legislative Committee. Mr. Suggs was also awarded the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Public Citizen Award in 2002.

Mr. Suggs served as president of the Richland County Bar Association in 1999 and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is an Attorney Bencher for the American Inns of Court, John Belton O‰Neall Chapter, and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has also served as a member of the US District Court Advisory Committee and was a co-draftsman of the South Carolina Rules of Evidence, later adopted by the South Carolina Supreme Court.

His alma mater, the University of South Carolina School of Law, selected him as the recipient of the Compleat Lawyer Award in 1998. He served on the Clemson University Board of Visitors (2000 - 2003), and was selected as a Clemson University Alumni Fellow in 2000.

From 1968 to 1972, Mr. Suggs served as a petty officer in the U.S. Navy.  From 1970 to 1972, he was assigned to the intelligence branch of the Commander, Seventh Fleet, operating in the Vietnam theater. During that time, he was awarded the Combat Action Ribbon, Navy Achievement Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, and an award from the government of South Vietnam, the Vietnamese Honor Medal.

Biographical

Born September 24, 1946, Greenville, South Carolina

Graduated T.L. Hanna H.S., Anderson, South Carolina 1964

Graduated Clemson University, B.A. in Economics, 1968 United States Navy, 1968 - 1972 Communications Technician Graduated University of South Carolina Law Center, 1975
Bar Admissions
 - South Carolina Bar, 1975
 - Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
 - Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
 - United States Supreme Court

Memberships
Association of Trial Lawyers of America Committees Chaired Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association, President, 1980 - 1981
South Carolina Bar, Young Lawyers Division, President, 1980
Richland County Bar Association, President, 1999
South Carolina Bar, House of Delegates, 1982 and 1996 - 1997
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
Founding Fellow, Southern Trial Lawyers Association
Advocate, American Board of Trial Advocates
Attorney Bencher, American Inns of Court - John Belton O'Neall Chapter

Public Service Activities
Board of Directors, Carolina Sunshine Children, Inc.
Team Captain, Trinity Cathedral Free Breakfast Program
Advisory Board, City Year Columbia
Advisory Board, South Carolina Center for Capital Litigation
Advisory Board, South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center
Advisory Board, St. Lawrence Place
Member, South Carolina Commission on Judicial Conduct

Honors and Awards
South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association President's Award, 1988
South Carolina School of LawAlumni Association, Compleat Lawyer Award
 
Publications

Author, "The Heart of Darkness: The Modern Nursing Home,"
S.C.T.L.A. Bulletin, September, 1986

Author, "Failure Analysis of a Plastic Boat Seat,"
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pub. 87-DE-8

Author, "Recovery for Emotional Distress,"
S.C.T.L.A. Bulletin, January, 1984

Author, "Secret Settlements,"
South Carolina Lawyer, November - December, 1993

Co-author, South Carolina Appellate Practice Handbook

Co-author, Evaluating and Settling Personal Injury Claims in South Carolina

Co-author, The Law of Automobile Insurance in South Carolina

 

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