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CALLING ON THE PORTS.C.’s economy moored to a vibrant maritime industry
SCBIZ exclusiveAn interview with Lynn Harton, president and CEO of The South Financial Group
Outside the boxCreativity helps businesses adapt to the economy
After 50 years on the waterfront, Tim Twomey hopes for a resurgence in support for the port.
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Contents
Calling on the portAs the home of what historically has been
one of the nation’s busiest ports, literally tons
of cargo moves through the state each year
on its way to store shelves and manufacturing
plants across the nation. We’ll take you inside
some of the most important — and heated —
issues that the port, and the industries that
support it, face today.
A maritime industry in transition ............Page 16
The growing role of rail ..........................Page 19
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MARKETFACTSREAL ESTATE EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION GOVERNMENT
STATEWIDE EDITION
EST LAWYERS®
Find out who appears in
the 2009 edition of The
Best Lawyers in America.
Essential information about
South Carolina’s people,
businesses and economy.
EXCLUSIVE
Ready, willing & ableIn this SCBIZ magazine exclusive, Lynn
Harton, The South Financial Group’s new
president and CEO, discusses his plans to
revive the troubled bank holding company
and maintain its independence.
Photo/James T. Hammond
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COVER STORYPORTS, LOGISTICS & DISTRIBUTION
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in Th e Wall Street Journal noted that health
care spending has now risen to 17.6% of total
U.S. output, up three percentage points from
1994. Th at’s unsustainable growth, and now
virtually everyone recognizes this as a critical
fi nancial issue for the nation, for businesses
and for individual citizens.
Th e Obama administration will push hard
for action at the federal level this year, but it’s
very clear that improving the quality of health
care while reducing costs and improving ac-
cess to care will require eff orts at all levels. It’s
like World War II, in a way,
where everyone pitched in and
everyone made some sacrifi ces
to ensure victory.
At the individual level, we
must take personal responsi-
bility for trying to maintain
our own good health. Stop
smoking. Eat a healthier diet.
Exercise more. Make sure you
have a “medical home” at a clinic or fam-
ily physician’s practice to help monitor your
health and provide timely care when needed.
Perhaps we should be calling this a “medical
home base” to avoid confusion.
In the provider sector, including hospitals,
physicians and medical support staff , there’s
a need to recognize that we must remake
our health care system to deliver better care
and get more return for dollars we spend on
care. It can be done — and is being done —
at places such as the Mayo Clinic, the Cleve-
land Clinic and the Geisinger Health System
in rural Pennsylvania. An article in the April
issue of the AARP Bulletin (yes, I’m showing
Have you heard the news? Instead of just
talking about fi xing what’s broken with
health care, a new collaborative organi-
zation called AccessHealth SC is doing some-
thing about it.
I’ve been involved for many years in ad-
vocacy for community-based approaches
to bridging the gaps in care for low-income,
uninsured citizens in the Charleston region;
so for me it’s truly exciting to see the emer-
gence of a statewide eff ort with serious goals
and timelines and the opportunity for fund-
ing to support pilot programs
around the state.
Th e program, initiated by
the Duke Endowment, is ad-
ministered by the S.C. Hos-
pital Association. Th e goal is
to change the current frag-
mented system of care for the
uninsured into a coordinated
approach that meets patients’
needs for ongoing preventive, chronic and
acute health care and medication needs.
You can fi nd out much more about the
program at www.accesshealthsc.net. I urge you
to visit the Web site and become familiar with
the program. Aside from the importance of
the initiative in terms of improving the overall
health of South Carolinians, we as business-
people need to recognize that this eff ort has
the potential to give us a competitive advan-
tage from the standpoint of regional econom-
ic development and the fi nancial health of our
businesses.
It’s no secret that health care costs contin-
ue to spiral out of control. A recent column
AccessHealth SC shows great promise for state
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my age) combines coordinated primary care,
surgery “with a warranty,” electronic health
records and increased patient involvement
to produce dramatic improvements in care,
along with more effi cient spending of health
care dollars.
Help from AccessHealth SC to pilot proj-
ects in regions around the state will come in
two forms: technical support to help create
community-based care networks and mon-
etary grants to sustain the networks. Com-
munities must apply for the grants, which will
be awarded twice a year based on a variety of
criteria.
Although the AccessHealth SC initiative
is targeted mainly at helping the uninsured in
our communities, it should be obvious to any-
one who’s been paying attention to health care
issues that the building of community systems
to provide better care for the uninsured can
and should be used as a platform to provide
better care for everyone, whether insured or
not.
So make sure you learn more about
AccessHealth SC and what it can do for your
community’s health and economic develop-
ment.
When it comes to fi xing our health care
system, this is our time. Th is is our moment.
Together, we can do this.
e) combines coordinated primary care
It’s no secret that health care costs continue to spiral
out of control.
V i e w p o i n t
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UpfrontR E G I O N A L N E W S | D ATA
S.C. exports top $19.8B in 2008
South Carolina’s exports in 2008 totaled more than $19.8 billion in
goods sold to 193 countries, according to recent reports from the S.C.
Department of Commerce and the S.C. State Ports Authority.
The state’s exports increased 19.65% from 2007, ranking the state
No. 18 out of 54 U.S. states and territories and third in the Southeast.
Some of the top export industries included vehicles, machinery,
rubber, plastics, organic chemicals, and optics and medical equip-
ment.
Aircraft and spacecraft experienced the greatest export growth,
at 153%. The iron sector increased 132% and inorganic chemical ex-
ports were up 69%.
Germany remained South Carolina’s No. 1 export market in 2008,
purchasing more than $4.78 billion in products, and the Saudi Arabia
market grew the most, up 405%.
Other markets in the state’s top 10 included Canada, Mexico, the
United Kingdom, China, France, Australia, Belgium, Japan and Brazil.
“It’s so much more fun to mow the lawn when the grass is high. You look behind yourself and you can tell where you’ve been.”
Lynn Harton, president and CEO of
The South Financial Group, in an
exclusive interview with SCBIZ to discuss his
new position and how he plans to revive the
troubled bank holding company and
maintain its independence.
See the full story on Page 12.
S.C. business bankruptcies up 86%Bankruptcy fi lings by businesses increased 86%
last year in South Carolina, according to the Adminis-
trative Offi ce of the U.S. Courts.
Statewide, business bankruptcies increased from
144 to 268.
Total bankruptcy fi lings in South Carolina in-
creased 14% last year to 8,502.
Nationally, bankruptcy fi lings increased at an even
steeper rate last year — 31% — to 1.1 million.
260,800That’s how many jobs trade through the ports on South Carolina’s coast generates.Trade also generates $11.8
billion in annual income and $1.5
billion in government taxes, and
has a $44.8 billion impact on the
state’s economy.
Source: S.C. State Ports Authority
Upstate Midlands Lowcountry Pee Dee Grand Strand
Are we there yet?The economy and rising fuel
costs have caused a double-digit decline
in traffi c congestion across South Caroli-
na’s major highways, according to a national
survey from Inrix Inc., a company that
tracks traffi c patterns across the country
using GPS technology to compile data.
Nearly every major metropolitan
area in the country saw a double-digit
decrease in traffi c congestion from 2007
to 2008, Inrix reported, for an average decline
of 30% nationwide. It also reported Americans
spent an average of 13 fewer hours stuck in
traffi c in 2008 than in 2007.
That’s hothroughCarolinaTrade also
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Columbia 716,030 -51.8% 83
Charleston-
North Charleston 630,100 -45.2% 71
Augusta-Aiken 528,519 -38.2% 92
Charlotte-
Gastonia, N.C. 1,651,568 -25.3% 27
Greenville-
Mauldin-Easley 613,828 -24.8% 87
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Cluster aims to connect distribution industry
In an effort to provide a formal structure through which transportation, distri-
bution and logistics companies in South Carolina can collaborate, New Carolina:
South Carolina’s Council on Competitiveness launched the Transportation, Distribu-
tion and Logistics Cluster in February of 2008.
Since then, nearly 40 business professionals from industry, government, edu-
cation and trade groups have come together to increase effi ciency and innovation
within the industry and to work on improving competitiveness on regional, national
and international fronts.
The group’s fi rst major initiative has been development of a statewide strategic
communications plan to create a better understanding of the critical nature of the
cluster and its impact on South Carolina’s overall economy. It hired Chernoff New-
man to conduct the study and create the plan, which should be released in the fall.
“The plan provides the communications strategies necessary to secure the
future competitiveness of the industry, which will result in increased prosperity
for South Carolinians at all economic levels,” said Deepal Eliatamby, president of
Alliance Consulting Engineers and co-chairman of the cluster. “The cluster is put-
ting the fi nishing touches on the report and will launch it statewide starting in the
fall with a series of presentations and hosted events in the Upstate, Midlands and
Lowcountry.”
Guided by Eliatamby and co-chairman Bill Smith, CEO of Red Rock Develop-
ments, New Carolina is preparing to mobilize the cluster by creating stewards,
engaging stakeholders and providing a mechanism to support cluster actions.
“With a strong system of interstate highways, one of the world’s most effi cient
ports, two rail companies operating track throughout the state, airports with an
international scope and a growing network of distribution centers, our state is po-
sitioned to become a hub for the global marketplace,” Eliatamby said.
Members of the cluster include leaders from S.C. State Ports Authority, S.C.
Trucking Association, S.C. Department of Commerce, World Trade City Orangeburg,
Hillwood Investment Properties, S.C. Power Team, ATS Logistics, Milliken & Co.,
Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce, Orangeburg County Development Com-
mission, Engineered Products and WSI of the Southeast.
For more information or to get involved, contact Katherine Robinson, project
coordinator at New Carolina, at [email protected].
U p f r o n t
E-commerce tool to help market S.C. seafood
S.C. Market Maker is a new online marketing tool
designed to streamline the supply chain from S.C. seafood
and other agricultural producers to consumers.
It is part of a national online network that connects the
entire supply chain, includ-
ing growers, fi shing industry
members, distributors, retail-
ers and consumers.
The effort to bring Market
Maker to South Carolina has
been facilitated by Clemson
University Public Service Ac-
tivities, the S.C. Department
of Agriculture, the S.C. Sea
Grant Consortium and the
U.S. Department of Agri-
culture Natural Resources
Conservation Service.http://sc.marketmaker.uiuc.edu
Local impact of the Capital Purchase Program
As of March 2009, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has
made investments in banks in 48 states, the District of Colum-
bia and Puerto Rico through the Capital Purchase Program. The
investments have ranged from $301,000 to $25 billion.
So far, the Treasury has invested $615,846,000 in fi nancial
institutions in South Carolina.
Date Name of Institution Price Paid
11/21/08 First Community Corp. $11,350,000
12/05/08 South Financial Group Inc. $347,000,000
12/05/08 First Financial Holdings Inc. $65,000,000
12/19/08 Security Federal Corp. $18,000,000
12/19/08 Tidelands Bancshares Inc. $14,448,000
1/09/09 GrandSouth Bancorp. $9,000,000
1/09/09 Congaree Bancshares $3,285,000
1/16/09 SCBT Financial Corp.* $64,779,000
1/30/09 Greer Bancshares Inc. $9,993,000
2/13/09 BankGreenville $1,000,000
2/13/09 Regional Bankshares Inc. $1,500,000
2/27/09 Southern First Bancshares Inc. $17,299,000
3/08/09 HCSB Financial Corp. $12,895,000
3/08/09 First Reliance Bancshares Inc. $15,349,000
3/13/09 Provident Community Bancshares Inc. $9,268,000
3/27/09 Clover Community Bankshares Inc. $3,000,000
4/24/09 Peoples Bancorp. Inc. $12,680,000
Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury
*SCBT returned the funds in May.
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When you fi rst began to drive, you
learned the importance of check-
ing your blind spots. Your driving
instructor made you take that extra second to
turn around and look to make sure your path
was clear before you turned or merged into
another lane.
Now that you are a business owner or man-
ager, it is time to apply this basic principle to
your workplace to make sure the environment
is diverse.
It’s important to take the time to assess the
work force, look for diversity blind spots and
take steps to make sure you are driving your
business — and your employees — down the
road of success.
What is a diversity blind spot? Diversity blind spots arise when we make
judgments based on our prior individual ex-
periences or knowledge base. Diversity blind
spots are not intentionally discriminatory, but
they might result in unintentional discrimina-
tion or the perception of discrimination, said
Cheryl Behymer, a partner at the Fisher and
Phillips law fi rm in Columbia.
In the legal context, we oft en fi nd diver-
sity blind spots in the categories protected
by our various civil rights laws: race, sex, age,
religion, etc. But we might also see a diversity
blind spot arise based upon the way some-
one is dressed or speaks, whether they have
tattoos, piercings or other characteristics,
Behymer said.
“You need diff erences for
strength. If you have more
perspective, more points of
view, that will help your work-
place to be healthier, more
productive and more suc-
cessful. It also helps you to be
more creative and innovative
and that’s important in this
economy. When challenges
are so intense, you need that
edge to bring to the table,”
said Behymer, who is also the
chairwoman-elect for the S.C.
Diversity Council and has
conducted numerous on-site
diversity training programs.
How do you recognize it?You can start by simply taking a quick look
around your offi ce. Do your employees look,
think and believe the way you do?
We oft en surround ourselves with people
who support our own beliefs and ideas, but
“companies are missing the boat when they don’t
look at diversity and don’t value diff erent ideas,”
said JoAnne Moss, a partner with the Columbia
consulting fi rm Human Resource Dynamics.
Ways to gain clarity include conducting do-
it-yourself employee surveys, hiring a consult-
ing fi rm to perform an audit or participating in
a program off ered by the Diversity Council, an
affi liate of the S.C. Department of Commerce.
Th e council, created in 1999, not only
serves as a hub for businesses across the state
looking for information and contacts regard-
ing diversity education, training and support,
it also off ers programs for members.
“Th e HR audit (her organization performs
for companies) is going to give us a clear
picture of their work force makeup and the
culture of the organization and leadership,”
Moss said. “A lot of things can be gleaned
from the start. We can establish policies and
procedures and people management systems
that will help the company grow in the di-
rection they want, but they
are not sure how to do that.”
How do you establish workplace diversity?
No matter which path to
clarity you choose, Moss said
your initiative to achieve di-
versity should be strategic and
have buy-in from the top. You
should also follow through on
plans and recommendations.
A committee — which is di-
verse, of course — can help
make sure the company stays
on course with initiatives.
“You don’t want to take a
survey and then never give
any feedback or never do any
follow-up, because that conveys an ‘I don’t care’
attitude,” Behymer said. “It can also be danger-
ous because if you acquire knowledge of dis-
crimination and don’t do anything about it,
there is a liability.”
Another important way to achieve a diverse
work force is to consider your hiring practices.
If you mostly hire people who were recom-
mended by current employees, you might be
building a work force of like-minded people.
“You need to be casting a wider net to
reduce bias in the interview process and im-
prove your selection process,” Moss said. “If
you limit your recruiting strategies, you limit
what you get.” SCBIZ
Check your blind spot
By Allison Cooke Oliverius, Special Projects Editor
“If you have more perspective, more
points of view, that will help your workplace to be healthier, more productive and
more successful.”Cheryl Behymer
partner, Fisher and
Phillips law fi rm
lind The council, created in 1999, not only
Six key reasons to tie workplace diversity to organizational strategic goals and objectives:
Having greater adaptability and fl exibility in a 1.
rapidly changing marketplace.
Attracting and retaining the best talent.2.
Reducing costs associated with turnover, 3.
absenteeism and low productivity.
Increasing return on investment from various 4.
initiatives, policies and practices.
Gaining and keeping greater or new market 5.
share — locally and globally — with an
expanded, diverse customer base.
Increasing sales and profi ts. 6.
Source: S.C. Diversity Council
www.scbizmag.com | Summer 2009 9
Ayear ago, Jamey Nelson would never
have thought to bring his business to
the Charleston Food + Wine Festival,
an event that caters to epicureans.
Nelson is the director of business devel-
opment for Palmetto Surfacing, a Charleston
company that provides kitchen and bathroom
countertops to restaurants and homes.
Aft er recognizing the only segment of his
business that was staying fl at or growing was
remodeling, Nelson decided to actively pur-
sue this segment — and the festival was an
ideal place to reach those people.
“It was a completely nontraditional venue,”
Nelson said. “Our angle was that we had a
countertop that was certifi ed
safe for food preparation.”
Palmetto Surfacing ended
up becoming an event sponsor.
It provided countertops for the
food demonstrations and had a
booth at one of the tents.
Palmetto Surfacing didn’t
exactly fi t the typical sponsor
mold for a food and beverage
industry event, but looking at
diff erent ways to reach out to
a client base and having a little
open-mindedness paid off .
“It went really well; a lot of
our client base was there socializing and we
were able to catch them at a social setting and let
everybody know we’re still here,” Nelson said.
“Everyone in this market is hearing doom
and gloom. It’s good to let everybody know
we’re strong, we’ll be here next year.”
Th e company was able to gain exposure to
about 5,000 people and “made a lot of impres-
sions that over time will pay off .”
“It’s paid for itself already,” Nelson said.
“We’ve gotten three direct jobs from just be-
ing there. Th ose three will turn into nine if we
make those three happy.”
In Columbia, the Congaree Vista Guild
decided to try a new idea to stimulate the bur-
geoning restaurant area there. It organized the
fi rst Viva La Vista event — a budget-friendly
food festival — in October.
Th e rule was that the 26 participating res-
taurants had to off er menu samplers at an af-
fordable price, between $1 and $4 each. And
the music and entertainment would be free.
“People could try a Ruth’s Chris steak sand-
wich for $4,” said Jacque Riley, owner of Riley
Communications, which helped organize the
event. Th e Blue Marlin, Ristorante Divino,
Liberty Tap Room and Gervais & Vine off ered
bites of sea scallops, grilled lamb, and shrimp
and grits.
“We wanted people to be able to try every-
thing for a low cost,” said Deirdre Mardon,
executive director of the Vista Guild. “Th en,
we hoped people would come
back to the restaurants.”
Th ey didn’t know what to
expect, and 7,000 people came
out and bought $20,000 in
food tokens in the fi rst hour.
Th e guild had bought
25,000 tokens and planned to
use them the whole day. But
they went so quickly, the rest
of the day was spent count-
ing tokens to be reused, Mar-
don said. At this year’s event,
planned for Sept. 12, the guild
is bringing 60,000 tokens.
Words of wisdomAlthough there are no rules for trying new
things and looking outside the box for inno-
vative business ideas, Satish Jayachandran, a
marketing professor at the University of South
Carolina’s Moore School of Business, says a
few things should be kept in mind.
“Whatever you do now should not hurt
your survival in the future,” he said. “At some
point, we will come out of the recession.”
He advises increasing the aff ordability of
your products. Off er smaller sizes for lower
prices, change the thresholds for discounts —
instead of buy three, get one free, off er buy two,
get one free — and lower fees, he said.
But Jayachandran warned that people get
accustomed to lower prices, and that makes it
harder to increase those prices again.
Emphasizing value and decreasing con-
sumer risk sends a message to consumers, es-
pecially with higher-value products, he said.
He cited Hyundai’s off er to take your car back
if you lose your job. Similarly, JetBlue Airways
off ers a full refund with no cancellation fees if
you book a ticket and then lose your job.
“If you reduce the risk of buying, people
will be more willing to get off the sidelines and
buy,” he said.
Nelson advised looking for strategic part-
nerships, like the one Palmetto Surfacing
forged with the Food + Wine Festival.
And for Nelson, being open-minded is
what brought him to the festival — one of his
suppliers approached him with the idea.
“Your suppliers have customers just like
you, but in more markets,” Nelson said. “Ask
them if there are any other things they’re do-
ing in other markets that are working.” SCBIZ
Businesses look outside box to adapt to the economy
year ago, Jamey Nelson would never food
By Chelsea Hadaway, Staff Writer
Te c h n v a t i o n
“It’s paid for itself already. We’ve
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Darla Moore recites, without hesitation,
the moment she knew she was destined
for greatness: She was 9 years old and
swinging on her grandmother’s porch on
Pine Bay Road in Lake City.
She might not have known specifically
that she would rise to the top of the business
world. She might not have known specifically
that a business school would bear her name.
She might not have known specifically that
she would be the keeper of a massive for-
tune.
But she knew she was destined for some-
thing.
“When you are born with energy, ambi-
tion, curiosity and you’re born in a rural envi-
ronment, you feel the confines of that,” said
Moore during an interview at her downtown
Charleston home.
As a teenager, Moore said she couldn’t
stand the rules and restrictions of her small
hometown. Her main thought was: “I’ve got
to bust out of here.”
Moore headed to the University of South
Carolina, on the fast track for a promising
future. “All I wanted was to get that degree
and get out,” she said. Moore earned a degree
in political science from USC.
Then she was off to Washington, D.C.,
working for the Republican National Com-
mittee and later earning an MBA from
George Washington University. In the early
1980s, Moore was managing director of
Chemical Bank in New York, which today is
JPMorgan Chase & Co..
But at that time, a Southern woman didn’t
have many opportunities.
In a January 2000 article on Inc.com,
Moore is quoted as saying, “There wasn’t a
snowball’s chance in hell that a female from
the rural Deep South would be invited or
embraced by that LBO (leverage buyout)
environment. Historically, no major players
in the LBO business were women.”
Not easily deterred, Moore turned to
another avenue of finance: bankruptcies.
While at Chemical Bank, Moore turned
the banking world on its ear — suddenly she
was making money on companies that were
facing financial troubles. Chemical Bank was
offering bankrupt companies high-interest
loans and raking in the profits. According to
an article in Fortune magazine, Moore gener-
ated at least $100 million for Chemical during
her last three years there.
The future Moore dreamed of as a child
had arrived.
The top of her gameIn early 1993, Moore left Chemical Bank
to become CEO of her husband’s company,
Rainwater Inc. Moore and Richard Rainwater
had married Dec. 13, 1991.
Moore had no trouble taking on sticky
investment situations and fully embracing
her role as a stockholder in major corpora-
tions. Fortune dubbed her the “toughest babe
in business.”
She had no problem booting Richard
Scott, CEO of Columbia/HCA, and T. Boone
Pickens, founder of oil and gas company
Mesa, from their top roles.
“I’ve harassed guys all my life,” Moore
said in a Fortune cover story in September
1997.
Moore also garnered spots on Fortune’s
list of the 50 Most Powerful Women.
She has a stunning home just off the Bat-
tery in downtown Charleston, and she main-
tains her family home in Lake City.
Moore, 54, has come full circle. She looks
differently at the Lake City life from which
she had run as though her life depended
on it. In the two decades after she left her
hometown, Moore said a remarkable thing
happened: She grew up.
“I got there — wherever ‘there’ is,” she
said. “How many more articles can you have?
How many more magazine covers? How
much more money? How much more recog-
nition? It’s the law of diminishing return.”
Moore realized she wanted substance in
her life.
“The gratification of life is in being pro-
ductive, not in things,” she said. “The value
system that had been embedded in me I
utterly embraced after I had gotten there.”
Today, Moore said life is about friends,
family and substance. She attributes her suc-
cesses to a stable, loving family and a small
Southern town where everyone had a hand
in raising her.
Moore has been generous with her time,
her expertise and her wealth. In 1998, she
gave USC’s College of Business Administra-
tion $25 million. The school was named in
her honor, making it the first major business
school to be named for a woman. In 2004,
Moore donated an additional $45 million to
her alma mater.
Moore founded the Palmetto Institute,
an independent nonprofit research and edu-
Destined for greatnessDarla Moore takes on the business world and wins
By Holly Fisher • Photography by Paula Illingworth
Darla Moore attributes her success to having a
stable, loving family and growing up in a small town
where everyone had a hand in raising her.
her role as a stockholder in major corpora-
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cational organization, in 2002. Its mission is
to create a climate that raises the per-capita
income of South Carolina and its citizens.
A passion for parksIn addition to her service on several boards,
Moore’s latest efforts involve improvements
to Charleston’s public parks. Moore, an avid
gardener and plant lover, recognized that,
although Charleston’s historic buildings are
carefully preserved, the same attention wasn’t
being given to the city’s 120 public parks.
While she lived in New York City, Moore
watched Central Park be transformed from
a “rat-infested, fearful” place to a wonderful
park, she said. She was certain the same atten-
tion could be given to Charleston’s parks.
“There’s the preservation of history, but
the parks are not up to the same standard,”
she said. “It’s time for Charleston to have a
similar organization as the one that rehabbed
Central Park.”
In New York City, the
City Parks Foundation is
a nonprofit organization
that supports hundreds of
parks throughout the city.
Moore met with representa-
tives from the foundation,
who visited Charleston and
offered recommendations.
The result is the Charles-
ton Parks Conservancy and
an initiative called Park
Angels.
Six lead Park Angels — those with a pas-
sion for the city’s public parks — have been
selected to publicly represent the conservan-
cy. They are working with the organization
and the city to mobilize Charleston residents
who have a passion for parks.
The key, Moore explained, is involving
not only the city but the local residents. It’s a
long-term project that has undertaken several
projects since its inception, including recent
work at Brittlebank Park and Chapel Street
Fountain Park.
“The city can’t do it,” she said. “You can
sit and complain that somebody needs to do
something, but that somebody is you. You
can say somebody needs to do something —
well, bend over and pull the weeds.
“I don’t get paid for it, but I want to be
part of something bigger,” Moore said, add-
ing she would be pulling weeds along with
the angels.
Out of the weedsIn fact, it’s often when Moore is out pull-
ing weeds with her dog that her best business
ideas take shape.
As vice president of Rainwater Inc., Moore
is involved in the often complex task of select-
ing companies worthy of investment dollars.
The initial concept is simple: “We started
with a pot of money and we made it a bigger
pot of money,” she said. Rainwater Inc. man-
ages $2.5 billion.
The devil, as they say, is in the details. So
how that pot of cash grows isn’t so simple.
Rainwater Inc. has spent the past three
years preparing for the current recession.
“The good news is, I’ve lived through
these markets before,” Moore said. “It’s cycli-
cal. We will come out of this, but it’s not the
end of cycles.”
America is in a transitional period in
which the luxury of cheap oil is disappear-
ing, Moore said. Americans
have been spoiled and now
comes the painful adjust-
ment of a shrinking econ-
omy.
Rainwater Inc. has been
getting out of some invest-
ments and employed a strat-
egy to make the business
liquid, Moore explained.
Without a crystal ball,
Moore and Rainwater have
looked to the world news
around them to make the best business deci-
sions they can.
“Being a successful investor is the ability
to make decisions with imperfect informa-
tion,” Moore said.
She added, “Most of our strategies were
derived from the front page of the newspaper,
not the business section.”
Over the past 10 to 15 years, the rest of the
world has bought into the idea of capitalism.
With capitalism, everyone is going after the
same resources, Moore said. All that takes
energy, and though the United States once
had access to the world’s oil supply, now
many more countries are sucking off the
same straw, she said.
“That’s what we saw — the globalization
of capitalism led to a commodity crisis of
energy, oil and food.
“A lot of people derived the same big pic-
ture, but we probably moved before most,”
Moore said.
Part of the packageMany years have passed since Moore was
a little girl swinging on her grandmother’s
front porch. She’s put plenty of cracks in the
glass ceiling and forged a path for business-
women today.
Moore pauses at the idea of herself as a
role model. She realizes she probably is one,
but she doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking
about it.
In fact, gender really isn’t important,
Moore said; working hard is.
“I don’t think about it in the context of
gender. I think about being the best in the
world at what you do,” she said.
Being a Southern female with blond hair
and blue eyes started as the kiss of death,
Moore said, but now it’s part of the package.
“I became the best in the world at what I
did,” she said. “It’s not about boys, girls, men
or women. I worked as hard as I could pos-
sibly work.” SCBIZ
“Being a successful investor is the ability
to make decisions with imperfect information.”
Darla Moore
The sparkle in Lynn Harton’s eyes as he
discusses his plan to turn around Th e
South Financial Group — the fi nancially
troubled parent of Carolina First Bank — sug-
gests the company might have chosen just the
right person for the job.
Did he know how big a task he faced when
he took over late last year as president and
CEO?
“I had a pretty good idea,” the 47-year-old
North Carolina native said. He refl ected for a
second, then added: “It’s so much more fun to
mow the lawn when the grass is high. You look
behind yourself and you can tell where you’ve
been.”
Harton, who has been with Th e South Fi-
nancial Group since February 2007, came on
board as chief risk and credit offi cer, a posi-
tion that gave him a front-row seat as the bank
holding company began to grapple with a toxic
portfolio of real estate loans gone bad, mostly
around Tampa, Fla.
A brief historyTh e 20-year-old bank was started in Green-
ville by Mack Whittle — its fi rst and only pres-
ident before Harton. It grew rapidly, buying
banks to become a major player in Florida and
the Carolinas. South Financial is now listed as
the nation’s 35th-largest bank.
Carolina First was created in 1986 and is the
largest S.C.-based commercial bank in the state.
It operates in both Carolinas, as well as on the
Internet under the brand name Bank Caro-
Line.
Th e South Financial Group also has 70 of-
fi ces operating as Mercantile Bank in Florida,
most of them in Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa
Bay, southeast Florida and Gainesville.
Th e Mercantile Bank unit grew from a
small St. Petersburg bank with 240 employ-
ees. Th e Greenville bank bought GulfWest
Banks Inc., Mercantile’s parent, in 2002. Aft er
making other acquisitions and experiencing
growth, South Financial rebranded all its Flor-
ida banks with the Mercantile banner.
Real estate repercussionsBanks such as Carolina First expanded into
Florida during the past two decades because
the Sunshine State was seen as the growth
mecca of banking, largely built on real estate
development. But that balloon burst for banks
as fast as it did for the housing market when
the recession gathered steam last year.
Today, the Tampa market constitutes
10.3% of the company’s commercial real estate
loans, the third-largest segment aft er Upstate
South Carolina (14.1%) and Western North
Carolina (18%).
But when it comes to commercial real es-
tate loans that are past due for 90 days, 26% of
such loans are in the Tampa area and 11% are
in central Florida. By comparison, 5% of those
loans are concentrated in the coastal zone of
South Carolina, and 6% are in the rest of the
state.
Florida is seemingly the black hole of South
Financial’s troubles, a major contributor to its
fi ve consecutive quarters of losses, totaling
more than a half billion dollars.
Th e South Financial Group reported a loss
for 2008 of $568.6 million, or $7.77 per diluted
share, compared with net income of $73.3 mil-
lion, or 99 cents per diluted share, for 2007.
Th e company attributed the loss primarily to
a $426 million goodwill impairment charge
resulting from a decrease in the Mercantile
banking segment’s value and a $344.6 million
provision for credit losses resulting from con-
tinued credit deterioration — particularly in
the Florida market.
Th e bank holding company’s woes have
been refl ected in the peaks and valleys of its
stock price: It traded as low as 69 cents on
March 5 aft er reaching a 52-week high of
$13.50. Th e stock traded at more than $30 a
Ready, willing & able
SC BIZ EXCLUSIVE
Story and photos by James T. Hammond, Staff Writer
During Lynn Harton’s fi rst presentation to share-
holders as president and CEO, he assured investors
he’s attacking the company’s problems head-on.
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EXCLUSIVE SC BIZEXCLUSIVE SCBIZshare in 2004.
On May 5, Harton appeared at the annual
shareholders’ meeting in Greenville, his fi rst
as CEO. He didn’t sugarcoat the task ahead
to put the company back on a solid footing.
During his presentation, he pointed out that
Th e South Financial Group’s stock declined in
value in 2008 by 72%, compared with a 45%
drop for the top 20 U.S. banks and 39% for the
company’s peer banks in the Southeast.
He also noted that Th e South Financial
Group accepted $347 million from the U.S.
government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program
in November.
To survive and thrive, he said, Th e South
Financial Group must “solidify strong brand
and community support in S.C. and then re-
create in Florida and N.C.”
Culture shockHarton said the current economic reces-
sion that has pummeled banks particularly
hard will have some winners and losers. He
predicted that 500 banks will fail across Amer-
ica during this economic downturn. And he
cautioned shareholders and employees that
the bank’s culture must be changed if it is to
survive and remain independent. But he also
said it is his aim to make the company a “con-
solidator,” not a bank that is forced into a shot-
gun marriage with a larger, healthier bank.
Harton has some experience whipping
troubled banks back into profi table enterpris-
es. He led the 2004 merger and integration of
Union Planters Bank of Memphis, Tenn., with
Regions Financial Corp., a large, multistate
bank based in Birmingham, Ala.
Today, Harton has a laser focus on building
a common banking culture across the com-
pany that understands credit risk and that has
deep support from within to recognize and
deal with potentially troublesome loans.
Harton was frank with shareholders on
May 5, saying growth had been given such a
high priority that it blinded local managers to
the fundamentals for ensuring that the bank
amassed good assets as it grew. When he took
over, Harton began to prune the corporate tree
of managers responsible for the Florida bank’s
troubled portfolio.
As he had at Union Planters, which expe-
rienced about 50% turnover under his man-
agement, Harton set about replacing local and
regional leaders within his new bank.
“Some people could come along; others
could not,” he said.
When he got the call to join Th e South Fi-
nancial Group as senior executive vice presi-
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dent in February 2007, he said he already had a
good sense of the company, having competed
with Carolina First and Mercantile banks
while at Regions Financial.
“I knew the company,” he said. “What I
didn’t know was what I’d be allowed to do.”
He started at the bank working for Whittle,
who had long held the three top positions of
chairman of the board, president and CEO. It
was a corporate governing structure not un-
common in the heady days before the reces-
sion.
But Th e South Financial Group, like so
many other companies staggered by the col-
lapse of the housing market and its associ-
ated lending practices, began unwinding that
powerful position at the top of corporation.
Th e board’s makeup changed. Previously, the
lineup featured overlapping directorships with
the chairman. For example, Whittle was on the
University of South Carolina board, and for-
mer USC President Andrew Sorensen sat on
Whittle’s bank board.
With Whittle’s departure from the execu-
tive post in October and from the board this
spring, new rules were adopted to separate the
board chairman’s post from the chief execu-
tive role. John C.B. Smith Jr., an attorney with
Nelson Mullins Riley and Scarborough in Co-
lumbia, became the non-executive chairman.
Harton sits on the board, but under the new
rules he cannot be chairman.
When Harton introduced himself to more
than 100 shareholders at the annual meeting,
he was greeted warmly. Th e only shareholder
to speak at the meeting, Jimmy Grantham,
opened his remarks by saying, “Th ank God
you are here.”
But Grantham, who owned stock in a bank
that was purchased by Th e South Financial
Group, is a frequent critic of the board. He as-
sailed the board for a lack of vision and failure
to have a strategic plan. He says the company
grew too fast by acquiring other banks without
adequately supervising them.
“I’m not sure one man can fi x this,” he
said.
Smith, Th e South Financial Group’s board
chairman, responded that the board has
worked long and hard since the crisis began
and even decided the day of the annual meet-
ing to reduce its own compensation to half of
2008 levels because of the crisis.
A man with a planTh e fi rst slide in Harton’s presentation to
shareholders attacked the problem head-on:
“Change is needed … Financial performance
reputation of the company is less than stellar.”
One important area of change he noted is
his new leadership team. Th e organizational
chart he off ered showed that, of 11 people
on the current senior executive management
team, eight have joined the company since
2005. And seven of them assumed their cur-
rent leadership roles in the past 12 months.
Both of the bank’s subsidiaries have new
presidents: Scott Frierson at Carolina First and
Ernie Diaz at Mercantile.
In addition, Harton has reorganized the
company to eliminate what he calls business
“silos” to fully integrate all the bank’s opera-
tions and create broad and deep support for
the company’s frontline bankers.
Harton insists that the company is working
from a position of strength, despite its recent
losses. Its tangible equity as a percentage of
tangible assets was 10.03% as of March 31, the
third-highest among its Southeast peer banks.
Th e South Financial Group also has reined
in spending. Th e total number of employees
has been reduced by 3%; no executive man-
agement bonuses were paid for 2008; no em-
ployee merit increases will be authorized in
2009; the 401(k) match has been cut by 50%;
and new travel and other expense policies have
been implemented.
Th e corporate jet is parked and is for sale.
Harton has set in motion a thorough re-
view of the bank’s strategy and practices, to
ensure it has the best possible business model
as it works its way out of the fi nancial swamp.
One such review he cites is the eff ectiveness
and profi tability of its branch offi ces.
He found that the best-performing branch
offi ces were in major business hubs and sub-
urban submarket hubs. Th e worst-performing
branches were in predominantly residential
areas.
Yet South Financial has continued to ex-
pand into those residential suburbs.
“We’ve been chasing rooft ops,” he said,
when research has shown that is not the right
strategy.
Another goal Harton has set for the com-
pany is to fully utilize the digital revolution.
Th ere’s still too much paper in the loan ap-
proval process, he said. He aims to establish a
product development group and a sales man-
agement group.
“Commercial lending is our biggest line
of business, but we didn’t have a commercial
business support group,” Harton said.
Harton emphasizes education and training
within the company to ensure his employees
have all that is required to succeed.
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“Th is is a business we are going to own,”
Harton said. “We can’t spend money on ev-
erything, so this is what we’re going to spend
money on.
“Our people are excited about the clarity of
the plan,” Harton said. He has been traveling
around his company’s markets in the Carolinas
and Florida, holding employee meetings and
briefi ng his workers on his goals and strategy.
Be careful what you wish forFor Harton, becoming leader of a major re-
gional bank realizes a long-held dream, but he’s
come by a path he might not have foreseen.
He said he did not know he might quick-
ly become president of Th e South Financial
Group when he came to Greenville in 2007.
“Th at was a hope of mine,” he said, “but it
happened much more quickly than I anticipat-
ed. I never asked for it. You have to earn that.”
He exudes confi dence that he can lead the
bank out of the wilderness.
“Oh, I can fi x it,” he said in an interview,
smiling broadly.
But he is ever mindful of the challenges.
“Th e only question is the environment we
all are in,” he said. “It’s like a golf tournament:
We have a team that can win; we just don’t
know if the game is going to be called before
it’s fi nished.” SCBIZ
Ernie Diaz (from left), president of Mercantile Bank;
Lynn Harton, president and CEO of South Financial;
and Scott Frierson, president of Carolina First Bank.
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This summer, Tim Twomey will begin
his 50th year working on the Charles-
ton waterfront.
In the past half century, he’s watched the
evolution of containerization change the face
of the maritime industry. He’s witnessed the
explosive growth of shipping companies and
the changing role of steamship agencies —
such as his employer, Carolina Shipping Co.,
where he works in the operations depart-
ment.
He’s adapted to the advent of technol-
ogy and lived through the dispersal of the
Lowcountry’s maritime cluster — once
centrally located downtown near the U.S.
Custom House, now spread out across the
greater Charleston region. Begrudgingly, he
has given in to post-Sept. 11 port security
measures.
Twomey, 74, has taken these changes in
stride.
But what bothers him the most is the
public’s seemingly lukewarm attitude toward
the state’s maritime activities.
“When I fi rst came here and got in the
business, everybody was involved in it and
people were interested in the waterfront,”
Twomey said. “I think we are at fault some-
what for not educating people more about the
A MARITIME INDUSTRY IN TRANSITION By Molly Parker, Staff Writer
Jafza International and big-name manufactur-
ers such as BMW and General Electric.
According to a recent report sanctioned by
the S.C. State Ports Authority, trade through
the ports on South Carolina’s coast generates
260,800 jobs, $11.8 billion in annual income
and $1.5 billion in government taxes, and
it makes a $44.8 billion impact on the state
economy.
“As the port goes, so goes our econo-
my here,” former SPA President and CEO
Bernard Groseclose said late last year at a gala
celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Pro-
peller Club.
Shortly aft er that speech, Groseclose of-
fered his resignation to the SPA’s board. His
sentiments proved true, only in reverse — as
the economy went, so went our port.
In December, Maersk Line announced
it would be pulling out of Charleston when
its contract expired at the end of 2010. Th at
announcement shook the maritime industry
and economic developers across the state —
Maersk is the world’s largest shipping line and
the Port of Charleston’s largest customer, ac-
counting for about 20% of its business.
Negotiations are ongoing to keep the
Danish company in town.
Th at announcement also led to a politi-
waterfront and its contribution. I think we
have been negligent.”
Multibillion-dollar impact Th at contribution is the creation of thou-
sands of jobs across South Carolina and the
luring of deep-pocketed developers such as
Waterfront veterans Joe Buckheister (left) and Tim
Twomey have a combined 85 years of experience.
(Photo/Leslie Halpern)
The rankingsTop 10 export commoditiesRank Commodity % of Total1 ....... Paper and paperboard, incl. waste ..14%
2 .......Wood pulp .........................................7%
3 ....... Fabrics, including raw cotton .............4%
4 .......General cargo, miscellaneous ............4%
5 ....... Auto parts ..........................................4%
6 ....... Automobiles ......................................3%
7 ....... Synthetic resins, NSPF.......................3%
8 ....... Logs and lumber ...............................3%
9 .......Unclassifi able chemicals ...................3%
10 ..... Poultry, chiefl y fresh and frozen .........2%
Top 10 import commoditiesRank Commodity % of Total1 ....... Furniture ............................................8%
2 ....... Auto parts ..........................................7%
3 ....... Sheets, towels, blankets ....................4%
4 .......General cargo, miscellaneous ............3%
5 ....... Fabrics, including raw cotton .............3%
6 ....... Auto and truck tires and tubes ..........3%
7 .......Menswear .........................................3%
8 ....... Apparels, miscellaneous ....................2%
9 .......Women’s and infantwear ...................2%
10 ..... Paper and paperboard, incl. waste ....2%
Top 10 export destinationsRank Destination % of Total1 .......Germany ..........................................10%
2 .......Belgium/Luxembourg ........................8%
3 .......Netherlands .......................................7%
4 .......United Kingdom .................................6%
5 .......China .................................................6%
6 .......Brazil .................................................5%
7 ....... India ..................................................4%
8 ....... Japan ................................................4%
9 ....... Italy ....................................................3%
10 ..... France ...............................................3%
Top 10 import destinationsRank Destination % of Total1 .......China ...............................................21%
2 .......Germany ..........................................14%
3 ....... India ..................................................8%
4 .......Netherlands .......................................6%
5 ....... Pakistan .............................................4%
6 .......Brazil .................................................4%
7 .......Belgium/Luxembourg ........................3%
8 ....... Japan ................................................3%
9 ....... Italy ....................................................3%
10 .....United Kingdom .................................3%
Ranked by 2008 loaded TEU
Source: S.C. State Ports Authority
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cal awakening — for better or worse — and
pushed the port toward a new way of think-
ing. Today, the ports authority, and by exten-
sion the state’s maritime industry, is an entity
in transition. It’s also an entity that just can’t
seem to catch a break.
“Th e way I see it, it looks like the port
takes one step forward and two steps back,”
said Joe Buckheister, a vice president with
McAllister Towing & Transportation Co.
Inc. Buckheister has spent 36 years working
the waterfront, and two of his three children
took up maritime careers as well: his daughter
with Maersk and his son with the State Ports
Authority.
A sea of changes At the ports authority,
the search for a new chief
executive is under way.
Meanwhile, state
lawmakers penned leg-
islation this session that
could have far-reaching
governance and fi nancial
implications — dictating
changes to the board’s
makeup and requiring
the sale of thousands of
acres of valuable Daniel
Island land, among other
things.
Th e agency is in the
midst of craft ing a new
strategic plan.
Th e SPA created a
new position, chief com-
mercial offi cer, and hired Paul McClintock of
Atlanta to fi ll it. His mission is to streamline the
port’s marketing eff orts.
Crews are busily constructing a $550
million terminal on the former Navy base
in North Charleston. And a fi ght is brewing
about how, or whether, to provide near-dock
dual rail access to that terminal.
Th e economy, meanwhile, continues to
hammer container traffi c.
Between July 2008 and March 2009, the
port handled 1.1 million 20-foot equivalent
units, a drop of 13.6% compared with the
year-ago period. Th ere is not a port in the
nation unaff ected by the economy’s global
downturn. But Charleston is losing market
share at the same time.
Of the nation’s top 10 ports, the only ones
to register steeper volume drops were the
Port of Seattle, at 21.2%, and the Port of Long
Beach, in California, at 18.3%.
Th e Port of Savannah’s year-over-year drop
during that period was 9.8%, from about 2
million TEUs to 1.8 million TEUs.
Revving the economic engineBut the ports authority is making positive
gains, too.
When Groseclose resigned, the SPA
board’s vice chairman, John Hassell, stepped
in to temporarily fi ll the role. Hassell, on leave
from his job as president of the Maritime As-
sociation of South Carolina, said he has no in-
terest in taking over permanently, but he has
not sat idly by, either.
Getting the agency’s
house in order during
this economic down-
turn is too important
to simply keep the next
chief executive’s seat
warm, he said.
Hassell has put all
of the port’s employees
through a customer
training program.
As the agency’s
leader, he’s worked
to fulfi ll the board’s
mission of facilitating
economic develop-
ment in the state. It’s a
balancing act between
ensuring the ports au-
thority keeps a strong
balance sheet and still
revving its economic development engine, he
said. Groseclose was criticized for putting too
much weight on the creation of wealth for the
authority.
“We became a margin-driven organiza-
tion,” Hassell said.
Th at was fi ne when the economy was
booming — and Hassell said it was necessary
to create capital for the major projects under
way, including the new terminal construction.
But when the economy began to slide, the au-
thority should have taken a closer look at its
customer arrangements, Hassell said.
“We should have probably reacted faster to
that than we did,” he said. “Looking forward,
we are laser-focused on our economic devel-
opment mission.”
It might be years before the results become
evident — but Hassell is confi dent the agency
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is making headway.
“I wish we could see immediate results, but
that’s not the way it is in this industry, particu-
larly in these times,” he said.
Teamwork pays off Th e SPA has received some immediate
gratifi cation, though. Another of Hassell’s
goals is for the authority to think outside its
own boundaries and to form partnerships
with private companies for a team marketing
approach.
Th rough this eff ort, the ports authority
and a host of private companies were able to
persuade Th e National Shipping Co. of Saudi
Arabia to add Charleston to its East Coast ro-
tation.
Hassell said the company’s decision was
driven largely by the port’s proximity to com-
panies that produce energy-related products,
such as General Electric’s gas turbine manu-
facturing plant in Greenville.
Th e team that lured the new carrier here
included SSA Cooper, a stevedoring agency
that handles union labor; Superior Transpor-
tation, a North Charleston-based trucking
company; Dockside Logistics, an export han-
dling company that counts General Electric
among its customers; and J.E. Oswalt, which
transports the heavy turbines off railcars.
Superior Transportation President and
CEO Pat Barber called it an example of the
type of collaborative marketing eff ort that
needs to become the norm.
“I think it gives the customer a certain de-
gree of confi dence when they see all the mem-
bers of the supply chain in the same room
reading from the same sheet of music,” Barber
said. “We’ve already proven it works.” SCBIZ
Economic impactAmong the key fi ndings of an SPA-
sanctioned study, maritime activity in the
state contributes the following:
More than $44.8 billion in total econom-•
ic output each year across the state.
260,800 jobs, representing 10.9% of all •
jobs in South Carolina.
$11.8 billion in labor income, which is •
13.6% of the state’s total income.
$1.5 billion in state and local taxes. •
$18.5 billion in value-added impact, •
representing 12.1% of the total gross
state product.
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Every day, large blue cranes at the Port
of Charleston move hundreds of cargo-
fi lled containers onto waiting 18-wheel-
ers, which hit the highways with everything
from home furnishings to high-end manufac-
turing equipment.
Trucks reign in South Carolina.
But state offi cials now say it’s time for
trains to play a larger role in the economic
supply chain, to give business and industry
lower-cost freight options, reduce the glut of
traffi c along the state’s highways and mitigate
diesel emissions.
“Th e increased cost of fuel and freight has
made rail king,” Commerce Secretary Joe Tay-
lor said.
In late March, the Commerce Department
released a study that thrust the state’s rail sys-
tem into the spotlight. Some 2,260 miles of rail
lines crisscross the state, connecting businesses
to one another and to the Port of Charleston.
About 20% of the goods coming into the
Port of Charleston leave on a train, but that is
less than at competing ports. Th e Georgia Ports
Authority moves about 35% of its cargo via rail,
and the Virginia Ports Authority moves about
30%, according to a senior railroad executive.
Yet the debate is far more complicated
than whether one of the nation’s oldest modes
of transportation should play a bigger role in
South Carolina’s future.
Implementing the contents of the thick
study — conducted by Wilbur Smith Asso-
ciates of Columbia — would mean running
intermodal trains that can be a mile long
through neighborhoods in North Charleston
that are the focus of a renaissance of revital-
ization eff orts.
In a recent public speech, Keith Summey,
the shoot-from-the hip mayor of the state’s
third-largest city, recently compared the state
of South Carolina to Nazi Germany because
of its attempts to run roughshod over his re-
development eff orts.
He also promised a legal fi ght against the
“worthless legislators” attempting to dictate
rail access in his city.
A port issue Th ose pushing for a compromise argue
that the port’s long-term competitiveness is at
stake — and South Carolina’s economy with it.
Without equal access for Norfolk Southern and
CSX, the railroads serving the port will have no
incentive to off er competitive rates, the theory
goes; and without competitive rail rates, ship-
pers might choose to call on other ports.
“Th e issue is really a port issue,” said Rob
Martinez, Norfolk Southern’s vice president of
business development. “Is Charleston going to
be competitive in the long term or will it be-
come a port of second order on the Atlantic?”
Th e study says that “one of the largest, if not
the largest” rail issue in South Carolina con-
cerns Class 1 service to the Port of Charleston.
It reads: “Rail service at the port received
poor ratings in availability, capacity, quality
and service levels (the only ‘needs improve-
ment’ overall) from shippers’ perspectives.”
Th e port’s largest container terminal, the
Wando Welch facility in Mount Pleasant, is 11
miles from the nearest rail line.
Two of the port’s container terminals are
served by rail, and some 5,000 empty contain-
ers have been handled at the Columbus Street
Terminal in the past couple of years. But no
loaded containers have been handled at Co-
lumbus Street or the existing North Charles-
ton facility, the study says. Instead, containers
are trucked to rail yards several miles away.
Most of the goods moving to or from the
Port of Charleston via rail are break bulk
cargo such as generators, or BMW vehicles
manufactured in the Upstate and shipped out
of Union Pier Terminal.
Th e source of contention is a section of the
study that calls for the placement of a near-
dock intermodal facility on the former Navy
base. Th e SPA is building a container terminal
on the southern end of the property, and the
developer Noisette Co. has planned a sustain-
able business and residential development
atop 340 acres on the property’s north end.
Placing an intermodal facility on the base
would require the use of an existing rail line that
runs through the base’s northern end — and
through the heart of the Noisette Co.’s property.
CSX has near-dock access to the terminal
property from the southern end, but the state’s
No. 1 carrier has no plans to share that line
with chief rival Norfolk Southern — nor can
it be forced to. Carriers do sometimes share
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lines, but only when it is mutually benefi cial.
Th e only viable option, the study says, is
to build an intermodal facility on the former
Navy base that could service Norfolk Southern
and CSX — or only Norfolk Southern, should
CSX wish to carry out its plans for an inter-
modal facility to the south of the terminal. John
Koch, CSX’s director of international sales and
marketing, says the company has done its part,
working “diligently over the past several years
with the Ports Authority and other entities to
“meet rail needs of the port in the future.
Commerce Secretary Joe Taylor has said the increased cost of fuel and freight has made rail king.
(Photo/Molly Parker)
Seven-year-old promises
Summey isn’t just angry; he’s also the keeper
of a memorandum of understanding that the
city of North Charleston and the SPA penned
in 2002, in which the state agency promised
that any rail access serving the terminal would
remain exclusively to the south end.
When the SPA signed that agreement, it had
not put together a plan for the exact terminal
location or made any decisions on rail service.
By that point, the SPA had become the ball
in a legislative pingpong game — directed
back and forth between Daniel Island and
North Charleston several times. In May 2002,
the General Assembly passed a law dictating
that the new terminal go to the “west bank of
the Cooper River” — which eff ectively meant
the defunct North Charleston Navy base.
Later that same month, state leaders bro-
kered a compromise with the city, giving
North Charleston the entire northern section
of the base free of charge. Th e city then sold
that land to Noisette for $9.6 million.
Meanwhile, the SPA sought from the Army
Corps of Engineers a permit for the new ter-
minal, which called for moving all cargo by
truck, either for the long haul or on short trips
to Norfolk Southern and CSX’s intermodal fa-
cilities in North Charleston, located off Meet-
ing Street and Goer Drive, respectively.
Th e corps issued approval of the project in
April 2007 aft er an arduous, fi ve-year process
— and the permit did not include on-dock
rail service. At the time, the SPA said that plan
suited its shipping customers just fi ne.
It suited the State Ports Authority, too.
Th e agency had spent years and millions of
dollars planning a massive container terminal
on Daniel Island meant to secure Charleston’s
place in the global shipping world — only to
have those plans shattered in a political up-
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heaval, attributable in part to Daniel Island
residents’ concerns about trains running
through their upscale community.
And it seemed to suit the state’s political
leaders, as well.
Little noise was made at the time about the
fact that on-dock or near-dock rail access was
not a part of the blueprint.
But the game changed recently — the ante
upped by Commerce’s rail study.
Jeff McWhorter, president of S.C. Public
Railways, the Commerce arm that funded the
study, said it was conducted last year “because
it was simply time for it.” Th e state’s rail plan
had not been updated since 1999, largely be-
cause no state or federal funding had been
available for railroad improvements, he said.
Th e concern was that South Carolina
would miss out on federal funding for rail
improvements without a current plan as the
nation — facing overcrowded roads and emis-
sions concerns — looked to Congress to fund
rail upgrades that could create a viable alter-
native to trucks and cars in the movement of
goods and people.
“Th e whole point of ensuring dual access
to both Class 1 carriers that serve the Charles-
ton area is to ensure, to the extent possible,
the sustainable economic viability of our
state,” McWhorter said.
SPA executives have remained publicly
quiet on the debate, fearful their involvement
could hinder the agency’s hard-fought terminal
project and delay its 2014 scheduled opening.
Boasting of its deep waters capable of han-
dling larger ships, economic developers and
port offi cials say forging ahead with construc-
tion signals to the world that South Carolina
has outstretched arms ready to grab the excess
capacity expected to fl ow to the East Coast via
the expanded Panama Canal — set to debut
in fi ve years.
Th e new terminal will increase the Port
of Charleston’s capacity by about 1.4 million
20-foot-long containers, to a total of about
4 million TEUs, according to permit docu-
ments.
In April, the agency awarded its fi rst con-
struction contract for the terminal. Work on
the $60 million containment wall is expected
to begin this summer, following several years
of site preparation and excavation work.
“Our message to the marketplace has to be
that we are building a new terminal and that it’s
going to be online by 2014,” said John Hassell,
interim executive director of the SPA.
Rep. Jim Merrill, R-Daniel Island, said he
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fi nds the SPA’s decision to stay out of the de-
bate “baffl ing.”
“Truly, I don’t know what words to use,”
Merrill said. “I’m incredulous, shocked, baffl ed,
bewildered that they would plan and ask the
community to support expansion and say they
are committed to reducing their environmental
impact and load on our infrastructure and not
work to improve a vital component of it.”
Merrill was among the lawmakers who di-
rected the SPA off of Daniel Island.
Today, he joins other state and local offi -
cials in rallying for dual rail access, and he led
the charge in the state House to transfer the
controversial rail line in question to S.C. Pub-
lic Railways. At the close of session, lawmak-
ers abandoned that plan, instead punting the
issue to the courts.
Noisette argues it already owns the deeds
to the line and the property underneath it —
and is already involved in a lawsuit with the
Charleston Naval Complex Redevelopment
Authority attempting to prove the point.
A hard-fought dream When the Navy base closed in 1996, it
rocked North Charleston.
Since then, the city has worked aggres-
sively to revitalize its oldest neighborhoods.
Th e fruits of those eff orts include the creation
of a quaint downtown strip of eateries and the
demolition of the state’s largest public housing
project, which was a hotbed of crime.
A pastel-colored development for low-
income families went up in its place, and area
home values have been climbing ever since.
Noisette helped create the vision for a
3,000-acre footprint that includes many of the
city’s most underserved communities, in addi-
tion to the 340 acres owned by Noisette on the
former Navy base. Th at company is headed by
John Knott, known locally for developing the
private Dewees Island, an upscale community
accessible only by boat.
Noisette leases and manages a little more
than 800,000 square feet of offi ce and ware-
house space on the northern end of the Navy
base and has sold 11 acres — numbers the com-
pany says warrant bragging rights considering
it was deeded the fi nal parcels of the property
just a few years ago. It received its fi rst and larg-
est chunk, about 170 acres, in July 2003.
Knott said a tentative agreement is in place
with a developer to start the fi rst of several
planned urban housing developments, but
he said talk of running intermodal trains
through his property has put those discus-
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Superior Transportation Inc.Patrick Barber, President
1940 Hanahan Road, North Charleston, SC 29406
843-740-1840www.superiortransportation.us
Product or service: TruckingYear founded locally: 1998
Within your industry, what are your company’s unique areas of expertise?
We haul and transport heavy and awkward cargo, as well as precast and prestress concrete products, including bridge girders, pipes and wall panels.
How has the current economy changed the way you do business?
We have trimmed spending and we’ve taken steps to make our fl eet more fuel effi cient, including reducing speed and engine idling.
What do you think is the most important “key to success” that a startup business
should consider?
Start with plenty of cash and hold onto it.
What does your fi rm provide that differentiates you from your
competition?
We offer hands-on management, experience and an excellent safety record.
MOVING THE ECONOMYWhat major factors and issues do you believe will affect the local economy in
2009?
A change in leadership at the South Carolina State Ports Authority and stimulus money.
What major factors and issues do you believe will affect the ports, logistics and
distribution industry in 2009?
Dual rail access to the new port terminal, or an agreement allowing Norfolk Southern to operate on CSX tracks.
What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned that you would pass on to a
younger person entering the work force?
Always wake up earlier than your competition!
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sions on shaky ground.
Knott also has threatened to sue the state,
and he claims that “the massive condemna-
tion” necessary to carry out that plan would
easily exceed $300 million.
“Th is would destroy the entire Noisette
area and the redevelopment the city of North
Charleston has put so much eff ort into,” he
said.
Still, leading Senate Republicans say the
state’s economic health outweighs the wishes
of a developer with an aggressive dream.
South Carolina’s unemployment rate is the
second-highest in the nation, behind Michigan.
Even before the recession, the Port of Charles-
ton was losing market share to its competitors,
falling behind Georgia and Virginia.
“I understand that Noisette’s development
would be harmed if you have a rail line run-
ning through the middle of it,” said Sen. Larry
Grooms, chairman of the Senate Transporta-
tion Committee. “But I told them, I cannot
put your economic self-interest ahead of the
economic interest of the entire state.”
Recently, Grooms, R-Charleston, along
with Senate colleagues Glenn McConnell,
R-Charleston, and Hugh Leatherman, R-
Florence, directed Norfolk Southern to recon-
sider the possibility of building an intermodal
facility in Charleston on a parcel of land near
the foot of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge called
the Promenade. Both Norfolk and S.C. Public
Railways argue the plan is unworkable.
Grooms, who is exploring a run for gov-
ernor, said his ultimate goal is to fi nd a com-
promise. But he said he will fi ght, if necessary,
as did Summey — pitting state lawmakers
against a mayor who once rode an armored
personnel carrier into town to make a point.
It was Summey’s protest of plans to place
a frozen chicken storage locker on the former
Navy base that eventually led to the compro-
mise parceling off half the base to the Ports
Authority and half to the city.
Th e end result of that was that memoran-
dum of understanding between the SPA and
North Charleston. State lawmakers directed
the city and port to the negotiation table, so
it’s unfair for them to be attempting to change
the rules today, Summey said.
“Th e state of South Carolina has become
not unlike Nazi Germany in that they think
they can dictate to us as a community how
we live,” Summey said during a City Council
meeting. “Th at’s wrong, and I don’t care which
ones of those worthless legislators vote for it.
Th ey do not represent our community fairly,
and we will fi ght it to the nth degree.” SCBIZ
About 20% of the goods coming into the Port of
Charleston leave on a train. By comparison, the
Georgia Ports Authority moves about 35% of its cargo
via rail, and the Virginia Ports Authority moves about
30%. (Photo/Paula Illingworth)
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Parker Rigging Co. Inc.Timothy L. Parker, President
5541 Woodbine Ave., North Charleston, SC 29406-6143
843-747-7977 • Fax: 843-747-5560 www.parkerrigging.com
Services: Crane Rental, Rigging, Steel Fabrication and Erection,
Railcar Tie-downs and Burn-offsYear founded locally: 1982
Within your industry, what are your company’s unique areas of expertise?
Parker Rigging Co., Inc. specializes in crane rental and rigging. With cranes up to 175-ton capacity, PRC can provide their customers with affordable and effi cient lifting services. PRC also specializes in securing large cargo to railcars for rail transport.
What do you think is the most important “key to success” that has made your
business thrive?
Even though it may sound cliché, Parker Rigging Co., Inc. prides itself on customer service. Our customers know that they will always receive the personalized treatment they have come to expect. PRC is a small, hands-on, company with the owners and management available for our customers.
What do you see as the key issue – in your industry – that must be addressed?
Proper training of crane operators and riggers is the most important issue in the
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PARKER RIGGING
crane business today. Crane accidents cause many injuries and deaths in the United States each year. Many of these accidents are caused by crane operators that are not properly trained. Parker Rigging Co., Inc. strives to keep its staff of crane operators and riggers trained to all current OSHA and ANSI standards.
What major factors and issues do you believe will affect the local economy in
2009?
The biggest factor to affect the local economy is consumer attitude. If consumers are afraid to spend money, the economy will become stagnant. The next factor to affect the local economy is corporate attitude. Corporations must realize that they can stimulate the economy by spending money on capital expenditures, product development, and hiring new employees. As the prevailing attitudes toward the economy brighten, the economy should grow.
C&C Warehouse & Distribution Co. Inc.
Top local executive: Jimmy Connelly, President
1009 Trident St., Hanahan, SC 29410843-818-2332
www.candcwarehouse.com
Product or service: Service-oriented warehouse and distributionYear founded locally: 1972
Within your industry, what are your company’s unique areas of expertise?
We specialize in product packing, order processing and inspection services. We even have a team that does assembly and quality control for the automotive industry.
What do you think is the most important “key to success” that a start-up business
should consider?
Learn the industry. Know your competition and focus on customer service. We, as warehousing professionals, are a service-oriented business. If we cannot provide the customer with the service they require, someone else will.
What does your fi rm provide that differentiates you from your
competition?
We perform automotive parts inspection and product assembly. For example, we import two different parts from two different customers, assemble them, perform quality
MOVING THE ECONOMYtesting and send the fi nished assembled parts to the end user.
What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned that you would pass on to a
young person entering the work force?
Your business colleagues can be your best customers. Developing a relationship with your peers can be very helpful and educational.
What major factors and issues do you believe will affect the ports, logistics and
distribution in the industry in 2009?
The S.C. State Ports Authority, politicians and city offi cials must come together and focus on one goal. That goal is to allow the SCSPA to build and grow, as it is the biggest economic developer in the state.
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Sunland DistributionArch Thomason, President and CEO
255 Black Hawk Road, Greenville, SC 29611
www.SunlandDistribution.com
Product or service: Third party logisticsYear founded locally: 1982
Within your industry, what are your company’s unique areas of
expertise?
Sunland Distribution has seen a lot of changes in the logistics industry since our founding in 1982. The globalization of trade has led to a huge expansion in the type of goods being shipped and stored, and to business relationships that stretch across the globe. As one of the largest third-party logistics companies in the Southeast, we provide warehouse services, transportation management services, contract labor, packaging and full supply chain consulting services. Sunland specializes in HAZMAT chemical storage, food storage in state-of-the-art facilities that meet USDA and FDA requirements, automotive Tier 1 support and retail goods warehousing.
How has the current economy changed the way you do business?
Some commodities that used to fl ow through our facilities fairly quickly are now stored for longer periods because their sales have slowed dramatically during this economic downturn. Tires and paper are two examples. That’s meant growth for our overfl ow facilities. More goods are being stored for longer than 30 days.
What key to success has made Sunland thrive?
Our people are our greatest strength. We have a dedicated work force. Many employees have been with Sunland for years. Our executive management team has more than 100 years of combined experience in the logistics business. That’s how Sunland has grown and succeeded during the last 27 years.
What does Sunland provide that differentiates you from the
competition?
Sunland is a South Carolina company and that local ownership fosters a great sense of pride and responsibility. We’re always looking to improve how we do business. We strive to be innovative and responsive in custom-tailoring logistics solutions to meet the unique needs of each customer. We take industry best practices to the next level. That’s the Sunland advantage.
What major issues do you think will affect ports, logistics and
distribution in 2009?
Energy costs will most likely increase once the economy gets back on track. I think there are also some union
avoidance issues on the horizon. Both of these issues will impact our industry in 2009.
What major factors and issues do you believe will affect the local
economy in 2009?
The value of the U.S. dollar — import versus export — will have a signifi cant impact on our local economy. A depreciated U.S. dollar means higher prices for imported goods. It will affect our ability to compete on a global scale.
What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned that you
would pass on to a young person entering the work force?
I’d tell any young person entering today’s job market to work hard and work continually to learn your business. Real problem solvers are the most successful people in our business, or in any business. And don’t be afraid to challenge the status quo. Stars create their own environment.
What philanthropic organizations does your company support
and why?
We recently adopted a U.S. Marine company stationed in Afghanistan. We sent our fi rst shipment of care packages to them in March. Sunland employs many veterans of the U.S. military and we wanted to show our support for our troops. Sometimes we forget we are at war.
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TRUCKING AND FLEXI TANK SERVICES
Liquid Box Inc.Scott Adams, President and CEO
Michele Adams, Vice President and Boss Lady.
5175 Virginia Ave., Charleston, S.C. 843-708-0246
www.liquidbox.usTotal number of local employees: 25
Product or service: Trucking and fl exitank service
Year founded locally: 2002
Within your industry, what are your company’s unique areas of expertise?
Liquid Box has company-owned trucks and chassis that haul legal and overweight containers local and long distance. Having 20-foot and 40-foot tri-axles, we can meet the needs of our most demanding customers. Our fl eet also includes 53-foot dry vans and fl atbed services with cross docking available.Liquid Box is the only certifi ed fl exitank service on the East Coast. We take can take a 20-foot dry box container and convert it so it can hold non-hazardous liquids, providing an extremely cost-effective way to ship liquid overseas. We take liquid cargo that comes from as far as the Midwest and pump it into fl exitanks so it can be shipped overseas. Who would have thought it would be profi table for businesses to take liquid from the Midwest and ship it out of Charleston, S.C.? We did and we are doing it as you read this article!
How has the current economy changed the way you do business?
The economy has been rough on everybody so, change has played a big part in our business. We have learned to cross-train
to be more productive in other areas when needed. We took some drivers and trained them in diesel mechanics to assist with roadside breakdowns. Keeping repair costs down is vital to your budget when trucking long distances. We have a good team at Liquid Box, all the way from the offi ce staff who keeps the drivers on time, to the warehouse team that keeps inventory up-to-date, to the mechanics who build truck engines with quality priced parts to keep the trucks running great!
What do you think is the most important “key to success” that a start-up
business should consider?
POSITIVE PEOPLE! If you have a good business plan, you’re headed in the right direction. The wrong people can kill everything. Keep positive people around you and talk to God every day; between both of them, you’re already headed towards success!
What advice would you give fellow business leaders to help them thrive during current economic conditions?
My advice is to buckle up; it’s going to be a bumpy ride! Cut cost in all areas and use the savings to keep a good employee. They will see that and return the favor by helping you fi nd ways to save money in and out of the offi ce.
What does your fi rm provide that differentiates you from your
competition?
We care! That’s not a statement made just to fi ll a space! You call us and you will get a real person on the phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We didn’t spend years building a reputation just to let it get torn back down by bad business. There are too many other companies fi ghting for the same job and we don’t want to lose the chance to get it!
What unique skill sets does your staff bring to the marketplace?
I truly believe I have the best people for the job in place NOW! All my drivers have the value of hard work instilled in them. The mechanics are the kind of people that if they don’t know what might be wrong with the engine, they call somebody and get their ideas on the subject while watching the cost
of the repairs. I have the best dispatcher in Charleston, S.C.! How do I know? My wife reminds me every day when she shows up to work to dispatch for Liquid Box! We are like a big family around here, because when somebody is having a bad day, there are about 20 people trying to cheer them up. You don’t fi nd that very much, especially in this day and age.
What major factors and issues do you believe will affect the ports, logistics and
distribution industry in 2009?
The South Carolina ports, and all the groups that make up the working body, need to work as one to bring in customers instead of letting them go elsewhere. I have lost 30% of my business to the Port of Savannah, which has led to me open up a location in Georgia. It really wasn’t what I wanted to do, but my customers wanted me to stay with them. I still believe that we have a better port system, better trucking companies and an access-friendly road system in and out of the ports!
What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned that you would pass on to a
young person entering the work force?
When life throws you a lemon ... throw it back! Work hard, keep your head up and don’t get distracted from your goals. Your name is the only thing you have to start out with so, don’t tarnish it. What philanthropic organizations does
your company support and why?
I’m a member of the Shriners and the Masonic Organization. Kids are also a big issue with us. We support about everything that deals with kids. Liquid Box is building a hot rod Zamboni the Charleston Stingrays Hockey Team will use to give children rides on the ice next season. We also support Special Olympics and we sponsor four Little League teams. We have a blast watching them play when we can.
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MOVING THE ECONOMY
Anyware ExpressAdam Lawrence, President and CEO (left)*
Alan Levesque, Vice President & COO (right)P.O. Box 40877,
North Charleston, SC 29423 843-225-6430
Product or service: Freight/transportation/warehouse services
* Answers provided by Adam Lawrence
Within your industry, what is your company’s unique area of expertise?
The most unique area of our team’s expertise is our ability to get any task at hand completed successfully, no matter what the logistics challenge may be. Whether it is a simple freight move across town, across the state or across the country; or a complicated warehousing or port-related project, we can handle it. We can also handle anything and everything in between.
How has the current economy changed the way you do business?
Over the past 6-8 months the economy has been a real challenge. We have had to adapt in many creative ways. One way was to cut costs by managing and evaluating each expense. With our ability to lower our expenses, it has given us the opportunity to be more creative with customers -- which is critical in this environment to remain competitive.
We have also had a primary focus on
sales and new business to try and capture market share. In addition to our Charleston location, we have opened a Columbia offi ce and warehouse terminal to reallocate resources and assets to a new market.
The ability to change and adapt in this economic environment helps to minimize risk for our company; and we are certain in this climate, we do not want to be in a riskier position.
What do you think is the most important “key to success” a start-
up business should consider?
I think the key to success for a start-up in this business is cash fl ow and the ability to attain capital through private funding or, of course, your local bank. Especially in these credit-crunch times, it is the most important factor to running, managing and growing a company.
What advice would you give fellow business leaders to help them thrive during current economic
conditions?
It’s simple: Run a tight ship, line your pockets and prepare for the unexpected. And, cross your fi ngers for a smooth economic recovery!
What unique skill sets does your staff bring to the marketplace?
Our team understands we’re a refl ection of the companies that entrust us with their goods. From the moment goods are picked up to the time they are delivered, we uphold each customer’s core values and company image. Along with that understanding, we bring fl exibility and reliability to each and every customer we work with. Whether we’re on an expedited job to help a manufacturing assembly line resume operations,
or delivering time-sensitive piece of medical equipment to a local hospital, our customers can rest assured that their goods will be delivered anywhere, anytime and on-time.
What major factors and issues do you believe will affect the local
economy in 2009?
The major factors I feel will affect the local economy are the trending global economic conditions, the banks’ ability to loan money, how well the stimulus package (that has been allocated and approved by Gov. Mark Sanford) will permeate our local economic system and the ultimate success of the Port of Charleston. All of these factors will play a major role in our local recovery throughout 2009.
What do you see as the key issue – in your industry – that must be
addressed?
Every sector of each industry we work with has been affected one way or another. We can only hope that through the many avenues the government and private sector are taking to improve the system, those avenues will start to work.
What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned that you would pass on to a young person entering the
work force?
When times are really good, don’t get too excited and when times are really bad, don’t get too discouraged. Just try and keep a steady, well-composed, optimistic attitude and things will work out for the best.
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REAL ESTATE EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION GOVERNMENT
MARKETFACTSREAL ESTATE EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION GOVERNMENT
Construction Cost Comparison 2009Wilmington, N.C. ........................................ 77.2
COLUMBIA ............................................. 79.6Raleigh, N.C. ................................................80.0
Charlotte ......................................................80.0
Austin, Texas ................................................80.8
CHARLESTON ......................................... 83.2Savannah.....................................................83.3
Jacksonville, Fla...........................................83.8
Mobile, Ala. ..................................................84.5
Huntsville, Ala. .............................................86.1
Nashville, Tenn. ............................................88.0
Richmond, Va. ..............................................88.4
Birmingham, Ala...........................................88.5
Norfolk, Va. ..................................................88.7
New Orleans ................................................88.9
Phoenix........................................................89.0
Atlanta .........................................................90.2
Miami ..........................................................90.3
Tampa, Fla. ..................................................91.1
Pittsburgh ....................................................97.6
Washington, D.C. .........................................99.7
INDEX AVERAGE................................... 100.0Wilmington, Del. .........................................102.8
Providence, R.I. ..........................................103.2
Hartford, Conn............................................107.9
Bridgeport, Conn. .......................................108.0
New Haven Conn. ......................................108.2
Los Angeles ...............................................108.3
Newark, N.J. ..............................................109.5
Philadelphia ...............................................113.2
Chicago .....................................................114.9
Boston .......................................................115.4
New York ...................................................130.7
Source: Means Building Construction Cost Data 2009
Compiled by Center for Business Research, Charles-
ton Metro Chamber of Commerce, Oct. 7, 2008
REAL ESTATE EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION GOVERNMENT
Number of Residential Homes, Condos & Villas Sold – March 2009
MarketMarch
2008March
2009 % Change 2008 Total 2009 Total % Change
Aiken 112 99 -11.6% 324 237 -26.9%
Beaufort 67 65 -3.0% 174 150 -13.8%
Charleston Trident 752 568 -24.5% 1,967 1,303 -33.8%
Cherokee County 34 24 -29.4% 79 45 -43.0%
Coastal Carolinas* 502 451 -10.2% 1,298 1,042 -19.7%
Greater Columbia 758 616 -18.7% 2,050 1,478 -27.9%
Greater Greenville 708 490 -30.8% 1,798 1,216 -32.4%
Greenwood 65 41 -36.9% 174 106 -39.1%
Hilton Head Island Area**
183 146 -20.2% 454 320 -29.5%
Piedmont Regional Association**
234 162 -30.8% 701 427 -39.1%
Realtor Associa-tion of Greater Pee Dee****
185 119 -35.7% 494 290 -41.3%
Southern Midlands Association
33 25 -24.2% 81 70 -13.6%
Spartanburg 249 200 -19.7% 674 505 -25.1%
Sumter/Clarendon County
123 86 -30.1% 298 233 -21.8%
Western Upstate MLS*****
261 183 -29.9% 674 450 -33.2%
State Totals 4,266 3,275 -23.2% 11,240 7,872 -30.0%
*Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Conway and Georgetown **Beaufort, Jasper, Allendale, Barnwell, Colleton, Hampton, Orangeburg and Bamberg counties ***Rock Hill, York, Lancaster and Chester ****Florence and Pee Dee area *****Anderson, Tri-County, Pickens County Note: Approximate figures are accurate as of March 15, 2009.Source: S.C. Association of Realtors
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121 Edinburgh Court Greenville, SC 29607
phone [864] 232.1491 fax [864] 242.9054
website ypsconst.com
PROJECTWestminster
Presbyterian Church
BUILDER Yeargin Potter
Shackelford Construction
ARCHITECT Freeman & Major
Architects
LOCATION Greenville, SC
RESULTS On Time. On Budget.
In Good Faith
Trust Commitment Quality Value
Number of Residential Homes, Condos & Villas Sold Market Year-to-date ’07 Year-to-date ’08 % chg.
Aiken 112 85 -24.10%
Beaufort 61 55 -9.80%
Charleston Trident 713 476 -33.20%
Cherokee County 20 20 0.00%
Coastal Carolinas* 426 378 11.30%
Greater Columbia 708 507 -28.40%
Greater Greenville 630 491 -22.10%
Greenwood 56 44 -21.40%
Hilton Head Island Area** 179 168 -6.10%
Piedmont Regional Association*** 197 173 -12.20%
Realtor Association of Greater Pee Dee**** 148 109 -26.40%
Southern Midlands Association 30 40 33.30%
Spartanburg 178 207 16.30%
Sumter/Clarendon County 99 74 -25.30%
Western Upstate MLS***** 233 183 -21.50%
State Totals 3,790 3,010 -20.60% Median Price of Residential Homes, Condos & Villas SoldMarket Year-to-date ’07 Year-to-date ’08 % chg.
Aiken $153,000 $143,000 -6.50%
Beaufort 190,000 204,000 7.40%
Charleston Trident 210,000 192,000 -8.60%
Cherokee County 76,000 79,000 3.90%
Coastal Carolinas* 183,000 160,000 -12.60%
Greater Columbia 145,000 139,000 -4.10%
Greater Greenville 145,000 139,000 -4.10%
Greenwood 100,000 108,000 8.00%
Hilton Head Island Area** 375,000 274,000 -26.90%
Piedmont Regional Association*** 150,000 148,000 -1.30%
Realtor Association of Greater Pee Dee**** 95,000 99,000 4.20%
Southern Midlands Association 91,000 59,000 -35.20%
Spartanburg 115,000 113,000 -1.70%
Sumter/Clarendon County 125,000 115,000 -8.00%
Westen Upstate MLS***** 118,000 120,000 1.70%
State Totals 151,400,000 139,500,000 -7.90% *Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Conway and Georgetown**Beaufort, Jasper, Allendale, Barnwell, Colleton, Hampton, Orangeburg and Bamberg counties***Rock Hill, York, Lancaster and Chester****Florence and Pee Dee Area*****Anderson, Tri-County, Pickens CountyNote: Approximate figures are accurate as of Dec. 15, 2008.Source: S.C. Association of Realtors
GOVERNMENT EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT REAL ESTATE
S.C. Foreclosure Trends April YTDNew foreclosure filings .......................... 2,309 ............9,611
Foreclosure sales ...................................... 492 ............2,029
Average sale price ........................... $187,217 ......$196,579
Total savings ............................................33% ............. 42%
Source: RealtyTrac
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MARKET FACTSREAL ESTATE EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION GOVERNMENT
2008 Year-end Retail Market Office Report – Greenville
Market Size Occupied VacantOccupancy
Rate
Small Shop Rent
Avg. Rent
Average Pass-
throughs
Cherrydale 989,986 907,484 82,502 91.67% $16.90 $13.17 $3.08
East Side 1,588,955 1,367,883 221,072 86.09% $15.05 $11.85 $2.65
Laurens Road
1,367,666 1,255,509 112,157 91.80% $14.19 $10.31 $2.55
South 313,991 250,253 63,738 79.70% $9.56 $7.47 $1.29
West 416,767 412,767 4,000 99.04% $10.96 $8.88 $2.24
Woodruff Road
2,557,424 2,421,097 136,327 94.67% $19.91 $14.35 $2.96
Market 7,234,789 6,614,993 619,796 91.43% $16.39 $12.26 $2.72
Note: All information was compiled using data sources deemed reliable. Statistical data was collected as of December 2008.Source: Colliers Keenan Inc.
2008 Year-end Retail Market Office Report – Charleston
Market Size Occupied Vacant
Occupancy Rate
Small Shop Rent
Avg. Rent
Average Pass-
throughs
Peninsula 483,510 455,274 28,236 94.16% $34.74 $28.15 $8.33
Suburban Totals
13,292,864 11,537,220 1,755,644 86.79% $18.49 $14.48 $2.74
Berkeley 1,111,206 905,594 205,612 81.50% $10.19 $8.53 $1.47
North Charleston
3,833,220 3,055,030 778,190 79.70% $15.45 $12.22 $2.48
East Cooper 3,293,721 3,131,483 162,238 95.07% $24.10 $20.91 $3.86
Summerville 1,988,275 1,771,608 216,667 89.10% $17.53 $14.06 $2.77
West Ashley 3,066,442 2,673,505 392,937 87.19% $15.40 $12.62 $2.23
2008 Year-end Retail Market Office Report – Columbia
Market Size Vacant
Occupancy Rate
Annual Absorption
Avg. Rent
Small Shop Rent
Average Pass-
throughs
Market 12,362,970 1,180,222 90.94% -207,507 $16.13 $19.52 $3.80
Downtown 269,075 6,000 97.77% 5,000 $15.36 $16.65 $3.98
Cayce/West Columbia
1,035,779 129,935 87.46% -43,613 $11.19 $14.84 $1.30
Forest Acres 775,469 1,400 99.82% 4,900 $20.67 $21.86 $4.10
Harbison/St. Andrews
3,429,488 299,295 92.98% -109,577 $16.64 $19.70 $3.01
Lexington 1,437,170 27,593 98.08% 21,013 $17.07 $20.31 $3.69
North Columbia
466,249 75,400 83.83% -9,500 $9.25 $11.20 $1.74
Northeast Columbia
3,920,599 550,265 86.00% -62,080 $17.02 $21.58 $5.06
Southeast Columbia
1,114,541 136,634 87.74% -13,650 $14.19 $16.99 $2.93
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2008 Year-end Office Market Report – CharlestonTotal Market
Market Total Available Sublease Avg. Rate VacancyOccupied
Space
West Ashley 982,434 172,919 2,700 $17.98 17.88% 806,815
Lower North Charleston
2,526,938 663,857 73,336 $19.06 29.17% 1,789,745
Upper North Charleston
2,013,505 432,206 0 $16.77 21.47% 1,581,299
East Cooper 2,379,990 311,177 20,717 $20.94 13.95% 2,048,096
Downtown Charleston
2,063,704 118,559 17,629 $23.87 6.49% 1,927,516
Total 9,966,571 1,698,718 114,382 $19.72 18.19% 8,153,471
Class “A” Office Market
West Ashley 422,848 35,984 2,700 $22.78 9.15% 384,164
Lower North Charleston
1,058,288 246,082 67,511 $24.00 29.63% 744,695
Upper North Charleston
851,000 206,703 0 $19.93 24.29% 644,297
East Cooper 1,546,020 214,691 19,000 $25.51 15.12% 1,312,329
Downtown Charleston
1,031,219 48,737 17,629 $28.44 5.51% 964,853
Total 4,909,375 752,197 106,840 $24.13 17.50% 4,050,338 Note: All information was compiled using data from sources deemed reliable. Statistical data was collected as of December 2008 and encompasses office buildings 10,000 square feet and larger.
2008 Year-end Office Market Report – Columbia
Market Total feet Vacant
Occu-pancy
RateAbsorption
(six-month)Avg. rate
Class “A” occupancy
Class “A” rate
CBD 4,460,021 559,021 87.47% -1,641 $16.28 91.85% $20.43
Suburbs 4,816,215 858,773 82.17% 5,231 $14.20 86.51% $17.69
Cayce/West Columbia
491,817 150,254 69.45% -10,095 $13.86 37.50% $17.00
East Colum-bia
104,438 2,100 97.99% 0 $12.29 - -
Forest Acres 723,057 88,420 87.77% 638 $15.42 92.41% $17.00
Northeast 1,171,800 137,832 88.24% 23,623 $16.11 91.46% $19.38
St. Andrews 2,325,103 480,167 79.35% -8,935 $13.55 84.67% $17.11
Total 9,276,236 1,417,794 84.72% 3,590 $15.02 90.06% $19.18 Note: These numbers do not include transitional properties such as operations and call centers. All information was compiled using data sources deemed reliable.CBD - Central Business DistrictStatistical data was compiled as of December 2008 and encompasses all multitenant office buildings 10,000 square feet and larger.
2008 Year-end Industrial Market Report – Greenville
Market Total VacantVacancy
Rate AbsorptionUnder
ConstructionRental
Rate
Anderson 10,561,082 839,732 7.95% -32,678 0 $3.63
Greenville 74,108,223 8,550,003 11.54% 1,036,914 300,000 $3.25
Spartanburg 65,468,791 6,647,894 10.15% -1,204,957 1,815,000 $3.28
Upstate Market 150,138,096 16,037,629 10.68% -200,721 0 $3.28
Note: All information was compiled using data from sources deemed reliable. Statistical data was collected as of December 2008 and encompasses industrial buildings 10,000 square feet and larger.Source: Colliers Keenan Inc.
GOVERNMENT EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT REAL ESTATE
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Catawba$201,000,000
1,588 jobs
Charleston$206,000,000
1,354 jobs
Midlands$882,000,000
4,435 jobs
Lowcountry$117,000,000
392 jobs
Pee Dee$465,000,000
3,684 jobs
Piedmont$638,000,000
1,155 jobs
Upstate$1,661,000,000
5,985 jobs
MARKET FACTSREAL ESTATE EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYMENT
2008 Significant Capital Investments
Company Total Capital Investments
BMW Manufacturing Co. ............. $750,000,000 Spartanburg County
American Titanium Works LLC..... $422,000,000Laurens County
Rollcast Energy Inc. .................... $170,000,000 Newberry County
Osage Bio Energy LLC ................ $161,500,000Union County
FITESA ........................................ $120,000,000 Laurens County
H.J. Heinz Co. ............................. $105,000,000Florence County
Michelin North America Inc. .......... $90,000,000 Lexington County
Horsehead Corp. ........................... $87,000,000Barnwell County
Target Corp. ................................ $73,000,000Kershaw County
Shaw Industries Group Inc. ........... $60,000,000Lexington County
2008 Significant Job Creations
Company Total Jobs
BMW Manufacturing Co. ............................. 500Spartanburg County
URS Corp. ................................................... 400Lancaster County
Cross Country Home Services ..................... 350Anderson County
H.J. Heinz Co. ............................................. 350Florence County
Monster Worldwide Inc. ............................... 350Florence County
Shaw Industries Group Inc. ......................... 350Lexington County
American Titanium Works LLC..................... 320Laurens County
Computer Sciences Corp. ............................ 300Richland County
Home Depot ................................................ 300Lexington County
Titanium Solutions Inc. ................................ 300Lancaster County
REAL ESTATE EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION GOVERNMENT
Unemployment Rates by County
Rank County Mar-09 Feb-09 Change
1 Allendale 22.3 23.3 -1.0
2 Marion 21.1 21.8 -0.7
3 Chester 20.6 20.7 -0.1
4 Union 20 19.5 0.5
5 Marlboro 18.6 19.6 -1
6 Bamberg 18 16.8 1.2
7 Lancaster 17.5 14.5 3.0
8 McCormick 16.9 19.1 -2.2
9 Chesterfield 16.8 17.5 -0.7
10 Barnwell 16.7 15.4 1.3
11 Hampton 16.5 16.1 0.4
12 Cherokee 16.4 16.9 -0.5
13 Dillon 16.2 16.7 -0.5
14 Clarendon 15.9 16 -0.1
15 Orangeburg 15.9 15.5 0.4
16 Williamsburg 15.4 16.0 -0.6
17 Lee 14.8 14.9 -0.1
18 Horry 14.4 11.9 2.5
19 Oconee 14.3 13.7 0.6
20 Abbeville 14 15.1 -1.1
21 Colleton 13.7 14.2 -0.5
22 Darlington 13.6 13.1 0.5
23 Fairfield 13.3 14.3 -1.0
24 Sumter 13.3 13.6 -0.3
25 Greenwood 13 13.5 -0.5
26 Georgetown 12.8 13 -0.2
27 York 12.7 14.2 -1.5
28 Newberry 12.7 14.2 -1.5
29 Anderson 11.9 12.6 -0.7
30 Spartanburg 11.6 11.4 0.2
31 Florence 11.2 11 0.2
32 Calhoun 11.1 11.3 -0.2
33 Laurens 10.9 11.1 -0.2
34 Kershaw 10.7 10.8 -0.1
35 Berkeley 10.2 10.2 0
36 Jasper 10.1 10.5 -0.4
37 Pickens 9.9 9.7 0.2
38 Edgefield 9.9 10.9 -1
39 Dorchester 9.7 9.8 -0.1
40 Greenville 9.6 9.4 0.2
41 Saluda 9.3 9.4 -0.1
42 Richland 8.8 8.5 0.3
43 Aiken 8.6 9.4 -0.8
44 Beaufort 8.6 8.6 0
45 Charleston 8.4 8.2 0.2
46 Lexington 7.9 7.8 0.1
Source: Newsline Workforce Trends, April 2009, S.C. Employment Security Commission
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MARKET FACTS
Unemployment Rates – State Comparison
March ’09 2008 2007 2006
Alabama 9.0 5.0 3.5 3.5
Florida 9.7 6.2 4.0 3.4
Georgia 9.2 6.2 4.4 4.6
N. Carolina 10.8 6.3 4.7 4.7
S. Carolina 11.4 6.9 5.9 6.4
Tennessee 9.6 6.4 4.7 5.1
Virginia 6.8 4.0 3.0 3.0
United States 8.9* 5.8 4.6 4.6
*Represents the unemployment rate as of February 2009.Source: U.S. Department of Labor Statistics, S.C. Employment Security Commission
GOVERNMENT EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT REAL ESTATE
Wage and Salary Employment – March 2009
Industry March ’09 Feb. ’09 March ’08
Net Change
Month Ago Year Ago
Natural Resources and Mining
4,200 4,200 4,500 0 -300
Construction 103,500 105,100 116,000 -1,600 -12,500
Manufacturing 219,200 222,100 246,500 -2,900 -27,300
Trade, Transportation and Utilities
358,100 355,000 376,100 3,100 -18,000
Information 29,500 29,500 28,200 0 1,300
Financial Activities 102,900 103,700 106,300 -800 -3,400
Professional and Business Services
207,500 206,000 223,600 1,500 -16,100
Educational and Health Services
209,000 207,600 207,200 1,400 1,800
Leisure and Hospitality
198,700 193,100 214,700 5,600 -16,000
Government 346,700 345,800 350,100 900 -3,400
Total Nonagricultural Employment
1,850,200 1,843,300 1,944,500 6,900 -94,300
Source: Workforce Trends Newsline, April 2009, S.C. Employment Security Commission
S.C. unemployment hits 11.5%South Carolina’s jobless rate increased one-tenth of
a point in April to 11.5%, the highest since January
1983. Th e national unemployment rate also increased
in April, to 8.9%, compared with 8.5% in March. De-
spite the higher jobless rate, nearly 9,700 nonfarm jobs
were gained in South Carolina in April.
Source: Workforce Trends Newsline,May 2009, S.C. Employment Security Commission
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Labor Force and Unemployment by County and Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) 2009
REAL ESTATE EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION GOVERNMENT
Labor Force Unemployment
County/MSA
March2009
Feb.2009
March2008
March2009
Feb.2009
March2008
Abbeville 11,501 11,639 11,400 1,615 1,763 826
Aiken 75,995 76,445 73,746 6,571 7,164 3,320
Allendale 3,362 3,373 3,240 750 787 463
Anderson MSA
87,543 87,171 85,092 10,411 10,952 4,911
Bamberg 6,287 6,190 6,233 1,129 1,041 553
Barnwell 9,058 9,059 8,688 1,557 1,556 769
Beaufort 62,939 63,237 62,453 5,425 5,465 2,606
Berkeley 79,976 80,303 78,037 8,150 8,194 3,946
Calhoun 7,171 7,147 6,839 794 805 370
Charleston 176,000 176,339 173,538 14,737 14,442 7,190
Cherokee 25,884 26,188 25,534 4,241 4,418 1,786
Chester 15,750 15,819 15,164 3,243 3,270 1,597
Chesterfield 19,121 19,259 18,331 3,210 3,361 1,311
Clarendon 12,513 12,481 12,357 1,988 2,000 981
Colleton 16,752 16,812 16,321 2,301 2,379 1,014
Darlington 32,851 32,573 31,026 4,456 4,282 2,085
Dillon 13,028 13,044 12,749 2,110 2,174 1,104
Dorchester 63,958 64,251 62,346 6,224 6,290 2,792
Edgefield 11,220 11,327 10,824 1,106 1,234 564
Fairfield 11,497 11,478 11,147 1,460 1,496 966
Florence 65,380 64,946 62,798 7,346 7,124 3,647
Georgetown 30,403 30,251 30,034 3,903 3,939 1,850
Greenville 228,271 228,305 222,546 22,002 21,353 9,742
Greenwood 29,948 30,253 30,424 3,906 4,077 1,927
Hampton 7,823 7,768 7,577 1,287 1,254 530
Horry/Myrtle Beach MSA
129,673 127,080 128,490 16,571 18,033 7,408
Jasper 10,052 10,141 9,878 1,016 1,064 475
Kershaw 30,996 30,835 29,704 3,329 3,319 1,640
Note: *Seasonally adjusted; in thousands
Source: Workforce Trends Newsline, April 2009, S.C. Employment Security Commission
Lancaster 29,626 29,867 29,433 5,342 2,999 3,388
Laurens 34,045 34,257 33,423 3,696 3,808 2,113
Lee 8,264 8,197 8,011 1,224 1,223 633
Lexington 135,106 134,260 131,362 10,675 10,509 5,144
McCormick 3,531 3,488 3,561 500 410 408
Marion 13,302 13,300 12,649 2,806 2,893 1,430
Marlboro 11,804 11,919 11,517 2,198 2,333 1,185
Newberry 18,550 18,603 18,392 2,259 2,388 973
Oconee 31,057 30,862 30,131 4,451 4,222 1,759
Orangeburg 40,279 40,082 40,943 6,399 6,206 3,101
Pickens 59,993 60,065 58,452 5,912 5,805 2,657
Richland 184,066 182,450 179,125 16,273 15,573 8,922
Saluda 9,393 9,346 9,069 878 877 431
Spartan-burg MSA
139,629 140,166 136,005 16,190 15,969 7,130
Sumter MSA
42,339 42,604 43,333 5,624 5,791 3,128
Union 12,326 12,299 11,532 2,461 2,401 1,028
Williams-burg
15,554 15,547 15,193 2,403 2,492 1,381
York 107,263 109,959 105,609 13,583 15,598 5,779
Multicounty Metropolitan Statistical Areas
Charleston 319,934 320,893 313,921 29,111 28,926 13,928
Columbia 378,228 375,515 367,245 33,408 32,579 17,473
Florence 98,231 97,519 93,824 11,802 11,406 5,732
Greenville 322,309 322,627 314,420 31,610 30,966 14,511
State totals
South Carolina*
2,185,500 2,189,300 2,131,300 248,600 238,400 125,700
Labor Force Unemployment
County/MSA
March2009
Feb.2009
March2008
March2009
Feb.2009
March2008
That’s the number of jobs in South Carolina associated with the automobile industry. Many of the jobs are in support of industries that supply primary manufacturers of cars and
trucks in the United States and other countries. Sales for cars and light trucks have rapidly
declined — down 38% since February 2008. A continued decline in sales will aff ect employ-
ment at manufacturers, dealers, suppliers and many support industries in the auto sector.
Source: CNN, Center for Automotive Research, Reference USA and the Bureau of Labor Statistics
40,000
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MARKET FACTSGOVERNMENT EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT REAL ESTATE
EDUCATIONSouth Carolina higher education facts
Number of colleges and universities: 55
Independent four-year
institutions: 21 Public technical colleges: 16
Teaching institutions: 10
Public two-year regional: 4
Research institutions: 3
Independent two-year
institutions: 1
Independent four-year
institutions: 38,486
Public technical colleges: 84,270
Teaching institutions:
50,417Public two-year
regional: 4,233
Research institutions: 48,333
Independent two-year
institutions: 750
Higher education fall 2008 enrollment: 226,489
*Excludes Medical University of South Carolina; and medicine and law at the University of South Carolina.
$5,000 $10,000 $15,000
Average undergraduate in-state tuition and required fees 2008-09
Research institutions* $9,608
Teaching institutions $8,338
Public technical colleges $3,162
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Total Student Fees for Full-time Undergraduate Students, Academic Year 2007-08 Summary of required feesaccording to use (expenditures)
Total
Research Institutions
Clemson University $9,870
USC Columbia* 8,346
Medical University of S.C.** 10,790
Comprehensive Teaching Institutions
The Citadel $7,710
Coastal Carolina University 7,600
College of Charleston 7,778
Francis Marion University 7,038
Lander University 7,728
S.C. State University 7,318
USC Aiken 7,006
USC Beaufort 6,250
USC Upstate 7,760
Winthrop University 10,190
Two-Year Regional Campuses
USC Lancaster $4,628
USC Salkehatchie 4,698
USC Sumter 4,748
USC Union 4,768
Technical Colleges
Aiken $3,298
Central Carolina 2,824
Denmark 1,878
Florence-Darlington 3,190
Greenville 3,090
Horry-Georgetown 3,050
Midlands 3,160
Northeastern 2,590
Orangeburg-Calhoun 2,592
Piedmont 2,876
Spartanburg Community College 3,194
Tech. College of the Lowcountry 3,026
Tri-County 2,744
Trident 2,768
Williamsburg 2,278
York 3,084
* Excludes medicine, law and health professions
** Includes pharmacy, nursing and allied health
Source: S.C. Higher Education Statistical Abstract,
2007 and 2008
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REAL ESTATE EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION GOVERNMENT
Tuition and Fees by State Average undergraduate tuition and fees for full-time students in degree-granting institutions
Public Four-year Private Four-year
Public two-year, tuition and
required fees (in-state)
2006-07 2007-08* 2006-07 2007-08*
State or jurisdiction Total
Tuition and
required fees
(in-state) Total
Tuition and
required fees
(in-state) Room Board Total
Tuition and
required fees Total
Tuition and
required fees Room Board
2006-2007
2007-2008*
United States $12,797 $5,666 $13,424 $5,950 $4,072 $3,402 $28,919 $20,517 $30,393 $21,588 $4,812 $3,993 $2,018 $2,063
Alabama 10,686 4,716 11,035 4,907 3,107 3,022 19,380 13,061 21,014 14,116 3,319 3,578 2,802 2,814
Arkansas 9,799 4,954 10,598 5,427 2,926 2,244 19,213 13,371 20,096 14,178 2,884 3,033 1,901 1,928
Florida 10,418 3,009 10,709 2,980 4,385 3,345 26,524 18,299 27,534 19,167 4,554 3,813 1,968 1,862
Georgia 10,320 3,773 10,984 4,006 4,139 2,839 27,188 18,889 29,046 20,175 5,119 3,752 1,730 1,876
Louisiana 9,021 3,761 9,479 3,835 3,113 2,530 28,896 21,100 30,363 22,162 22,162 3,564 1,526 1,641
Mississippi 10,049 4,456 10,776 4,762 3,200 2,815 17,640 12,193 18,395 12,693 2,941 2,941 1,710 1,726
North Carolina 10,471 4,040 10,889 4,301 3,648 2,939 27,545 20,220 29,141 29,141 3,921 3,723 1,303 1,377
South Carolina 14,194 7,905 15,089 8,389 4,159 2,542 23,560 17,195 24,914 24,914 3,261 3,364 3,108 3,223
Tennessee 10,534 5,006 11,340 5,366 3,312 2,662 24,377 17,453 25,802 18,509 3,871 3,422 2,474 2,631
Virginia 13,143 6,450 13,928 6,887 3,862 3,178 24,632 17,821 26,170 18,892 3,740 3,537 2,361 2,484
*Preliminary data based on fall 2006 enrollment weights. Note: Data are for the entire academic year and are average charges. Tuition and fees were weighted by the number of full-time-equivalent undergraduates but were not adjusted to reflect student residency. Room and board are based on full-time students. Degree-granting institutions grant associate or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Some data have been revised from previously published figures. Detail might not sum to totals because of rounding.Sources: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2006-07 and 2007-08 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, Fall 2006, Fall 2007 and Spring 2007.
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Ten-year Analysis of Average Salaries of Full-time Teaching FacultyNine-month contract basis
1998-99 2007-08%
Change
Research Institutions
Clemson University $57,746 $84,064 45.6%
USC Columbia 60,018 81,506 35.8%
Medical University of South Carolina
52,713 95,619 81.4%
Comprehensive Teaching Institutions
The Citadel $48,360 $67,332 39.2%
Coastal Carolina University
43,417 61,905 42.6%
College of Charleston 44,542 62,380 40.0%
Francis Marion University
45,708 59,325 29.8%
Lander University 44,524 51,303 15.2%
S.C. State University 42,614 59,425 39.4%
USC Aiken 46,049 55,741 21.0%
USC Beaufort 40,472 54,630 35.0%
USC Upstate 43,988 54,164 23.1%
Winthrop University 44,282 60,987 37.7%
Two-year Regional Campuses
USC Lancaster $44,884 $48,474 8.0%
USC Salkehatchie 38,241 44,105 15.3%
USC Sumter 43,863 52,438 19.5%
USC Union 42,892 43,528 1.5% Source: S.C. Higher Education Statistical Abstract, 2007 and 2008
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Aid-to-Tuition RatioBetween 1983 and 2004, the aid-to-tuition ratio
for South Carolina increased from 0.0 in 1983
to 2.4 in 2004, with an average of 0.9 for the 21-
year period. During the 25-year period starting
with 1979, the national average aid-to-tuition
ratio also declined; the 25-year national average
was 9.0. South Carolina’s 25-year average ratio
was second-lowest among all states; the change
was not available because of missing data for
1979 to 1982. However, South Carolina has
experienced a 36% decrease in this indicator
since the state began using need-based fi nancial
aid. Th is indicates the state has not balanced
need-based aid with changes in tuition.
Source: Recession, Retrenchment and Recovery: State Higher
Education Funding & Student Financial Aid Volume II, State
Profiles, October 2006, Center for the Study of Education
Policy, Illinois State University
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LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATIVES
U.S. SENATELINDSEY GRAHAM (R) 290 Russell Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510202-224-5972lgraham.senate.govLocal office:530 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., Suite 202Mount Pleasant, SC 29464843-849-3887
JIM DEMINT (R)340 Russell Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510202-224-6121demint.senate.govLocal office:112 Custom House200 East Bay St.Charleston, SC 29401843-727-4525
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESHENRY E. BROWN JR. (R)1st District (Horry, Berkeley, Charles-ton, Dorchester and Georgetown counties)103 Cannon House Office BuildingWashington, DC 20515202-225-3176brown.house.govLocal office:5900 Core Ave., Suite 401North Charleston, SC 29406843-747-4175
JAMES E. CLYBURN (D)6th District (Portions or all of 15 regional counties; boundaries extend from the center of the state in Colum-bia: east to Marion County, south to Colleton County and northwest to Columbia.)2135 Rayburn House Office BuildingWashington, DC 20515202-225-3315clyburn.house.govLocal office:1225 Lady St., Suite 200 Columbia, SC 29201803-799-1100
JOE WILSON (R)2nd District (Allendale, Barnwell, Beaufort, Hampton, Jasper and Lex-ington counties and portions of Aiken, Calhoun, Orangeburg and Richland counties)212 Cannon House Office BuildingWashington, DC 20515202-225-2452joewilson.house.govMidlands office:1700 Sunset Blvd., Suite 1 West Columbia, SC 29169 803-939-0041 888-381-1442Lowcountry office:903 Port Republic St.Beaufort, SC 29902Mail to: P.O. Box 1538Beaufort, SC 29901843-521-2530
J. GRESHAM BARRETT (R)3rd District (Anderson, Greenwood, Aiken areas)439 Cannon House Office BuildingWashington, DC 20515202-225-5301barrett.house.govAnderson office:303 W. Beltline Blvd.Anderson, SC 29625 864-224-7401Greenwood office:115 Enterprise Court, Suite BGreenwood, SC 29649864-223-8251Aiken office:233 Pendleton St. N.W.Aiken, SC 29801803-649-5571
BOB INGLIS (R) 4th District (Greenville, Spartanburg and Union counties and the northern tip of Laurens County)100 Cannon House Office BuildingWashington, DC 20515202-225-6030inglis.house.govGreenville office:105 N. Spring St., Suite 111Greenville, SC 29601864-232-1141Spartanburg office:464 E. Main St., Suite 8Spartanburg, SC 29302864-582-6422
JOHN SPRATT (D)5th District (all or portions of 14 regional districts)1401 Longworth BuildingWashington, DC 20515202-225-5501spratt.house.govUpstate office:201 E. Main St., Suite 305Rock Hill, SC 29730803-327-1114Midlands office:707 Bultman DriveSumter, SC 29150803-773-3362Pee Dee office:88 Public SquareDarlington, SC 29532843-393-3998
CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICES
OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERALMaj. Gen. Stanhope S. Spears1 National Guard Road Columbia, SC 29201-4766803-806-4200www.scguard.com
S.C. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREHugh E. Weathers, commissionerWade Hampton Building, Fifth Floor1200 Senate St.Columbia, SC 29201803-734-2210agriculture.sc.gov
ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICEHenry D. McMaster, attorney generalRembert Dennis Building1000 Assembly St., Room 519Columbia, SC 29201803-734-3970www.scattorneygeneral.org
S.C. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEJoe E. Taylor, secretary1201 Main St., Suite 1600Columbia, SC 29201-3200 803-737-0400www.sccommerce.com
COMMERCE DEPARTMENT OMBUDSMAN’S OFFICEChuck Bundy, department manager
1201 Main St., Suite 1600 Columbia, SC 29201803-737-0440www.sccommerce.com
S.C. COMPTROLLER GENERALRichard Eckstrom, comptroller general305 Wade Hampton Building1200 Senate St.Columbia, SC 29201803-734-2121www.cg.state.sc.us
EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSIONTed Halley, executive director1550 Gadsden St.Columbia, SC 29201803-737-2400www.sces.org
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNORMark Sanford, governorP.O. Box 12267Columbia, SC 29211803-734-2100www.scgovernor.com
OFFICE OF THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNORAndre Bauer, lieutenant governorP.O. Box 142Columbia, SC 29202803-734-2080ltgov.sc.gov
SECRETARY OF STATEMark Hammond, secretary of stateEdgar Brown Building1205 Pendleton St., Suite 525Columbia, SC 29201803-734-2170www.scsos.com
STATE TREASURERConverse A. Chellis III, state treasurerWade Hampton Building1200 Senate St.Columbia, SC 29201803-734-2101treasurer.sc.gov
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATIONJim Rex, superintendent 1429 Senate St., Suite 1006Columbia, SC 29201803-734-8500ed.sc.gov/agency/superintendent
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Listed alphabetically by specialty
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Ronald E. Cardwell McNair Law Firm P.A.
James C. Gray Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Michael A. Molony Young Clement Rivers
David B. Summer Jr.Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Mark W. Bakker Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
Capers G. Barr IIIBarr, Unger and McIntosh
M. Malissa Burnette Burnette & Rothstein P.A.
William C. Cleveland IIIBuist Moore Smythe McGee
Theron G. Cochran Love, Thornton, Arnold & Thomason
M. Dawes Cooke Jr.Barnwell Whaley Patterson & Helms
Danny C. Crowe Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
Eric K. Englebardt Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
Robert M. Erwin Jr.Robert M. Erwin Jr. Law Firm
Karl A. Folkens Folkens Law Firm
Michael D. Glenn Glenn, Haigler, McClain & Stathakis
Jack D. Griffeth Collins & Lacy
William M. Hagood IIILove, Thornton, Arnold & Thomason
Connie C. Harnass IIIConnie C. Harnass III Law Firm
Robert W. Hassold Jr.Robert W. Hassold Jr., Mediator and Counselor at Law
Richard L. Hinson Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
Wade H. Logan IIINelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Charles S. Mauney Gallivan, White & Boyd
D. Cravens Ravenel Baker, Ravenel & Bender
James C. Sarratt The Legal Clinic of Sarratt & Clarke
Franklin G. Shuler Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
Bachman S. Smith IIIHaynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Thomas L. Stephenson Nexsen Pruet LLC
Walter B. Todd Jr.Todd & Ward P.C.
Thomas W. Traxler Carter, Smith, Merriam, Rogers & Traxler
G. Trenholm Walker Pratt-Thomas, Epting & Walker
Thomas J. Wills Wills & Massalon
ANTITRUST LAW
William C. Boyd Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Manton M. Grier Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Henry L. Parr Jr.Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
APPELLATE LAW
Charles E. Baker Baker, Ravenel & Bender
C. Mitchell Brown Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Charles E. Carpenter Jr.
CARPENTER APPEALS & TRIAL SUPPORT
J. Rene Josey Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
C. Dixon Lee IIIMcLaren & Lee
David L. Moore Jr.Love, Thornton, Arnold & Thomason
James B. Richardson Jr.James B. Richardson Jr., Attorney at Law
Jack B. Swerling Law Offi ces of Jack B. Swerling
William T. Toal Johnson Toal & Battiste
John C. von Lehe Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
BANKING LAW
John W. Currie McNair Law Firm P.A.
M. Craig Garner Jr.McNair Law Firm P.A.
George S. King Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Lanneau W. Lambert Jr.Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
Alan M. Lipsitz Nexsen Pruet LLC
Thomas E. Lydon McAngus, Goudelock & Courie
John T. Moore Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Mark S. Sharpe Warren & Sinkler
John H. Warren IIIWarren & Sinkler
BANKRUPTCY AND CREDITOR-DEBTOR RIGHTS LAW
Linda K. Barr Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Barbara G. Barton Barton Law Firm
Michael M. Beal McNair Law Firm P.A.
John B. Butler IIIJohn B. Butler III P.A.
Kevin Campbell Campbell Law Firm
Weyman C. Carter McNair Law Firm P.A.
James H. Cassidy Roe Cassidy Coates & Price
George B. Cauthen Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
R. Michael Drose Drose Law Firm
Gerald M. Finkel Finkel Law Firm LLC
Richard R. Gleissner Finkel Law Firm LLC
D. Allen Grumbine Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
F. Marion Hughes Smith Moore Leatherwood
J. Ronald Jones Jr.Clawson & Staubes
Robert A. Kerr Jr.Hagood & Kerr
R. Geoffrey Levy R. Geoffrey Levy Law Firm
Cynthia J. Lowery Moore & Van Allen
G. William McCarthy Jr.McCarthy Law Firm
Stanley H. McGuffi n Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Julio E. Mendoza Jr.Nexsen Pruet LLC
Ivan N. Nossokoff Ivan N. Nossokoff, Attorney at Law
William H. Short Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Randy A. Skinner Skinner & Associates
Charles P. Summerall IVBuist Moore Smythe McGee
David B. Wheeler Moore & Van Allen
Rory D. Whelehan Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
BET-THE-COMPANY LITIGATION
Paul A. Dominick Nexsen Pruet LLC
Elizabeth Van Doren Gray Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffi tte LLC
David E. Dukes Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
L. Gray Geddie Jr.Ogletree Deakins
Frank S. Holleman IIIWyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
Marvin D. Infi nger Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Wallace K. Lightsey Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
John P. Linton Duffy & Young
Edward W. Mullins Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Morris D. Rosen Rosen, Rosen & Hagood
Joel H. Smith Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Thornwell F. Sowell Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffi tte LLC
Thomas W. Traxler Carter, Smith, Merriam, Rogers & Traxler
J. Rutledge Young Jr.Young Clement Rivers
COMMERCIAL LITIGATION
Charles J. Baker IIIBuist Moore Smythe McGee
W. Howard Boyd Jr.Gallivan, White & Boyd
C. Mitchell Brown Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Russell T. Burke Nexsen Pruet LLC
R. Wayne Byrd Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
Charles E. Carpenter Jr.Carpenter Appeals & Trial Support
James H. Cassidy Roe Cassidy Coates & Price
William C. Cleveland IIIBuist Moore Smythe McGee
M. Dawes Cooke Jr.Barnwell Whaley Patterson & Helms
Gray T. Culbreath Collins & Lacy
Robert W. Dibble Jr.McNair Law Firm P.A.
Paul A. Dominick Nexsen Pruet LLC
Elizabeth Van Doren GraySowell Gray Stepp & Laffi tte LLC
David E. Dukes Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Kevin A. Dunlap Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
Morris A. Ellison Buist Moore Smythe McGee
L. Franklin Elmore Elmore & Wall
Gregory J. English Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
Steven E. Farrar Smith Moore Leatherwood
Richard A. Farrier Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Gerald M. Finkel Finkel Law Firm LLC
L. Gray Geddie Jr.Ogletree Deakins
Frank H. Gibbes IIIGibbes Burton
Michael J. Giese Smith Moore Leatherwood
Mason A. Goldsmith Love, Thornton, Arnold & Thomason
Manton M. Grier Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Henry E. Grimball Buist Moore Smythe McGee
Ben A. Hagood Jr.Hagood & Kerr
Kevin A. Hall Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Frank S. Holleman IIIWyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
Robert H. Hood Hood Law Firm
William C. Hubbard Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
S. Keith Hutto Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Marvin D. Infi nger Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Harold W. Jacobs Nexsen Pruet LLC
Benjamin A. Johnson Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson
Ellis M. Johnston IIHaynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
John E. Johnston Smith Moore Leatherwood
Celeste T. Jones McNair Law Firm P.A.
D. Larry Kristinik IIINelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
John F. Kuppens Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
LeRoy F. Laney Riley Pope & Laney
John T. Lay Jr.Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims
James K. Lehman Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Wallace K. Lightsey Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
John P. Linton Duffy & Young
H. Sam Mabry IIIHaynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Francis M. Mack Richardson, Plowden & Robinson P.A.
William Francis Marion Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Thomas E. McCutchen Jr.McCutchen Blanton Johnson & Barnette LLP
Stephen G. Morrison Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
John C. Moylan IIIWyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
Edward W. Mullins Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Curtis L. Ott Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
Samuel W. Outten Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
G. Dewey Oxner Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
James C. Parham Jr.Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
Henry L. Parr Jr.Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
D. Cravens Ravenel Baker, Ravenel & Bender
Richard S. Rosen Rosen, Rosen & Hagood
Morris D. Rosen Rosen, Rosen & Hagood
G. Dana Sinkler Warren & Sinkler
Joel H. Smith Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
B. Rush Smith IIINelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Thornwell F. Sowell Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffi tte LLC
W. Duvall Spruill Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
Robert E. Stepp Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffi tte LLC
T.S. Stern Jr.Covington, Patrick, Hagins, Stern & Lewis
Troy A. Tessier Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
Thomas S. Tisdale Jr.Nexsen Pruet LLC
Thomas W. Traxler Carter, Smith, Merriam, Rogers & Traxler
Ronald J. Tryon Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
Bradish J. Waring Nexsen Pruet LLC
J. Calhoun Watson Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffi tte LLC
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James L. Werner Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
Daniel B. White Gallivan, White & Boyd
W. Reynolds Williams Willcox, Buyck & Williams
Marshall Winn Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
Ronald K. Wray IIGallivan, White & Boyd
J. Rutledge Young Jr.Young Clement Rivers
CONSTRUCTION LAW
Charles J. Baker IIIBuist Moore Smythe McGee
Daniel T. Brailsford Robinson, McFadden & Moore
Henry W. Brown Nexsen Pruet LLC
James L. Bruner Bruner, Powell, Robbins, Wall & Mullins LLC
Walter H. Bundy Jr.Smith, Bundy, Bybee & Barnett
Thomas J. Coker Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
John E. Cuttino Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
John R. Devlin Devlin & Parkinson
L. Franklin Elmore Elmore & Wall
C. Allen Gibson Jr.Buist Moore Smythe McGee
H. Brewton Hagood Rosen, Rosen & Hagood
Herbert W. Hamilton Hamilton Martens Ballou & Sipe
Leo H. Hill Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Marvin D. Infi nger Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Thomas B. Jackson IIITyler, Cassell, Jackson, Peace & Silver
N. Ward Lambert Harper Lambert & Brown
W. Jefferson Leath Jr.Leath Bouch & Crawford
Francis M. Mack Richardson Plowden
Lawrence B. Orr Orr, Elmore & Ervin
Claron A. Robertson IIIRobertson & Hollingsworth
Franklin J. Smith Jr.Richardson, Plowden & Robinson P.A.
T.S. Stern Jr.Covington, Patrick, Hagins, Stern & Lewis
Henry P. Wall Bruner, Powell, Robbins, Wall & Mullins LLC
James L. Werner Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND COMPLIANCE LAW
Suzanne H. Clawson Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Jo Watson Hackl Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham\
CORPORATE LAW
Eric B. Amstutz Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
W.E. Applegate IIIMoore & Van Allen
Scott Y. Barnes Warren & Sinkler
J. Sidney Boone Jr.McNair Law Firm P.A.
William C. Boyd Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Robert L. Clement Jr.Young Clement Rivers
William E. Craver IIICraver & Webb
John W. Currie McNair Law Firm P.A.
Gus M. Dixon Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Randolph B. Epting Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
David L. Freeman Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
Daniel J. Fritze Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
D. Allen Grumbine Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
Jo Watson Hackl Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
John B. Hagerty Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Cary H. Hall Jr.Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
J. David Hawkins Nexsen Pruet LLC
Julian Hennig IIINexsen Pruet LLC
P. Mason Hogue Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Michael D. Jones Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
William W. Kehl Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
George S. King Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
G. Marcus Knight Nexsen Pruet LLC
Martin C. McWilliams Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Julie O. Medich Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Edward G. Menzie Nexsen Pruet LLC
David A. Merline Jr.Merline & Meacham
William M. Musser McNair Law Firm P.A.
Mark S. Sharpe Warren & Sinkler
Susan M. Smythe Buist Moore Smythe McGee
John R. Thomas Thomas & Fisher
John H. Warren IIIWarren & Sinkler
C. Thomas Wyche Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
DUI/DWI DEFENSE
O.W. Bannister Jr.Bannister & Wyatt
James W. Bannister Bannister & Wyatt
C. Bradley Hutto Williams & Williams
C. Bradley Hutto Williams & Williams P.A.
Timothy C. Kulp Timothy C. Kulp Law Firm
Leigh J. Leventis Leigh J. Leventis Law Offi ce
Joseph M. McCulloch Law Offi ce of Joseph McCulloch Jr.
ELDER LAW
Michael B. Bridges Dobson, Jones, Ball, Phillips & Bridges
EMINENT DOMAIN AND CONDEMNATION LAW
Keith M. Babcock Lewis, Babcock & Hawkins
Howell V. Bellamy Jr.Bellamy, Rutenberg, Copeland, Epps, Gravely & Bowers
Richard D. Bybee Smith, Bundy, Bybee & Barnett
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS LAW
Michael T. Brittingham Nexsen Pruet LLC
Thomas M. Christina Ogletree Deakins
Joel A. Daniel Ogletree Deakins
William L. Dennis Smith Moore Leatherwood
Kenneth Allan Janik Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Amy Y. Jenkins McAngus, Goudelock & Courie
David A. Merline Jr.Merline & Meacham
R. Kent Porth Nexsen Pruet LLC
Andreas N. Satterfi eld Jr.Jackson Lewis
John R. Thomas Thomas & Fisher
Joseph D. Walker McNair Law Firm P.A.
ENERGY LAW
Robert T. Bockman McNair Law Firm P.A.
M. John Bowen Jr.McNair Law Firm P.A.
Leo H. Hill Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Lucas C. Padgett Jr.McNair Law Firm P.A.
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Timothy W. Bouch Leath Bouch & Crawford
Ronald E. Cardwell McNair Law Firm P.A.
Phillip L. Conner McNair Law Firm P.A.
Karen A. Crawford Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
R. Howard Grubbs Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
Ben A. Hagood Jr.Hagood & Kerr
Leon C. Harmon Nexsen Pruet LLC
Cotton C. Harness IIICotton C. Harness III, Attorney at Law
Bernard F. Hawkins Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Sean D. Houseal Buist Moore Smythe McGee
W. Thomas Lavender Jr.Nexsen Pruet LLC
Elizabeth B. Partlow Ogletree Deakins
Gordon C. Rhea Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman
Sara S. Rogers McNair Law Firm P.A.
Eric C. Schweitzer Ogletree Deakins
Mary A. Shahid McNair Law Firm P.A.
Ellison D. Smith IVSmith, Bundy, Bybee & Barnett
Newman Jackson Smith Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
William L. Want Charleston School of Law
FAMILY LAW
Mark O. Andrews Andrews & Shull
Pamela A.E. Deal Deal & Deal
Victoria L. Eslinger Nexsen Pruet LLC
George M. Hearn Jr.Hearn, Brittain & Martin
Robert M. Holland Holland Law Firm
Kermit S. King Law Offi ce of Kermit S. King
Grace Knie Grace Knie, Attorney at Law
Jack W. Lawrence Lawrence & Rudasill
C. Dixon Lee IIIMcLaren & Lee
Ken H. Lester Ken H. Lester, Attorney at Law
Timothy E. Madden Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
John O. McDougall McDougall & Self
James T. McLaren McLaren & Lee
Kenneth C. Porter Porter & Rosenfeld
Robert N. Rosen Rosen Law Firm
Morris D. Rosen Rosen, Rosen & Hagood
Carol H. Sanders Carol Sanders P.A.
Lon H. Shull IIIAndrews & Shull
Vicki Johnson Snelgrove Johnson, Johnson, Whittle & Snelgrove
Ann M. Stirling Stirling & O’Connell
J. Mark Taylor Moore, Taylor & Thomas
Paul E. Tinkler Law Offi ces of Paul E. Tinkler
Thomas W. Traxler Carter, Smith, Merriam, Rogers & Traxler
John B. White Jr.Harrison, White, Smith & Coggins
FAMILY LAW MEDIATION
Mark O. Andrews Andrews & Shull
Stephen S. Bartlett Stephen S. Bartlett, Attorney at Law
Bobby H. Mann Jr.Temple Mann Briggs & Hill
Robert N. Rosen Rosen Law Firm
James C. Sarratt The Legal Clinic of Sarratt & Clarke
FIRST AMENDMENT LAW
Jay Bender Baker, Ravenel & Bender
D.A. Brockinton Jr.Brockinton & Brockinton
David L. Freeman Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
John J. Kerr Buist Moore Smythe McGee
Wallace K. Lightsey Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
Carl F. Muller Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
Thomas S. Tisdale Jr.Nexsen Pruet LLC
FRANCHISE LAW
S. Keith Hutto Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Steven A. McKelvey Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Natalma M. McKnew Smith Moore Leatherwood
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS LAW
Stephen K. Benjamin McAngus, Goudelock & Courie
Dwight F. Drake Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
James P. Fields Jr.McNair Law Firm P.A.
James H. Hodges Hodges Consulting Group
John C. Moylan IIIWyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
James H. Quackenbush Jr.Berry, Quackenbush & Stuart P.A.
Theodore D. Riley Riley Pope & Laney
Newman Jackson Smith Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
George B. Wolfe Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
HEALTH CARE LAW
J. Marshall Allen Buist Moore Smythe McGee
Stuart M. Andrews Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Charles E. Carpenter Jr.Carpenter Appeals & Trial Support
Molly Craig Hood Law Firm
Frederick A. Crawford
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Richardson, Plowden & Robinson P.A.
M. Elizabeth Crum McNair Law Firm P.A.
M. Craig Garner Jr.McNair Law Firm P.A.
William Douglas Gray McNair Law Firm P.A.
Timothy L. Hewson Nexsen Pruet LLC
Robert H. Hood Hood Law Firm
Cynthia B. Hutto Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Celeste T. Jones McNair Law Firm P.A.
William W. Kehl Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
G. Dewey Oxner Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Matthew B. Roberts Nexsen Pruet LLC
David B. Summer Jr.Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
Donna Kivett Tribble Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Matthew P. Utecht Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Sandra Louise Weikel Miller Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
Daniel J. Westbrook Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Stephen P. Williams Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
IMMIGRATION LAW
Patrick L. Cont Sturm & Cont
INSURANCE LAW
Charles E. Baker Baker, Ravenel & Bender
Samuel R. Clawson Clawson & Staubes
Gerald M. Finkel Finkel Law Firm LLC
James C. Gray Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Henry E. Grimball Buist Moore Smythe McGee
Elizabeth Scott Moise Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
E. Warren Moise Grimball & Cabaniss
Michael A. Molony Young Clement Rivers
G.D. Morgan Jr.McAngus, Goudelock & Courie
Robert D. Moseley Jr.Smith Moore Leatherwood
James D. Myrick Buist Moore Smythe McGee
A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Thomas C. Salane Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
Julian W. Dority Dority & Manning
Mark C. Dukes Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Cort R. Flint McNair Law Firm P.A.
William Y. Klett IIINexsen Pruet LLC
Wellington M. Manning Jr.Dority & Manning
J. Bennett Mullinax J. Bennett Mullinax LLC
Timothy D. St. Clair Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW
Mark W. Bakker Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
Wade E. Ballard Ford & Harrison
Vance J. Bettis Gignilliat, Savitz & Bettis
Michael W. Bishop Ford & Harrison
Cherie W. Blackburn Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
M. Malissa Burnette Burnette & Rothstein P.A.
E. Grantland Burns Nexsen Pruet LLC
Mark W. Buyck IIIWillcox, Buyck & Williams
Michael D. Carrouth Fisher & Phillips LLP
Carl B. Carruth McNair Law Firm P.A.
Molly Hughes Cherry Nexsen Pruet LLC
Donald A. Cockrill Ogletree Deakins
Donald C. Coggins Jr.Harrison, White, Smith & Coggins
J. Walker Coleman IVParker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
Patrick L. Cont Sturm & Cont
John G. Creech Ogletree Deakins
J. Lewis Cromer Cromer & Mabry
J. Howard Daniel Ogletree Deakins
David E. Dubberly Nexsen Pruet LLC
G. Daniel Ellzey Fisher & Phillips LLP
Carol B. Ervin Young Clement Rivers
Ingrid B. Erwin Jackson Lewis
Victoria L. Eslinger Nexsen Pruet LLC
William H. Floyd IIINexsen Pruet LLC
William H. Foster Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
L. Gray Geddie Jr.Ogletree Deakins
J. Theodore Gentry Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
Henrietta U. Golding McNair Law Firm P.A.
Thomas G. Greaves IIIOgletree Deakins
Sue Erwin Harper Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
George A. Harper Constangy, Brooks & Smith
Knox L. Haynsworth Jr.Ogletree Deakins
Katherine Dudley Helms Ogletree Deakins
Stephen J. Henry Stephen Henry Law Firm
Allan R. Holmes Gibbs & Holmes
Amy Y. Jenkins McAngus, Goudelock & Courie
S. Clay Keim Ford & Harrison
Phillip A. Kilgore Ogletree Deakins
Robert O. King Ogletree Deakins
Henry S. Knight Jr.Constangy, Brooks & Smith
Herbert W. Louthian Louthian Law Firm P.A.
David B. McCormack Buist Moore Smythe McGee
William Ross McKibbon Jr.Ogletree Deakins
Rita M. McKinney McNair Law Firm P.A.
Susan P. McWilliams Nexsen Pruet LLC
D. Randle Moody IIRoe Cassidy Coates & Price
Richard J. Morgan McNair Law Firm P.A.
Brian P. Murphy Brian Murphy Law Firm
Leigh Mullikin Nason Ogletree Deakins
Jonathan P. Pearson Fisher & Phillips LLP
R. Allison Phinney Ogletree Deakins
Michael S. Pitts Nexsen Pruet LLC
A. Christopher Potts Hitchcock & Potts
Terry Ann Rickson Terry Rickson
David E. Rothstein Burnette & Rothstein P.A.
Andreas N. Satterfi eld Jr.Jackson Lewis
Eric C. Schweitzer Ogletree Deakins
Franklin G. Shuler Jr.Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
Lewis T. Smoak Ogletree Deakins
Charles T. Speth IIOgletree Deakins
Thomas L. Stephenson Nexsen Pruet LLC
J. Hamilton Stewart IIIOgletree Deakins
Kristofer K. Strasser Ogletree Deakins
Jim O. Stuckey IILittler Mendelson
Fred W. Suggs Ogletree Deakins
Catherine Templeton Ogletree Deakins
J. Hagood Tighe Fisher & Phillips LLP
M. Baker Wyche IIIOgletree Deakins
David S. Yandle Buist Moore Smythe McGee
LEGAL MALPRACTICE LAW
Donald C. Coggins Jr.Harrison, White, Smith & Coggins
Steven E. Farrar Smith Moore Leatherwood
A. Camden Lewis Lewis, Babcock & Hawkins
Warren C. Powell Jr.Bruner, Powell, Robbins, Wall & Mullins LLC
Susan Taylor Wall Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
MARITIME LAW
R. Randall Bridwell Charleston School of Law
David M. Collins Buist Moore Smythe McGee
Marvin D. Infi nger Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Benjamin Allston Moore Jr.Buist Moore Smythe McGee
Gordon D. Schreck Buist Moore Smythe McGee
MASS TORT LITIGATION
Ronald L. Motley Motley Rice
Steven W. Ouzts Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
Joseph F. Rice Motley Rice
A. Hoyt Rowell IIIRichardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman
R. Bruce Shaw Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Kenneth M. Suggs Janet, Jenner & Suggs LLC
David G. Traylor Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAW
J. Benjamin Alexander Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
John K. Blincow Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
Wm. Douglas Gray McNair Law Firm P.A.
William U. Gunn Holcombe Bomar
Charles E. Hill Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
H. Spencer King The Ward Law Firm
Wallace K. Lightsey Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
G. Dewey Oxner Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
James C. Parham Jr.Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
Sarah McMillan Purnell Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Susan C. Rosen Rosen Law Firm
Richard S. Rosen Rosen, Rosen & Hagood
Kenneth M. Suggs Janet, Jenner & Suggs LLC
Matthew P. Utecht Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS LAW
William C. Boyd Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Gus M. Dixon Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Randolph B. Epting Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Daniel J. Fritze Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
P. Mason Hogue Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
G. Marcus Knight Nexsen Pruet LLC
Edward G. Menzie Nexsen Pruet LLC
William M. Musser McNair Law Firm P.A.
MUNICIPAL LAW
Danny C. Crowe Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
NON-PROFIT/CHARITIES LAW
Keith G. Meacham Merline & Meacham
NON-WHITE-COLLAR CRIMINAL DEFENSE
James W. Bannister Bannister & Wyatt
O.W. Bannister Jr.Bannister & Wyatt
Dale T. Cobb Jr.Belk, Cobb, Infi nger & Goldstein
Francis J. Cornely Francis J. Cornely, Attorney at Law
John D. Delgado Law Firm of John Delgado
Jonathan S. Gasser Harris & Gasser
Coming B. Gibbs Jr.Gibbs & Holmes
Gregory P. Harris Harris & Gasser
Gedney M. Howe IIIGedney M. Howe III P.A.
J. Rene Josey Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
I.S. Leevy JohnsonJohnson Toal & Battiste
Leigh J. Leventis Leigh J. Leventis Law Offi ce
Lionel S. Lofton Lofton & Lofton
Michael P. O’Connell Stirling & O’Connell
Andrew J. Savage IIISavage & Savage
Jack B. Swerling Law Offi ces of Jack B. Swerling
John B. White Jr.Harrison, White, Smith & Coggins
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PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION
Kenneth C. Anthony Jr.Anthony Law Firm
Luther J. Battiste IIIJohnson Toal & Battiste
Larry C. Brandt Larry C. Brandt P.A.
Robert L. Buchanan Jr.Buchanan Law Offi ce
Mark W. Buyck Jr.Willcox, Buyck & Williams
M. Dawes Cooke Jr.Barnwell Whaley Patterson & Helms
Eugene C. Covington Jr.Covington, Patrick, Hagins, Stern & Lewis
Christopher J. Daniels Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
David E. Dukes Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
William N. Epps Jr.Epps & Nelson
Carl B. Epps IIINelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Robert M. Erwin Jr.Law Offi ce of Robert M. Erwin Jr.
Edward Vernon Ferrell Glenn Law Offi ces of E. Vernon F. Glenn
J. Kendall FewJ. Kendall Few P.A.
Robert W. Foster Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Robert P. Foster Foster Law Firm
Richard M. Gergel Gergel, Nickles & Solomon
Michael J. Giese Smith Moore Leatherwood
Michael D. Glenn Glenn, Haigler, McClain & Stathakis
Joseph P. Griffi th Jr.Joe Griffi th Law Firm
Henry E. Grimball Buist Moore Smythe McGee
William U. Gunn Holcombe Bomar
Richard A. HarpootlianRichard A. Harpootlian P.A.
William C. Helms Barnwell Whaley Patterson & Helms
Robert H. Hood Hood Law Firm
Gedney M. Howe IIIGedney M. Howe III P.A.
Carl H. Jacobson Uricchio, Howe, Krell, Jacobson, Toporek, Theos & Keith
Todd J. Johnson Johnson, Johnson, Whittle & Snelgrove
Pope D. Johnson IIIMcCutchen Blanton Johnson & Barnette LLP
John E. Johnston Smith Moore Leatherwood
John D. Kassel John D. Kassel, Attorney at Law, LLC
George J. Kefalos George J. Kefalos P.A.
Patrick E. Knie Patrick E. Knie Law Offi ces
Steven M. Krause Krause, Moorhead & Draisen
Rebecca Laffi tte Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffi tte LLC
I.S. Leevy JohnsonJohnson Toal & Battiste
Stephen R.H. Lewis Covington, Patrick, Hagins, Stern & Lewis
Lionel S. Lofton Lofton & Lofton
Wade H. Logan IIINelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
H. Sam Mabry IIIHaynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
William Francis Marion Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Ronald A. Maxwell Maxwell Law Firm
Francis X. McCann Law Offi ces of Frank McCann
Thomas E. McCutchen Jr.McCutchen Blanton Johnson & Barnette LLP
Dana C. Mitchell IIIMitchell Law Firm
David L. Moore Jr.Love, Thornton, Arnold & Thomason
G.D. Morgan Jr.McAngus, Goudelock & Courie
Robert D. Moseley Jr.Smith Moore Leatherwood
Ronald L. Motley Motley Rice
Edward W. Mullins Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
James D. Myrick Buist Moore Smythe McGee
G. Dewey Oxner Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
D. Michael Parham Parham, Smith & Dodson
Douglas F. Patrick Covington, Patrick, Hagins, Stern & Lewis
Gary W. Poliakoff Poliakoff & Associates
Sarah McMillan Purnell Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
D. Cravens Ravenel Baker, Ravenel & Bender
Phillip E. Reeves Gallivan, White & Boyd
T. David Rheney Gallivan, White & Boyd
Terry E. Richardson Jr.Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman
Richard S. Rosen Rosen, Rosen & Hagood
Morris D. Rosen Rosen, Rosen & Hagood
Susan C. Rosen Rosen Law Firm
Kurt M. Rozelsky Smith Moore Leatherwood
David L. Savage IIISavage & Savage
R. Bruce Shaw Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Joel H. Smith Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Henry B. Smythe Jr.Buist Moore Smythe McGee
Carl L. Solomon Gergel, Nickles & Solomon
Michael E. SpearsMichael E. Spears P.A.
Kenneth M. Suggs Janet, Jenner & Suggs LLC
Mark C. TanenbaumMark C. Tanenbaum P.A.
Monteith P. Todd Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffi tte LLC
Alan D. Toporek Uricchio, Howe, Krell, Jacobson, Toporek, Theos & Keith
David G. Traylor Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Matthew P. Utecht Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Richard W. Vieth Henderson Brandt & Vieth
Geoffrey H. Waggoner Waggoner Law Firm
Daniel B. White Gallivan, White & Boyd
PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION
W. Howard Boyd Jr.Gallivan, White & Boyd
James D. Brice Gallivan, White & Boyd
Michael T. Cole Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Gray T. Culbreath Collins & Lacy Attorneys at Law
Christopher J. Daniels Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
William S. Davies Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Elbert S. Dorn Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
David E. Dukes Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Robert W. Foster Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
William U. Gunn Holcombe Bomar
Pope D. Johnson IIIMcCutchen Blanton Johnson & Barnette LLP
John D. Kassel John D. Kassel, Attorney at Law, LLC
Frank B.B. Knowlton Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
John T. Lay Jr.Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims P.A.
H. Sam Mabry IIIHaynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
William Francis Marion Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
C. William McGee Gallivan, White & Boyd
David L. Moore Jr.Love, Thornton, Arnold & Thomason
Stephen G. Morrison Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Ronald L. Motley Motley Rice
Curtis L. Ott Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
Steven W. Ouzts Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
D. Cravens Ravenel Baker, Ravenel & Bender
Phillip E. Reeves Gallivan, White & Boyd
Kurt M. Rozelsky Smith Moore Leatherwood
R. Bruce Shaw Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Joel H. Smith Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Kenneth M. Suggs Janet, Jenner & Suggs LLC
David G. Traylor Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Daniel B. White Gallivan, White & Boyd
PROFESSIONAL MALPRACTICE LAW
Steven E. Farrar Smith Moore Leatherwood
Robert H. Hood Hood Law Firm
Sarah McMillan Purnell Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Susan Taylor Wall Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
J. Calhoun Watson Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffi tte LLC
John S. Wilkerson IIITurner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
PUBLIC FINANCE LAW
O. Wayne Corley McNair Law Firm P.A.
Theodore B. DuBose Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Rion D. Foley McNair Law Firm P.A.
Robert S. Galloway IIIHaynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Charlton deSaussure Jr. Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Alan M. Lipsitz Nexsen Pruet LLC
Kathleen Crum McKinney Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Margaret Christian Pope Pope Zeigler
E. Tyler Smith Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
John Paul Trouche Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
John K. Van DuysHaynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
M. William Youngblood McNair Law Firm P.A.
RAILROAD LAW
John E. Parker Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick
Terry E. Richardson Jr.Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman
Daniel B. White Gallivan, White & Boyd
REAL ESTATE LAW
William J. Bates Young Clement Rivers
J. Sidney Boone Jr.McNair Law Firm P.A.
William C. Boyd Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
David H. Crawford Buist Moore Smythe McGee
Anne S. Ellefson Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Morris A. Ellison Buist Moore Smythe McGee
Larry D. Estridge Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
F. Douglas P. Evans Brown, Massey, Evans, McLeod & Haynsworth
Elaine H. Fowler Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
W. Foster Gaillard Buist Moore Smythe McGee
Joel E. Gottlieb Gottlieb & Smith P.A.
Cary S. Griffi n McNair Law Firm P.A.
R.E. Hanna IIIHull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley
William O. Higgins Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims P.A.
Mark R. Holmes Smith Moore Leatherwood
Arthur L. Howson Jr.Gallivan, White & Boyd
Otis Allen Jeffcoat IIIJeffcoat, Pike & Nappier
W. Leighton Lord IIINexsen Pruet LLC
John B. McArthur Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Charles E. McDonald Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
William P. McElveen Jr.Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims P.A.
Edward G. Menzie Nexsen Pruet LLC
James B. Moore Jr.McNair Law Firm P.A.
Cecil H. Nelson Jr.Nelson Law Firm
Matthew J. Norton Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
A. Marvin Quattlebaum Smith Moore Leatherwood
Ralph C. Robinson Jr.Callison Tighe & Robinson LLC
Frank E. Robinson IIRichardson, Plowden & Robinson P.A.
Neil C. Robinson Jr.Nexsen Pruet LLC
Elizabeth W. Settle Hagood & Kerr
Mark S. Sharpe Warren & Sinkler
W. Lindsay Smith Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
Susan M. Smythe Buist Moore Smythe McGee
Lynn Gatlin Stevens McNair Law Firm P.A.
David M. Swanson Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
William H. Tucker Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley
Ralston B. Vanzant IINelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
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EST LAWYERS®
John H. Warren IIIWarren & Sinkler
James I. Warren IIIWyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
H. Dave Whitener Jr.Whitener & Wharton P.A.
John F. Wyatt Bannister & Wyatt
SECURITIES LAW
Joseph D. Clark Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Suzanne H. Clawson Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Andrew B. Coburn Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
John W. Currie McNair Law Firm P.A.
Gus M. Dixon Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Daniel J. Fritze Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Neil E. Grayson Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Julian Hennig IIINexsen Pruet LLC
P. Mason Hogue Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
John M. Jennings Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
George S. King Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
G. Marcus Knight Nexsen Pruet LLC
Edward G. Menzie Nexsen Pruet LLC
Elizabeth O. Temple Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
John H. Warren IIIWarren & Sinkler
TAX LAW
Robert E. August Merline & Meacham
George S. Bailey Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Scott Y. Barnes Warren & Sinkler
Edward G.R. Bennett Evans, Carter, Kunes & Bennett
C. Vincent Brown Brown, Massey, Evans, McLeod & Haynsworth
T. Heyward Carter Jr.Evans, Carter, Kunes & Bennett
John R. Chase Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Frank W. Cureton Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
J. Donald Dial Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Erik P. Doerring McNair Law Firm P.A.
Randolph B. Epting Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Randy E. Fisher Thomas & Fisher
J. Michael Grant Grant & Kuyk
Cary H. Hall Jr.Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
Theodore J. Hopkins Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
J. Tod Hyche Smith Moore Leatherwood
John Jay James IIPaulling & James
Kenneth Allan Janik Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Richard A. Jones Jr.Dobson, Jones, Ball, Phillips & Bridges
Michael L.M. Jordan McNair Law Firm P.A.
Fred L. Kingsmore Jr.Nexsen Pruet LLC
Burnet R. Maybank IIINexsen Pruet LLC
Keith G. Meacham Merline & Meacham
David A. Merline Merline & Meacham
David A. Merline Jr.Merline & Meacham
Thomas F. Moran Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Jonathan H. Nason McNair Law Firm P.A.
Robert B. Pearlman Pearlman & Pearlman
Michael G. Roberts Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
William A. Ruth Ruth & MacNeille
John M. Scott IIITurner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
J. Munford Scott Jr.Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
W. Henry Sipe IIIHamilton Martens Ballou & Sipe
Irvin J. Slotchiver Slotchiver & Slotchiver
John R. Thomas Thomas & Fisher
Joseph D. Walker McNair Law Firm P.A.
Robert Young Law Offi ce of Robert Young
John C. von Lehe Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
TECHNOLOGY LAW
Mark C. Dukes Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
TRUSTS AND ESTATES
Robert E. August Merline & Meacham
George S. Bailey Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Edward G.R. Bennett Evans, Carter, Kunes & Bennett
C. Michael Branham Young Clement Rivers
William Bert Brannon Moses Koon & Brackett
C. Vincent Brown Brown, Massey, Evans, McLeod & Haynsworth
T. Heyward Carter Jr.
Evans, Carter, Kunes & Bennett
John R. Chase Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
Daniel A. Collins Collins & Collins
Rita Bragg Cullum Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims P.A.
Frank W. Cureton Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
William L. Dennis Smith Moore Leatherwood
J. Donald Dial Jr.Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A.
James B. Drennan IIIDennis, Shaw & Drennan
Randy E. Fisher Thomas & Fisher
Carole H. Gunter Mays, Foster, & Gunter
James Carlisle Hardin IIIJames C. Hardin III PLLC
J. Tod Hyche Smith Moore Leatherwood
John Jay James IIPaulling & James
Paige Weeks Johnson Johnson, Johnson, Whittle & Snelgrove
W. Steven Johnson Todd & Johnson LLP
Richard A. Jones Jr.Dobson, Jones, Ball, Phillips & Bridges
Michael L.M. Jordan McNair Law Firm P.A.
Catherine H. Kennedy Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Fred L. Kingsmore Jr.Nexsen Pruet LLC
Robert M. Kunes Evans, Carter, Kunes & Bennett
R. David Massey Brown, Massey, Evans, McLeod & Haynsworth
James F. McCrackin Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Keith G. Meacham Merline & Meacham
David A. Merline Merline & Meacham
David A. Merline Jr.Merline & Meacham
Lesley R. Moore Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham
William G. Newsome IIINexsen Pruet LLC
Julian J. Nexsen Nexsen Pruet LLC
Virginia M. Phillips Dobson, Jones, Ball, Phillips & Bridges
Hugh T. Rice Jr.Rice, MacDonald & Winters
William A. Ruth Ruth & MacNeille
J. Kurt Schumacher Jr.Schumacher Law
James W. Shaw Dennis, Shaw & Drennan
W. Henry Sipe IIIHamilton Martens Ballou & Sipe
Kenneth F. Smith Buist Moore Smythe McGee
David C. Sojourner Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims P.A.
B. Joel Stoudenmire Nexsen Pruet LLC
Charles M. Stuart Jr.Charles M. Stuart Jr., Attorney at Law
Karen Hudson Thomas Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims P.A.
John R. Thomas Thomas & Fisher
Kenneth B. Wingate Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow
WATER LAW
Newman Jackson Smith Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
WHITE-COLLAR CRIMINAL DEFENSE
James W. Bannister Bannister & Wyatt
O.W. Bannister Jr.Bannister & Wyatt
Dale T. Cobb Jr.Belk, Cobb, Infi nger & Goldstein
Joel W. Collins Jr.Collins & Lacy, Attorneys at Law
John D. Delgado Law Firm of John Delgado
Jonathan S. Gasser Harris & Gasser
Coming B. Gibbs Jr.Gibbs & Holmes
Gregory P. Harris Harris & Gasser
Gedney M. Howe IIIGedney M. Howe III P.A.
Celeste T. Jones McNair Law Firm P.A.
J. Rene Josey Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
I.S. Leevy JohnsonJohnson Toal & Battiste
Lionel S. Lofton Lofton & Lofton
Michael P. O’Connell Stirling & O’Connell
Andrew J. Savage IIISavage & Savage
Jack B. Swerling Law Offi ces of Jack B. Swerling
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LAW
Ellen M. Adams Collins & Lacy Attorneys at Law
Luther J. Battiste IIIJohnson Toal & Battiste
Johnnie W. Baxley IIIWillson, Jones, Carter & Baxley
Grady L. Beard Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffi tte LLC
Thomas P. Bellinger McWhirter, Bellinger & Associates P.A.
Michael E. Chase Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
Alan R. Cochran Cochran Law Firm
Malcolm M. Crosland Steinberg Law Firm
Ajerenal Danley The Danley Law Firm
William S. Davies Jr.Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Mark Davis McAngus, Goudelock & Courie
Vernon F. Dunbar Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
Sherod H. Eadon Jr.Lee, Eadon, Isgett, Popwell & Reardon
F. Earl Ellis Jr.Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims P.A.
Johnnie Dodenhoff Fulton Fulton & Barr
Henry Mills Gallivan Gallivan, White & Boyd
Scott B. Garrett McAngus, Goudelock & Courie
J. Russell Goudelock IIIMcAngus, Goudelock & Courie
William L. Harbison Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims P.A.
Ben C. Harrison Harrison, White, Smith & Coggins
M. Terry Haselden M. Terry Haselden, Attorney at Law
Wallace G. Holland Young Clement Rivers
Roy A. Howell IIITrask & Howell
Russell T. Infi nger Nexsen Pruet LLC
Christopher G. Isgett Lee, Eadon, Isgett, Popwell & Reardon
Carl H. Jacobson Uricchio, Howe, Krell, Jacobson, Toporek, Theos & Keith
Jeffrey S. Jones Willson, Jones, Carter & Baxley
Richard B. Kale Willson, Jones, Carter & Baxley
D. Michael Kelly The Mike Kelly Law Group
Stanford E. Lacy Collins & Lacy, Attorneys at Law
Ernest G. Lawhorne Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims P.A.
Mary Sowell League Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims P.A.
W. Hugh McAngus McAngus, Goudelock & Courie
Linda B. McKenzie Bowen McKenzie & Bowen
H. Patterson McWhirter McWhirter, Bellinger & Associates P.A.
James P. Newman Jr.Howser, Newman & Besley
Samuel F. Painter Nexsen Pruet LLC
David T. Pearlman Steinberg Law Firm
Shannon T. Poteat Willson Jones Carter & Baxley
Andrew N. Safran Andrew N. Safran LLC
William E. Shaughnessy Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.
Lana H. Sims Jr.Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims P.A.
William Smith IIChappell, Smith & Arden P.A.
Danny R. Smith Harrison, White, Smith & Coggins
Harold E. Trask Trask & Howell
Kathryn Williams Kathryn Williams P.A.
Harold J. Willson Willson, Jones, Carter & Baxley
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UPSTATEKnox L. Haynsworth Jr., of
Ogletree Deakins’ Greenville
office, has been honored by
Best Lawyers in recognition
of his 25th consecutive year
of being listed in the law-
yer rating directory. Hayns-
worth has practiced labor
law since 1960. He is past president of the
S.C. Bar and the Greenville County Bar and
is a permanent member of the 4th Circuit
Judicial Conference.
James D. Galyean has joined
Nexsen Pruet’s business
litigation practice group in
Greenville as special coun-
sel. Prior to joining the firm,
Galyean served as assistant
U.S. attorney for the district
of South Carolina.
Chris Toates has joined Prudential C. Dan
Joyner Co. in the Pelham Road office. Toates
previously served as co-owner of Carolina
Landscape Concepts LLC.
Christine Hobson, formerly the vice presi-
dent of lending for Community One Federal
Credit Union, will now handle branch servic-
es as well. Hobson has been with Community
One for six years and has been in the financial
industry for 16 years.
Edward T. Zeigler Jr., pres-
ident of Greenville-based
architecture firm Craig
Gaulden Davis, has been
appointed to a two-year term
on the board of directors of
the American Institute of
Architecture Students. He
will serve as the American Institute of Archi-
tects’ liaison to the student institute’s board.
Zeigler is currently serving a three-year term
on the national board of directors of the
American Institute of Architects.
PEE DEE
Erica Dawgert and John C. Griffiths, who
work in the Florence office of WebsterRogers
LLP, have earned the CPA designation.
Tim McConnell has been selected by Gov.
Mark Sanford to serve as a member of the
Georgetown County Disabilities and Special
Needs Board. The board helps obtain ser-
vices for people meeting the eligibility criteria
for the Mental Retardation Division or the
Autism Division of the S.C. Department of
Disabilities and Special Needs. McConnell
works as a manager for the BAS/Tax Group
in WebsterRogers LLP’s Georgetown office.
MIDLANDS
Toby Goodlett has been named retail bank-
ing executive at First Citizens in Columbia.
Goodlett, former division executive for Geor-
gia, holds the Certified Mortgage Banker
designation, was the mortgage banker of the
year in 2002 and served as a faculty mem-
ber of the Mortgage Bankers of America
School of Mortgage Banking. Mike Wolfe
has been named executive vice president and
Orangeburg/Sumter division executive. Prior
to joining First Citizens, Wolfe was the presi-
dent of Community Resource Bank and the
president and CEO of Orangeburg National
Bank.
Christian E. Boesl, Suzanne Boulware Cole
and Christopher M. Adams have been named
shareholders of Collins & Lacy P.C. Boesl
practices in the firm’s Columbia office in the
areas of workers’ compensation, employment
law and product liability. Cole practices in the
firm’s Greenville office and focuses on work-
ers’ compensation. Adams practices in the
Columbia office and his focus includes gen-
eral civil litigation, with a concentration in
construction law, product liability, premises
liability, criminal defense and catastrophic
injury.
Brian Boyer has been hired
as senior vice president of
commercial real estate at
Lake Carolina. He brings
five years of industry expe-
rience to the position.
Central Carolina Com-
munity Foundation has
appointed JoAnn M. Turn-
quist as president and CEO.
Turnquist has 25 years of
experience leading corpo-
rate teams and independent
associations. Most recently,
she was chief of staff for the Moore School of
Business at the University of South Carolina.
Columbia Mayor Bob Coble has been select-
ed as a Platinum 2009 Compleat Lawyer by
the University of South Carolina Law School
Alumni Association. Coble is on the board of
directors for the River Alliance, EngenuitySC
and the Central Carolina Economic Develop-
ment Alliance.
Mickey E. Layden of Colliers Keenan Inc. has
been elected senior vice president. Layden
joined Colliers Keenan in 1986 and has served
as vice president of property management
since 1988. Layden also serves as president
of LCK Construction Services, an affiliate
of Colliers Keenan. She has taken an active
role in the community, serving as board
chairwoman for the Committee of 100 and
Palmetto Center for Women. She also serves
on the board of directors for the Columbia
YMCA and Central SC Alliance.
Haynsworth
Galyean
Zeigler Jr.
Dawgert Griffiths
Boyer
Goodlett Wolfe
Turnquist
People in the News
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{ }Unexpected beautyCypress Gardens was once one of the Lowcountry’s largest rice plantations.
Now a public park, the 80-acre pristine blackwater swamp offers unex-
pected beauty for visitors to enjoy. One of the best ways to experience the
park is in a boat, from which you can enjoy views of seasonal blooms as well
as bald cypress and swamp tupelo trees, seen above. For information, visit
www.cypressgardens.info. (Photo/Ryan Wilcox)
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