Badge Humphries

Badge Humphries is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers since 2017 in the practice areas of Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs and Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs. Badge practices law in Sullivan's Island, South Carolina.

Badge is a trial lawyer and the managing partner of the Charleston office of Griffin Humphries. He represents the families and estates of people killed by the conduct of others, people who have suffered catastrophic injuries, individual and institutional investors in securities fraud and shareholder litigation, landowners in eminent domain and land-use cases, and parties engaged in business disputes.

Badge began his career at Motley Rice LLC representing men and women diagnosed with mesothelioma and asbestos-related lung cancer, along with the estates and families of those who died from those diseases. That work required him to prosecute survival actions on behalf of decedents’ estates and wrongful death actions on behalf of surviving family members. At Griffin Humphries he continues to handle catastrophic injury and death cases arising from defective products, professional malpractice, and other negligent conduct.

Badge has also served as lead counsel for investors in public companies in cases alleging securities fraud or breach of fiduciary duty against defendants in the financial, pharmaceutical and medical device, healthcare, mining, and consumer retail sectors. He represents landowners in eminent domain and other property rights matters and represents parties on both sides of business disputes. He previously represented property owners in claims arising from the October 2015 floods in Columbia, South Carolina.

Badge’s training as a lawyer began in Texas. During law school he served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Lee Yeakel of the Texas Third Court of Appeals in the summer of 1999. In 2000 he worked as a summer associate with Baker Botts L.L.P. in Houston and with Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP in Austin. After graduating from law school he clerked for the Honorable Thad Heartfield of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Badge has been an invited speaker at conferences across the country and has been consulted on legal matters by news outlets and publications. He formerly served on the Board of Governors of the South Carolina Association for Justice (SCAJ) and received the SCAJ President’s Award for his service to the organization. A native of Columbia and a graduate of Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, he is licensed to practice in South Carolina, Texas, Georgia, and Kentucky.