Gary W. Poliakoff

Ted Gentry focuses his practice on counseling colleges and universities and on appellate litigation. Ted’s career handling complex litigation gives him valuable insights into the ways that today’s decisions affect tomorrow’s disputes. Ted has served education clients for three decades, and has extensive appellate experience, including cases before the South Carolina Court of Appeals, the South Carolina Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the ...

Garrett Steck is a member of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd's corporate and employment practice groups where he represents international and domestic clients with regard to the cross-border movement of goods and personnel. His practice facilitates the movement of key executives, management, technical and skilled workers and their family members into the U.S. by obtaining and maintaining temporary and permanent visas for specialty occupation workers, NAFTA professionals, intra-company transferees, in...

Sam Mabry is an experienced litigator and shareholder in Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd's Greenville office. Sam defends clients in class actions, business, commercial and financial services litigation and products liability actions involving drugs and medical devices. Sam has also handled employment contract disputes and patent and trade secret litigation.

C. Stuart Mauney is a partner and certified mediator at Gallivan White & Boyd and practices law in the firm’s Greenville, South Carolina, office. He has been recognized since 2007. Stuart's primary areas of practice are healthcare, professional negligence, tort and personal injury, and commercial transportation (trucking). He defends trucking companies in catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases. Stuart often coordinates the emergency response to trucking and industrial...

Mills Gallivan is a senior partner and Certified Mediator & Arbitrator who practices law in Greenville, South Carolina, and has been recognized since 1995. Over the past 45 years Mills has applied his knowledge, skill and energy to providing clients with creative legal solutions. He states that law school refined his ability to solve legal problems using the analytical side of his brain to gather and organize facts, apply the law, and use the legal process in pursuit of solutions. Through...

Jordan S. Goewey is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Trusts and Estates. Jordan S. practices law in Greenville, South Carolina Best Lawyers has recognized Jordan S. Goewey since 2027. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Jordan S...

Stephen earned his J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1989. Stephen was a member of the USC Law School Trial Competition Team that represented South Carolina in Regional Trial competitions. In 1994, Greenville Magazine selected him as one of “Greenville’s Best and Brightest 35 & Under.” He is listed in "Best Lawyers" and has recently been accepted into ABOTA (American Board of Trial Advocates). He has served as an original court-appointed member of the 13th Circui...

Mr. Wentzell practices in the areas of employee benefits law, ERISA and taxation. Mr. Wentzell represents clients in the areas of qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, health and welfare plans, ERISA, fringe benefits, and compliance with other federal laws relating to employee benefits matters. Mr. Wentzell assists clients in designing and drafting plans, advises clients regarding the legal requirements for operating and administering plans, and prepares and submits filings to the Int...

Wade’s practice centers on advising educational institutions and employers of all types in navigating complex legal problems. His career handling litigation and appellate work informs the analysis he provides and facilitates his role as trusted outside general counsel. A former teacher, Wade leads Wyche’s education law practice, providing guidance to secondary schools and institutions of higher education on policy and handbook reviews, student discipline and honor code matters, an...

Walker Barnes is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants. Walker practices law in Spartanburg, South Carolina Best Lawyers has recognized Walker Barnes since 2027. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Walker Barnes is held by other lawyers.